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THE 

PUBLICATIONS 

OF  THE 

SURTEES   SOCIETY 

VOL.   CXXVI. 


/THE 

PUBLICATIONS 

OF     THE  \ 

SURTEES  SOCIETY 

ESTABLISHED   IN    THE   YEAR 
MD.CCC.XXXIV. 


.      VOL.    CXXVI. 
FOR  THE   YEAR    M.CM.XV. 


TITUS    WILSON,    PRINTER,    KENDAL. 


DA 


LIBRARY 

739861 

UNIVERSITY  OF  TORONTO 


THE 


REGISTER 


OF    THE 


PRIORY  OF  ST.   BEES 


for  tfje  Society  ftg 
ANDREWS  &  CO.,  SADLER  STREET,  DURHAM; 

BERNARD   QUARITCH,  n,   GRAFTON    STREET, 
NEW   BOND  STREET,  LONDON. 


At  a  Meeting  of  the  Surtees  Society,  held  in  Durham 
Castle,  on  Tuesday,  December  2nd,  1902,  the  REV.  WILLIAM 
GREENWELL  in  the  chair — 

It  was  resolved,. 

That  the  Chartulary   of  St.   Bees  be  edited   for  the 
Society  by  the  REV.  JAMES  WILSON,  Vicar  of  Dalston. 


CORRECTIONS. 

Page  xxxii,  line  5,  omit  prior  of  Conishead. 

Page  94,  line  6,  for  Presthou  read  Presthon. 

Page  540,  line  10,  for  an  oxgang  read  a  ploughland. 

Page    543,    line    6    from    bottom,    for    conformation 
read    confirmation. 


INTRODUCTION 


AT  the  date  when  the  priory  of  St.  Bees  was  founded 
the  district  in  which  it  is  situated  was  well  organ- 
ised according  to  Norman  ideas  in  the  ecclesiastical  as 
well  as  in  the  civil  sphere.  The  whole  of  the  western 
portion  of  the  modern  county  of  Cumberland  from  the 
Wampool  not  far  from  Carlisle  to  the  Duddon  on  the  ex- 
treme south-west  was  composed  of  two  great  fiefs,  the 
barony  of  Allerdale  on  the  north  of  the  Derwent  in  poss- 
ession of  Waldeve  son  of  Earl  Gospatric,  and  the  barony 
of  Coupland,  sometimes  called  the  barony  of  Egremont 
from  the  name  of  the  baronial  seat,  on  the  south  of  the 
Derwent  in  possession  of  William  Meschin,  both  fiefs  being 
held  by  grant  of  Henry  I.  Though  these  two  fiefs  lay  in 
different  fiscal  areas,  they  were  under  the  same  ecclesi- 
astical government,  both  being  in  the  archdeaconry  of 
Richmond  and  diocese  of  York  before  the  formation  of 
the  see  of  Carlisle  in  1133. 

The  foundation  of  a  religious  house  by  William 
Meschin  in  his  fief  of  Coupland  is  not  surprising,  for 
his  brother  Ranulf  Meschin,  lord  of  Cumberland,  that 
is,  of  the  old  land  of  Carlisle,  had  previously  established 
a  similar  institution  at  Wetheral  not  many  miles  to 
the  north-east  of  Egremont.  There  is  this  difference, 
however,  between  the  two  foundations,  if  regard  be 
had  to  the  evidences  which  have  survived.  Ranulf's 
scheme  was  launched  with  much  advertisement  :  it  took 
place  nearer  the  time  of  the  Norman  annexation  of  the 
district  when  the  glory  of  the  new  masters  had  to  be  dis- 
played :  and  a  brilliant  gathering  of  notabilities  was 


11.  INTRODUCTION 

associated  with  the  venture.  Henry  I.  took  an  interest 
in  the  work  and  gave  it  his  patronage.  Some  ten  or  fifteen 
years  afterwards  when  William  Meschin  followed  his 
brother's  example  by  founding  a  religious  house  on  the 
western  coast,  there  is  no  mention  of  royal  patronage  and 
no  display  at  the  initiation  of  the  work.  The  lord  of 
Coupland  was  satisfied  with  inviting  his  feudal  dependents 
to  assist  him.  Since  the  priory  of  Wetheral  came  into 
being,  many  things  had  happened  in  that  portion  of  ancient 
Cumbria.  Ranulf  Meschin  had  left  the  district  and  no 
local  potentate  had  been  appointed  to  succeed  him.  The 
great  province  lately  annexed  to  the  English  Crown  had 
settled  down  as  an  integral  portion  of  the  English  kingdom. 
The  remote  lordship  of  Coupland  shared  only  indirectly 
with  the  political  movements  on  the  north  of  the  Derwent. 
The  sympathies  of  the  inhabitants  appear  to  have  been 
more  English  than  Scottish,  so  far  as  political  influences 
moved  them  at  all.  When  the  scheme  of  founding  St. 
Bees  was  started,  no  territorial  owners  assisted  except 
those  who  held  lands  in  the  fief  of  the  founder.  All  the 
early  grants  are  confined  to  the  barony  of  Coupland. 

The  earliest  charters  in  connexion  with  the  foundation 
show  that  the  feudal  system  had  a  firm  hold  in  the  dis- 
trict. William  Meschin  endowed  the  new  institution  with 
ploughlands  :  gave  the  maneriiim,  which  William  Bowman 
had,  free  of  terrene  service  :  and  invited  the  knights  of 
his  fee  to  supplement  his  liberality  by  gifts  of  their  own 
lands.1  The  nexus  between  lord  and  tenants  was  dis- 
tinctly feudal.  The  witnesses  of  the  earliest  charter  in- 
cluded Waldeve,  lord  of  the  neighbouring  fee  of  Allerdale, 
who  was  also  an  extensive  owner  of  land  in  Coupland, 
Reiner  lord  of  Rotington,  Godard  lord  of  Millom,  and 
Ketel  lord  of  Wrorkington,  all  of  whom  were  benefactors 
of  the  priory  at  the  outset.  W'illiam  son  of  Gilbert  of 
Lancaster  was  also  associated  with  the  origination  of  the 

'No.  i. 


INTRODUCTION  111. 

scheme  by  the  gift  of  Preston  near  Whitehaven.1  No 
charter  of  Henry  I.  has  been  preserved  in  the  Register  and 
no  evidence  has  been  discovered  to  show  that  he  had  a 
hand  in  the  foundation.  At  a  later  date  King  Stephen2 
gave  a  charter,  a  copy  of  which  was  not  in  the  muniment 
room  of  St.  Bees  when  the  Register  was  compiled,  and  dur- 
ing the  Scottish  occupation  King  David  I.  confirmed  a 
grant  made  some  years  previously  in  the  lordship  of 
Millom.8  It  would  appear,  therefore,  that  royal  patron- 
age only  came  when  the  scheme  was  well  on  its  way  to 
completion.  At  its  origination  the  institution  was  depend- 
ent for  its  success  on  the  founder  and  his  feudatories. 

The  secret  influences  behind  the  foundation  of  St.  Bees 
may  be  conjectured  by  a  perusal  of  the  early  charters. 
The  founder  makes  special  mention  of  his  wife  Cicely 
and  of  Archbishop  Thurstin  by  whose  counsel  the  priory 
was  bestowed  on  the  monks  of  St.  Mary's,  York.  A  few 
years  previously  a  similar  institution  had  been  founded  by 
William  and  Cicely  at  Emmesey  in  Cicely's  fee  of  Skipton 
in  Craven,  in  which  the  Archbishop  took  a  prominent  part.4 
The  same  three  persons  are  now  working  on  a  kindred 
project  at  St.  Bees.  Archbishop  Thurstin  was  present  in 
person  with  William  his  archdeacon  and  Aufred  and 
Richard  his  chaplains.  The  chaplain  of  the  founder,  with 
other  ecclesiastical  persons,  is  also  mentioned.  The  dedi- 
cation day  of  the  priory  church  was  a  notable  occasion  in 
Coupland.  In  presence  of  the  primate,  Godard  lord  of 
Millom  came  forward  and  bestowed  two  churches  of  his 
fee  with  their  parsonage  houses,  their  whole  parishes  and 
tithes  for  the  special  purpose  of  providing  lights  in  the 
priory  church.5  This  benefaction  has  great  interest  inas- 

JNo.  ii. 

2  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  LXXXIV. 

8  No.  39. 

4  Dugdale,  Mon.t  vi.  203. 

5  No.  76. 


IV.  INTRODUCTION 

much  as  it  is  witnessed,  like  the  early  charters  of  the 
founder,  by  the  principal  persons,  lay  and  ecclesiastical, 
who  were  assembled  for  the  dedication.  The  purpose  of 
the  Archbishop's  visit  was  more  than  functional :  the 
legal  aspects  of  the  foundation  were  transacted  in  his 
presence.  The  new  house  was  constituted  as  a  cell  of 
St.  Mary's,  York,  the  greatest  Benedictine  house  in  the 
northern  province,  the  abbot  and  chapter  of  which  under- 
took to  put  in  it  for  the  service  of  God  a  prior  and  six 
monks  at  least  under  their  obedience.1 

The  place  selected  by  William  Meschin  for  the  new 
priory  was  determined  more  perhaps  by  local  sentiment 
than  by  its  nearness  to  his  baronial  seat  of  Egremont. 
From  the  phraseology  of  the  early  grants  it  seems  plain 
that  a  parish  church,  entitled  in  the  name  of  S.  Bega, 
existed  at  Kirkeby  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  before  the 
priory  church  was  built.  The  bounds  of  its  parish  were 
declared  by  trustworthy  men  and  set  out  as  the  ambit 
of  the  new  institution.  The  parish  of  Kirkeby  embraced 
a  strip  of  seaboard  extending  from  Whitehaven  on  the 
north  to  the  mouth  of  the  Ehen  on  the  south.  Subse- 
quent additions  by  successive  grants,  like  the  addition  of 
Ennerdale2  by  Ranulf  Meschin  son  of  the  founder,  con- 
tributed to  make  the  parish  of  St.  Bees  one  of  the  most 
extensive  ecclesiastical  areas  in  the  modern  county  of 
Cumberland.  Though  the  original  parish  is  called  Kirkeby 
in  the  earliest  charters,  there  is  little  doubt  that  the  later 
name  of  Kirkebybecoc,  or  church  town  of  Bega,  was  in 
familiar  use  when  the  parish  church  was  raised  to  the 
dignity  of  a  conventual  church.  One  of  the  witnesses  of 
the  earliest  charter  is  named  Coremac  Gille  becoc,  Core- 
mac  servant  of  Bega,  which  is  evidence  enough  that  the 
name  of  the  saint  was  connected  with  the  district  before 
the  foundation  of  the  priory.  In  later  charters  the  full 

1No.  2. 
2  No.  10. 


INTRODUCTION  V. 

name  of  Kirkebybecoc  or  its  variants  is  quite  common. 
It  is  the  form  found  in  the  confirmation  charter1  of  Henry 
II.  which  was  issued  before  1170  and  also  in  that2  of 
Richard  I.  To  the  local  veneration  of  the  saint  may  be 
ascribed  the  selection  of  the  site  on  the  coast  which 
tradition  had  associated  with  her  name. 

It  is  not  possible  to  fix  the  exact  date  of  the  foundation, 
but  there  are  good  reasons  for  believing  that  it  took  place 
about  1125.  In  the  early  charters  it  is  assumed  that 
Queen  Maud  and  Prince  William  were  dead,  and  therefore 
the  grants  must  have  been  made  after  1120,  but  Henry  I. 
was  alive  and  therefore  before  1135.  These  dates  give 
the  extreme  limits  with  tolerable  certainty.  If  it  be  true 
that  the  abbey  of  Calder  was  founded  in  1134,  for  which 
date  there  is  early  authority,8  it  is  clear  that  Ranulf 
Meschin  the  founder  had  succeeded  to  the  barony  of 
Coupland  after  the  death  of  William  his  father.  A  con- 
siderable time  must  have  elapsed  between  the  foundation 
of  two  religious  houses  in  the  same  lordship  by  father  and 
son.  Nine  years  do  not  seem  a  long  period  to  place  be- 
tween them.  Enterprises  of  this  kind  were  not  completed 
in  a  day  or  a  year. 

The  founder  of  the  priory  increased  his  benefactions  at 
the  dedication  of  the  priory  church  and  one  of  his  tenants 
did  likewise  in  the  presence  of  Archbishop  Thurstin  on  the 
day  of  the  dedication  of  the  church  of  S.  Bega.4  Nowhere 
has  evidence  been  found  to  identify  the  day  of  dedication 
with  the  feast  of  S.  Bega,  but  the  identification  is  probable. 
It  has  no  other  rival  except  perhaps  the  feast  of  the 
Assumption5  which  is  sometimes  mentioned  in  connexion 
with  the  endowments.  The  date  of  the  feast  of  S.  Bega, 

1  Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  550. 

2  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  ix. 

3  Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  349. 

4  Nos.  3,  5,  76. 

5  No.  33. 


VI.  INTRODUCTION 

as  observed  in  different  places,  varied  very  much.  In 
this  matter  local  custom  is  our  safest  guide.  On  what  day 
did  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  observe  it  ?  There  is  some 
reason  to  believe  that  31  October  was  the  day  of  the  feast 
in  Coupland.  It  was  recognised  as  a  common  term  for 
the  payment  of  rents  and  the  discharge  of  obligations1 
like  the  feast  of  St.  Martin  in  winter  elsewhere.  The  feast 
must  have  fallen  late  in  the  autumn  as  seems  to  be  implied 
by  the  stipulation  made  in  a  charter  of  Alan  son  of  Richard 
de  Coupland  that  a  rent  should  be  paid  eight  days  before 
the  feast  of  S.  Bega  or  at  any  time  between  that  date  and 
Candlemas.2  The  author  of  the  legendary  Life,  who  must 
have  been  familiar  with  the  day  observed  at  St.  Bees, 
seems  to  favour  31  October.  It  was  on  that  day  that  he 
took  up  his  pen  to  write  the  life  of  the  saint  and  he  closed 
his  narrative  on  the  day  of  her  death  (dies  dcpositionis  sue) 
which  happened,  he  says,  on  the  day  before  the  kalends 
of  November.3  This  is  the  day  calendared  in  the  Aberdeen 
Breviary. 

The  patronage  of  the  priory  was  vested  in  the  founder 
and  his  successors  in  title  as  lords  of  Egremont  till  the 
dissolution  of  the  house.  In  the  feudal  "  extents  "  of 
that  barony  the  advowson  of  the  cell  or  priory  of  St.  Bees 
always  obtains  a  place.  In  1322,  after  the  death  of 
Thomas  de  Multon,  when  a  schedule  of  his  knight's  fees 
and  advowsons  was  made  that  dower  might  be  assigned 
to  Eleanor  his  widow,  the  advowsons  of  the  priory  of  St. 
Bees,  the  abbey  of  Calder  and  the  church  of  Gosford  were 
enumerated  among  his  possessions  in  Egremont.4  The 
advowson  of  a  religious  house  was  in  this  respect  like  that 
of  a  parish  church  :  it  descended  to  heirs  and  was  partible 
like  real  property.  For  instance,  when  John  de  Multon 

1  Nos.   104-5,  226,  etc. 

2  No.  227. 

8  pp.  497,  508. 

*  Inq.  p.m.,   15  Edw.  II.  No.  45. 


INTRODUCTION  Vll. 

of  Egremont  died  in  1334  and  his  possessions  were  divided 
between  his  three  sisters,  a  third  part  of  the  cell  of  St.  Bees 
and  a  third  part  of  the  abbey  of  Calder  were  assigned  as 
the  pourparty  of  each  of  them.1  At  that  date  the  value 
of  the  revenues  of  St.  Bees  was  appraised  at  200  marks 
yearly.2  What  was  the  legal  power  of  a  lay  patron  over 
a  religious  house  ?  When  Thomas  de  Multon  of  Gillesland 
took  forcible  possession  of  the  priory  of  Lanercost  in  1261, 
the  Bishop  of  Carlisle  described  his  interference  as  laicalis 
insolentia  and  invoked  the  power  of  the  Crown  to  expel 
him.  Another  lord  of  Gillesland  reprimanded  the  prior 
of  that  house  in  1524  for  occupying  himself  too  much 
with  the  temporal  concerns  of  his  office  to  the  neglect  of 
its  more  serious  duties.3  It  was  laid  down  elsewhere  in 
1318,  when  the  power  of  a  patron  over  a  priory  was  in 
dispute,  that  the  patron,  if  he  were  of  full  age,  ought  not 
to  receive  any  issues  of  the  priory  in  time  of  vacancy,  nor 
had  his  ancestors  been  accustomed  to  receive  them,  nor 
in  any  way  to  interfere  with  the  priory,  except  to  have  a 
man  within  the  priory  during  the  vacancy,  carrying  a  rod 
in  his  hand  on  behalf  of  the  lord  to  guard  the  priory  from 
damage.4  So  far  as  we  know  the  relations  between  the 
castle  of  Egremont  and  the  priory  of  St.  Bees  were 
friendly.  It  is  probable  that  many  of  the  lords  were 
buried  like  Richard  de  Lucy5  in  the  priory  church.  The 
stories  related  by  the  author  of  the  Miracles  of  S.  Bega6 
about  the  unfriendliness  of  Ranulf  Meschin  and  Godard 
the  knight,  his  steward  and  castellan,  are  contradicted  by 
charters  given  by  them  and  recorded  in  the  Register. 
Little  may  be  said  about  the  great  bulk  of  the  charters 


1  Inq.  p.m.,  8  Edw.  III.   ist  Nos.  73. 

2  Cal.  of  Close,  1337-9,  pp.  366-8. 

3  See  the  two  deeds  printed  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  ii.  156-7. 

4  Cal.  of  Inquisitions,  vi.   124. 

5  No.  289. 

0  Register,  pp.  510-13. 


Vlll.  INTRODUCTION 

issued  during  the  process  of  endowment.  The  example 
set  at  the  foundation  was  largely  followed  throughout  the 
history  of  the  priory.  Most  of  the  endowments  were 
situated  in  Coupland  and  were  given  by  local  men.  Sev- 
eral families  in  successive  generations  are  conspicuous  for 
their  liberality  to  the  institution  and  it  is  this  feature  that 
makes  a  collection  of  their  charters  so  invaluable  for  the 
territorial  history  of  the  district.  The  lords  of  the  great 
fiefs,  Egremont,  Cockermouth,  Allerdale,  Millom  and 
Workington,  of  course,  predominate,  but  within  these 
feudal  areas  there  was  a  multitude  of  owners  of  smaller 
tenements,  lords  and  tenants  of  the  manors,  who  figure 
prominently  in  the  charters  as  donors  and  witnesses.  As 
the  influence  of  the  priory  was  confined  to  so  small  an  area, 
one  charter  serves  as  illustration  of  another,  the  donor 
of  one  being  often  found  as  a  witness  to  the  next  in  order. 
The  whole  collection  makes  a  family  group  in  which  there 
is  little  variety  of  feature  except  what  is  produced  by  time. 
For  this  reason  the  Register  may  be  regarded  for  the 
most  part  as  its  own  interpreter.  The  history  of  manors, 
churches  and  families  in  this  portion  of  Cumberland  has 
been  much  neglected  in  the  past,  but  it  is  hoped  that 
the  documents  in  this  collection,  when  taken  with  the 
volumes  of  the  public  records  now  so  easily  accessible, 
will  contribute  something  to  the  enlargement  of  our 
knowledge. 

The  endowments,  however,  were  not  altogether  given 
by  the  feudatories  of  Coupland  :  some  came  from  mag- 
nates who  had  only  an  indirect  interest  in  the  district. 
These  perhaps  call  for  a  more  extended  notice  than  the 
benefactors  at  home.  It  was  natural  that  after  the 
Scottish  occupation  a  close  connexion  should  continue 
between  Cumberland  and  the  northern  kingdom.  So  far 
as  the  religious  houses  are  concerned,  the  intercommuni- 
cation was  more  marked  with  Galloway  and  Annandale. 
It  must  have  been  while  David  reigned  in  Carlisle  that 


INTRODUCTION  IX. 

Uctred  son  of  Fergus,  lord  of  Galloway,  married  Gunnild1 
daughter  of  Waldeve  lord  of  Allerdale.  Uctred  and  his 
son  Roland  and  Alan  son  of  Roland  were  benefactors  of 
the  monastery  of  Holmcultram.2  During  the  latter  part 
of  the  twelfth  century,  while  the  see  of  Carlisle  wras  vacant, 
Bishop  Christian  of  Whithern,  a  bishopric  said  to  have 
been  revived  by  Fergus,  assisted  the  local  authorities  in 
the  administration  of  the  diocese,3  and  when  he  died4  in 

1  It  is  stated  in  No.  498  that  Alan  son  of  Waldeve  gave  Torpen- 
how  with  the  advowson  of  the  church  to  Uctred  son  of  Fergus, 
lord  of  Galloway,  with  Cornelia  or  Gurnelda  his  sister.     There 
is  independent  evidence  that  the  statement  is  trustworthy  as  the 
following  charter  shows  : 

UCTREDUS  films  Fergus  et  Gunnild  filia  Waldef  sponsa  ipsius, 
omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis,  salutem.  Sciant  tarn 
posteri  quam  presentes  nos,  consensu  Lochlan  heredis  nostri, 
dedisse  et  hac  karta  nostra  confirmasse  ecclesiam  de  Torpen- 
noth,  cum  terra  et  omnibus  rectitudinibus  ad  eandem  ecclesiam 
iuste  pertinentibus,  ecclesie  Sancte  Crucis  de  castello  puellarum 
et  canonicis  ibidem  deo  servientibus  in  perpetuam  elemosinam 
pro  redemptione  anime  Waldevi  et  Fergus  et  omnium  ante- 
cessorum  nostrorum.  Quare  firmiter  uolumus  ut  idem  canonici 
ecclesiam  prenominatam  habeant  et  possideant  ita  libere  et 
quiete  sicut  aliqua  ecclesia  in  toto  episcopatu  Karloliensi  liber- 
ius  tenetur  et  possidetur.  Hiis  testibus  Galfrido  abbate  de 
Dunfermelin,  Osberto  abbate  de  Jedduurde,  Aluredo  abbate 
de  Striuelin,  Gillemure  mac  blancard,  Gillemure  albanach, 
Gilleberto  mac  gillefm,  Serlone,  Bernardo,  Ricardo  bertha 
burgensibus. 

This  charter  (Liber  Cartarum  S.  Crucis,  pp.  19-20,  Bann.  Club) 
may  be  dated  about  1163.  It  presupposes  the  death  of  Fergus, 
father  of  the  grantor,  which  took  place  on  12  May  1161  (C^ron. 
S.  Crucis,  p.  33,  Bann.  Club).  As  Uctred  son  of  Fergus  was 
murdered  by  Malcolm  his  nephew  in  1174  and  as  Osbert  the  first 
abbot  of  Jedburgh,  one  of  the  witnesses,  died  in  the  same  year, 
the  date  of  the  charter  must  lie  between  1161  and  1174.  But 
the  exact  year  is  probably  1163  when  Uctred  the  grantor  and 
Isaac  de  Torpennoc  had  pleas  and  agreements  before  the  King's 
justice  in  Cumberland  (Pipe  Rolls,  p.  5,  ed.  Hinde). 

2  Reg.  of  Holmcultram  MS.  ff.  99-105. 

8  Pipe  Rolls  of  Cumberland  (ed.  Hinde),  p.  3. 
4  Chron.  de  Mailros  (Bann.  Club.),  p.  95. 


X.  INTRODUCTION 

1 1 86  he  was  buried  in  the  abbey  of  Holmcultram,  in  which 
house  he  was  afterwards  regarded  as  a  saint.1  Roland  son 
of  Uctred,  the  acer  atque  industries  adolescens  who  resented 
his  father's  murder  in  1174  and  who  died2  in  1200,  en- 
feoffed  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric,  lord  of  Workington, 
with  the  lordship  of  Culwen  in  Galloway.3  In  the  light 
of  such  incidents,  as  illustrative  of  mutual  intercourse, 
it  need  cause  no  wonder  that  Alan  son  of  Roland,  lord  of 
Galloway  and  constable  of  Scotland,  should  have  given 
a  yearly  rent  charge  of  one  mark  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees.4 
The  priory  had  a  rent  issuing  from  the  mill  of  Kirk- 
andres,  of  the  gift  of  Bernard  de  Ryppelay  and  Margaret 
his  wife,  which  appears  to  belong  to  Galloway.  There  is 
no  evidence  that  Bernard  or  his  wife  had  any  interest  in 
either  of  the  places  of  this  name  in  Cumberland.  Three 
at  least  of  the  witnesses,  Roesya  de  Lascy,  Patrick  son 
of  Thomas,  and  John  de  Suthak,  had  connexions  with 
Galloway,  the  first-named  being  the  widow5  of  Alan  son 

1  In  one   of  his  charters  to  Holmcultram,   which  is  entitled 
"  confirmacio  Sancti  Christian!  episcopi,"  Bishop  Christian  alludes 
to  the  House  of  Holmcultram  as  the  place  "  vbi  et  corpori  nostro 
sepulturam  elegimus  "  (Reg.  MS.  f.  112). 

2  William  of   Newburgh   (Eng.   Hist.    Soc.),  i.   182  :    Hoveden 
(R.S.),  iv.  145. 

8  J.  Denton,   Cumberland,  p.   35. 

4  No.  42. 

5  As  the  name  of  Alan's  second  wife  is  not  generally  known,  a 
few  facts  about  her  may  be  given.     In  1217  Walter  de  Lascy 
received  in  ward  his  niece,  Roseia,  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Lascy 
his  brother  (Pat.  Rolls,  1216-25,  p.  49)  :    in  1229  Alan  went  to 
Ireland  and  married  the  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Lascy  (Chron.  de 
Lanercost,  p.  40)  :   in  1236,  two  years  after  Alan's  death,  Hugh  de 
Lascy,  whose  daughter   was   Alan's  widow,  as  M.  Paris  relates 
(Chron.  Major  a,  iii.  364-6),  created  an  insurrection  in  Galloway 
about  the  succession  to  Alan's  estates  :   and  in  1237  a  protection 
without  term  was  granted  to  Roesia,  late  the  wife  of  Alan  de 
Galweya    (Cal.  of  Pat.,   1232-47,  p.   194).     Alan's  first  wife,   to 
whom  he  was  married  in  1209,  was  a  daughter  of  Earl  David, 
brother  of  King  William  (Chron.  de  Mailros,  p.  108). 


INTRODUCTION  XI. 

of  Roland  lord  of  the  district  who  died  in  1234.  Bernard 
of  Ripley  was  a  Yorkshire  squire,1  whose  floruit  extended 
from  1 200  to  1250,  the  latter  part  of  his  life  being  spent  in 
Scotland.  He  was  at  the  court  of  King  Alexander  at 
Forfar  in  1246  and  at  Stirling2  in  1249.  The  compiler  of 
the  Register  was  in  doubt  about  the  geography  of  the 
place,  but  it  is  almost  certain  that  it  was  the  Kirkandrews 
on  Wigtown  Bay,  now  merged  in  the  parish  of  Borgue,  to 
the  south-west  of  Kirkcudbright,  near  to  which  there  is 
a  Netherhall  mentioned  in  the  marginal  note3  to  Bernard's 
charter  in  the  Register.  Other  deeds4  in  the  collection, 
some  of  which  are  traceable  to  the  influence  of  the  house 
of  Workington,  show  that  the  priory  had  at  one  time 
considerable  property  on  the  south  coast  of  Scotland. 

The  Irish  charters  preserved  on  the  Cotton  Roll5  intro- 
duce to  the  history  of  Cumberland  a  famous  soldier  of 
fortune,  John  de  Curci,  the  conqueror  of  Ulster,  whose 
exploits  fill  a  prominent  page  in  the  Anglo-Norman 
subjugation  of  Ireland.  Gerald,  the  Welsh  archdeacon,6 
in  a  curious  picture  of  his  character,  describes  him  as  of 
fair  complexion,  tall  with  muscular  limbs,  powerfully 
made  and  of  great  daring,  a  brave  soldier  from  his  youth  : 
in  times  of  peace  he  was  upright  and  modest,  paying  due 
reverence  to  the  church  and  exemplary  in  his  devotions 
and  attendance  at  holy  worship.  Though  he  accuses  him 
of  parsimony,  it  cannot  be  said  that  such  a  quality  was 
observable  in  his  dealings  with  the  church.  The  four 
monasteries  that  he  founded  in  Ulster  were  affiliated  to 
religious  houses  in  the  present  diocese  of  Carlisle.  The 

1  Rot.  Litt.  Claus.  (Rec.  Com.),  i.  66a  :  Rot.  de  Oblat.,  pp.  332, 
363  :  Abbrev.  Placit.,  p.  gya. 

*  Hist.  MSS.  Com.,  Rep.  vij.   (MSS.  of   Lord  Southesk),  App. 
p.  yi8a  :    Reg.  de  Dunfermelyn  (Bann.  Club),  p.  144. 

*  See  the  notes  in  Register,  pp.  98,  448. 

4  Nos.  60-64,  353- 

5  Illustrative  Documents,  No.  n. 

6  Giraldus  Cambrensis  (R.S.),  v.  344. 


Xll.  INTRODUCTION 

priory  of  St.  Thomas  the  martyr  at  Tiberglorie  in  the 
suburb  of  Downpatrick  was  founded  by  him  and  made  a 
cell  of  St.  Mary's,  Carlisle,  out  of  respect  to  the  canons 
there1:  Grey  Abbey  (de  ]ugo  Dei)  on  Strangford  Lough, 
where  his  wife  was  buried,  was  affiliated  to  the  abbey  of 
Holmcultram2:  the  abbey  of  Ines  or  Inch  in  the  same 
vicinity  was  made  a  dependent  of  Furness  in  Lancashire3: 

1  The  grant  of  John  de  Curceio  to  the  canons  of  Carlisle  was 
recited  and  confirmed  by  Edward  II.  on  2  November  1318  (Pat.  R., 
12  Edw.  II.  pt.  i,  m.  19:    Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  1146-7).     On  the 
redistribution  of  the  conventual  possessions  between  the  priory 
and  the  bishopric  in  1249,  the  prioratus  Hibernensis  was  awarded 
to  the  canons  (V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  ii.  126).     In  1319  a  safe  con- 
duct was  granted  to  Gilbert  de  Morlund,  canon  of  the  priory  of 
Carlisle,  going  to  the  cell  of  St.  Thomas  the  martyr  in  Dune  on 
the  business  of  the  house  there,  at  which  date  Alan  was  prior  of 
Carlisle   (Cal.  of  Pat.,   1317-21,  p.   270).     Dr.   Reeves  says  that 
nothing  more  is  known  of  its  site  than  what  the  founder  stated 
in  his  charter,  but  it  was  probably  at  the  north-east  end  of  Down- 
patrick (Antiq.  of  Down,  p.  231). 

2  It  is  stated  in  the  Chronicle  of  Man,  under  date  1204,  that 
John  de  Cursi  had  in  marriage  a  daughter  of  Godred,  King  of  Man, 
named  Affreca,  who  founded  the  abbey  of  St.  Mary  de  Jugo  Dei 
where  she  was  buried.     In  1222  Ralf,  abbot  of  the  daughter  house, 
succeeded  to  Holmcultram  on  the  cession  of  Abbot  Adam,  and  in 
1237  Abbot  John  succeeded  on  the  death  of  Abbot  Gilbert  at 
Canterbury  on  his  way  home  from  attendance  at  a  general  chapter 
of  his  order  (Chron.  de  Mailros,  pp.  140,  148,  Bann.  Club).    About 
1840  a  leaden  seal  of  Bishop  Ralf  de  Ireton  of  Carlisle  (1280-92) 
was  found  among  the  rubbish  in  the  ruins  of  this  abbey. 

3  On  30  May  1180  John  de  Curci  founded  the  abbey  of  Ynes  in 
the  island  of  Ynescuscre,  for  so  was  it  then  called,  as  a  daughter 
house  of  Furness,  and  land  was  given  to  the  monks  whereon  to 
erect  their  buildings  (Coucher  of  Furness,  pp.   12-13,  Cheetham 
Soc.).     Bishop  Malachy  of  Down  confirmed  to  Abbot  Adam  and 
the  monks  of  St.  Mary  the  insulam  Uenseri  for  the  purpose  of 
building  an  abbey  there  according  to  the  terms  of  the  charter 
of  John  de  Curci  (D.  of  L.  Charters,  Box  A,  No.  310).     Dr.  Reeves 
suggests  that  Jocelyn,  the  monk  of  Furness,  went  over  to  Inch  on 
the  affiliation  of  that  cell  to  his  abbey  and  there  wrote  the  life  of 


INTRODUCTION  Xlll. 

and  the  priory  which  he  founded  on  the  island  of  Neddrum 
in  Strangford  Lough  in  1178,  perhaps  the  earliest  of  his 
foundations  in  Ireland,  he  gave  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees. 
In  this  latter  foundation  he  was  assisted  by  his  brother1 
Jordan  de  Curci  and  others.  Such  a  record  of  benefac- 
tions is  sufficiently  remarkable  to  imply  some  predilection 
in  favour  of  the  north-western  corner  of  England.  But 
there  is  more  :  he  must  have  had  some  personal  influence 
in  Cumberland.  In  1207  Richard  son  of  Truite,  a  well- 
known  local  notability,  was  indebted  to  the  Crown  in 
twenty  marks  for  having  his  land  in  the  bailiwick  of  the 
sheriff  of  Cumberland,  of  which  he  had  been  dispossessed 
by  the  King's  order  because  he  went  into  Ireland  with 
John  de  Curci.2  As  Richard  is  one  of  the  witnesses  to 
John's  charter  of  foundation  of  Neddrum,  the  forfeiture 
could  not  have  taken  place  at  so  early  a  date.  It  arose 
probably  from  the  fact  that  he  was  associated  with  John 
de  Curci  when  he  was  in  rebellion  against  King  John  in 
1205. 

From  these  repeated  acts  it  may  be  reasonably  inferred 
that  John  de  Curci,  the  benefactor  of  St.  Bees,  was  by 
descent  connected  with  Cumberland.  Though  his  wife 
Affreca,  daughter  of  King  Godred  of  Man,  is  said  to  have 
founded  Grey  Abbey  and  subjected  it  to  Holmcultram, 
all  the  other  Irish  affiliations  can  scarcely  be  ascribed  to 
the  same  influence.  A  family  connexion  with  the  county 
would  seem  to  be  the  right  solution.  In  none  of  his 
charters  does  John  de  Curci  make  allusion  to  his  family 
relationships.  His  parentage,  according  to  a  good  au- 

St.  Patrick  which  he  completed  in  1183  (Antiquities  of  Down, 
P-  233)- 

1  Hoveden  (iv.  25)  states  that  Jordan  de  Curci,  killed  by  one  of 
his  Irish  retainers  in   1197,   was  a  brother   of  John  de   Curci, 
prince  of  the  kingdom  of  Ulster. 

2  Rot.  de  Oblat.  (Rec.  Com.),  pp.  376-7:    Pipe  Rolls  of  Cumb. 
(ed.  Hinde),  p.  126. 


XIV.  INTRODUCTION 

thority,1  is  a  problem  as  yet  unsolved,  but  he  was  certainly 
one  of  the  well-known  house  of  that  name  in  Oxfordshire 
and  Somerset.  If  that  be  the  case  he  was  a  descendant 
of  William  Meschin,2  lord  of  Coupland  and  founder  of  St. 
Bees.  On  this  supposition  his  dealings  with  Cumberland 
are  easily  understood.  In  the  early  part  of  the  twelfth 
century  William  Meschin  and  his  brother  Ranulf  were 
lords  of  the  whole  district  now  known  as  the  county  of 
Cumberland  together  with  the  eastern  half  of  modern 
Westmorland.  The  exact  place,  however,  of  John  de 
Curci  among  the  descendants  of  William  Meschin  has  not 
been  clearly  ascertained,  but  it  is  probable  that  he  was  the 
grandson  of  Avicia  de  Romelli,  his  daughter.  In  any  case 
there  is  no  doubt  of  his  family  descent. 

The  political  history  of  the  Isle  of  Man  receives  illus- 
tration in  this  Register  at  some  important  epochs.  There 
are  charters  of  Kings  Godred,  Reginald  and  Olave8  which 
account  for  the  origin  of  the  property  of  the  priory  in  the 

JMr.  J.  H.  Round  in  the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography, 
vol.  xii.  330-3. 

2  In  the  carta  of  1166  for  Somerset  William  de  Curci  states  that 
he  holds  the  barony  which  his  father  and  grandfather  had  held 
and  also  a,  portion  of  the  barony  of  William  Meschin  ex  parte 
matris  sue  :  again  in  the  carta  of  Robert  de  Gant  for  Yorkshire  at 
the  same  date,  Avicia  mother  of  William  de  Curci  is  returned  as 
holding  two  knight's  fees  (Liber  Rubeus,  R.  S.,  pp.  224-5,  433). 
William  de  Curci  confirmed  to  the  nuns  of  Arthington  in  the 
West  Riding  of  Yorkshire  the  gift  which  Avicia  de  Rumelli  his 
mother  made  to  them  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iv.  520).  Avicia  would, 
therefore,  appear  to  be  a  daughter  of  William  Meschin  and  Cicely 
de  Rumelli.  John  de  Curci  and  Jordan  de  Curci  are  witnesses 
of  a  charter  of  William  de  Curci  to  the  monks  of  St.  Andrew  of 
Stoke  for  the  souls  of  his  grandfather  William  de  Curci  and  his 
father  William  (Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rep.  ix.  pt.  i.  App.  3530).  It 
can  scarcely  be  doubted  that  the  conqueror  of  Ulster  belonged  to 
the  house  of  William  Meschin.  John  de  Curci  died  about  1219, 
for  in  that  year  dower  out  of  his  Irish  estates  was  granted  to 
Affreca  his  widow  (Rot.  Litt.  Claus.,  i.  40 ib). 

8Nos.  43-5. 


INTRODUCTION  XV. 

island.  But  it  will  be  seen  from  the  charter  of  King 
Godred  that  a  previous  grant  had  been  made  to  the  monks 
of  St.  Bees,  of  which  no  record  has  been  preserved.  By 
virtue  of  these  possessions,  small  though  they  were,  the 
prior  of  St.  Bees  was  a  spiritual  baron  of  that  kingdom. 
There  were  eight  of  these  barons  and  in  process  of  time 
they  had  exercised  an  exceptional  influence  in  the  affairs 
of  the  island.  When  Sir  John  Stanley  undertook  to  re- 
strain their  power,  regulations  were  made  to  equalize 
matters  between  the  church  and  the  state.  In  1422  it 
was  resolved  at  a  Tynwald  Court  that  the  spiritual  barons 
should  do  fealty  to  him  and  prove  their  titles  to  their 
lands  in  accordance  with  the  legislation  which  was  made 
a  few  years  before.  The  Bishop  of  Man,  the  abbot  of 
Rushen  and  the  prioress  of  Douglas  came,  but  "  the  prior 
of  Whithorne  in  Galloway,  the  abbott  of  Furnace,  the 
abbott  of  Bangor,  the  abbott  of  Saball,  and  the  prior  of 
St.  Beade  in  Copeland  were  called  in  and  came  not  : 
therefore  they  were  deemed  by  the  Deemsters  that  they 
should  come  in  their  proper  persons  within  forty  days, 
and  if  they  came  not,  then  to  loose  all  their  temporalities, 
to  be  ceised  into  the  lord's  hands  in  the  same  Court."1 
No  mention  is  made  of  the  Manx  possessions  of  St.  Bees 
in  any  of  the  surveys  of  the  sixteenth  century,2  the  English 
Act  for  the  suppression  of  the  monasteries  not  extending 
to  the  Isle  of  Man.  The  seizure  was  made  by  a  mere 
arbitrary  act  on  behalf  of  the  Crown.  Soon  after  1540 
the  properties  of  the  extra-insular  houses  are  found  in 
private  hands.  The  tenure  of  the  barony  of  St.  Bees  is 
still  known  in  the  island.3 

1  Statutes  of  the  Isle  of  -Man  (ed.  Gill),  i.  20-1,  quoted  by  A.  W. 
Moore  (Hist,  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  p.  344). 

2  The  rents  of  the  abbey  of  Furness  in  Man  are  enumerated 
among  the  possessions  of  that  house  in  the  Valor  Ecclesiasticus 
(v.  270)  of  1535. 

3  A.  W.  Moore,  op.  tit.  pp.  351,  872. 


Xvi.      .  INTRODUCTION 

The  acquisition  of  the  island  by  Scotland,  after  the  death 
of  King  Magnus  in  1265,  is  ascribed  by  the  chronicles1  to 
a  treaty  between  the  kings  of  Norway  and  Scotland  in  the 
following  year,  whereby  Alexander  III.  agreed  to  pay  an 
indemnity  for  the  cession  of  Man.  This  arrangement 
could  scarcely  be  effectual  in  view  of  the  traditional 
designs  of  the  English  king.  In  the  disturbed  condition 
of  the  island  Henry  III.  extended  his  protection  to  the 
Manx  sovereign,  King  Reginald  doing  homage  and  service2 
in  1218  and  1219.  It  was  by  the  power  of  King  Henry 
that  the  heir  to  the  throne  of  Man  and  the  Isles  went  to 
Norway  in  1253  :  the  same  king  decorated  King  Magnus 
with  the  belt  of  knighthood  in  1256  and  shielded  him 
against  the  murderers  of  his  brother,  King  Reginald.  On 
both  occasions  a  request  was  sent  to  King  Alexander  of 
Scotland  to  further  these  projects.3  In  these  circum- 
stances it  is  difficult  to  believe  that  the  treaty  of  1266 
should  have  been  accepted  without  demur.  As  a  matter 
of  fact  the  Scottish  settlement  was  resisted  from  the  out- 
set. In  1267  King  Alexander  was  obliged  to  quell  a 
rebellion  in  the  island,  and  Henry  III.  advised  him  not  to 
go  there  till  the  times  were  more  propitious  because 
"  fortune  was  not  favourable  to  his  ancestors4  when  they 
went  there  some  time  ago."  There  was  another  rebellion 
in  1275  which  resulted  in  the  complete  defeat  of  the  Manx 
at  Ronaldsway  near  Castletown,  the  wretched  people 
turning  their  backs  and  perishing  miserably.5 

1  Chron.  de  Mailros  (Bann.  Club),  pp.  196-7  :  Chron.  de  Laner- 
cost,  p.  64  :  Scotichronicon  (ed.  Goodall),  ii.  101-2.  The  dis- 
crepancies between  the  three  accounts  are  very  noticeable. 

3  Pat.  Rolls,  1216-25,  pp.  150,  205. 

3  Compare  Cal.  of  Pat.,  1247-58,  pp.  190,  469  with  Close  Roll, 
37  Hen.  III.  m.  13. 

4  See  the  authorities  quoted  by  A.  W.  Moore  in  A  History  of  the 
Isle  of  Man,  p.  182. 

5  Chron.  de  Lanercost,  pp.  97-8. 


INTRODUCTION  XVli. 

In  this  Register1  there  is  independent  corroboration  of 
the  insecurity  of  King  Alexander's  hold  on  the  island  after 
the  treaty  of  1266.  It  is  stated  in  the  depositions  de  quo 
warranto,  taken  at  the  church  of  St.  Leu  in  Russehin  on 
16  January,  1302,  before  the  justices  and  coroners  of  Man, 
while  Bishop  Bek  of  Durham  was  lord  of  the  island,  that 
Alexander  late  king  of  Scotland,  qui  Insulam  de  Manne 
per  ensem  conquestabatuv ,  had  enfeoffed  the  monks  with 
the  tenements  in  dispute  and  that  the  matter  had  been 
already  determined  by  writ  of  the  said  Alexander  before 
Maurice  Acarsan,2  the  justice  appointed  for  that  purpose. 
From  this  statement  it  would  appear  that  the  feature  of 
the  Scottish  acquisition  of  the  Isle  of  Man  at  this  period 
which  dwelt  in  the  minds  of  the  English  witnesses  was  one 
not  of  right  but  of  might  :  that  the  Scottish  title  was  per 
ensem,  not  per  compositionem  according  to  the  Chronicle 
of  Melrose  nor  per  conventionem  as  stated  in  the  Chronicle 
of  Lanercost.  There  is  little  doubt  that  the  battle  of 
Ronaldsway  was  the  determining  factor  of  King  Alexan- 
der's hegemony  in  the  island. 

Some  other  points  in  the  Manx  deeds  may  be  mentioned. 
It  is  not  known  by  what  title  Bishop  Bek  of  Durham 
exercised  the  lordship  of  Man  or  at  what  date  he  was 
appointed,  but  it  is  certain  that  he  held  that  position3  so 
early  as  1298.  In  the  Register  there  is  a  deed4  issued  by 
him,  dated  19  June  1301,  and  another5  dated  25  July 

1  No.  497. 

2  This  officer  may  be  identified  with  the  "  Mauricius  Okarefair  " 
appointed   by  King  Alexander  as  Bailiff  of  Man.     The  Chronicle 
of  Lanercost  (p.  64)  gives  a  list  of  the  bailiffs  appointed  by  that 
king,  viz.,  Godred  MacMares,  the  first :  after  him,  Alan  son  of  the 
Count :    then  Maurice  Okarefair  :    and  lastly  Reginald  the  king's 
chaplain.     This  order  suits  the  requirements  of  the  document  in 
the  Register  of  St.  Bees. 

3  Cal.  of  Pat.,  1292-1301,  p.  340. 

4  No.  497. 

5  No.  48. 


XV111.  INTRODUCTION 

1307  :  his  lordship  of  Man  is  mentioned  in  a  third1  dated 
7  February  1302.  There  is  little  doubt  that  he  held  office 
during  the  intervening  period.  Apparently  King  Edward 
was  unaware  of  the  Bishop's  title  to  the  island,  for  on  28 
June,  1307,  he  issued  a  mandate,  after  scrutiny  of  the 
evidences,  to  Bishop  Bek,  who  then  held  the  island  ut 
dicitur,  to  come  before  him  and  show  cause  why  it  should 
not  be  taken  into  the  king's  hand.2  The  Bishop,  how- 
ever, continued  in  office  till  his  death  in  1311.  Thomas 
Randolf  earl  of  Moray,  lord  of  Wales,  Annandale  and  Man, 
is  represented  by  two  deeds  in  the  Register,3  the  latter  of 
which  is  dated  on  2  May,  1329.  Though  he  had  used  the 
style  of  lord  of  Man  for  several  years  before,  his  patent4 
from  King  Robert,  if  genuine,  shows  that  he  was  officially 
appointed  on  20  December  1324.  The  Scottish  suzerainty 
over  the  island  before  the  treaty  of  1328  meant  very  little, 
however  highly  the  Scottish  deputies  regarded  their  office. 

The  Chronicon  Cumbrie,  a  full  text  of  which  is  recorded 
in  the  Register,5  has  had  varying  fortunes  in  the  estimation 
of  local  historians.  In  the  early  county  histories  it  forms 
the  basis  from  which  the  manorial  history  of  a  large  por- 
tion of  Cumberland  takes  its  start.  The  authority  of  the 
compilation  had  been  accepted  without  question.  In 
recent  years,  however,  faith  in  its  historical  value  has 
undergone  an  eclipse.  In  1847  the  way  was  prepared  by 
an  onslaught  upon  it  by  a  scholar6  who  had  not  thoroughly 
sifted  its  contents.  Others  soon  joined  in  the  chorus  of 
depreciation.  From  being  regarded  as  an  authoritative 
document  it  declined  to  the  level  of  a  monkish  legend. 
Some  years  ago  a  caveat  was  entered  by  the  present  writer 
against  indiscriminate  denunciation  of  the  document  and 

1No.  46. 

2  Rymer,  Foedera,  i.   1017. 

3Nos.  47,  497. 

4  Reg.  Magni  Sigilli,  1306-1324,  App.  i.  No.  32. 

5  No.  489. 

6Hinde,  Pipe  Rolls,  pp.  v-vi. 


INTRODUCTION  XIX. 

an  effort  was  made  to  explain  its  origin.1  Further  study 
tends  to  confirm  the  account  there  given.  The  compil- 
ation is  nothing  more  or  less  than  a  lawyer's  brief  in  which 
the  claimants  to  the  Honor  of  Cockermouth  in  1316  traced 
the  history  of  the  baronies  of  Allerdale  and  Coupland, 
with  their  constituent  manors,  in  order  to  establish  their 
title  to  these  estates.  Other  documents,2  produced  at 
different  stages  of  the  great  lawsuit,  belong  to  the  same 
category.  None  of  these  compilations  have  equal  author- 
ity with  the  feudal  inquest3  of  1212  chiefly  for  the  reason 
that  their  scope  extends  over  a  longer  period.  The  jurors 
of  the  great  inquest  had  only  to  account  for  a  century's 
history,  or  perhaps  less,  and  the  tenants  had  no  difficulty 
in  producing  evidence  for  the  services  imposed  at  the  first 
enfeoffment.  It  was  different  with  the  task  of  the  lawyers 
in  1316  and  previous  years  :  an  additional  century  had 
elapsed  and  opportunities  for  collecting  evidence  were 
restricted  to  fewer  sources. 

What  historical  value,  then,  should  there  be  acknow- 
ledged to  these  documents  ?  A  middle  course  between  the 
two  extremes  of  absolute  authority  and  absolute  worth- 
lessness  would  seem  to  suit  the  circumstances  of  their 
origin.  Documents  like  these  in  history  correspond  to 
what  Francis  Bacon  calls  clandestine  instances  in  science  : 
they  exhibit  history  in  its  least  intensity,  that  is,  in  a 
rudimentary  state.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  they  are 
useful  helps  in  tracing  the  manorial  history  of  the  district 
to  which  they  apply.  Errors  there  are,  many  of  them, 
but  they  are  chiefly  in  the  department  of  genealogy,  or  of 
history  that  lay  outside  the  evidences  used  by  the  com- 
pilers. The  body  of  the  compilation  was  undoubtedly 
built  up  by  the  evidence  of  charters  at  that  time  in  exist- 
ence. It  is  stated,  for  instance,  in  the  Chronicon  Cumbrie 

1  V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  i.  297-8. 

2  Illus.  Doc.,  Nos.  vi.  vn. 
8  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  v. 


XX.  INTRODUCTION 

that  Alan  son  of  Waldeve  gave  B.rackenthwaite  to  Waldeve 
son  of  Dolfin  :  the  futility  of  denying  the  statement  is 
demonstrated  by  the  discovery  of  a  copy  of  the  actual 
charter1  of  enfeoffment.  Though  the  territorial  settlement 
of  these  baronies  took  place  before  the  date  to  which  pre- 
sent evidence  reaches,  there  are  indications  in  subsequent 
history  which  tend  to  establish  many  of  the  infeudations 
as  set  out  in  these  documents.  It  was  unlikely  that  claim- 
ants to  such  extensive  possessions  should  offer  clumsy 
concoctions  to  the  criticisms  of  the  King's  attorney. 

Another  class  of  what  may  be  described  as  clandestine 
documents  is  often  found  in  connexion  with  religious 
houses,  the  trustworthiness  of  which  as  historical  evidence 
is  not  merely  suspicious  but  manifestly  indefensible.  But 
it  does  not  follow  that  there  was  always  intentional  fraud 
in  their  composition.  When,  for  instance,  Gilbert  fitz 
Reinfred  included  the  church  of  Bromfield  with  other 
churches  in  his  charter2  of  confirmation  to  the  monks  of 
St.  Mary's,  York,  it  is  quite  certain  that  neither  he  nor 
his  wife  had  any  right  or  title  to  deal  with  the  advowson 
or  revenues  of  that  church.  This  flaw  in  the  charter  does 
not  necessarily  discount  the  value  of  its  other  provisions 
nor  does  it  throw  suspicion  on  the  authenticity  of  the 
writing.  It  only  demonstrates  its  clandestine  nature. 
The  circumstances  of  the  grant  are  fairly  obvious.  The 
monks  of  York  had  possession  of  a  number  of  churches 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  a  great  potentate,  some  of  which 
had  been  bestowed  on  them  by  his  predecessors  in  title  : 
a  recognition  of  these  grants  seemed  to  them  desirable  : 
and  accordingly  all  the  churches  which  belonged  to  them 
in  that  district  were  lumped  together  and  included  in  the 
confirmation.  The  charter  was  perhaps  obtained  at  a 
time  of  political  unrest,  occasions  of  which  are  not  un- 
known in  the  reign  of  King  John,  when  the  protection  of 

1  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  xii j. 

2  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  xxvi. 


INTRODUCTION  XXI. 

a  local  magnate  was  needed.  Another  transaction  of  the 
same  nature  is  embodied  in  a  charter1  of  King  Stephen 
when  that  king  professes  to  confirm  William  de  Lancaster's 
gift  of  the  vill  of  Mulcaster  to  the  monks  of  Furness.  If 
it  be  conceded  that  King  Stephen  had  the  same  rights 
in  Furness  which  he  had  while  Earl  of  Mortain,  thus 
giving  the  charter  more  credibility  than  it  deserves,  the 
addition  of  the  clause  about  Mulcaster  is  so  clearly  clan- 
destine that  it  destroys  confidence  in  the  whole  document. 
One  cannot  help  noticing  that  early  charters  of  this  class 
belong  to  periods  of  national  unsettlement.  It  is  quite 
possible  that  William  de  Lancaster  actually  made  the 
grant  to  Furness,  but  there  is  no  doubt  whatever  that  the 
gift  was  abortive,  that  is,  in  other  words,  that  he  had  no 
right  to  make  it. 

Though  the  Life  of  S.  Bega2  has  little  value  as  a  his- 
torical document  it  is  included  here  among  the  records  of 
the  priory  in  which  it  was  probably  written.  The  literary 
honesty  of  the  anonymous  author  is  praiseworthy.  He 
complains  of  the  dearth  of  materials  :  all  the  old  evidences 
had  perished  :  and  he  candidly  acknowledges  that  the 
history  of  the  venerable  Bede  was  his  chief  authority.  A 
cursory  comparison  of  his  narrative  with  what  Bede  has 
recorded  of  S.  Begu  will  show  how  much  he  is  indebted  to 
him.  There  is  every  indication  that  his  narrative  is  com- 
posite :  that  he  has  woven  together  the  lives  of  two  or 
three  different  saints  whose  names  had  some  resemblance 
to  each  other.  This  appears  evident  from  his  retention 
of  the  name  of  Beghu  while  engaged  in  picking  out  what 
he  wanted  from  Bede's  Life  of  S.  Hilda.3  The  life  here 
printed  seems  to  have  been  known  to  Leland,4  though  it 
is  possible  that  he  gleaned  the  information  in  his  notes 
from  the  narrative  of  Bede.  The  second  portion  of  the 

1  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  vnj. 

2Illus.  Doc.,  No.  i. 

8  Hist.  Eccles.,  iv.  23. 

4  Collectanea,  ii.   150,  iii.  39. 


XX11.  INTRODUCTION 

work  is  much  more  interesting.  The  traditions  about  the 
Miracles  were  more  distinct  than  those  about  the  Life. 
If  he  drew  his  account  of  the  saint's  life,  as  he  confesses, 
from  chronicles  and  histories,  he  heard  the  stories  of  the 
miracles  from  the  lips  of  truth-speaking  men.  These 
narrations  are  all  of  the  nature  of  folk-tales  which  grew 
up  among  the  dependents  of  the  monastery  and  mainly 
relate  to  its  affairs.  It  will  be  observed  that  all  the 
portents  had  taken  place  since  the  priory  was  founded, 
the  chief  actors  in  the  episodes  being  well-known  men. 
For  this  reason,  some  of  the  stories,  notably  that  about 
Noutgeld,  have  considerable  historical  interest.  Taking 
the  work  as  a  whole  it  will  compare  favourably  with 
similar  efforts  in  early  hagiology.  The  date  of  the  com- 
position cannot  be  earlier  than  the  first  half  of  the  thir- 
teenth century. 

The  local  charters  of  the  priory  reveal  a  marked  in- 
equality of  parochial  areas  in  the  district,  the  parishes  of 
Brigham,  Crosthwaite  and  Millom  embracing  immense 
tracts  of  valley  and  upland  like  the  parish  of  St.  Bees. 
The  parochial  system  was  not  quite  complete  in  the  first 
quarter  of  the  twelfth  century.  In  the  Register1  there  is 
recorded  an  interesting  series  of  deeds  touching  the  form- 
ation of  the  parish  of  Corney  in  the  lordship  of  Millom  and 
the  bestowal  of  its  church  on  the  monks.  It  is  one  of  the 
few  ancient  churches  in  Cumberland  or  Westmorland,  the 
name  of  whose  founder  is  known.  Copsi  lord  of  Corney 
founded  the  church,  we  are  told,  and  gave  it  to  the  priory 
of  St.  Bees  during  the  pontificate  of  Henry  Murdac,  Arch- 
bishop of  York,  1147-53.  As  the  deed  of  foundation  has 
not  survived,  perhaps  none  was  ever  made  :  but  there  are 
in  existence  several  deeds  of  his  immediate  successors  in 
confirmation  of  the  founder's  gift.  The  transaction  may 
be  accepted  as  illustrative  of  parochial  endowment  :  the 
size  of  a  parish  depended  on  the  extent  of  the  territorial 

'Nos.  82-7. 


INTRODUCTION  XXlll. 

fief  of  the  founder  of  the  church.  The  gift  of  an  oxgang 
of  land  to  the  chapel  of  St.  Peter,  Drigg,  in  the  early  part 
of  the  thirteenth  century,  will  be  read  with  interest.  The 
two  deeds  which  precede  it  show  how  the  property  came 
into  the  donor's  possession.1  The  church  of  Whicham 
is  an  early  instance  of  a  parish  church  held  in  moiety  by 
two  incumbents  while  the  advowson  was  in  lay  patronage. 
When  it  came  into  possession  of  the  monks,  the  earliest 
opportunity  was  taken  to  terminate  the  abuse.2 

Though  some  of  the  parishes  were  of  extensive  area, 
the  inhabitants  were  not  destitute  of  spiritual  ministra- 
tions. Nearly  every  township  had  its  chapel.  In  several 
of  these  townships  the  tradition  of  the  former  existence  of 
a  chapel  has  long  since  been  obliterated.  It  is  open  to 
debate  whether  all  these  chapels  were  dependent  on  parish 
churches  in  the  twelfth  century.  The  chapel  of  Kirk- 
santon3  was  dependent  on  the  church  of  Millom,  but  the 
chapels  of  Wedaker4  and  Lowswater,  like  that  of  Drigg, 
had  their  own  endowments  when  they  were  annexed  to 
St.  Bees.  There  is  also  a  doubt  whether  all  these  chapels 
were  dedicated.  In  the  cases  of  Lowswater,  Ennerdale 
and  Eskdale,  the  dedication  of  their  chapels  and  burial 
grounds  did  not  take  place  till  a  late  date.  In  the  Register 
will  be  found  some  deeds5  of  extreme  ecclesiastical  in- 
terest which  illustrate  the  constitutional  development  of 
parish  churches  from  district  chapels.  The  crucial  test 
of  parochial  insignia  was  the  right  of  burial  in  the  chapel- 
yard  dedicated  for  that  purpose.  The  greatest  care  was 
taken  to  set  out  in  unmistakable  terms  the  new  status 
and  to  fix  the  burden  of  maintenance  on  the  right 
shoulders.  The  deeds  in  this  collection  are  of  considerable 
value  for  the  ecclesiastical  history  of  the  district  to 

1  Illus.  Doc.,  Nos.  xvi-xvnj. 
2Nos.  79-81. 

3  No.  441  note  3. 

4  Nos.  28,  go,  107. 

5  Nos.  371,  389. 


XXIV.  .        INTRODUCTION 

which  they  relate  in  view  of  the  prevalence  of  chapelries. 
References  to  local  industries,  lor  some  of  which  the 
district  is  still  famous,  will  be  found  in  many  documents. 
The  making  of  salt  by  evaporation  of  brine  in  pans  (saline) 
on  the  seashore,  now  long  extinct,  was  a  common  mode 
in  the  earlier  centuries.1  St.  Bees  was  not  exceptional 
in  this  possession.  All  the  religious  houses  in  the  inland 
districts  owned  saline  as  an  indispensable  adjunct  of  their 
establishments.  They  were  scattered  over  the  whole 
seaboard  from  the  Solway  to  the  Duddon  and  several 
place-names  have  survived  to  recall  their  former  existence. 
Iron  mines  have  been  worked  and  fisheries  for  salmon 
have  been  made  in  the  lordship  since  the  dawn  of  recorded 
history.  So  early  as  the  days  of  Alice  de  Rumelli, 
daughter  of  William  Meschin,  and  of  her  husband  William 
fitz  Duncan,  the  working  of  iron  has  been  a  staple  industry 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  Egremont.2  Coal  mines  were 
known  at  Whitehaven  from  an  early  date.3  Some  of  the 
earliest  grants  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  were  rights  of 
fishing  with  boat  and  net  as  well  as  tithe  and  toll  of 
salmon.  The  good  monks  were  keen  fishermen.  The 
whole  county  of  Cumberland  complained  in  1278  that  the 
prior  of  St.  Bees  had  two  engines  called  coops  for  catching 
salmon  in  his  pool  of  Stainburn  where  in  times  past  he 
had  but  one  :  the  other  was  set  up  about  six  years  prev- 
iously without  leave.  The  sheriff  was  ordered  to  remove 
the  second  coop  at  the  prior's  expense.  This  infraction 
of  the  law  was  taken  as  the  occasion  to  make  it  more 
stringent.  It  was  laid  down  that  in  each  pool  of  the  Eden, 
Esk  and  Derwent  and  in  other  waters  where  salmon  may 
be  taken,  there  should  be  by  old  custom  a  passage  in  mid- 
stream wide  enough  for  a  sow  with  her  five  pigs,  and  as 
the  passages  at  Cockermouth,  Camerton,  Stainburn  and 
Workington  were  unduly  narrowed,  the  openings  should 
be  so  enlarged  at  the  cost  of  those  who  contracted  them. 

1Nos.  12-16,  etc.          2Nos.  13,  40.         s  Nos.  181,  206. 


INTRODUCTION  XXV. 

The  nets  and  engines  found  on  the  waters  contrary  to 
these  provisions  should  be  burned  in  the  presence  of  the 
conservators  of  the  rivers.1 

Opportunities  for  commerce  were  abundant  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  St.  Bees  and  regulations  as  to  toll  by 
land  and  sea  were  in  force.  The  chief  ports  were  at 
Ravenglass  and  Whitehaven,  the  latter  of  which  soon 
eclipsed  in  importance  its  more  southerly  rival.  White- 
haven  was  designated  a  port,  in  which  the  monks  had 
exclusive  rights,  soon  after  the  foundation  of  the  priory2 : 
in  official  documents  it  is  often  called  the  port  of  St.  Bees.8 
The  main  outlet  to  the  sea  for  the  inhabitants  of  Coupland 
was  at  Ravenglass,  in  which  Richard  de  Lucy4  had  the 
grant  of  a  weekly  market  and  a  yearly  fair  in  1208.  In 
the  thirteenth  century5  grants  of  a  similar  nature  were 
secured  to  Cockermouth  in  1227,  Millom  in  1234,  Egre- 
mont  in  1267,  Keswick  in  1276,  Seton  near  Workington 
in  1280,  and  at  other  places  in  later  centuries.  White- 
haven  did  not  receive  the  privilege6  till  1660.  The  lord 
of  Coupland  had  rights  of  toll  for  passage  to  and  stallage 
in  most  of  these  markets.  Some  of  the  measures  in  use, 
though  not  unique,  are  worthy  of  mention  :  we  have  a 
cribla  of  grain,  a  ringa  of  oats,  a  tolfat  of  meal,  a  pacca  of 
linen,  a  lasta  of  herrings,  a  dacra"oi  hides,  and  a  benda  of 
iron.7  Some  of  the  customs  and  services8  of  Coupland, 
especially  those  relating  to  criminal  administration, 
deserve  close  attention. 

1  Assize  Roll   (Cumberland),   6  Edw.    I.   m.   32  calendared  in 
ii.  Bain,  pp.  36-7.     On  the  unique  measurement  by  "  the  sow 
with  her  five  pigs,"  its  variation  in  Scots  law,  and  its  later  history 
in  Cumberland,  see  V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  ii.  335-6. 

2  Nos.  12,   13. 

8  Cal.  of  Close,  1323-7,  p.  183  :    Ibid.,  i34J-3>  P-  485- 

4  Rot.  Chart.  (Rec.  Com.),  p.  182. 

5  Cal.  of  Chart.  R.,  i.  58,  364,  ii.  75,  200,  226. 
<!  Pat.  R.,  12  Charles  II.  pt.  24,  No.  15. 

7  Nos.  69,  369  :    Illus.  Doc.,  No.  xxxc. 
K  Illus.  Doc.,  Nos.  xxviij-xxx/b. 


XXvi.  INTRODUCTION 

The  lord  of  Millom  as  well  as  his  feudal  superior  had  the 
right  of  gallows.  An  efficient  police  system  guarded  the 
persons  and  property  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  remote 
region.  The  monks  of  St.  Bees  had  their  own  bailiffs. 
On  one  occasion,  however,  neither  the  local  government 
nor  the  pax  sancte  Bege  saved  the  monks  from  molestation. 
In  1372  a  gang  of  neighbours  came  armed  to  the  priory, 
broke  the  gates  and  doors,  carried  away  all  the  goods  they 
could  find,  assaulted  and  maimed  the  servants,  chased 
away  the  prior  and  many  of  the  monks,  and  chased  other 
monks  into  the  priory  church  and  besieged  them  there  a 
long  time,  and  so  threatened  the  prior  and  monks,  their 
men  and  servants,  that  the  prior  dare  not  return  to  his 
priory  nor  the  monks  leave  the  church.1  One  wonders 
whether  Sir  Walter  Scott  had  this  incident  in  mind  when 
he  made  Wamba  describe  in  Ivanhoe  the  plight  of  a  prior 
of  St.  Bees.  "  Pray  for  them,  with  all  my  heart,"  says 
he,  "  but  in  the  towrn  not  in  the  green  wood,  like  the  abbot 
of  St.  Bees  whom  they  caused  to  say  mass,  with  an  old 
hollow  oak  tree  for  his  stall."  When  he  writes  on  another 
page  of  the  robbing  of  the  chapel  of  St.  Bees  of  cup,  candle- 
stick and  chalice,  the  wizard  was  probably  referring  to 
the  raid  of  Douglas  in  1315  when  he  spoliavit  ecclesiam 
S.  Bege,2  a  depredation  with  which  he  must  have  been 
familiar. 

In  addition  to  the  great  modes  of  service  or  tenure 
about  which  so  much  has  been  written,  like  Noutgeld  and 
Drengage,  of  which  the  Register  supplies  some  cardinal 
features,3  other  kinds  of  service  more  or  less  nominal  are 
often  mentioned.  Not  unfrequently  do  we  meet  with 
the  render  of  a  pair  of  gloves,  a  clove  of  gillyflower,  a  root 
of  ginger,  a  pound  of  frankincense,  a  rose  at  the  feast  of 

lCal.  of  Pat.,  1370-74,  pp.  243-4. 
2  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  LXXI. 

8  Nos.  46-7,  223,  382,  490.  See  a  discussion  on  these  modes  of 
tenure  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  i.  312-335. 


INTRODUCTION  XXV11. 

the  Nativity  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  three  oysters  at 
Christmas  and  gilt  spurs.  The  exact  import  of  the  service 
of  acconeuz  in  the  Isle  of  Man  has  not  been  ascertained. 
The  sale  or  manumission  of  serfs,  neifs  or  natives  was 
common  in  Coupland  in  the  thirteenth  century.  So  late 
as  1291  John  son  of  John  de  Hodleston  transferred  a  serf 
bag  and  baggage  to  the  abbey  of  Calder  and  gave  him  his 
freedom  on  condition  that  he  paid  to  the  monks  a  yearly 
rent  of  two  pence.1  Gifts  of  serfs  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees2 
are  also  recorded,  one  of  which  was  by  the  famous  William 
fitz  Aldelm,  sheriff  of  Cumberland,  1188-97. 

Some  of  the  religious  phrases  used  in  the  Register  are 
not  without  interest.  Instead  of  the  customary  felici- 
tation of  salutem  in  domino,  William  de  Irby,  inceptor  in 
decrees,  official  of  the  Archdeacon  of  Richmond,  adopted 
the  unique  and  attractive  salutem  in  scinceris  amplexibus 
dextere  salvatoris,*  recalling  the  phrase  in  the  Sarum 
collects  for  iii.  Epiphany  and  hi.  Lent.  In  1287,  when 
John  de  Hudleston  made  a  gift  to  the  monks  of  Calder, 
it  was  to  be  as  free  of  all  secular  service,  suit,  custom  or 
demand  sicut  sacrificium  altaris*  One  of  the  obligations 
laid  on  the  parishioners  of  Lowswater,  when  their  chapel 
was  raised  to  parochial  dignity,  was  the  provision  of 
panis  immolaticius?  wine  and  wax  for  the  church.  The 
mode  of  taking  an  oath  in  the  Middle  Ages  was  not  by 
kissing  but  by  touching  the  Holy  Gospels,  tactis  sacro- 
sanctis  Evangeliis.  This  practice  is  illustrated  by  the 
additional  information  that  contact  was  made  with  the 
right  hand.6  Nicholas  Staynlowe  of  Ponsonby  took  the 
precaution  in  1441  to  confirm  all  the  gifts  of  his  prede- 
cessors to  Calder,  St.  Bees  and  Conishead,  lest  injury  done 

1  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  LIX. 
2Nos.  218,  424,  448. 

3  No.  95- 

4  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  LVIIJ. 

5  No.  389,  p.  394. 

6  No.  217. 


XXVlll.  INTRODUCTION 

by  him  to  these  houses  should  be  avenged  by  the  Supreme 
Judge  in  penis  purgatorii.1  It  will  be  noticed  that  "  the 
dead  hand  "  occurs  as  a  phrase  in  letters  patent2  of  1308. 
Acquittances  "  from  the  beginning  of  the  world  to  this 
present  day  "  were  not  uncommon  in  the  settlement  of 
accounts.3 

No  certain  evidence  has  been  found  that  the  privilege 
of  sanctuary  was  an  appurtenant  of  the  franchise  of  St. 
Bees.  In  nearly  all  the  places  where  this  immunity  was 
enjoyed,  the  right  to  it  was  contested  at  some  time  or  other 
in  the  courts,  but  we  have  failed  to  find  in  the  records  any 
mention  of  its  existence  at  St.  Bees.  The  probabilities, 
however,  in  its  favour  are  very  great.  It  was  a  cell  of  St. 
Mary's,  York,  which  was  endowed  with  all  the  dignities, 
liberties  and  free  customs  pertaining  to  the  churches  of 
St.  Peter,  York,  and  St.  John  of  Beverley,  two  places 
specially  associated  with  the  right  of  sanctuary  in  northern 
England.  In  1292  the  abbot  of  St.  Mary's  pleaded  these 
immunities  in  defence  of  certain  feudal  privileges  which 
were  claimed  to  belong  to  the  daughter  house  of  St.  Bees.4 
The  bounds  of  the  franchise,  like  the  bounds  of  Wetheral, 
another  cell  of  St.  Mary's  which  undoubtedly  possessed 
the  right  of  sanctuary5  by  grant  of  Henry  L,  were  marked 
by  crosses,  one  of  which  had  the  sign  of  S.  Bega  sculptured 
upon  it.6  The  pax  sancte  Bege  is  a  special  feature  of  the 
narrative  which  describes  the  portentous  incidents  con- 
nected with  the  influence  of  the  saint  within  her  franchise.7 

1  No.  329. 

2  No.  334- 

3  No.  495  :    Illus.  Doc.,  No.  LXXVIJ. 

4  Placita  de  Quo  Warranto  (Rec.  Com.),  p.  122. 

5  See  the  interesting  series  of  documents  discovered  by  Dr. 
Prescott   touching   liberty   of   sanctuary   at   Wetheral    (Reg.    of 
Wetherhal,  pp.  425-31). 

6  These  bounds,  marked  by  crosses,  are  the  subject  of  a  special 
deed  (No.  370)  in  the  Register. 

7  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  i. 


INTRODUCTION  XXIX. 

All  things  considered,  there  is  a  strong  presumption,  short 
of  actual  proof,  that  the  right  of  sanctuary  was  a  privilege 
of  St.  Bees  as  well  as  of  Wetheral. 

There  is  little  evidence  in  the  Register  of  ecclesiastical 
oversight  of  the  monks  of  St.  Bees,  thereby  affording  a 
strong  contrast  to  their  neighbours  at  Wetheral.  The 
geographical  situation  may  be  accepted  as  a  sufficient 
explanation.  Wetheral  was  situated  in  the  heart  of  the 
diocese  of  Carlisle  within  a  few  miles  of  the  Cathedral 
church  :  St.  Bees  was  on  the  extreme  western  side  of  the 
archdeaconry  of  Richmond,  far  removed  from  the  centre 
of  diocesan  life  at  York.  Ready  access  to  it  from  Rich- 
mond or  York  was  only  possible  from  the  west  or  south 
over  wild  mountains  or  by  way  of  the  valley  of  the  Duddon. 
To  the  outside  world  the  region  of  Coupland  was  chiefly 
famous  by  reason  of  its  obstreperous  climate.  One  of  the 
justices  itinerant  in  1262  begged  to  be  excused  from  going 
on  circuit  in  parts  of  Cumberland  as  well  on  account  of 
their  remoteness  as  of  the  climate.1  In  the  same  year  the 
Archdeacon  of  Richmond  complained  that  he  had  no  place 
of  abode  in  Coupland  for  himself  or  his  officials  when  they 
ventured,  despite  quicksands,  thunderstorms  and  floods, 
to  discharge  their  duties  in  that  deanery.2  When  the 
Archdeacon,  however,  honoured  the  district  with  a  visit, 
and  this  Register  records  very  few  of  them,  the  monks  of 
St.  Bees  joined  with  the  neighbouring  clergy  in  providing 
him  with  hospitality  during  his  stay  and  in  conducting 
him  ad  aquam  on  his  departure.8 

Only  one  archiepiscopal  document  finds  a  record  in 
the  Register.  It  is  an  important  charter  whereby  Arch- 
bishop Roger  of  Pont  1'Eveque  (1154-81)  confirmed  to  the 
monks  all  their  spiritual  possessions  and  discharged  them 
from  synodals  and  procurations,  giving  to  them  at  the  same 

1  Royal  and  Hist.  Letters,  (R.  S.)  ii.  222-3,.- 
2Dugdale,  Mon.,  v.  341. 
8  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  xcix. 


XXX.  INTRODUCTION 

time  power  of  suspension  and  deprivation  over  the  incum- 
bents of  their  appropriate  churches  in  certain  contin- 
gencies.1 From  subsequent  history,  as  intimated  above, 
it  may  be  inferred  that  the  Archdeacon  of  Richmond  had 
not  acquiesced  in  their  immunity  from  procurations,  so 
far  as  he  was  concerned.  But  it  must  not  be  assumed 
that  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  saw  little  of  their  bishop  and 
metropolitan  :  the  isolation  of  the  district  did  not  prevent 
an  occasional  visit.  On  10  May,  1281,  Archbishop 
Wickwane,  while  on  the  circuit  of  his  visitation,  was  at 
St.  Bees,  from  which  place  he  issued  a  licence  to  the  Bishop 
of  Whithern  or  other  Bishop  in  communion  with  York 
for  the  dedication  of  the  chapel  and  chapelyard  of  Lows- 
water  propter  vehementem  sui  distanciam  from  the  parish 
church  of  S.  Bega.2  As  the  priory  was  subject  to  archi- 
episcopal  discipline,  we  may  be  sure  that  its  affairs  were 
not  neglected  during  the  Archbishop's  periodic  visitations. 
Early  in  1294  Archbishop  John  le  Romeyn  gave  notice  to 
hold  a  visitation  of  the  priory  on  3  April,  the  day  following 
his  visitation  of  the  clergy  of  the  deanery  at  the  church  of 
Egremont,  but  before  the  appointed  day  the  notice  was 
cancelled.  The  Archbishop  had  got  so  far  as  Kendal 
where  he  was  on  30  March,  but  for  some  unknown  reason 
he  changed  his  plans  and  went  to  Hexham,  breaking  his 
journey  at  Orton,  Lowther  and  Linstock.  After  a  pleasant 
journey  through  the  diocese  of  Carlisle,  he  arrived  at 
Hexham  where  he  held  an  ordination  on  3  April,  the  day 
he  had  previously  appointed  for  the  visitation  of  the 
priory  of  St.  Bees.8  The  mention  of  the  Bishop  of  Whit- 
hern  in  the  licence  for  the  dedication  of  the  chapel  of 
Lowswater,  taken  with  the  constant  communication  be- 
tween West  Cumberland  and  the  Isle  of  Man,  would  seem 

1  No.  107. 

*  Reg.  of  Wickwane  (§urtees  Soc.),  p.  120. 

3  Reg.  of  John  le  Romeyn  (Surtees  Soc.),  pp.  350-51  :    Reg.  of 
John  de  Halton  (C.  &  Y.  Soc.),  p.  6. 


INTRODUCTION  XXXI. 

to  imply  that  the  Archbishop  sometimes  discharged  his 
pontifical  duties  by  deputy.  Bishop  Richard  of  Sodor 
died  at  Langley  in  Coupland  in  1275  and  was  buried  at 
Furness.1 

The  ecclesiastical  executive  in  the  deanery  of  Coupland 
in  the  twelfth  century  was  mainly  vested  in  the  Arch- 
deacon of  Richmond,  who  had  an  unlimited  ordinary 
jurisdiction.  He  appointed  and  removed  rural  deans  at 
pleasure.2  Not  unfrequently  there  was  a  conflict  between 
him  and  his  metropolitan  which  will  account  for  the  Pope's 
intervention  in  trivial  cases  recorded  in  this  Register. 
The  rural  chapters,  held  by  the  Archdeacon,  were  com- 
posed of  laymen  as  well  as  priests.  In  certain  inquisitions 
touching  the  church  of  Corney  in  1185,  the  chapter  of 
Coupland,  consisting  of  clergymen  only,  reported  to  the 
Pope's  delegates,  but  when  Archdeacon  Godard  de  Lucy 
assembled  the  chapter  for  the  same  purpose,  it  was  com- 
posed of  ten  incumbents  and  six  laymen  with  others  more 
of  both  grades.3  The  chapter  was  held  at  Egremont,4  not 
so  much  because  it  was  the  most  central  church  of  the 
deanery  as  because  it  was  -the  church  at  the  seat  of  the 
civil  jurisdiction.  When  the  Archdeacon  was  not  present, 
his  official  presided.  The  deanery,  which  enjoyed  im- 
munity from  the  payment  of  Peter  Pence,5  was  sometimes 
called  the  deanery  of  Egremont. 

There  were  at  least  three  altars  in  the  priory  church, 
the  great  altar,  the  altar  of  S.  Bega  and  the  altar  of  the 
Blessed  Mary.  Lambert  Scarlet  of  Annan  gave  a  rent 
charge  which  he  undertook  to  pay  on  the  day  of  S.  Bega 
upon  the  great  altar  of  her  church,6  and  Benedict  de 
Rotington  made  provision  to  sustain  a  light  or  lamp  before 


1No.  83  note. 

2Dansey,  Horae  Dec.  Rurales,  i.  121. 

RNos.  86-7. 

4  No.  96. 

5  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  xcix. 


<;No.  353- 


XXXll.  INTRODUCTION 

the  image  of  S.  Bega  near  the  great  altar.1  About  the 
middle  of  the  twelfth  century  Gospatric  son  of  Orm  made 
an  offering  on  the  altar  of  S.  Bega  on  the  day  of  the 
Assumption,2  and  later  in  the  same  century  Gillomichael, 
prior  of  Conishead,  did  likewise.3  The  altar  of  the  Blessed 
Mary  has  frequent  mention  :  it  has  the  distinguishing 
mark  that  on  it  was  celebrated  daily  mass  in  her  honour.4 
When  Jurdan  de  Dreg  made  provision  for  the  maintenance 
of  a  light  before  this  altar,  he  urged  the  abbot  and  monks 
of  York  to  excommunicate  anybody  who  attempted  to 
meddle  with  his  gift.5  The  mention  of  lights  in  the 
church  as  well  of  lights  before  the  altars  is  of  frequent 
occurrence. 

The  only  chapel  within  the  priory  church,  of  which 
notice  has  been  found,  is  that  of  S.  Bega,  the  patroness  of 
the  monastery.  Patric  son  of  Thomas  of  Workington 
gave  to  the  monks  half  a  mark  yearly  to  maintain  a  lamp 
burning  in  the  chapel  of  S.  Bega  of  the  said  church,6  and 
Adam  son  of  Richard  de  Neuton  gave  a  small  endowment 
of  land  to  sustain  the  light  of  the  chapel  of  S.  Bega  the 
perpetual  virgin.7  When  the  chapel  of  Lound  was  founded 
in  the  early  part  of  the  fourteenth  century,  it  is  distinctly 
stated  that  it  was  situated  outside  the  cell  of  S.  Bega  in 
Coupland.8  The  monks  had  chapels  for  their  own  con- 
venience as  well  as  that  of  their  tenants  on  the  most 
important  of  their  estates. 

The  church  of  S.  Bega  was  famous  for  its  relics  which 
exerted  no  small  influence  in  the  district.  Bernard  of 
Ripley  gave  a  rent  charge  to  maintain  a  lamp  burning  day 

:Nos.  415,  421. 
2Nos.  33,  384. 
8  No.  90. 
4Nos.  151,  153,  412. 

5  No.  467. 

6  No.  38. 

7  Nos.  109-10. 

8  No.  108. 


INTRODUCTION  XXX111. 

and  night  before  the  relics  in  that  church.1  When  an 
agreement  was  made,  the  sacred  relics  of  S.  Bega  were 
touched  to  give  greater  sanctity  to  it.2  An  oath  on  the 
relics  was  reckoned  the  most  sacred  of  all  obligations.3 
The  chief  of  these  relics  was  the  bracelet  of  the  saint, 
given  to  her  in  Ireland  by  some  supernatural  personage 
and  left  behind  on  her  departure  from  Coupland.  It  had 
the  sign  of  the  cross  plainly  visible  on  the  top.  .  Some 
stories  are  told  in  her  legendary  life  of  the  penalties  which 
followed  for  forswearing  on  this  relic.4  But  testimony 
to  the  power  of  the  bracelet  is  not  confined  to  the  author 
of  the  life  of  S.  Bega  :  its  sanctity  was  acknowledged  for 
several  centuries,  not  only  in  the  district  of  St.  Bees,  but 
beyond  it.  Sometimes  it  is  said  that  the  relics  of  S.  Bega 
were  examined  as  well  as  touched.5  The  bracelet  had  a 
covering  (peplum)  which  was  as  efficacious  in  punishing 
wrong-doers  as  the  holy  relic  itself.  The  fame  of  the 
bracelet  was  known  far  and  wide.  Robert  de  Veteri 
Ponte  and  Idonea  his  wife  endowed  the  monks  with  cer- 
tain rents  out  of  respect  for  the  church  in  which  the 
bracelet  of  S.  Bega  was  preserved.6  John  de  Hale,  to 
make  an  obligation  more  binding  upon  him,  not  only 
touched  the  Holy  Gospels,  but  took  his  corporal  oath  on 
the  bracelet  of  S.  Bega.7  When  a  husband  made  a  grant 
to  the  priory  of  property  which  he  held  in  right  of  his 
wife,  the  lady  swore  on  the  bracelet  to  hold  the  gift  secure.8 
It  would  be  presumption  to  deny  the  personal  existence 
of  the  saint  in  Coupland  or  to  cast  a  slur  on  the  piety  of 
that  age,  but  it  cannot  be  held  other  than  remarkable 

'No.  67. 
2Nos.  342,  302. 

3  No.  399. 

4  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  i.,  pp.  500-15. 

5  No.  362. 

6  No.  65. 

7  No.  304. 
8Nos.  474,  488. 


XXXiv.  INTRODUCTION 

that  language  yields  a  common  origin  to  the  saint  and  her 
bracelet  :  sancta  Bcga  is  good  ecclesiastical  Latin  for  the 
Anglo-Saxon  halgan  beage  or  its  English  equivalent  holy 
bracelet.  The  pagan  custom  of  swearing  on  the  bracelet 
or  armlet  is  mentioned  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  Chronicle1  so 
early  as  876  and  was  common  among  the  Northmen. 
The  sacred  ring  was  preserved  in  the  temple  or  worn  as 
a  bracelet  by  the  priest. 

Little  is  known  of  the  priory  at  the  time  of  its  suppres- 
sion. Some  letters2  have  been  preserved  which  reflect 
no  discredit  on  the  inmates.  Only  two  monks  were  sus- 
pected of  personal  depravity.3  In  view  of  the  tainted 
methods  employed  to  bring  about  the  overthrow  of  the 
religious  houses,  St.  Bees  may  be  said  to  have  had  a  clean 
record.  Though  the  deed  of  surrender  has  not  been 
discovered,  there  is  some  evidence  that  the  number  of 
monks  on  the  establishment  was  sometimes  greater  than 
it  was  when  the  priory  was  founded.  No  doubt  like  other 
houses,  St.  Bees  varied  with  the  economic  condition  of  the 
country.  The  magnificent  cruciform  church  of  the  priory, 
with  its  incomparable  west  doorway,  still  stands  as  a 
monument  of  the  greatness  of  the  age  in  which  it  was 
built,  but  no  ground  plan  of  the  monastic  buildings  has 
as  yet  been  made.  It  is  stated  in  the  first  lease4  of  the 
priory  possessions,  made  in  1540  after  the  dispersion  of 
the  monks,  that  the  king  had  ordered  all  the  buildings 
within  the  site  and  precinct  of  the  monastery  to  be 
immediately  thrown  down  and  carried  away.  From  this 
and  similar  sources5  it  is  known  that  the  chief  entrance 
to  the  precinct  was  by  a  tower  covered  with  lead  called 
the  Gatehouse,  thereby  resembling  the  plan  of  the  priory 

1  See  the  authorities  at  No.  65,  note  2,  p.  96. 
-  Illus.  Doc.,  Nos.  LXXXIX-XCV. 

3  Ibid.,  No.  cnj. 

4  Ibid.,  No.  cv. 

5  Ibid.,  No.  civ. 


INTRODUCTION  XXXV. 

of  Wetheral,  a  sister  house,  the  Gateway  of  which  still 
remains.  The  whole  site  was  surrounded  with  a  wall 
inclosing  an  area  of  an  acre  and  a  half,  in  which  there  were 
buildings,  barns,  stables,  dovecotes,  orchards  and  gardens. 
The  survivals  on  the  site  seem  to  indicate  that  the  monas- 
tic precinct  lay  on  the  south  and  west  sides  of  the  priory 
church,  the  north  side  being  occupied  by  the  parish 
cemetery. 

The  area  occupied  by  the  monastic  buildings  is  a  sure 
evidence  that  the  establishment  was  relatively  small.  St. 
Bees  at  the  time  of  dissolution  ranked  as  one  of  the 
religious  houses  with  a  revenue  of  less  than  £200  a  year. 
Its  inmates  did  not  make  a  great  stir  in  the  world.  Few 
of  the  priors  are  known  to  have  been  promoted  to  higher 
monastic  dignity  :  Alan  de  Nesse,  in  the  fourteenth  cen- 
tury, and  Roger  Kirkeby  and  Edmund  Thornton,  in  the 
fifteenth,  rose  to  be  abbots  of  the  mother  house  at  York  : 
but  so  far  as  we  know  these  three  names  complete  the  list 
of  promotions  from  St.  Bees.  There  are  only  occasional 
notices  of  their  employment  in  affairs  outside  their  domes- 
tic concerns.  In  the  thirteenth  century  they  acted  on 
papal  commissions  with  the  priors  of  Lancaster  and 
Cartmel  on  certain  local  and  monastic  business.1  In  two 
or  three  instances  royal  letters  of  protection2  were  issued 
presumably  when  they  were  leaving  the  realm,  but  on 
these  occasions  perhaps  they  were  going  to  Ireland  on  the 
affairs  of  their  affiliated  house  there.  Most  of  them,  so 
far  as  we  can  judge  from  their  names,  were  importations 
from  the  mother  house  of  York,  but  Priors  Stanlaw, 
Warthill,  Alanby,  and  perhaps  Kirkeby  were  apparently 
local  men.  On  the  eve  of  the  suppression  the  lay  officers 
of  the  convent  consisted  of  a  land  steward,  a  steward  of 
Stainburn,  a  steward  of  the  court,  a  receiver  of  rents  and 

1  Beck,  Annales  Fumes.,  pp.   181,  185. 

2  Cat.  of  Pat.,   1258-66,  p.   468  :    ibid.,   1266-72,  p.   4  :    ibid., 
1292-1301,  p.  174. 


XXXVi.  INTRODUCTION 

three  bailiffs.,   the  allowances  to  the  whole  staff  only 
amounting  to  £6  33.  40!.  yearly.1 

The  forecast  of  the  author  of  S.  Bega's  life  has  been 
realized.  Generations  may  come  and  generations  may  go, 
he  said,  but  as  long  as  the  land  of  S.  Bega  stands,  her 
blessed  memory  will  be  cherished  by  posterity.  In  no 
part  of  her  franchise  is  her  name  likely  to  continue  longer 
than  in  the  "  dread  cliff  of  Baruth,  the  towering  headlands 
of  St.  Bees,"  which  moved  the  imagination  of  Wordsworth 
and  others  of  lesser  fame.  St.  Bees  Head  owned  to  many 
curious  place-names  not  now  found  on  the  map  which  will 
afford  delightful  exercise  for  the  ingenuity  of  philologists. 
Like  pule  on  the  estuary  of  the  Duddon,  the  suffixes,  hou 
and  hole,  foth  and  berth,  are  predominant.  It  is  believed 
that  places  terminating  with  hole,  Astinhole,  Brundhole, 
Pattering  Hole  et  hoc  genus  omne  have  an  antiquarian  as 
well  as  an  etymological  interest.  The  cliffs  have  been 
celebrated  for  their  breed  of  hawks2  for  more  than  four 
centuries.  The  slopes  towards  the  east  afforded  pasture 
for  large  flocks  of  goats  and  sheep  in  the  palmy  days  of 
the  priory  as  they  do  in  our  own  day,  but  the  plough  at 
some  time  or  other  must  have  reached  the  summit.  Sea- 
weed which  was  thrown  up  in  abundance  around  the 
Heads  was  used  as  manure  in  the  seaboard  inclosures. 
The  bay  on  the  south  Head,  known  as  Kirkhaven  or 
Kirkbyhaven,  may  have  been  used  by  the  monks  as  an 
anchorage  for  small  craft. 

The  editors  of  Dugdale3  have  recorded  all  that  is  known 


.  Doc.,  No.  c. 

aNos.  164,  451  :    Illus.  Doc.,  Nos.  xcvj.,  cvj. 

8  Mow.,  iii.  575.  Bishop  Tanner  gives  a  similar  history  of  the 
manuscript  (Notitia  Mon.,  p.  73,  ed.  1744).  As  part  of  the 
muniments  of  title,  the  manuscript  would  descend  with  the  lord- 
ship of  St.  Bees  from  Thomas  Leigh,  the  first  grantee  after  the 
dissolution  of  the  priory,  through  the  Chaloners  and  Wyberghs, 
to  Sir  John  Lowther.  But  it  was  from  Strype  that  Harley 
purchased  it.  Did  Strype  borrow  the  manuscript  from  Lowther 


INTRODUCTION  XXXV11. 

of  the  vicissitudes  of  the  only  manuscript  of  the  Register 
of  the  priory  now  extant.  "  It  was  formerly  in  the 
possession  of  Sir  John  Lowther  of  Whitehaven,  afterwards 
in  that  of  the  Rev.  John  Strype,  and  is  now  preserved 
among  the  Harleian  manuscripts  in  the  British  Museum, 
num.  434.  It  forms  a  volume  of  thickness  in  folio,  written 
upon  vellum  apparently  towards  the  latter  end  of  the 
fourteenth  century.  A  few  instruments  are  inserted  in 
it  in  a  later  hand."  Students  of  the  text  of  the  manu- 
script will  not  agree  with  the  date  ascribed  to  the  compil- 
ation of  the  Register  :  it  is  probably  a  century  too  early  : 
deeds  later  than  the  fifteenth  century  embodied  in  the 
volume  are  without  rubrics,  written  in  a  different  hand 
and  unnoticed  in  the  elenchus  conlentorum  or  table  of 
contents.  In  the  Harleian  Catalogue  the  manuscript  is 
described  as  "  Codex  membranaceus  in  fol.  minori,  co- 
emptus  a  M.  Joh.  Strype  in  quo  conscribitur  :  Registrum 
Chartarum  Monasterii  Stae.  Begae  in  agro  Cumbriensi." 
The  title  on  the  binding  of  the  volume  reads  :  "  Regis- 
trum Cartarum  Monasterii  S.  Begae  Co.  Cumbr."  In  the 
manuscript  itself  there  is  no  title  except  a  scribble  in  a 
late  hand  :  "  Leiger  Book  of  S.  [Begas  cancelled}  Mary 
&  S.  Beghe  in  [York  cancelled}  Cumberland."  It  is  very 
doubtful  that  John  Denton  ever  saw  the  manuscript : 
at  the  places  where  he  seems  to  be  indebted  to  it,  it  is 
probable  that  he  got  his  information  from  the  original 
deeds  of  the  priory  after  their  dispersion  among  the 
muniments  of  the  Lowthers  and  other  families.  The 
earliest  local  writer  who  appears  to  have  consulted  the 
manuscript  was  Bishop  Nicolson,  who  states1  "  that  in 
a  cartulary  of  St.  Begh's,  in  the  Earl  of  Oxford's  library, 
Thomas  son  of  Gospatrick  gives  among  other  benefactions 
salinam  in  Culwen :  this  Culwen  is  on  the  seacoast  in 

and  forget  to  return  it  ?     He  would  naturally  wish  to  see  it  while 
he  was  engaged  on  the  Life  of  Archbishop  Grindal. 
1  Irish  Hist.  Library,  pref.  p.  vi. 


XXXV111.  INTRODUCTION 

Galloway,"  a  clear  reference  to  No.  61  in  the  printed 
Register. 

No  seal  of  the  priory  has  been  discovered  except  that 
described  on  p.  604  and  illustrated  by  the  present  writer 
elsewhere.1  If  the  editors  of  Dugdale  were  referring  to 
the  same  deed  in  the  office  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  to 
which  the  impression  of  the  seal  in  wax:  is  attached,  the 
latter  part  of  their  report2  of  it,  that  "it  is  small  and 
mean,  consisting  only  of  a  plain  cross  without  any  charges 
in  the  shield,  and  a  few  words  round  it  no  longer  legible," 
cannot  be  accepted  as  an  accurate  description. 

The  ancient  arms  of  the  monastery  were  noted  by  Tonge 
in  his  visitation  of  the  Northern  Counties  in  1530  (Harleian 
MS.  1499.  f-  80)  before  the  dispersal  of  the  monks.  A 
print  of  the  shield,  showing  the  arms  of  William  Meschin, 
the  founder — a  lion  rampant — quartered  with  those  of 
Lucy  of  Egremont — three  luces  hauriant — has  been  des- 
cribed in  the  Surtees  edition3  of  Tonge's  Visitation  and 
reproduced  as  an  initial  letter  by  the  editors  of  Dugdale. 
In  giving  the  arms  Tonge  added  :  "Be  yt  notid  that 
Wyllyam  Myschen  son  of  Ranolf,  lord  of  Egremond, 
founded  the  monastery  of  Saint  Beysse  of  blake  monkes  : 
and  heyres  to  the  sayd  Mischen  ys  the  Lord  Fytzwatre, 
the  Lord  Haryngton  and  the  Lord  Lucy  :  and  so  restyth 
founders  of  the  said  monastery  therle  of  Sussex,  the  Lord 
Marques  Dorset,  and  therle  of  Northumberland  as  heyres 
to  the  lords  aforsaid."  The  lion  rampant  is  given  as  the 
arms  of  Ranulf  Meschin,  lord  of  Cumberland  and  after- 
wards earl  of  Chester,  in  Poulet's  feodary4  of  1542. 

Extenuation  is  pleaded  for  the  omission  of  explanatory 
notes  and  for  the  contraction  of  many  later  charters  in 
the  Register.  In  the  plan  of  the  book  the  editor  had  to 

1  V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  ii.  130. 

2  Mon.,  iii.  576. 
8  No.  41,  p.  94. 

4  Exchequer,  T.  R.,  Miscell.  Book,  Ixxij.  f.  673. 


INTRODUCTION  XXXIX. 

decide  between  footnotes  and  illustrative  documents,  and 
to  the  latter,  for  better  or  worse,  the  preference  was  given. 
It  is  claimed  that  the  charters  collected  from  private 
sources  will  be  more  useful  to  the  student  of  the  territorial 
history  of  Coupland  than  biographical  disquisitions  on 
persons  and  descriptive  particulars  of  places  as  they 
occurred.  The  Register  is  so  self-contained  that  it  may 
be  easily  understood  without  adventitious  help.  No 
problem,  however,  likely  to  cause  confusion  has  been  con- 
sciously disregarded.  In  every  instance  where  a  difficulty 
presented  itself,  an  attempt  has  been  made  to  explain 
or  failure  has  been  frankly  admitted.  The  abridgment 
of  the  later  charters  has  been  in  all  cases  made  by  means 
of  omission  of  stereotyped  phrases  :  phraseology  has  not 
been  altered.  The  place  of  omission  has  been  always 
indicated,  but  care  has  been  taken  to  retain  every  clause 
of  historical  value.  The  omitted  words  and  phrases  are 
common  to  similar  documents  of  equal  date.  No  charter 
of  the  twelfth  or  early  thirteenth  century  has  been  touched. 
In  a  work  of  this  kind,  pursued  under  hampering  disa- 
bilities, there  must  be  many  errors.  For  these  and  other 
shortcomings  the  indulgence  of  the  generous  reader  is 
invoked. 

It  is  pleasant  to  acknowledge  obligation  to  the  Lord 
Leconfield  for  access  to  his  muniments  at  Cockermouth 
Castle  :  to  Mr.  William  Stanley  for  putting  his  charter 
chest  at  Ponsonby  Hall  within  easy  reach  :  to  Mr.  Oswin 
J.  Charlton  for  copying  the  Cumberland  charters  in  poss- 
ession of  his  kinsman  at  Hesleyside  :  to  Mr.  Alan  Curwen 
for  permission  to  go  through  his  ancient  evidences  :  to 
Mr.  William  Farrer  for  copies  of  charters  in  Hornby 
Chapel  Library  :  to  Mr.  William  Brown  and  to  Mr.  George 
Neilson  for  sundry  kinds  of  help  :  and  to  Mr.  Isaac  H. 
Jeayes  for  collating  the  editor's  transcript  with  the  original 
manuscript  at  the  British  Museum. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 


[ELENCHUS    CONTENTORUM] 


LIBER  I. 

i. — Carta  Willelmi  Meschpn]  primi  fundatoris  celle 
sancte  Bege  de  sex  carucatis  terre  cum  manerio 
Balisterii  in  Kyrkeby  becok. 

ii. — C.    ejusdem   W.    de   vij    carucatis   et   donacione 

ecclesie  et  tota  parochia  de   Kirkeby,   et   de 

capella  de  Egremont,  et  de  decimis  dominii  sui 

in  Coupland.  (Wirkinton) 

iii. — C.    Ranulfi   Meschyn   filii   Willelmi    de   cella   in 

Wirkington  et  molendino  ejusdem. 
C.  Willelmi  filii  Ranulfi  de  vij  carucatis  terre  in 

Kirkeby  cum  parochia. 

iiii. — C.  Willelmi  filii  Ranulfi  de  eisdem  et  donacione 
ecclesie  sancte  Bege  monfachis]  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci. 

C.  Willelmi  Meschyn  de  libertatibus  in  boscis,. 
aquis  dulcibus  et  salsis.  (Egremont) 

C.  Willelmi  (sic)  Meschyn  filii  Willelmi  filii 
Ranulfi  de  vij  carucatis  cum  capella  de 
Egremont. 

v. — C.  Ranulfi  Meschyn  de  vij  carucatis  terre  cum 
aliis  libertatibus  diversis  in  Coupland. 

(Coupland) 

vi. — C.  Ranulfi  Meschyn  filii  Willelmi  de  manerio  de 

Avenderdala.  (Auenderdala) 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Ranulfi  de  Swarthof. 

C.  Alicie  Rumelly  de  terris,  boscis,  libertatibus 

et  dignitatibus  in  Coupland  (Coupland) 

B 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

vii. — C.   Alicie   de   Rumelly   de   decimis   dominiorum 

suorum  in  Coupland. 
C.  Alicie  de  Rumelly  de  xiiij  salmonibus. 
C.    ejusdem    de    terris    et    libertatibus,    salimV 

pannagifo]  in  Coupland. 
viii. — C.  Willelmi,  nepotis  regis  Scocie,  de  pannagi[o] 

et  aliis  libertatibus  in  Coupland. 
ix. — C.  Willelmi,  comitis  Albemarlie,  de  vj  vaccis  de 

Nowtegeld  in  Coupland. 

C.  ejusdem  de  vj  vaccis.  (vi  vacce) 

C.  Willelmi  Fore'  de  Anerdale  et  de  Coupland  et 

xiiij  salmonibus  et  dimidia  carucata  terre  in 

Aspatrik  et   de  vj    acris   in  eadem  et   de   vj 

salmonibus    in    Kokirmoth   et    xx   solidis    in 

Ribton.  (Ribtona) 

C.  Willelmi  comitis  Albemarlie  de  v  solidis    in 

molendino  de  Egremount.  (Egremont) 

C.  Willelmi  Fore',  comitis  Albemarlie,  de  Allerdal 

de  Coupland  et  xiiij   salmonibus  et   vj   acris 

terre   in   Aspatrik   et   j    marca   in  molendino 

fullonum     in  Kokirmouth.  (Kokirmwth) 

x. — C.  Alanani  (sic)  filii  Walthef  de  dimidia  carucata 

terre  in  Aspatrik  et  vi  acris  in  alio  loco  ejusdem 

cum  prato  et  communi  in  eadem. 
Dimissio  fratris  Nicholai  Langt[on]   prioris,  de 

terra  in  Aspatrik.  (Aspatrik) 

Dimissio  ejusdem  de  terra  in  eadem. 
xi. — Dimissio  fratris  Nicholai  de  terra  in  Aspatrik. 
Dimissio  ejusdem  de  terra  in  eadem. 
C.  Christiane  filie  Agnetis  filie  Dolfyn  de  terris 

in  Aspatrik. 
C.  Cecilie,  comitisse  Albemarlie,  de  iiijor  carucatis 

terre  inter  Esk  et  Duden.        -  (Lawswater) 

xii. — C.   Cecilie,   comitisse  Albemarlie,   de  capella  de 

Lawswater  et  de  ij  bovatis  terre  et  communa 

pasture  in  eadem. 


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C.   Richard!  Lucy  de  terra  in  Lawswater  cum 

prato  et  capella  ejusdem. 
xiii. — C.    Richardi    Lucy   de    Saltergh,    Wyndergh   et 

pannagi[o]  inter  Derwent  et  Esk. 
C.    ejusdem   de   decima   venacionis   cum   corriis 

in  Coupland. 
C.  Gospatricii  filii  Orm  de  terra  de  Salter  quam 

monachi  possunt  claudere  et  fossare. 
xiiii. — C.  Gospatrici  filii  Ormi  de  terra  Salter       (Salter) 
C.    ejusdem   de   terra   in   Salter   et    ecclesia   de 

Wirkintona   et    ecclesia   de    Haveringtona   et 

pastura  de  Arlokdene. 
xv. — C.  Thome  filii  Gospatricii  de  xx  salmonibus  in 

Wirkinton  et  villa  de  Salter  et  ecclesia  de  Wir- 

kinton  et  molendino  ejusdem.    (xx  salmonibus) 
C.  ejusdem  de  xx  salmonibus  in  eadem  et  dimidio 

rete  super  [Derwent].  (Derwent) 

xvi. — C.  Thome  filii  Gospatricii  de  decimis  animalium 

suorum  de  [Salter].  (Salter) 

C.  Patricii  filii  Thome  de  Wirkintona  de  dimidia 

marca   ad   quamdam   lampadem   et    xiiij  sal- 
monibus. 
xvii. — C.  David  regis  Scottorum  de  Enersete. 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Duncani  de  eadem.        (Ainerset) 
C.  Ade  filii  Suani  de  eadem. 
C.  Alani  filii  Ronald  de  j  marca  de  camera  sua. 
C.    Guntredi  regis   Insularum   de   Eschedala  in 

boscis,  planis,  pratis,  etc.  (Eschedale) 

xviii. — C.   Ragnaldi  regis  Insularum   de   dimidia  parte 

de  Ormeshane. 
C.  Olavi  regis  Insularum  de  licencia  emendi  Ix 

boves  in  Man,  etc.  (Insula  de  Man) 

C.  Abbatis  et  capituli  de  Ruschyn  de  Asmundir- 

toft  in  Man. 
xix. — C.  Ranulfi,  comitis  Moravie,  de  dimidia  terra  de 

Hormishon,  etc. 


4  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

xx. — Confirmacio     domini     Antonii     patriarche     de 

Asmundirtoft  et  aliis. 

xxi. — C.  Alani  filii  Waldevi  de  uno  tofto  apud  Scadebuas. 
C.  Lambert!  de  Multon  de  pannagio  in  Coupland. 

(Pannagium) 

xxii. — C.  Thome  filii  Lamberti  de  chimino  de  Kates wath. 

C.  Willelmi  Esseby  de  ij  bovatis  terre  in  Lorton. 

C.  ejusdem  de  ij  bovatis  in  eadem.        (Lortone) 

xxiii. — C.  Willelmi  Esseville  et  Hectrede  uxoris  ejus  de 

ij  bovatis  in  [Alneburgh].  (Alneburgh) 

C.   Isaac  clerici  de  Scheftling  de  ij   bovatis  in 

eadem. 

C.  Rogeri  de  Bello  campo  de  ij   bovatis  in  le 
[Seschalis]  (Seschalis) 

C.  Ade  filii  Henrici  de  Millum  de  salina  in  eadem. 
C.  Johannis  filii  Johannis  Hodilston  de  salina  in 
eadem.  (Millum) 

C.  ejusdem  de  quadam  placea  in  eadem. 
xxiiii. — C.  Rogeri  Masculi  de  salina  in  Kulwen.     (Kulwen) 
C.  Thome  filii  Gospatricii  de  salina  in  eadem. 
C.  Ronaldi  filii  Uctrede  de  salina  in  [Preston]. 

(Prestona) 
C.  Willelmi  Hariz  de  salina  in  Reinpatrik. 

(Reinpatrik) 
xxv. — Dimissio  saline  de  Reinpatrik. 

C.  Roberti  de  Veteri  ponte  de  x  solidis  aut  de  j 

pullano.  (i  Pullano) 

Recognicio  Rogeri  Clifford  de  eodem. 

C.  Bernardi  Riplay  de  dimidia  marca  in  Kirke- 

and[r]es.  (Kirkandres) 

C.    Danielfis]    filii   Danielps]    de   Furnes   de   xis 

caruce  sue. 

xx vi. — C.  Alyne  de  Cauncefeld  de  una  cribula  frumenti 
apud  [Aldyngham]  (Aldyngham) 

C.  Johannis  filii  Ricardi  de  Cauncefeld  de  j  cribula 
frumenti  apud  [Aldyngham]. 


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C.  Nicholai  de  Moriceby  de  terris  et  tenementis 

in  Keldlandes.  (Keldlandes) 

xxvii. — C.  Hugonis  de  Moriceby  de  terris  in  [Prestgille]. 

(Prestgille) 

C.  Nicholai  Moriciceby  de  turbaria  sive  mossa  [de 
Wythemer].  (de  Wythemir) 

xxviii. — C.  Thome  Newton  de  terris  in  [Rutgartes]. 

(Rutgart) 

xxix. — Carta  Willelmi  de  Essevilla  de  capella  et  terris  in 

Lowswatyr    et    imam     [sic]    toftam     [sic]  in 

Egremont.  (Lowswatyr) 

Composicio    inter    priorem    et    inhabitatores   de 

Louswater  de  toftis  in  Egrimont,  libro  primo 


LIBER  II. 

i. — Carta  Godardi  de  ecclesiis  Witingham,    Bothel, 
cum  ij  mansuris  et  totis  parochiis  et  decimis. 

(Witingham) 
C.     Willelmi  Corbeth  de  ecclesia  de  Witingham 

cum  pertinenciis. 
Finalis    concordia   inter   priorem    et    Radulfum 

Corbeth  de  donacione  Witingham. 
Dimissio  dementis  abbatis  de  eadem. 
ii. — Dimissio    C[lementis]    abbatis    de    ecclesia    de 

Witingham. 

Dimissio  Robert  i  abbatis  de  eadem. 
C.  Rogeri  filii  Copsi  de  ecclesia  de  Corneia  cum 
pertinenciis.  (Cornaya) 

C.  Benedicti  de  Penyngton  de  eadem. 
C.  Christiane  de  Coupland  de  eadem  cum  pertin- 
enciis. 

iii. — C.    Horm   filii   Rogeri    de    ecclesia   de  Cornaia. 
Inquisicio  fact  a  de  eadem. 
Recognicio  de  eadem. 
iiii. — C.  Roberti  Hauerigtona  de  ecclesia  de  Hafrinctona. 


6  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Recognicio  pasture  de  Moreton  et  Weddakir. 

(Moreton) 

Quieta   clamacio   Gillomichaelis    de   decimis    de 

Weddakir.  (Weddakir) 

v. — Indentura  facta  de  decimis  infra  parochiam  de 

Wittebec. 

vi. — Concordia  inter  abbatem  monasterii  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  priorem  de  Conyngeshevd  de  v.  s. 
C.  capituli  de  Cunyngesheved  de  v.  s.  pro  ecclesia 
de  Wittebec.  (Wittebec) 

Recognicio  de  x  solidis  de  Wittebec. 
vii. — Instrumentum  de  Wittebec. 
viii. — Convencio  inter  priorem  sancte  Bege  et  abbatem 
de    Caldra    de    tercia    parte    bonorum    infra 
limites  suas  inventorum.  (Caldir) 

Concordia  inter  priorem  sancte  Bege  et  conventum 
de  Kaldra  de  decimis  de  Bekermet.    (Bekermet) 
ix. — Inquisicio  de  capella  de  Cliftona.  (Clifton) 

x. — Recognicio  capelle  de  Cliftona. 

Dimissio  ejusdem. 

xi. — Dimissio  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton.         (Wirkinton) 

Inquisicio  facta  de  decimis  et  minutis  oblacion- 

ibus  de  Sores tal  et  Molkerkilne.  (Sorestal) 

Recognicio  de  eisdem.  (Molkerkilne) 

xii. — Inquisicio    facta    de    decimis    de    Thakthwayt. 

(Thakthway) 

Concordia  de  decimis  de  Thakthwayt. 
xviii. — Concordia  Thome  Lucy  de  pastura  in  Lawswatir. 

(Lawswatir) 
xviiii. — Confirmacio  Rogeri  archiepiscopi  Eboracensis  de 

Sinodis  et  auxiliis  non  solvendis. 
xix.— Obligacio  pro  capella  de  Lounde.        (Capella  de 

Lounde) 
LIBER  III. 

i. — Carta  Ade  filii  Ricardi  de  Newtona  de  terris  in 
eadem. 


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C.  ejusdem  de  j  parte  terre  in  eadem. 
ii. — C.  Ade  filii  Ricardi  de  j  parte  terre  in  Newton. 
iii. — C.  Ade  filii  Ricardi  Tilliof  de  j  acra  et  j  roda  in 

eadem. 
C.  Ricardi  Warde  de  Dreg  de  j  acra  et  j  roda  in 

eadem. 
iiii. — C.  Ade  filii  Ade  filii  Ricardi  de  terra  in  eadem. 

Dimissio  ejusdem  terre  per  priorem  Gwydonem. 
v. — C.  Roberti  abbatis  de  terra  in  Newtona. 

C.  Ade  de  Newton  filii  Ricardi  de  j  acra  cum 

pertinenciis  in  eadem. 

C.  Andree  capellani  de  j  acra  et  j  roda  cum  ij 

domibus  cum  parte  unius  gardini  in  eadem. 

vi. — C.  Huberti  de  Newton  de  xvj  acris  et  j  roda  in 

eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  xiiij  acris  terre  in  eadem. 
vii. — C.  Huberti  de  aliis  xij  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  xij  acris  terre  in  eadem. 
viii. — C.  Ade  filii  Ade  de  Newton  de  dimidia  parte 
tocius  terre  sue  in  [Newton].  (Newtona) 

C.  Huberti  Newtona  de  vij  acris  terre  in  eadem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  vij  acris  in  eadem. 
ix. — C.  Huberti  de  Newtona  de  vij  acris  in  Newtona. 
C.  Huberti  de  Clar'  de  Newton  de  terris  et  edificiis 

in  eadem. 
x. — C.  Huberti  de  Newtona  de  iiij  acris  de  Gosforde 

in  Newtona. 
C.  ejusdem  de  j  messuagio  cum  pertinenciis  in 

eadem. 
xi. — C.    Johannis    filii    Huberti    de    j    messuagio    in 

Newtona. 

C.  Huberti  de  terris  in  eadem. 

xii. — C.   Ade  de  Newtona  filii  Huberti  de  terris  in 
eadem  et  situ  molendini.  (Molendinum) 

C.  ejusdem  de  terra  in  eadem. 
xiii. — C.  Ade  filii  Huberti  de  tota  terra  in  Newton. 


8  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

C.   Margarete  filie  Hubert!  de  terris  et  edificiis 

in  eadem. 
C.  Pa  vie  filie  Willelmi  capellani  de  Punchunby 

de  totis  terris  suis  in  eadem. 

xiiij. — C.  Pavie  filie  ejusdem  de  terra  in  Newton, 
xv. — Confirmacio    Thome    de    Senhows    de    terris    in 
Newton. 

LIBER  IIII. 
i. — Carta  Ade  de  Harras  de  vj  acris  arabilibus  in 

Hothwait. 
C.    Thome   filii    Ricardi    Collan    de   introitu   et 

exitu  de  Hothwait  in  Welyngmore. 
C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem  lib[ertatibus]. 
ii. — C.  Thome  filii  Ricardi  de  introitu  et  exitu  in 

Hothwait. 

C.  Hugonis  Harras  de  eisdem. 
iii. — C.  Thome  filii  Ricardi  Collan  de  introitu  et  exitu 

in  Hothwait. 

C.  Hugonis  Harras  de  eisdem. 
C.  Roberti  Hothwait  de  vj  acris  cum  pertinenciis 

in  eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  terris  in  eadem.  (Hothwait) 

iiii. — C.  Gilberti  filii  Roberti  de  Hothwait  de  terra  in 

eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  diversis  terris  in  eadem. 
Convencio  inter  Nicholaum  priorem  et  W[illel- 

mum]  filium  Radulfi  de  terris  in  eadem. 
Quieta  clamacio   Willelmi  filii   Radulfi  de  totis 

terris  suis  in  eadem. 
v. — C.  Willelmi  de  Hothwait  de  toftis  et  croftis  in 

eadem. 

C.  Henrici  de  Hothwait  de  j  tofto  et  crofto  et 

dimidia  parte  in  Helkacamur  et  vij   acris  in 

Hothwayt.  (Helkocmir) 

C.  Ede  uxoris  Henrici  de  Hothwait  de  terris  in 

eadem. 


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C.  Christiane  de  Howthwait  in  eisdem. 
vi. — C.  Henrici  de  Hothwait  de  redditu  viij  d.  in  eadem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  quadam  parte  in  eadem  data  ad 

luminare  beate  Marie  infra  cellam. 
C.  ejusdam  de  quadam  pecia  terre  in  eadem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  quodam  tofto  in  eadem. 
vii. — C.  Henrici  de  Hothwait  de  terris  suis  in  Hothwait. 
Quieta   clamacio   ejusdem    de   totis   terris   suis 

in  eadem. 
C.   Henrici   filii   Roberti   de   Hothwait   de  totis 

terris  suis  in  eadem.  (Hothwait} 

C.  Cecilie  uxoris  ejusdem  de  totis  terris  suis  in 

eadem. 
viij. — C.  Cecilie  uxoris  Roberti  de  Hothwait  de  quadam 

pecia  terre  in  eadem. 
C.  Symonis  abbatis  de  vj  acris  cum  j  tofto  in 

Witofthavene.  (Witofthaven) 

C.  Henrici  de  Hothewait  de  tota  medietate  cum 

pertinenciis  in  eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  iij  acris  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 
ix. — C.   Henrici   de   Hothwait   de   tota  terra  in   del 

Flatt.  (Flatte) 

C.  ejusdem  de  ij  acris  cum  pertinenciis  in  terri- 

torio  de  Witofthaven. 
Bundas    et    met  as    f  ranch  [isie]    sante    Bege — in 

libro  viij0  in  fine. 

LIBER  V. 

i. — Dimissio  Roberti  prioris  de  j   tofto  et  j   crofto 

in  Kalder.  (Kaldir) 

Carta  Willelmi  filii  Ade  de  j  tofto  et  ij  acris  terre 

in  eadem. 
C.   Roberti  de  Kaldir  de  j   acra  cum  omnibus 

aisiamentis  in  eadem. 

ii. — C.  Godive  filie  Godrici  de  Kaldra  de  iij  acris  in 
eadem. 


10  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

C.  Walter!  de  Sevenhoues  de  iij  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  Robert!  Seton  de  iiij  acris  in  Selker.      (Selker) 
C.  Robert!  Lamplou  de  terris  juxta  Rukwrabanc 
et  xvjd.  in  Lamplou.  (Lamplou) 

C.    Radulfi   filii   Johannis   Lamplou   de   eisdem. 

(Rukwra) 

i\\. — C.  Edwardi  Regis  de  communi  pasture  in  Hurt  one 

(Moreton) 

C.  Anchetini  filii  Durandi  de  xijd.  in  Cletergh. 
C.  Alketelli  filii  Durandi  de  totis  terris  suis  in 

dominico  de  eadem. 

iiii. — Dimissio  Robert!  abbatis  de  terris  in  Cletergh. 

(Cleter) 
C.  Mauricii    de  Man  de  j   placea  et  j  salina  in 

Haringthwait. 

C.  dementis  abbatis  de  terra  in  Hairingthwait. 
v. — C.  Nicholai  Langton,  prioris,  de  terris  in  Hairing- 
thwait. 

C.  Reginald!  de  vastis,  planis  et  boscis  de  Hairing- 
thwait. (Airingthwait) 
C.  Reginald!  filii  Mauricii  de  totis  terris  suis  in 

eadem  Qwitofthaven. 

vi. — Convencio  inter  T.   Wymundham  et   Ricardum 

Gal  way  de  tenementis  et  messuagiis  in  eadem. 

C.  Margarete  uxoris  ejusdem  T.  de  j  tenemento 

et  orrio  in  eadem. 

C.   ejusdem  de  terris   et   tenementis  in  Airing- 
thwait et  Qwitofthaven. 
vij. — C.  ejusdem  de  totis  terris  suis  in  eisdem. 

(Witofthaveri) 
C.   Symonis  Crump  de  terris   et   tenementis  in 

eisdem. 
C.  Margarete  filie  Nigelli  de  manerio  de  Aring- 

thwait. 

viij. — C.  Symonis  Crump  de  terris  in  Airingthwait  et 
Qwitofthaven .  (A  ryngthwait) 


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C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem.  (Witofthaven) 

C.  Margar[ete]  filie  et  heredis  Nigelli  de  Airing- 
thwait  de  terris,  mesuagiis,  curtilagiis  et  ij 
acris  cum  tercia  parte  de  Bradeheng. 

C.  Willelmi  Schinwald  de  eisdem. 
ix. — C.     Margar[ete]    uxoris    T.     Wymundham,     de 
omnibus  terris,  edificiis,  tenementis  in  Witoft- 
haven et  Airingthwait. 

Quieta  clamacio  Hugonis  de  Moriceby  de  j 
messuagio  et  omnibus  eisdem. 

C.  Margar[ete]  filie  Nigelli  de  messuagiis,  terris, 

toftis,  pratis  in  eisdem. 

x. — C.  Margarete  uxoris  T.  Wymundham  de  tene- 
mentis et  aliis  in  Airingthwayt. 

C.  Ricardi  de  Gal  way  de  terris  et  tenementis  in 
Witofthaven. 

C.   Margarete  de  Airingthwait   de  j   tenemento 

[in]  Witofthaven. 

xi. — C.  Willelmi  filii  Roberti  de  j  mesuagio  in  Witoft- 
haven et  Airingthwait. 

C.  Margarete  uxoris  T.  Wymundham  de  j  tofto 
et  j  acra  cum  pertinenciis  in  eisdem. 

C.  Ricardi  de  Swarthow  de  terris  in  Witofthaven. 

C.    Margarete   filie  Nigelli    de   tercia   parte   de 

Airingthwait. 

xij. — C.  Thome  Wymundham  de  tercia  parte  manerii 
de  Airingthwait. 

C.  ejusdem  de  terra  vocatale  terne in  Q Witofthaven. 

Quieta  clamacio  Roberti  Brune  de  terris  et 
tenementis  et  edificiis  in  eadem. 

C.  Thome  del  Hamis  de  j  acra  cum  pertinenciis 

in  eadem. 
xiij. — C.  Rogeri  Sutton  de  camera  in  Witofthaven. 

(Witofthaven) 

C.  ejusdem  de  omnibus  terris  in  Witofthaven  et 
Airingthwait. 


12  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem  terris  in  eisdem. 

(Aryngthwait) 

C.   ejusdem   de   eisdem   terris   et   tenementis   in 

eisdem.  (Witofthaveri) 

xiiij. — C.  Roberti  de  Rotington  de  terris  et  tenementis 

in  Airingthwait  et  Witofthaven. 
C.  Rogeri  Sutton  de  xiiij  messuagiis,  vj  toftis, 
cxxiiij  acris,  viij  acris  prati,  j  acra  bosci,  xl 
acris  vasti,  x  acris  more,  iiij  acris  marisci  et 
xij    denariatis    redditus    in    Airingthwait    et 
Witofthaven. 
C.  Chetelli  filii  Eldredi  de  ecclesiis  et  pertinenciis 

de  Morland,  Brounfeld,  Wirkinton. 
C.  Willelmi,  rectoris  de  Wirkinton,  de  pensione 
etc.,  oneribus.  (Wirkinton) 

xv. — C.  Rogeri  de  Seleby,  rector  ecclesie  de  Wirkin- 

tona,  de  pensione  et  aliis  oneribus. 
C.  Patricii  filii  Thome  de  districcione  de  salmon- 

ibus  in  Wirkinton. 
Instrumentum     de     recognicione     de     pensione 

ejusdem  et  aliis  oneribus. 

xvi. — Instrumentum  de  recognicione  de  pensione  ejus- 
dem et  aliis  oneribus. 
xvij. — C.  Alani  filii  Thome  Penyton  de  uno  nativo  cum 

sequela. 
C.  Alani  filii  Alani  de  eisdem. 

(Penitona  de  j  nativo) 
xviij. — C.  Domini  Regis  Edwardi  de  terra  in  Kyrkby- 

bekegh. 
Inquisicio  de  eisdem  terris.  (Qwytofthaven) 

LIBER  VI. 

i. — Cart  a  Rogeri  filii  Gilberti  de  villa  de  Hensi[n]g- 
ham.  (Hensi[ri]gham) 

C.  ejusdem  de  eadem  cum  pertinenciis  in  boscis 
planis  et  pas  tuns. 


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C.  Willelmi,  comitis  Albemarlie,  de  Hensi[n]g- 
ham  et  Walton.  (Walton) 

C.  Cecilie,  comitisse  Albemarlie,  de  eisdem. 
C.  Alani  filii   Retell  de  dimidia  skep  frumenti 

recipienda  in  molendino  de  Hensingham. 
ii. — C.   Alani  filii   Ricardi  de   Coupland  de  j   skep 
frum[enti]    rec[ipienda]    apud    Bothilt[on]    et 
dimidia  apud  Hensingham. 

Concordia  domini  Alani  de  Coupland  de  ij  skeps 
farine  rec[eptis]  de  molendino  de  Santona. 

(Santon) 
Convencio    inter    R.     abbatem     et     Ricardum 

Alneburgh  de  divisis  de  Hensingham. 
iii. — Convencio  inter  R.  de  Bramthwat  et  Johannem 
priorem  de  mora  de  Hensi[n]gham. 

(Hensingham) 

Convencio  inter  J.  Langliver  et  W.  priorem  de 
eadem.  (Swartof) 

C.  Rogeri  filii  Gilberti  de  Walton.  (Walton) 

iiij. — C.  Willelmi  de  Lancastre  de  Swartof,  Hensing- 
ham et  Waltona. 

C.  B.  abbatis  de  j  acra  cum  prato  in  Walton. 
C.  ejusdem  de  terris  in  eadem. 
Obligacio  Willelmi  de  Walton. 

v. — C.  Hugonis  Flemyng  de  medietate   manerii   de 
Waltona  cum  pratis,  edificiis  et  omnibus  aliis. 
C.  Johannis  rectoris  de  Lamplou  de  eisdem. 
Indentura   de   medietate   ejusdem   cum   pertin- 

enciis. 
vi. — C.   Hugonis  Flemyng  de  medietate  manerii  de 

Walton. 

Quieta  clamacio  Emmote  filie  ejusdem  de  eisdem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem. 
vij. — C.  Emmote  filie  Hugonis  Flemyng  de  medietate 

manerii  de  Waltona. 
C.  Willelmi  Wright  de  eadem. 


14  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Littere  attornatorie  se  seisina  in  eadem. 
viij. — c.   magistri  Ade   de  Thornton   de  medietate 

ejusdem. 

Obligacio  Gilbert!  Payntur  de  xl  libris. 
Littera  attornatoria  de  seisina  in  Walton. 
C.  Johannis  de  Brydkirk  et  aliorum  de  Walton. 
C.  Thome  Lawswater  de  Walton  cum  pertinenciis. 
C.  Willelmi  Flaxton  de  eisdem. 
ix. — Obligacio  Ade  Payntur,  rectoris  de  Brydkirk,  et 

Johannis  fratris  ejus,  de  C  libris. 
Quieta  clamacio  eorundem  de  Walton  cum  per- 
tinenciis. 
Quieta  clamacio  eorundem  de  omnimodis  accion- 

ibus  et  querelis. 

C.  Johannis  filii  Nicholai  Moriceby  de  Keldlandis. 

(Keldland) 

x. — C.  Roberti  Qwenby  de  terris  in  le  Keldlandis. 
C.  Agnetis  filie  Huberti  filii  Roberti  Qwenby  de 

terris  in  eisdem. 
C.     Henrici    Grasothen    capellani     et     Isabelle 

Qwenby  de  terris  et  libertatibus  in  eisdem. 
xi. — C.  magistri  Willelmi  Tanfeld  de  terris  et  liber- 
tatibus in  Kelland. 
C.  Johannis  Brydkirk  de  terris  in  Keldhows  et 

Distington.  (Distingtona) 

C.   Nicholai   Stayngrev[e]    et   aliorum   de   terris 

diversis  in  comitatu  Cumbrie. 
xij. — C.  Nicholai  Stayngref  de  diversis  terris  in  locis 

diversis. 

C.  Gunilde  de  terra  in  Botell.  (Botell) 

C.  Henrici  filii  Thome  Botell  de  dimidia  acra  in 

eadem.  (Botell) 

xiij. — C.  Henrici  filii  Thome  Botell  de  tota  terra  sua  in 

Botell. 
Comissio  Willelmi  prioris  de  dimidia  acra  terre 

in  eadem. 


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C.  Regis  Henrici  de  x  acris  pasture  cum  pertin- 

enciis  in  eadem. 
C.    siue    relaxacio    fact  a    priori    de    omnimodis 

accionibus. 

xiiij. — C.  Rogeri  filii  Edwardi  de  quadam  terra  vocata 

Ellerbank.  (E  Her  bank) 

C.  Roberti  de  Tateshale  de  x  s.  in  molendino  de 

Wittun.  (Wytturi) 

C.  Ricardi  de  Coupland  de  j  acra  terre  in  Bolton. 

(Bolton) 
LIBER  VIJ. 

i. — Cart  a  Johannis  filii  Alexandri  de  Howthwait  de 

j  acra  terre  arabilis  in  Bouilton. 
C.  ejusdem  de  tota  terra  sua  in  eadem. 
C.  Willelmi  filii  Hugonis  de  Warthebuthethwait 

de  iij  acris  in  eadem. 
ii. — C.  Willelmi  filii  Hugonis  de  Warthebuthethwait 

de  j  acra  in  eadem.  (Bolton  vel  Bouilton) 

C.    ejusdem    de    iiij    acris    cum    pertinenciis    in 

eadem. 
C.  Ade  filii  W.  de  v  acris  cum  pertinenciis  in 

eadem. 
iii. — C.  Ade  filii  Willelmi  filii  Hugonis  de  ij  acris  in 

Bolton. 
C.  Alani  filii  Ricardi  de  Coupland  de  xxx  fall  [is] 

terre  in  eadem. 
C.  Johannis  Langliver  de  medietate  tocius  terre 

sue  in  eadem. 
iiij. — C.  Johannis  Langliver  de  j  acra  cum  aisiamentis 

in  Boltona. 
C.  Walteri  Sevenhowes  de  j  acra  cum  pertinenciis 

in  eadem. 

C.  Petri  Sevenhows  de  iiij  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  Johannis  Scharp  de  j  acra  in  eadem. 
v. — C.  Ade  filii  Richeri  de  terra  inter  Barkerhals  et 

Helepule.  (Barkerhals,  Helpule) 


16  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Waldevi  de  tercia  parte  unius 

acre  in  Morthwaitbec.  (Morthwaitbec) 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Johannis  de  Punchunby  de  tota 

terra  in  Widkeldflatt.  (Wydkeldftatt) 

C.  ejusdem  de  iij  acris  terre  in  eadem. 
vi. — C.    Ricardi  filii   Johannis   de   Punchunby  de  ij 

bovatis  terre  in  Punchunby.  (Punchunby) 

C.  ejusdem  de  terris  in  eadem. 
C.  Symonis  abbatis  de  terris  in  eadem. 
vij. — C.  Johannis  filii  Roberti  le  Rich  de  Bouilton  de 

terris  in  eadem. 
C.   Alexandri  filii   Ricardi  de   Punchunby  de  j 

roda  et  prato  adjacente  cum  libertatibus. 
C.  Johannis  filii  Willelmi  de  iij  acris  in  eadem. 
viij. — C.  Ricardi  filii  Willelmi  de  iij  acris  et  edificiis  in 

eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  totis  terris  et  tenementis  in  eadem. 
C.  Johannis  filii  Ricardi  le  Rich  de  totis  terris 

suis  et  edificiis  in  eadem. 
[Quere    confirmaciones    Nicholai    Staynlow    in 

eodem  libro  xvi  folio.] 
C.  Ade  filii  Ketelli  de  j  acra  terre  in  Hale, 
ix. — C.   Willelmi  capellani  filii  Henrici  dispensatoris 

de  dimidia  roda  et  vij  yirgatis  in  Hale.      (Hale) 
C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem. 
C.  Agnetis  et  Cecilie  filiarum  Willelmi  capellani 

de  totis  terris  suis  in  Hale. 
x. — Convencio  inter  priorem  et  Johannem  de  Hale 

de  libertatibus. 
C.  Johannis  de  Hale  de  xl  s. 
C.  Ade  filii  Willelmi  capellani  de  totis  terris  suis 

cum  pertinenciis  in  Hale. 
C.  Johannis  filii  Radulfi  de  Kirkebryd  de  j  acra 

et  dimidia  roda  et  vij  virgatis  in  Hale. 
xi. — C.  Johannis  de  Hale  de  dimidia  acra  in  Hale. 
C.    Alani   filii   Waldevi   de   ij    bovatis   terre   in 

Gosford.  (Gosford) 


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C.  Robert!  de  Wall[ibus]   de  ij  bovatis  terre  in 

eadem. 

C.  Ade  de  Newton  de  iij  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  Galfridi  Falconarii  de  j  acra  in  eadem. 
xij. — C.  Galfridi  Falconarii  de  ij  acris  in  Gosford. 
C.  Grecie  de  Gosford  de  ij  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  1  acris  terre  in  eadem. 
xiij. — C.    Johannis    Falconarii    de    j    acra    terre    cum 

pertinenciis  in  eadem. 

C.  Ade  filii  Ricardi  de  Gill  de  j  acra  in  eadem. 
C.  W.  filii  Ricardi  de  j  messuagio  et  j  acra  in 

eadem. 
xiiij. — C.  Roberti  filii  Willelmi  filii  Rogeri  de  j  messuagio 

et  j  acra  in  eadem  Gosford. 
C.  Michaelis  de  Brokolbank  de  omnibus  terris, 

pratis,  edificiis  in  Growcorgill  de  Gosford. 

(Growcorgill  in  Gosford) 
C.  ejusdem  de  terris  in  eadem. 
C.  Thome  de  Laws  water  de  terris  in  eadem. 
xv. — C.  Michaelis  de  Brokholbank  de  seisina  de  terris 

in  Gosford. 

C.  Savarici  de  1  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  Thome  filii  Huberti  de  Neuton  de  iiijor  acris 

terre  in  Gosford.  (Gosford) 

C.  Grecie  de  Gosford  de  v  acris  terre  in  Gosford. 

xvj. — C.  Johannis  Scharpe  de  terris,  pratis,  edificiis  in 

Corkylgill  in   Gosford.  (Crowcorgil) 

C.  Leonardi  de  Malt  on,  Thome  de  Laws  water  et 

Radulfi  Bell  capellanorum  de  eisdem. 
Confirmaciones  Nicholai  Staynlowe  de  terris  in 

Punzunby.  (Punzunby) 

LIBER  VIII. 

i. — Carta  Michaelis  filii  Alani  de  Staynburn  de  v 
perticatis  terre  et  j  tofto  cum  aliis  in  Staynburn. 

(Staynburn) 
c 


1 8  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

C.  W.  filii  Michaelis  de  totis  terris  suis  in  Ovir- 

thegate.  (Ovirgate) 

C.    perquisita    per    Npcholaum],    priorem,    de 

Staynburn. 
C.  Thome  filii  Michaelis  filii  Alani  de  Staynburn 

de  j  acra  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadein. 

(Staynburn) 
ii. — Licencia    regis    Edwardi    de    terris    mortis'    in 

eadem. 
C.  Michaelis  de  Staynburn  de  v  acris,  et  messuagio 

in  eadem. 
iii. — C.  Ade  filii  Michaelis  de  terris  et  libertatibus  in 

Kirkecrossan.  (Kirkecrossan) 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Waldef  de  Yuebank  de  v  acris 

cum  pertinenciis  in  Wynnebank.    (Wynnebank) 
Convencio  de  pastura  in  Staynburn. 
iiij. — C.  Willelmi  filii  Michaelis  de  terris  in  Staynburn. 
C.  Agnetis  filie  Symonis  filii  Gilberti  de  Wirkinton 

de  terris  in  Staynburn. 
C.  Gilberti  filii  Willelmi  de  ij   bovatis  terre  in 

Stubscalis  et  v  acris  in  Qwynnybank. 
v. — C.  Thome  de  Newton  de  pastura  de  Staynburn. 
C.  Patricii  filii  Thome  de  Wirkinton  de  pastura 

inter  Wirkinton  et  Staynburn. 
vi. — C.     Patricii    filii    Thome    de    Wyndscal[is]     et 

Staynburn. 
C.  Johannis   filii   Ade   de   Wittgift  de  terris  in 

Staynburn. 
vij. — Littera  Johannis  de  Wittegift  de  attornatu  de 

seisina  in  terris  de  Staynburn.          (Staynburn) 
C.  Johannis  filii  Ade  de  Wittegift  de  iii]  bovatis 

cum  pertinenciis  in  Staynburn. 
C.  C[lementis]  abbatis  contra  Stenulfum  filium 

Ucth[redij  de  villa  de  Staynburn. 
C.     C[lementis]     abbatis     contra     Alanum     de 

Staynburn. 


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Concordia  inter  Robertum  abbatem  et  Michaelem 

de  Staynburn,  fol.  xiij°. 

viij. —  C.  Ade  filii  Suani  de  Aynerset.  (Aynerset) 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Dunecan[i]  de  eadem. 
C.  David  Regis  Scottorum  de  eadem. 
C.  Lamberti  Skarelet  dc  vj  denariis  in  Anand[ia]. 

(Anand') 
ix.— Dimissio  C.  abbatis  de  Ayndirset. 

C.  Michaelis  de  Clifton  de  terris  in  Clifton. 

(Wynsath,  Rocheland  et  al'  Wyndscalis) 
C.  Ade  de  Cliftona  de  terris  in  Cliftona. 
C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem.  (Clifton) 

x. — C.  Ade  filii  Michaelis  de  Clifton  de  v  acris  in 

Cliftona  et  parva  Wyndscal[is]. 
C.  Ade  filii  Michaelis  de  diversis  terris  in  diversis 

locis. 
Quiet  a  [clamacio]  Ade  filii  Ranulfi  de  terris  et 

tenementis  in  Cliftona. 
C.  Roberti  filii  Thome  Dreghailetill  de  terris  in 

eadem. 

xi. — Quieta  clamacio  Ade  filii  Dehe  de  diversis  terris 

in  Cliftona.  (Cliftona) 

C.  C[lementis]  abbatis  contra  Thomam  de  Dene 

de  capella  ejusdem.  (Clifton) 

C.  Benedicti  de  Rotingtona  de  Stokbrigholmes. 

(Stokbrigholms) 
Quere  cartam  Benedicti  de  Rodyngton  de 

prato  in  libro  xj  fol  iiijto. 

xij. — C.  Benedicti  Rotingtona  de  Stokbrigholmes. 
C.  Johannis  Hudilston  de  eisdem. 
Convencio  inter  Johannem  Hudilston  et  abbatem 

de  Gressholmes. 

xiij. — C.  Johannis  filii  Johannis  Hodilston  de  j  placea 
in  Millum. 


2O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

LIBER  IX. 

i. — Carta  Ricardi  Lucy  de  Wyndergh  et  Witofthaven 
et    cum   libertatibus.  (Witofthaven) 

C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem. 

Concordia  inter  Symonem  abbatem  et  dominum 

Thomam    de   Multon   de    terris   in    Salter   et 

Wyndere.  (Wynder) 

ii. — C.  Johannis  filii  Helie  de  Sty  vet  on  de  Wyndere. 

iij. — C.  Ade  filii  Walteri  filii  Grotan  de  Eglesfeld. 

(Eglesfeld) 
C.  Roberti  filii  Walteri  de  Eglesfeld  de  terris  et 

libertatibus  in  Eglesfeld. 
C.  Roberti  filii  Roberti  de  terris  in  eadem. 
C.  Thome  filii  Henrici  de  viij  denariis  in  eadem. 
iiij. — C.  Michaelis  filii  Ade  de  Eglesfeld  de  terris  in 

eadem. 
C.  Godithe  filie  Michaelis  de  Furness  de  j  bo  vat  a 

in  eadem. 

C.    Willelmi    comitis    Albemarlie    de    Dene    et 

Eglisfeld.  (Dene) 

Quieta  Clamacio  Rogeri  filii  Gerardi  de  Mortona 

de  Salter. 

v. — C.  Gospatricii  filii  Horm  de  omnibus  terris  suis 
cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 

(Salter  cum  bosco  et  molendino) 
C.  Willelmi  de  Bo  villa  de  terris  cum  molendino 

ejusdem  Salter. 
C.   ejusdem   de   totis   terris   suis   cum   bosco   et 

molendino  ejusdem. 

C.  Nicholai  Moriceby  de  turbaria  et  aliis  libertati- 
bus in  Wittemyr. 
vj. — C.  Nicholai  Moriceby  de  eisdem.  (Wyttemyr) 

LIBER  X. 

i. — Carta  Ingeranni  de  Cornuburgie  de  vj  acris  cum 
pertinenciis.  (in  Derham) 


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C.  Alexandri  filii  Alexandri  Waytfote  de  j  bovata 
terre  cum  pertinenciis  [in]  Talentyre. 

(Talentyr) 

C.  Johannis  de  Talentyre  de  j  tofto  cum  pertin- 
enciis in  eadem. 
ii. — C.  Ricardi  filii  Johannis  de  Derham  de  terris  in 

Talentyre. 

C.  ejusdem  de  ij  acris  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 
iii. — C.   Ricardi  filii  Johannis  Divitis  de  ij   acris  in 

eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  iiij  acris  in  eadem. 
C.  ejusdem  de  diversis  terris  in  eadem. 
iiij. — C.  ejusdem  de  vj  acris  in  eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  tota  terra  sua  in  eadem. 

Obligacio  ejusdem  de  terris  suis  non  vendendis. 

v. — C.  Ricardi  filii  Johannis  Divitis  de  vij  acris  in 

Talentyr.  (Talentyr) 

Quiet  a  clamacio  Ede  uxoris  ejusdem  de  terris  in 

eadem. 
C.  Ricardi  filii  Johannis  Divitis  de  j  tenement o 

in  eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  redditu  unius  denarii  in  eadem. 
vj. — C.  Ricardi  filii  Johannis  Divitis  de  j  tofto  cum 
domo  et  grangia  in  Talentyr.  (Grangia  ejusdem) 
C.  Henrici  filii  Divitis  de  eisdem. 
Cirographum  Nicholai  prioris  de  terris  in  Talentyr 
vij. — Dimissio  terre  de  Heversham.  (Heversham) 

Convencio  de  eadem. 
C.  Radulfi  de  Levynton  de  firma  in  Karliolo. 

(Karliol[um]) 

Obligacio  abbatis  et  conventus  de  Holmcoltram 

de  vj  denariis.  (Holmcoltram) 

viij. — C.  Ricardi  Preston  et  Amabill  uxoris  ejus  de  ij 

acris  terre  in  Strikland.  (Strikland) 

C.  Walteri  de  Strikland  de  ij  acris  terre  in  Crosrige 

cum  pertinenciis.  (Crosrige) 


22  REGI STRUM   PRIOR ATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Confirmacio  Amabille  quondam  uxoris  Ricardi 
de  Preston  de  ij  acris  terre  in  Strikland. 

LIBER  XJ. 

i. — Carta  Benedict!  de  Rotingtona  de  x  acris  et  iij 
perticis  in  Rotingtona.  (Rotingtona) 

C.  ejusdem  de  ij  toftis  et  croftis  cum  omni  pastura 
et  omnibus  libertatibus  in  eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  j  acra  terre  in  Houtbergh. 
ii. — C.  ejusdem  de  j  eadem  acra  terre  in  Houtberg'  et 
ijbus  aliis  acris. 

Convencio  inter  N[icholaum]  priorem  et  Bene- 
dictum  de  Rotfington]  de  barcaria  cum  per- 
tinenciis. 

iij. — C.  Benedict!  de  Rotington  de  divisis  et  pastura, 
scilicet,  de  Pottrun  et  aliis  multis. 

C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem. 

iiij. — C.  ejusdem  de  iij  toftis  et  croftis  terre  in  Roting- 
tona. 

C.  ejusiem  de  prato  de  Wellimore  in  territorio 
de  Fors  cum  bosco. 

C.    ejusdem    de    aqua    molendini    deduct  a    in 

Pekmyln. 
v. — C.  ejusdem  de  uno  native  in  Rotington. 

C.  ejusdem  de  pastura  in  totis  terris  suis  preter 
Blada. 

C.  Alani  Penyton  de  terris  in  Rotingtona. 

Convencio   inter   Nficholaum]    priorem   de  tota 

terra  de  Kirkhaveri  et  Knaphow. 
vi. — C.  Benedict!  de  Rotington  de  tota  terra  sua  de 
eisdem. 

Convencio  inter  Nicholaum  priorem  et  Benedict- 
urn  Rotington  de  quadam  barcaria. 

Convencio  inter  Johannem  priorem  et  Ranulfum 
de  Rotington  de  dimidpo]  stagni  molendini 
inter  Kirkeby  et  Rotingtona. 


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vij. — C.  Ricardi  filii  Alani  de  dimidia  acra  cum  aliis 

libertatibus  in  Santon.  (Santona) 

C.  Alani  de  Coupland  de  j  acra  cum  pertinenciis 

in  eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  j  acra  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 

C.   ejusdem  de  terris  et  libertatibus  in  eadem. 

Prior   habet   in    Rotyngton   ij    bovatas   terre 

ex  dono  Raineri  ut  patet  in  cartaRanulphi, 

libro  primo  f.  v. 

C.  Simonis  abbatis  de  via  dimissa  domino  de 
Rodyngton  super  terram  sante  Bege  inter 
barcariam  (Anglice  Shepecote)  et  Lytyll 
(Knaphow),  libro  xj  fol.  viii. 

viij . — C.  Alani  de  Coupland  de  terris  in  Santon.  (Santon) 

C.  Symonis  abbatis  de  via  xij  pedum  in  latitudine 

in    terra    sancte    Bege    dimissa    dominis    de 

Rodyngton.  (Rotingtori) 

Convencio   inter   Ranulfum   Rotington   de   tota 

multura  hominum  suorum  in  eadem. 

LIBER  XIJ. 

i. — Convencio  inter  Willelmum  Boyville  et  Willel- 

mum  priorem  de  manerio  de  Kirkesantan  cum 

pertinenciis  in  molendino  et  aliis  libertatibus. 

(Kirkesantori) 
C.    Agnetis    de    Langthwait    de    Wrengps]    et 

Haverig  cum  pertinenciis.      (Wreng[is]  Haverig) 
C.  Willelmi  de  Boyvill  de  dimidia  marcha  pro 

terra  in  Kirkesantan.  (Kirkesantan) 

Dimissio    Cflementis]    abbatis    de    Kirkesantan, 

Haverig  et  Thwaites. 

ii. — C.  Ade  de  Hyton  de  terris  in  eadem  Hyton.  (Hyton) 
C.   Agnetis   filie   Michaelis   Cornay  de  terris   et 

prat  is  in  eadem. 
C.  Anabille  filie  Michaelis  de  j  messuagio,  terris 

et  pratis  in  eadem. 


24  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

iii. — C.  Johannis  filii  Johannis  de  Hodilston  de  totis 

terris  suis  in  Hyton. 
C.    Johannis   filii   Thome   Frysyngton   de   terris 

in  eadem. 
C.   Willelmi  filii  Adelune  de  firma  in   Kirkeby 

super  moram.  (Kirkeby  super  Moram) 

C.  ejusdem  de  eadem  firma  in  eadem. 
C.  Thome  de  Mult  on  de  dimidia  marca  argenti 

in  Burgh.  (Burgh  juxta  le  Sandes) 

C.  ejusdem  siue  confirmacio  de  eadem. 

LIBER  XIIJ. 

i.—  Carta   Roberti   Curtnei  de   dimidia  marcha  de 

molendino    fullon[um]     in    Kokirmwth    cum 

mansura  in  eadem.  (Kokirmwth) 

C.   Alani  filii  Walthevi  de   xiiij   salmonibus   in 

eadem. 
C.  Ingeranni  de  vj  acris  terre  in  Derham. 

(Derham  cum  Kokirmwth) 
C.   Hugonis   filii  Ade   filii  Walteri  de  terris  in 

Kokirmwth  et  Derham. 
ij. — C.   ejusdem  Hugonis  de  omnibus  terris  suis  in 

Derham. 

Appellacio    facta   contra   abbatem   de    Furnays 
pro  decimis  tenfementi]  juxta  Millum. 

(Millum) 

iij. — C.  Nicholai  Stuttevill  de  ij  bovatis  terre  in  Dreg. 

(Dreg) 

Dimissio  C[lementis]  abbatis  de  eisdem. 
C.  Jordani  filii  Ketelli  de  terris  cum  divisis  in 

eadem. 

C.  ejusdem  de  Qwynhow  in  eadem. 
iiij. — C.  Ricardi  filii  Jordani  de  Dreg  de  totis  terris  suis 

in  Stainhous  in  Dreg. 

C.  Alicie  filie  Benedicti  Overhair  de  j   acra  et 
dimidia  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 


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C.  Anselmi  de  j  libra  Incensi  de  eadem. 
v.— C.  Jurdani  de  barcaria  in  Dreg. 
Dimissio  barcarie  de  eadem. 
C.  Roberti  abbatis  de  xx  acris  in  territorio  de 
Egremont.  (Egremont] 

Memordanum     quod     allocantur     xx     d[enarii] 
balivo  domini  de  Haryngton  in  Egrimont  ad 
solvendum   priori   sancte  Bege   pro   terris   in 
Wyrkyngton  vocatis  Banklandes. 
vj. — C.  Hugonis  filii  Edwardi  de  iij  acris  in  Kelt  on. 

(Keltori) 

C.  Willelmi  filii  Hugonis  de  eisdem. 
vij. — C.  Ade  de  Waibirthwait  de  terra  in  eadem. 

C.  Gilberti  filii  Ricardi  de  Franceys  de  j  acra  in 

eadem. 
C.  Petri  Trevet  de  j   acra  cum  edificiis  etc.  in 

eadem. 
viij. — C.   Roberti  Stub  de  totis  terris  suis  cum  per- 

tinenciis  et  libertatibus  in  eadem. 
Quieta  clamacio   Symonis   de   Kelton   de  liber- 
tatibus in  eadem. 

C.  Benedicti  filii  Willelmi  filii  Rogeri  de  terris 

et  aisiamentis  in  Seton.  (Setona) 

ix. — C.  Henrici  filii  Thome  de  totis  terris  suis  cum 

pertinenciis  in  eadem. 
C.  Nicholai  prioris  de  terris  in  eadem. 
x. — C.  Rogeri  filii  Edwardi  de  j  domo  et  iiij°r  acris 
in  Ranglass.  (Ranglass) 

C.  Alani  filii  Rogeri  de  ij  acris  in  eadem. 
xj. — C.  ejusdem  de  eisdem  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 
C.   Yvonis  de  totis  terris  cum  pratis  in  Liko- 
keriding  in  eadem.  (Likokeriding) 

C.  ejusdem  de  j  acra  et  dimidia  cum  pertinenciis 

in  eadem. 

xij. — C.  Alexandri  filii  Rogeri  filii  Edwardi  de  j  acra 
et  dimidia  cum  aisiamentis  in  eadem. 


26      REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

C.  Alicie  uxoris  Yvonis  de  medietate  tocius  terre 
sue  in  eadem. 

C.  Johannis  filii  Ricardi  cement arii  de  terris  et 

tenementis  in  eadem. 

xiij. — c.  Alicie  uxoris  Yvonis  fabri  de  omnibus  terris 
suis  cum  pertinenciis  in  eadem. 

C.  Alicie  de  Rumeley  filie  Willemi  filii  Duncani 
per  quam  quietum  clamat  Willelm[um]  de 
Rybton  et  heredes  (sic)  suos  (sic)  pro  homagio 
et  servicio  suo  et  viginti  marcis  drengagium 
quod  clamavit  in  Rybton.  (Ribton) 

C.  Gilberti  filii  Adam  de  Overkelett  de  duabus 
acris  terre  que  jacent  inter  terras  que  vocantur 
Spitelflat  juxta  Carnforth  et  in  exitu  ejusdem 
ville  ad  dextram  unius  tofti  et  unius  crofti 
continenc[ium]  unam  rodam  et  communam  ut 
patet  per  cartam. 


27 


CARTE  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 


1.    CARTA   PRIM  A  WILLELMI  MESCHYN. 

WILLELMUS  films  Randulfi1  omnibus  has  litteras  viden- 
tibus  et  audientibus  salutem.  Notum  vobis  facio  quod 
dedi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  virgini  Bege,  pro  salute 
mea  et  uxoris  mee  et  filiorum  meorum  et  parentum 
meorum,  vj  carrucatas  terre  in  Cherchebi2,  et  ad  incre- 

1.  *  William  Meschin,  founder  of  the  priory,  was  a  son  of 
Ranulf,  sheriff  of  Bayeux  in  Normandy,  and  brother  of  Ranulf 
Meschin,  lord  of  Cumberland.  The  elder  Ranulf,  whom  William 
of  Malmsbury  (Gesta  Regum,  ii.,  286,  R.S.)  calls  "  Rannulfum 
vicecomitem  Bajocensem,"  was  one  of  the  rebellious  nobles 
defeated  by  William  of  Normandy  in  1047  and  to  whom  he  alluded 
in  retrospect  on  his  death-bed  (Orderic  Vitalis,  bk.  vij.,  cap.  15). 
The  connexion  of  the  family  with  England  must  have  commenced 
at  an  early  date,  for  the  names  of  Ranulf  the  father,  Mahald  or 
Maud  his  wife,  Richard  and  Ranulf  their  sons,  and  Lucy  the  wife 
of  the  latter  are  entered  on  the  beadroll  of  Durham  (Liber  Vita, 
78).  William  son  of  Ranulf  the  sheriff  took  part  in  the  first 
Crusade  in  1097  (Orderic,  bk.  ix.,  c.  8).  According  to  the  inquest 
of  12 1 2  Henry  I.  enfeoffed  William  Meschin  with  the  lordship  of 
Coupland  between  Derwent  and  Duddon,  an  extensive  district 
in  the  south-west  of  the  modern  county  in  which  the  franchise 
of  St.  Bees  is  situated.  He  had  also  large  estates  in  Lindsey 
before  1118  and  in  Leicestershire  and  Northamptonshire. 
William  witnessed  three  charters  of  his  brother  Ranulf  to  the 
priory  of  Wetheral,  which  house  Ranulf  had  founded.  For  the 
title  of  Meschin  as  the  equivalent  of  "  junior  "  or  "  younger," 
see  Victoria  Hist,  of  Cumb,,  i.  302. 

a  Kirkby,  afterwards  Kirkbybeghog  (Nos.  186,  191,  etc.), 
church  town  of  Bega.  Parishes  which  bear  this  prefix  in 
Cumberland  and  Westmorland,  Kirkby  Kendal,  Kirkby  Lonsdale, 
Kirkby  Stephen,  are  numerous  in  Northumbria,  very  extensive 
in  area,  and  denote  Norse  settlements. 


28  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

mentum  predicte  elemosine  concede  manerium  quod 
[hjabuit  Willelmus  balistarius  in  pura  elemosina  sine 
aliquo  terreno  servicio.  Valet e.  Insuper  ut  sciatis  ut 
quicumque  ex  militibus  meis  aliquod  incrementum  terre 
de  suis  propriis  terris  dare  voluerit  concede.  Hujus  rei 
testes3  sunt  Waltheus,  Reinerus,  Godardus,  Ketellus, 
Willelmus  capellanus,  Coremac  Gille  becoc4. 

2.    CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  RANULFI  DE  vij  CARUCATIS 

TERRE  ET  TOTA  PAROCHIA  DE  KlRKEBY,  ET  DE  CAPELLA 

[DE]  EGREMONT  ET  DE  DECIMIS  DOMINII  sui. 

WILLELMUS  films  Ranulfi,  Turstino1  Eboracensi  archie- 
piscopo  et  omnibus  sancte  Eboracensis  ecclesie  parochianis, 
tarn  clericis  quam  laicis,  presentibus  et  futuris,  salutem. 
Pium  est  ut  sancta  Dei  ecclesia  a  filiis  et  fidelibus  suis 
dilatetur  et  amplificetur.  Eapropter  dedi  et  present! 
cartula  connrmavi  ecclesie  sancte  Dei  genitricis  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  vij  carrucatas2  terre,  quietas  et  solutas  ab 
omni  seculari  servicio.  Dedi  eciam  eidem  ecclesie  parro- 
chiam  suam  sicut  testimonio  proborum  virorum  probata 

8  The  names  of  Waldeve,  Reiner,  Godard  and  Ketel,  tenants 
of  William  Meschin's  lordship  of  Coupland,  will  be  found  in 
subsequent  charters  as  benefactors  of  the  priory.  Coremac  Gille 
becoc  probably  represents  only  one  individual,  Coremac  servant 
of  Bega  :  the  name  does  not  occur  again. 

4  In  the  margin  the  scribe  has  written  habetur  sub  cera  in  cella 
fundatorum,  prima.  Most  of  the  deeds  in  this  collection  are 
described  as  habetur  sub  cera,  showing  that  the  compilation  was 
made  from  the  original  deeds  of  enfeoffment  or  other  business 
transactions. 

2.  1  Turstin,  Thurstin  or  Thurstan  of  Bayeux  was  consecrated 
Archbishop  of  York  at  Rheims  by  Pope  Calixtus  II.  on  igth 
October,  1119,  and  retired  to  the  Cluniac  monastery  at  Pontefract 
in  January  1140,  where  he  died  in  the  following  month. 

2  In  the  text  of  No.  i  the  number  of  ploughlands  is  given  as 
six,  but  it  is  apparently  a  scribal  error  for  seven,  the  number  in 
this  and  subsequent  charters. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  29 

est,  videlicet,  quicquid  continetur  a  Witahoua3  usque  ad 
Chechel4,  et  sicut  eadem  Chechel  cadit  in  Egre5  et  Egre 
in  mare,  et  nominatim  capellam  de  Egremont,  que  est 
inter  predictos  terminos,  et  decimas  dominii  mei  et 
omnium  hominum  meorum  qui  manent  in  Egremont,  et 
decimas  piscariarum  mearum  de  Couplanda,  necnon  et 
decimam  coriorum  venacionis  mee.  Concede  eciam  don- 
um  quod  Wallefus  dedit  eidem  ecclesie,  videlicet,  Stein- 
burnam,  et  quod  Chetellus  donavit,  videlicet,  Prestonam, 
et  quod  donavit  Rainerus,  videlicet,  ij  bovatas  terre  in 
Rodintona6  et  unum  hominem  qui  manet  in  eadem  terra, 
et  quod  donavit  Gbdardus,7  videlicet,  ecclesiam  de 
Wintinghaham  et  unam  mansuram  et  totam  parrochiam 
eidem  ecclesie  pertinentem  et  decimam  de  dominio  suo  et 
ecclesiam  de  Botlia  et  unam  mansuram  et  totam  parroch- 
iam et  decimas  eidem  ecclesie  pertinent es.  Et  sciendum 
quod  a  me  constitutum  est  consilio  tuo,  Turstine  archie- 
piscope,  quod  abbas  et  capitulum  ecclesie  sancte  Marie 
Eboracensis  semper  ponent  sub  obediencia  sua  in  eadem 
ecclesia  priorem  et  sex  monachos  cum  eo  ad  serviendum 
Deo  in  ea.  Concedo  eciam  quicquid  homines  mei  in 

11  The  town  of  Whitehaven. 

4  The  river  Keekle. 

5  The  river  Ehen. 

6  The  charters  of  Wallef ,  Chetell  and  Rainer  have  not  been 
preserved.     Wallef,  the  donor  of  Steinburn,  has  been  identified 
with  Walthef  son  of  Gospatric,  lord  of  Allerdale,  and  Chetell,  the 
donor  of  Preston,  with  Ketell  son  of    Eltred,  who  also  gave  the 
church  of  Wirchintuna,  two  ploughlands  and  a  mill  in  the  same 
vill  (Illus.  Doc.,  No.  ix.).     These  identifications  in  King  Richard's 
confirmation  are  supported  by  the  earlier  charter  of  Henry  II., 
of  which  it  is  probably  a  copy  (Dugdale,  Mon.  iii.  550).      At  the 
earlier  date,   Chetell's  charter  must  have  been  inspected  for  it 
adds  to  the  contents  of  the  St.    Bees  abstracts.     In  the  royal 
confirmations  Rainer  is  described  as  dapifer,  as  he  signs  himself 
in  the  attestations  of  Nos.  8-10  :  probably  steward  of  Egremont. 

7  Godard  de  Boivill,  lord  of  Millom.     The  charter  is  preserved 
as  No.  76. 


30  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

posterum  ibi  consilio  meo  dabunt.  Hanc  autem  ele- 
mosinam  feci  pro  salute  domini  mei  Henrici  regis  Anglorum 
regis  et  pro  anima  uxoris  eius  Mathildis  regine  et  Willelmi 
filii  eius8  et  pro  salute  tua,  Turstine  archiepiscope,  et  pro 
remedio  antecessorum  meorum  et  meo  et  uxoris  mee  et 
liberorum  meorum  et  fidelium  meorum.  Testibus 
Turstino  archiepiscopo  et  Willelmo  archidiacono,  et 
Auffredo  et  Ricardo  capellanis  archiepiscopi,  et  Rainaldo 
capellano  Willelmi,  et  Siwardo  presbitero,  et  Godardo, 
Wallefo,  et  Chetello,  et  Odardo  de  Carlol,  et  Ricero  et 
Rainero  et  multis  aliis. 

3.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  WILLELMI  FILII  RANULFI  DE  vij 
CARUCATIS. 

WILLELMUS  filius  Ranulfi,  Turstino  Eboracensi  archie- 
piscopo et  omnibus  sancte  Eboracensis  ecclesie  parrochi- 
anis  tarn  clericis  quam  laicis  presentibus  et  futuris, 
salutem.  Pium  est  ut  sancta  Dei  ecclesia  a  filiis  et 
fidelibus  suis  dilatetur  et  amplificetur.  Eapropter  dedi 
et  presenti  cartula  confirmavi  ecclesie  sancte  Marie 
Eboracensis  cenobii  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege,  que  est  sita 
in  Caupalandia,  et  vij  carrucatas  terre  quietas  et  solutas 
ab  omni  terreno  servicio.  Reddidi  eciam  et  dedi  eidem 
ecclesie  parrochiam  suam  sicut  testimonio  proborum 
virorum  in  dedicacione  ejusdem  ecclesie  probata  est, 
videlicet,  quicquid  continetur  a  Witahoua  usque  ad 
Chechela,  sicut  eadem  Chechel  cadit  in  Egre  et  Egre  in 
mare,  et  nominatim  capellam  de  Egremont  que  est  sita 
inter  predictos  terminos  et  decimas  dominii  mei  et  omnium 
hominum  meorum  qui  manent  in  Egremont  et  decimas 
piscariarum  mearum  de  Caupalandia,  necnon  et  decimam 

8  From  the  phraseology  here  it  may  be  assumed  that  the  priory 
was  founded  after  the  death  of  the  Queen  and  William  the 
Aetheling,  and  therefore  after  1120,  but  before  the  death  of 
Henry  I. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA      3 1 

porcorum  et  carnis  venacionis  mee  per  totam  Caupaland- 
iam  et  decimam  pannagii  mei  et  decimam  vaccariarum 
mearum  per  totam  Cauplandiam.  Et  si  quis  ex  mea 
permissione  vel  donacione  infra  forestum  meum  pecuniam1 
suam  habebit,  ex  ea  sicut  ex  mea  monachi  habebunt 
decimacionem  et  insuper  unoquoque  anno  xxli  solidos  d'e 
decima  census  mei  de  Caupalanda  sive  crescat  sive  decres- 
cat.  Concede  eciam  quietum  quod  Wallef  dedit  eidem 
ecclesie,  viz.,  Stainburnam  ;  et  quod  Chetellus  donavit, 
viz.,  Prestonam  ;  et  quod  donavit  Rainerus,  viz.,  ij 
bovatas  terre  in  Rotingtona  et  unum  rusticum  manentem 
in  eadem  villa  ;  et  quod  donavit  Godardus,  viz.,  ecclesias 
de  Witingam  et  Botla  cum  ij  mansuris  et  totis  parrochiis, 
et  decimas  eisdem  ecclesiis  pertinentes  :  et  quod  donavit 
Willelmus  films  Gilleberti  de  Lancastra2,  viz.,  Swartahof3, 
videlicet,  omnia  quiet  a  in  elemosinam  et  sine  omni  terreno 
servicio.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  omnes  has  elemosinas 
dedi  predicte  abbacie  Eboracensi  consilio  Turstini  archie- 
piscopi  et  uxoris  mee  Cecilie4  et  hominum  meorum  et 
concessionem  (sic)  Rannulfi  filii  mei  tali  convencione  et 
pacto  ut  ibi  sit  cella  monachorum  et  abbas  Eboraci  et 
capitulum  semper  mittat  et  habeat  in  ecclesia  sante 
Bege  priorem  et  cum  eo  sex  monachos  ad  minus  residentes 
et  servientes  ibi  Deo.  Concede  eciam  quicquid  homines 

3.     1  Here  used  in  its  archaic  sense  for  cattle. 

2  William  de  Lancaster,  first  of  that  name,   lord  of  Kendal. 
A  separate  confirmation  of   this  grant   by   William   Meschin   is 
recorded  in  No.  11. 

3  Not  now  on  the  map,  but  it  is  probably  the  rising  ground 
between  Whitehaven  and  Hensingham,  known  locally  as  Swartha 
Brow. 

4  Cicely,  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  de  Rumelli,  lord  of  Skipton 
in  Craven.     With  William  Meschin,  her  husband,  she  founded  a 
priory  of  Canons  Regular  at  Embsay  near  Skipton,  afterwards 
transferred  to  Bolton.     It  would  appear  from  a  charter  printed 
by  Dugdale   (Monasticon,  vi.   204)   that  Cicely  was    afterwards 
married  to  Henry  de  Traches. 


32  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

mei  in  posterum  ibi  consilio  meo  vel  heredum  meorum 
dabunt.  Hanc  autem  elemosinam  feci  pro  salute  domini 
mei  Henrici  regis  Anglie  et  pro  anima  Matildis  regine  et 
Willelmi  filii  eorum  et  pro  salute  Turstini  archiepiscopi 
et  pro  remedio  antecessorum  meorum  et  meo,  uxoris  mee 
et  liberorum  meorum  et  ndelium  meorum.  Testibus  hiis 
Turstino  archiepiscopo  et  Willelmo  archidiacono,  Aufredo 
et  Richardo  capellanis  ejus,  Rainaldo  capellano  meo, 
Siwardo  presbitero,  Godardo,  Rainero,  Wallef,  Chetello, 
Odardo,  Ricardo  et  multis  aliis. 

4.  CARTA  RANULFI  MESCHYN  FILII  WILLELMI  DE 
WlRKYNGTON,  MOLENDINO,  ETC. 

RANULFUS  Meschinus1  films  Willelmi  Meschin  omnibus 
fidelibus,  tarn  clericis  quam  laicis,  litteras  has  videntibus 
vel  audientibus,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  dedisse  et  con- 
cessisse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Ebor[aci]  et  sancte  Bege  pro 
salute  mea  et  pro  anima  patris  mei  et  fratris  et  parentum 
meorum  quicquid  Chetellus  films  Heltredi  dedit  in  Wirch- 
intuna,2  scilicet,  ecclesiam  ejusdem  ville  et  molendinum 
in  eadem  villa  et  terram  ejusdem  ville  quantum  ipsi 
di visit  et  dedit.  Hanc  concessionem  et  donacionem  fecit 
idem  Rfanulfus]  in  die  assumcionis  sancte  Marie  coram 
istis  testibus,  Odardo  capellano  suo,  Fulcone  avunculo 

4.  l  This  Ranulf  Meschin  founded  the  Cistercian  abbey  of 
Calder  within  the  lordship  of  Coupland  in  1134  (Dugdale,  Mon., 
v.  340,  349).  From  Ranulf 's  mention  of  a  deceased  brother  in 
this  charter  it  may  be  taken  that  William  Meschin  had  more  than 
one  son,  unless  indeed  that  fratris  is  a  scribal  error  for  matris. 
Whitaker  without  giving  his  authority  puts  Matthew  as  a  brother 
of  Ranulf  in  his  short  pedigree  of  William  Meschin's  descendants 
(Hist,  of  Craven,  p.  297).  In  Nos.  1  and  2  William  Meschin 
alludes  to  liberorum  meorum,  though  the  phrase  may  refer  not  to 
his  sons  but  to  his  children. 

2  It  is  commonly  supposed  that  Gospatric  son  of  Orm  was  the 
first  of  this  family  settled  at  Workington.  This  deed  is  sufficient 
evidence  that  the  vill  was  in  possession  of  his  grandfather  Che  tell. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  33 

ejus,  Rannulfo  de  Suait,  Willelmo  de  Archis,8  Philippe 
filio  Clerembeldi,  Gaufrido  presbitero,  Willelmo  Borgando, 
Willelmo  filio  Chening,  Godardo  dapifero. 

5.    CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  RANULFI  MESCHYN  DE  vij 

CARUCATIS  TERRE,   ETC. 

WILLELMUS  filius  Rannulfi,  Turstino  Eboracensi  archie- 
piscopo  et  omnibus  sancte  Eboracensis  ecclesie  par- 
rochianis,  tarn  clericis  quam  laicis,  presentibus  et  futuris, 
salutem.  Pium  est  ut  sancta  Dei  ecclesia  a  filiis  et 
fidelibus  suis  dilatetur  et  amplificetur.  Eapropter  dedi 
et  presenti  cartula  confirmavi  ecclesie  sancte  Marie 
Eboracensis  cenobii  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  que  est  sita 
in  Coupolanda  et  vij  carucatas  terre  quietas  et  solutas  ab 
omni  seculari  servicio.  Reddidi  eciam  et  dedi  eidem 
ecclesie  parochiam  suam  sicut  testimonio  proborum 
virorum  in  dedicacione  ejusdem  ecclesie  probata  est, 
videlicet,  quicquid  continetur  a  Witahova  usque  ad 
Chechel  et  sicut  eadem  Chechel  cadit  in  Egre  et  Egre  in 
mare  et  nominatim  capellam  de  Egremont  que  est  sita 
inter  predictos  terminos,  et  decimas  dominii  mei  et 
hominum  meorum  qui  manent  in  Egremont,  et  decimas 
piscariarum  mearum  de  Caupolanda,  necnon  et  decimam 
porcorum  et  carnis  venacionis  mee,  et  unoquoque  anno 
xx  solidos  de  decima  census  mei  de  Caupolanda,  sive 
crescat  sive  descrescat.  Concedo  eciam  donum  quietum 
quod  Wallef  dedit  eidem  ecclesie,  viz.,  Steinburnam  : 
et  quod  Chetellus  donavit,  viz.,  Prestonam  ;  et  quod 
donavit  Rainerus,  viz.,  ij  bovatas  terre  in  Redintona  et 
unum  rusticum  manentem  in  eadem  terra  :  et  quod 
donavit  Godardus,  viz.,  ecclesias  de  Witingam  et  Botla 
cum  ij  mansuris  et  totis  parochiis,  et  decimas  eisdem 

3  For  the  descendants  of  some  of  the  witnesses  of  the  Meschin 
charters,  who  were  tenants  of  Skipton,  see  the  Carta  of  1166  in 
Liber  Rubeus  (R.S.),  i.  430-32. 

D 


34  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

ecclesiis  pertinentes  :  et  quod  donavit  Willelmus  filius 
Gilbert!  de  Lancastra,  viz.,  Swartahof,  videlicet,  omnia 
quieta  in  elemosinam  et  sine  terrene  servicio.  Et  scien- 
dum  quod  has  elemosinas  dedi  predicte  ecclesie  abbacie 
consilio  Turstini  archiepiscopi,  et  uxoris  mee,  Cecilie, 
et  hominum  meorum  et  concessione  Rannulfi  filii  mei, 
tali  convencione  et  pacto  ut  ibi  sit  cella  monachorum  et 
abbas  Eboracfi]  et  capitulum  sancte  Marie  Eboracfi]  semper 
mittat  et  habeat  in  ecclesia  sancte  Bege  priorem  et  cum 
eo  sex  monachos  ad  minus  residentes  et  servientes  ibi 
Deo.  Concedo  eciam  quicquid  homines  mei  in  posterum 
ibi  consilio  meo  dabunt.  Hanc  elemosinam  feci  pro 
salute  domini  mei  Henrici  regis  Anglie,  et  pro  anima 
Matildis  regine  et  Willelmi  filii  eorum  et  pro  salute 
Turstini  archiepiscopi,  et  pro  remedio  antecessorum 
meorum,  et  meo,  et  uxoris  mee  et  liberorum  meorum  et 
fidelium  meorum.  Testibus  Turstino  archiepiscopo  et 
Willelmo  archidiacono,  et  Aufredo  et  Ricardo  capellanis 
ejus,  et  Rainaldo  capellano  meo,  et  Siwardo  presbitero, 
et  Godardo  et  Rainero,  Wallef,  Chetello,  Odardo,  Ricardo, 
et  multis  aliis. 

6.    CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  RANULFI  MESCHYN. 

WILLELMUS  filius  Rannulfi,  Turstino  Ebor[acensi]  archie- 
piscopo et  omnibus  sancte  Eboracfensis]  ecclesie  parrochi- 
anis,  tarn  clericis  quam  laicis,  presentibus  et  futuris, 
salutem.  Pium  est  ut  sancta  Dei  ecclesia  a  filiis  et 
fidelibus  suis  dilatetur  et  amplificetur.  Eapropter  dedi 
et  presenti  cartula  confirmavi  ecclesie  sancte  Marie 
Eboracensis  cenobii  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  que  est  sita  in 
Coupalanda  et  vij  carrucatas  terre  quietas  et  solutas  ab 
omni  seculari  servicio.  Reddidi  eciam  et  dedi  eidem 
ecclesie  parrochiam  suam  sicut  testimonio  proborum 
virorum  in  dedicacione  ejusdem  ecclesie  probata,  vide- 
licet, quicquid  continetur  a  Witahova  usque  ad  Chechel, 
et  sicut  eadem  Chechel  cadit  in  Egre,  et  Egre  in  mare  : 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  35 

et  nominatim  capellam  in  Egremont  que  est  sita  inter 
predictos  terminos,  et  decimas  dominii  mei  et  omnium 
hominum  meorum  qui  manent  in  Egremont,  et  decimas 
piscariarum  mearum  de  Caupelanda,  necnon  et  decimam 
coriorum  et  carnis  venacionis  mee,  et  unoquoque  anno 
xx  solidos  de  decima  census  mei  de  Coupelanda,  sive 
crescat  sive  descrescat.  Concede  eciam  donum  quietum 
quod  Wallef  dedit  eidem  ecclesie,  videlicet,  Steinbornam  : 
et  Chetellus  donavit,  viz.,  Prestonam  :  et  quod  donavit 
Rainerus,  viz.,  ij  bovatas  terre  in  Rodintona  et  unum 
rusticum  manentem  in  eadem  terra :  et  quod  donavit 
Godardus,  viz.,  ecclesiam  de  Wintingaham  et  unam 
mansuram  et  totam  parochiam  eidem  ecclesie  pertinentem, 
et  decimam  de  dominio  suo,  et  ecclesiam  de  Botla  et 
unam  mansuram  et  totam  parochiam  et  decimas  eidem 
ecclesie  pertinentes  :  et  quod  donavit  Willelmus  nlius 
Gislebert  de  Lancastra,  viz.,  Swartahof,  videlicet,  omnia 
quiet  a  in  elemosina  et  sine  terreno  servicio.  Et  sciendum 
quod  has  elemosinas  dedi  predicte  abbacie  consilio 
Turstini  archiepiscopi  et  uxoris  mee  Cecilie  et  hominum 
meorum,  et  concessionem  Rannulfi  filii  mei,  tali  conven- 
cione  et  pacto  ut  ibi  sit  cella  monachorum,  et  abbas 
Eboracfi]  et  capitulum  sancte  Marie  Ebor[aci]  semper  mittat 
et  habeat  in  ecclesia  sancte  Bege  priorem  et  cum  eo  sex 
monachos  ad  minus  residentes  et  servientes  ibi  Deo. 
Concede  eciam  quicquid  homines  mei  in  posterum  ibi 
consilio  meo  dabunt.  Hanc  autem  elemosinam  feci  pro 
salute  domini  mei  Henrici  regis  Anglie,  et  pro  anima 
Matildis  regine,  et  Wilelmi  filii  eorum,  et  pro  salute 
Turstini  archiepiscopi,  et  pro  remedio  antecessorum 
meorum,  et  meo,  et  uxoris  mee,  et  liberorum  meorum  et 
fidelium  meorum.  Testibus  Turstino  archiepiscopo  et 
Willelmo  archidiacono,  et  Auffredo  et  Richardo  capel- 
lanis  ejusdem,  et  Ranaldo  capellano  meo,  et  Siwardo 
presbitero,  et  Godardo  et  Rainero,  Walleff,  Chetello, 
Odardo,  Ricario,  et  multis  aliis. 


36  REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

7.  CARTA  WILLILMI  MESCHYN  DE  LIBERTATIBUS  IN 

BOSCIS,    AQUIS   DULCIBUS   ET   SALSIS. 

WILLELMUS  le  Meschin,  omnibus  hominibus  et  amicis 
suis,  Francis  et  Anglis,  tarn  futuris  quam  presentibus, 
salutem.  Sciatis  me  dedisse  et  presenti  cart  a  mea  con- 
firmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  servientibus  omnes  boscos  qui  sunt 
infra  divisas  suas  et  quicquid  in  eisdem  continetur, 
exceptis  cervo  et  cerva,  apro  et  ancipitre,  et  ut  nullus  in 
eis  nisi  priore  concedente  possit  succidere.  Preterea 
dedi  predictis  monachis  et  concessi  habere,  ubique  infra 
terminos  suos  tarn  in  terris  quam  in  aquis  dulcibus  et 
salsis,  omnes  libertates  et  consuetudines  quas  habeo  in 
Couplanda.  Hec  autem  omnia  dedi  et  concessi  predictis 
monachis  libere  et  quiete  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam  pro  salute  domini  mei  Henrici  regis  Anglie  et 
pro  anima  Matildis  regine  et  pro  salute  mea  et  uxoris 
mee  et  liberorum  meorum  et  fidelium  meorum.  Testibus 
hiis  Reinaldo  capellano  meo,  Siwardo  presbitero,  Godardo, 
Rainero,  Wallef,  Chetell,  Odardo,  Richardo  et  aliis  multis. 

8.  CARTA  WiLLELMi1  MESCHYN  FILII  WILLELMI  FILII 
RANULFI    DE    vij    CARUCATIS    TERRE    ET    CAPELLA    DE 
EGREMONT. 

RANULPHUS2  Meschinus  firms  Willelmi  filii  Rannulfi 
omnibus  videntibus  vel  audientibus  litteras  has  salutem. 
Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  presenti  carta  confirmasse 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege 
que  est  in  Caupuland  et  vij  carrucatas  terre  et  totam 
parrochiam  suam  et  quicquid  pater  meus  eidem  ecclesie 

8.  J  This  word  stands  uncorrected  in  the  manuscript  and  is 
so  found  in  the  index  of  rubrics  or  table  of  contents.  It  should 
be  Ranulft. 

2  Willelmus  has  been  erased  and  Ranulphus  has  been  written 
over  in  the  same  hand  as  habetur  sub  cera  in  the  margin. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  37 

dedit  vel  concessit,  sicut  cart  a  ipsius  test  at  ur,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio,  et  nominatim  capellam  de  Egremunt  et  decimas 
dominii  mei  in  tota  Caupulandia,  et  omnium  hominum 
meorum  qui  manent  in  Egremont,  et  decimas  piscariarum 
rnearum  de  tota  Caupulandia,  necnon  et  decimam  por- 
corum  meorum  et  carnis  venacionis  mee  per  totum  forest- 
um  meum  in  tota  Caupulandia,  et  decimam  pannagii 
mei,  et  decimam  vaccariarum  mearum  per  totam 
Caupulandiam.  Et  si  quis  ex  mea  concessione  vel 
donacione  infra  forestum  meum  pecuniam  suam 
[habebit]  monachi  habebunt  decimacionem  de  ea 
sicut  de  mea.  Et  insuper  dedi  et  presenti  cart  a  mea 
confirmavi  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  man- 
erium  quod  [vocatur]  Avenderdale3  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam  solutam  et  quietam  ab  omni 
terreno  servicio.  Concessi  eciam  donum  quietum  quod 
Walthef  dedit  eidem  ecclesie,  viz.,  Steinburn  :  et  quod 
Chetellus  dedit,  viz.,  Preston  :  et  quod  dedit  Reinerus, 
viz.,  ij  bo  vat  as  terre  in  Rodingtun  et  unum  rusticum 
manentem  in  eadem  villa  :  et  quod  donavit  Godardus, 
viz.,  ecclesias  de  Wittingham  et  Botle  cum  duabus  man- 
suris  et  totis  parrochiis,  et  decimas  eisdem  ecclesiis  per- 
tinentes  :  et  quod  dedit  Willelmus  films  Gilbert!  de  Lon- 
castre,  viz.,  Suuartahoft.  Concedo  eciam  quicquid  hom- 
ines mei  in  posterum  ibi  consilio  meo  et  heredum  meorum 
dabunt.  Hec  omnia  concessi  et  presenti  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi in  puram  et  elemosinam  perpetuam  soluta  et 
quieta  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  pro  salute  anime  mee  et 
pro  anima  patris  mei  et  omnium  parentum  meorum,. 
necnon  et  dominorum  meorum  per  consilium  et  testi- 
monium  hominum  meorum,  viz.,  Fulconis  avunculi  mei, 
et  Reineri  dapiferi,  et  Godardi,  et  Rannfulphi]  vicecomitis, 
et  Siwardi  presbiteri,  et  Willelmi  capellani,  et  Willelmi 
de  Arches  et  aliorum. 

M  Ennerdale. 


38  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

9.  CARTA  RANULFI  MESCHYN  DE  vij  CARUCATIS 
TERRE  IN  COPLAND. 

RANULFUS  Meschinus  filius  Willelmi  filii  Ranulfi  omni- 
bus videntibus  vel  audientibus  litteras  has  salutem. 
Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  present!  carta  confirmasse 
abbacie  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege 
que  est  in  Caupuland  et  vij  carucatas  terre  et  totam 
parrochiam  suam  et  quicquid  pater  meus  eidem  ecclesie 
dedit  vel  concessit,  sicut  carta  ipsius  testatur,  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  libere  et  quiet e  ab  omni  ter- 
reno  servicio  :  et  nominatim  capellam  de  Egremont  et 
decimas  dominii  mei  in  tota  Caupulandia  et  omnium  hom- 
inum  meorum  qui  manent  in  Egremunt  et  decimas  pis- 
cariarum  mearum  de  tota  Caupulandia  necnon  decimam 
porcorum  meorum  et  carnis  venacionis  mee  per  totum 
forestum  meum  in  tota  Caupulandia  et  decimam  pann- 
achii  mei  et  decimam  vaccariarum  mearum  per  totam 
Caupulandiam.  Et  si  quis  ex  mea  concessione  vel 
donacione  infra  forestum  meum  pecuniam  suam  habebit, 
monachi  habebunt  decimacionem  de  ea  sicut  de  mea. 
Et  insuper  dedi  et  concessi  et  presenti  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  manerium 
quod  vocatur  Avenderdale  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  solutam  et  quiet  am  ab  omni  terreno  servicio. 
Concessi  eciam  donum  quietum  quod  Walthef  dedit 
eidem  ecclesie,  viz.,  Steinburnam  :  et  quod  Chetellus 
dedit,  viz.,  Preston  :  et  quod  dedit  Reinerus,  viz.,  ij 
bovatas  terre  in  Rotington  et  unum  rusticum  manentem 
in  eadem  villa  :  et  quod  donavit  Godardus,  viz.,  ecclesias 
de  Wittingham  et  Bothle  cum  duabus  mansuris  et  totis 
parrochiis,  et  decimas  eisdem  ecclesiis  pertinentes  :  et 
quod  dedit  Willelmus  filius  Gilberti  de  Loncastre,  viz., 
Swartahoft.  Concede  eciam  predictis  monachis  omnes 
boscos  qui  sunt  infra  divisum  suum,  viz.,  a  Cuningishow1 

9.  l  Coneyside  in  the  south  part  of  the  parish  of  St.  Bees 
{O.  S..  Ixxii.,  s.w.).  See  also  No.  51- 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  39 

usque  ad  rivum  qui  currit  inter  Prestun  et  Hensingham 
et  descend!!  usque  ad  Qwithofhavene  et  ibi  cadit  [in] 
mare  et  quicquid  in  eisdem  boscis  capere  poterunt, 
exceptis  cervo  et  cerva,  apro  et  ancipitre.  Omnes  vero 
alias  dignitates  et  libertates  quas  habeo  in  Caupalandia  dono 
eis  et  concede  habere  infra  divisas  suas  sicut  et  pater  meus 
dedit  et  concessit  eisdem.  Concede  eciam  quicquid 
homines  mei  in  posterum  ibi  consilio  meo  vel  heredum 
meorum  dabunt.  Hec  omnia  concessi  et  presenti  carta 
mea  confirmavi  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam 
soluta  et  quieta  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  pro  anima  patris  mei  et  omnium  parentum 
meorum  necnon  et  dominorum  meorum  per  consilium 
et  testimonium  hominum  meorum,  viz.,  Fulconis  avun- 
culi  mei,  et  Reineri  dapiferi,  et  Godardi,  et  Rannfulphi] 
vicecomitis,  et  Siwardi  presbiteri,  et  Gaufridi  presbiteri, 
et  Willelmi  capellani,  et  Willelmi  de  Archis. 

10.  CARTA  RANULFI  MESCHYN  FILII  W[ILLELMI]  DE 
MANERIO  DE  AVENDERDALA. 

RANNULFUS  Meschinus  films  Willelmi  filii  Ranulfi  omni- 
bus videntibus  litteras  vel  audientibus  salutem.  Sciatis 
me  dedisse  et  concessisse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco 
et  sancte  Bege  manerium  quod  vocatur  Avenderdala  in 
puram  elemosinam  soluta  et  quieta  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio  pro  anima  mea  et  pro  anima  patris  mei  et 
omnium  parentum  meorum  necnon  et  dominorum 
meorum  per  consilium  et  testimonium  hominum  me- 
orum, viz.,  Fulconis  avunculi  mei  et  Reineri  dapiferi 
et  Godardi  et  Rann[ulphi]  vicecomitis  et  Siwardi 
presbiteri  et  Gaufridi  presbiteri  et  Willelmi  capellani 
et  Willelmi  de  Arcis. 

11.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  RANULFI  DE  SWARTHAHOF. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quatinus  ego  Willelmus  filius 
Ranulfi  concedo  donum  quod  Willelmus  filius  Gilberti  de 


40  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Lancastre  fecit  de  Swartahof,  quietum  et  sine  omni 
terreno  servicio,  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  pro 
salute  anime  patris  mei  et  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  parentum 
meorum,  testimonio  Reineri  et  Godardi  et  Reineri  capell- 
ani  et  Walteri  filii  picot.  Valete. 

12.  CARTA  ALICIE  RUMELLY  DE  TERRIS,  DECIMIS, 
BOSCIS,  LIBERTATIBUS  ET  DIGNITATIBUS  IN  COUPLAND. 

AELICIA  de  Rumelli1,  omnibus  hominibus  Caupalandie 
tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutes  (sic).  Sciatis 
me,  in  libera  potestate  viduitatis  mee,  Deo  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virginis,  libere  et  quiete  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  concessisse  et  perpetuo 
confirmasse  omnes  donaciones  et  confirmaciones  quas 
pater  meus,  Willelmus  Meschinus,  et  frater  meus,  Ranulfus 
eidem  ecclesie  fecerunt,  viz.,  de  terris,  decimis,  boscis, 
libertatibus,  dignitatibus,  et  omnibus  rebus  aliis,  sicut 
in  cartis  eorum  plenius  continetur.  Preterea  dicte 
ecclesie  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  dedi  et 
concessi  talem  libertatem  et  potestatem  in  boscis  suis 
quod  nullus,  a  Cuningishow  usque  ad  magnam  gilam  que 
est  ultra  Hothwait  et  juxta  Hothwait,  sal  possit  facere 
nee  salinam  construere  neque  ad  sal  faciendum  de  bosco 
suo  succidere  nisi  licencia  prioris  de  sancta  Bega,  qui 
insuper  habebit  redditus  de  omnibus  salinis  et  pannagium 
de  omnibus  silvis  in  terra  sua  infra  supradictas  di visas. 
Insuper  dedi  prefate  ecclesie  et  perpetuo  connrmavi 
omnium  hominum  suorum  inter  Derewent  et  Esc  panna- 

12-  l  Alice  de  Rumelli,  who  succeeded  to  the  lordships  of  Coup- 
land  and  Skipton  on  the  death  of  Ranulf  her  brother,  married 
William  son  of  Duncan,  nephew  of  David,  King  of  Scotland, 
whom  she  survived.  It  is  noticeable  that  she  adopted  her 
mother's  name  of  Rumelli,  though  Ranulf  was  known  as  Meschin 
like  his  father.  In  addition  to  the  charters  in  this  Register  (Nos. 
12,  13,  15),  others  by  Alice  during  her  widowhood  will  be  found 
in  Dugdale  (Mon.,  v.  125  ;  vi.  204). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  41 

gium  possidere  et  ut  tarn  porci  homimim  suorum  inter 
Derewent  et  Esc  quam  dominii  sui  in  omnibus  boscis  et 
planis,  de  quibus  ad  me  pertinet  pannagium,  pascua 
habeant  absque  ullo  impedimento  et  redditufm]  quern 
inde  faciant,  necnon  eidem  ecclesie  dedi  et  concessi  et 
perpetuo  confirmavi  Hotwait  cum  tota  terra  et  bosco 
qui  continentur  inter  supradictam  gilam  et  rivum  ilium 
qui  ante  hanc  donacionem  terminus  terre  beate  Bege  esse 
solebat.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  priori  et  monachis 
de  sancta  Bega  dedi  potestatem  excolendi  et  edificandi 
Hothwait2  et  in  Welingesmora3  pascua  habebunt  ex 
donacione  mea  ad  pecora  sua  et  hominum  suorum  pascenda 
et  decimam  molendini  de  Egremunt  inperpetuum.  Pre- 
terea  predictis  monachis  dedi  et  concessi  in  elemosinam 
quatinus  ipsi  et  nullus  alius  nisi  eorum  licencia  in  portu 
de  Withofhavene4  et  in  omnibus  locis  in  mari  et  in  aliis 
aquis  infra  divisas  suas  piscarias  faciant  :  quicquid  ad 
me  pertinet  sine  contradiccione  imperpetuum  de  dono 
meo  habeant.  Hec  autem  omnia  dedi  et  confirmavi  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  pro  salute  anime  domini 
mei  et  mee  et  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  omnium  ante- 
cessorum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Willelmo  Franchigena  et 
Waltero  fratre  suo,  Rogerio  Tempestate,  Roberto  cemen- 
tario,  Radulfo  capellano,  Edwardo  capellano  et  aliis. 

2  Hothwait,    afterwards   called  Brackenthwaite    (No.    370),    a 
plot  now  covered  by  the  town  of  Whitehaven  between  George 
Street  and  Biansty  Railway  Station,  marked  on  Howard's  maps 
of  that  town  of  1790  and  1811. 

3  Welingesmore,    Welyngmore,    Witemire,    Quelingmore,    now 
called  Whillimoor  (O.  S.,  Ixi.,  S.E.),  lay  athwart  the  river  Keekle 
and  was  subdivided  into  three  parts,  Moricebymore,  Welyngmore 
and  Distingtonmore  (No.  134).     The  bounds  are  set  out  in  No. 
496,  as  beginning  from  certain  rings  called  le  Wheles  near  Harras- 
howe,  extending  near  the  ditch  of  Moresby  and  Distington.     The 
wheels  are  now  probably  represented  by  the  house  known  as 
Standing  Stones  (O.  S.,  Ixvii.,  N.E.). 

4  This  allusion  to  the  port  of  Whitehaven  at  so  early  a  date 
as  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century  is  not  devoid  of  interest. 


42  REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

13.  CARTA  ALICIE  RUMELLI  DE  DECIMIS  DOMINIORUM 

SUORUM  IN  COUPLAND. 

AELICIA  de  Rumelli  omnibus  hominibus  suis  de  Coupe- 
landia  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  salutem.  Sciatis 
me  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  elemosinam  concessisse 
donum  patris  mei  Willelmi  Meschini,  scilicet,  decimam 
dominiorum  suorum  in  Copelandia  in  omnibus  rebus,  et 
nominatim  in  sale  et  ferro  et  pannagio  que  sunt  de  dominio 
et  decimam  venacionis  illorum  qui  per  licenciam  vena- 
buntur  in  forest o.  Insuper  predicte  ecclesie  in  elemosinam 
concessi  omnes  boscos  qui  sunt  infra  divisas  suas  in  Coupe- 
landia  et  quicquid  in  eisdem  boscis  habetur,  exceptis 
cervo  et  cerva  et  apro  et  ancipitre,  et  ut  nullus  in  eis, 
nisi  priore  de  sancta  Bega  concedente,  possit  succidere 
nee  que  sibi  necessaria  fuerint  accipere.  Preterea  mona- 
chis ejusdem  ecclesie  in  elemosinam  concessi  quatinus 
ipsi  et  nullus  alius  nisi  eorum  licencia  in  portu  de  Wite- 
hovedhafne  et  in  omnibus  locis  in  man  et  in  aliis  aquis 
infra  divisas  suas  piscarias  faciant  et  sine  contradiccione 
habeant.  Testibus  Willelmo  Franchigena  et  Waltero 
fratre  suo,  Rogerio  Tempestate,  Roberto  cementario, 
Radulfo  capellano,  Edwardo  camberlano. 

14.  CARTA  ALICIE  RUMELLY  DE  xinj  SALMONIBUS. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  futuri  quam  presentes  quod  ego 
Aelicia  de  Romeli  concede  et  presenti  carta  mea  confirmo 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  donacionem  xmjcim  salmonum  quam 
Alannus  films  Waltheofi1  fecit  eis  et  concessit  annis  singulis 

14.  1  Alan  son  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale.  See  his  charters 
in  this  Register,  Nos.  22,  49,  308,  454,  the  latter  of  which  is  the 
grant  of  salmon  referred  to  here.  Alice  de  Rumelli,  the  grantor, 
was  lady  of  Cockermouth,  daughter  of  William  son  of  Duncan 
and  the  Alice  de  Rumelli  of  No.  13  his  wife.  The  compiler  of 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  43 

habendam  in  quadragesima.  Preter  haec  volo  et  con- 
cede quod  ipsi  predict!  monachi  pro  salute  animarum 
patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  et  pro 
salute  anime  mee  habeant  ex  donacione  mea  singulis 
annis  in  quadragesima  sex  salmones.  Et  ne  hec  con- 
cessio  et  donacio  mea  in  irritum  possit  revocari,  sigilli 
mei  testimonio  confirmavi,  sicut  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam.  Hiis  testibus  Horm  de  Ireby,  Willelmo  de 
Bovill,  Bartolomeo  de  Trivers,  Simone  de  Roie,  Willelmo 
filio  Ade,  Adam  filio  Alani,  Adam  de  Crostweit  clerico, 
Radulfo  de  Linford  clerico,  Willelmo  de  Kirleton  et 
pluribus  aliis. 

15.    CARTA  ALICIE  RUMELLY  DE  TERRIS  ET  LIBERTATI- 

BUS,  SALINIS,  PANNAGIIS. 

AELICIA  de  Rumelli  omnibus  hominibus  Copelandie 
tarn  futuris  quam  presentibus  salutes.  Sciatis  Deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virginis  libere  et 
quiete  in  puram  elemosinam  me  concessisse  et  perpetuo 
confirmasse  omnem  libertatem  illam  in  boscis  suis  et 
pannagiis  et  salinis  quam  viz.,  dominus  meus  Willelmus1 
nepos  regis  Scocie  eidem  ecclesie  pro  salute  anime  sua 
(sic)  donavit.  Concessi  enim,  sicut  et  dominus  meus,  et 
perpetuo  confirmavi  quatinus  nullus  a  Cuningeshou 
usque  ad  magnam  gilam  que  est  ultra  Hothewait  et  juxta 
Hothewait  sal  possit  facere  nee  salinam  construere  neque 
ad  sal  faciendum  de  bosco  suo  succidere  nisi  licencia 
prioris  de  sancta  Bega  qui  insuper  habebit  redditus  de 
omnibus  salinis  et  pannagium  de  omnibus  silvis  in  terra 
sua  infra  supradictas  di visas.  Preterea  concessi  prefate 

the  Register  had  evidently  mistaken  the  identity  by  inserting 
her  charter  here  among  those  of  her  mother  who  went  by  the 
same  name.  The  grantor  is  identified  by  the  witnesses  of  the 
deed. 

15.  l  For  charters  of  William  son  of  Duncan  in  this  collection, 
see  Nos.  16,  40,  351. 


44  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

ecclesie,  sicut  et  dominus  meus,  et  perpetuo  confirmavi 
omnium  hominum  suorum  inter  Derewent  et  Esc  panna- 
gium  possidere,  et  ut  tarn  porci  hominum  suorum  inter 
Derewent  et  Esc  quam  dominii  sui  in  omnibus  boscis  et 
planis,  de  quibus  ad  dominium  meum  pertinet  panna- 
gium,  pascua  habeant  absque  ullo  impedimento  et  redditu 
quern  inde  faciant.  Necnon  eidem  ecclesie  confirmavi 
donum  domini  mei  de  terra  que  vocatur  Hothewait  cum 
toto  bosco  et  terra  qui  continentur  inter  supradictam 
gilam  et  rivum  ilium  qui  ante  hanc  donacionem  terminus 
terre  beate  [Bege]  esse  solebat.  Et  sciendum  est  quod 
priori  et  monachis  de  sancta  [Bega]  concessi,  sicut  et  dom- 
inus meus,  potestatem  excolendi  et  edificandi  Hothewat 
cum  predicta  terra  et  in  Welingesmora  pasturam  ad  pec- 
cora  sua  pascenda  et  decimam  molendini  de  Egremund. 
Testibus  Robert  priore,2  Osbert  archidiacono,  Willelmo 
dapifero,  Waltero  Flandrensi  fratre  suo,  Rogerio  Tem- 
pestate,  Rogerio  Fasttun,  Radulpho  capellano,  Roberto 
cementario,  magistro  Drogone,  Drogone  de  Lindesaia, 
Edwardo  camberlano. 

16.  CARTA  WILLELMI  NEPOTIS  REGIS  SCOCIE  DE 
PANNAGIO  DE  COUPLAND. 

WiLLELMUS1   nepos    regis    Scocie    omnibus   hominibus 

2  Prior  Robert  mentioned  here  should  not  be  identified  with 
the  prior  of  the  same  name  in  No.  64  or  No.  165.  Leland  says 
that  Robert  was  the  first  prior  so  far  as  he  knew  (Collectanea, 

i-  25). 

16-  *  William  son  of  Duncan  was  a  conspicuous  figure  in 
northern  history  at  this  period.  In  this  Register  he  is  called 
Willelmus  nepos  regis  Scocie  (Nos.  15,  16,  39.  352)  or  Willelmus 
filius  Duncani  (Nos.  40,  166.  351,  490).  King  Duncan  II.,  his 
father,  was  slain  in  1094  (Chron.  de  Mailros,  60).  Aelred  of 
Rievaulx  describes  him  as  vir  magni  animi  (Twysden,  Decent 
Script.,  345).  By  his  marriage  with  Alice  de  Rumelli,  daughter  of 
William  Meschin  and  Cicely  daughter  of  Robert  de  Rumelli,  he 
ultimately  succeeded  to  the  estates  of  Meschin  and  Rumelli. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  45 

Copelandie  tarn  futuris  quam  presentibus  salutem.  Sci- 
atis  me  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  vir- 
ginis  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  libere  et  quiete 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  concessisse  totum 
pannagium  de  omnibus  silvis  que  habentur  in  terra  sua, 
scilicit,  a  Cuni[n]geshow  usque  ad  magnam  gilam  que  est 
juxta  Howthwait  et  ultra  Hot h wait.  Concessi  eciam 
eidem  ecclesie  quatinus  nullus  infra  supradictos  terminos 
sal  possit  facere  nee  salinam  construere  neque  ad  sal 
faciendum  de  bosco  suo  succidere  nisi  priore  de  sancta 
Bega  concedente,  cujus  insuper  redditus  de  omnibus 
salinis  in  prefata  terra  fact'  [  ]  inperpetuum  erunt  mea 
largicione.  Necnon  et  illud  sciendum  est  quod  cum 
supradictis  beate  Bege  virgini  in  elemosinam  dedi  panna- 
gium de  omnibus  hominibus  inter  Derewente  et  Esc  ad 
earn  pertinentibus  hoc  insuper  predicte  domine  concedendo 
quatinus  tarn  porci  hominum  suorum  inter  Derwent  et 
Esc  quam  dominii  sui  in  omnibus  boscis  et  planis  de 
quibus  ad  me  pertinet  pannagium,  pascua  habeant  absque 
ullo  impediment o  et  redditu  quern  michi  faciant.  Illud 
eciam  uobis  notum  sit  quod  predicte  ecclesie  in  elemosinam 
concessi  totam  illam  terram  que  vocatur  Hothwait  cum 
toto  bosco  et  terra  que  continetur  inter  supradictam 
gilam  que  est  ultra  Hothwait  et  rivum  ilium  qui  terminus 
ante  hanc  donacionem  terre  beate  Bege  esse  solebat.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  prior  et  monachi  de  sancta  Bega 
Hothwait  cum  predicta  terra  excolere  et  edificare  poterunt 
et  quod  in  Welingasmora  ad  peccora  sua  pascenda  sine 
contradiccione  pasturam  habebunt  quibus  eciam  in  per- 
petuam elemosinam  dedi  et  concessi  decimam  molendini 
de  Egremund.  Testibus  Jurdano  vicecomite,  Johanne 
filio  Puncun,  Waltero  Camberlano,  Ricardo  Mataf'lun. 

John  of  Hexham  states  that  William  son  of  Duncan  was  con- 
firmed in  the  Honor  of  Skipton  and  Craven  by  King  David  in 
1151  (Priory  of  Hexham,  i.  163).  See  a  charter  of  his  given  in 
facsimile  by  Whitaker  (Hist,  of  Craven  [1878],  p.  448)  :  the 
charter  in  Dugdale  (Mon.,  vi,  203,  No.  iv.)  is  probably  spurious. 


46  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

17.    CARTA   WILLELMI   COMITIS   ALBEMARLIE    DE   vj 

VACCIS  DE  NOWTEGELD  IN  COUPLAND. 

WILLELMUS,  comes  Albemarlie1,  archiepiscopo  Ebora- 
censi  et  capitulo  et  omnibus  matricis  ecclesie  filiis,  salu- 
tem.  Noverit  paternitas  vestra  me  dedisse  et  concessisse 
Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  in  Copelandia  et  om- 
nibus, vj  vaccas  in  perpetuam  elemosinam  reddendas  anno 
cmui  quo  meum  Noutegeld  debuerit  fieri.  Hanc  autem 
donacionem  feci  pro  animabus  omnium  antecessorum 
meorum  et  antecessorum  uxoris  mee  Cecilie.  Testibus 
Petro  de  Falchenb',  Radulfo  de  Averi,  Henrico  Foliot, 
W.  de  Belnag',  Heng'  de  Meneriis,  Gilbert o  [blank],  Willel- 
mo  camerario,  et  multis  aliis  apud  Bincheham. 


18.    CARTA  W.  COMITIS  ALBEMARLIE  DE  vj  VACCIS. 

WILLELMUS,  comes  Albemarlie,  omnibus  hominibus 
suis  tarn  futuris  quam  presentibus,  salutem.  Sciatis  quod 
dedi  et  presenti  carta  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  et  monachis  de  sancta  Bega  vj  vaccas  de  meo 
Nautegild  de  Copuland  unoquoque  anno  quando  accipio 
Nautegild  in  Copuland  :  et  volo  et  firmiter  precipio  ut 
illud  sine  impedimento  habeant  pro  salute  anime  mee  et 
uxoris  mee  et  heredum  meorum  et  pro  animabus  omnium 
amicorum  et  antecessorum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Helia 
de  Mundevilla,  magistro  Rogerio,  Willelmo  camerario  et 
multis  aliis. 


17-  l  William  le  Gross,  earl  of  Albemarle  or  Aumale,  who 
married  Cicely,  daughter  of  William  son  of  Duncan,  died  in  1179 
(Benedict  Abbas,  Gesta  Hen.  II.,  i.  243).  He  must  be  distin- 
guished from  William  de  Fortibus,  earl  of  Albemarle,  in  Nos. 
19  and  21.  For  the  significance  of  Nos.  17  and  18  on  the  character 
of  the  tribute  called  Noutgeld,  see  Victoria  Hist,  of  Cumberland,^ 
i.  316. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  47 

19.    CARTA  W.  FORC  DE  ANERDAL  ET  DE  COUPLAND  ET 

DE  XIIIJ  SALMONIBUS  ET  DIMIDIA  CARUCATA  TERRE  IN 
ASPATRIK  ET  DE  VJ  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  EADEM  VILLA  ET  DE 
VJ  SALMONIBUS  ET  J  MANSURA  IN  COKIRMOWTH  ET  XX  S. 
IN  RlBTON. 

WILLELMUS  de  Fore',  comes  Albemarlie1,  omnibus  has 
litteras  uisuris  vel  audituris  salutem.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  me  concessisse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  con- 
firmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et 
monachis  Deo  ibidem  servientibus  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  omnes  donaciones  quas 
habent  de  antecessoribus  meis  in  feodo  meo  de  Aller- 
dal  et  de  Couplaund,  scilicet,  quatuordecim  salmones 
quos  habent  de  dono  Alani  filii  Waldef2  et  de  eadem 
donacione  dimidiam  carucatam  terre  in  villa  de  Aspatrik 
et  sex  acras  in  alio  loco  in  eadem  sicut  continetur  in  carta 
ipsius  Alani.3  Preterea  dedi  et  concessi  eis  et  hac  presenti 
carta  mea  confirmavi  sex  salmones  et  unam  mansuram 
in  villa  de  Cokerm[outh],  illam,  scilicet,  quam  dudum 
Huctredus  de  Derham4  [tenuit]  et  viginti  solidos  singulis 
annis  recipiendos  de  Willelmo  de  Ribbeton  de  firma  sua 
tantummodo,  s[c]ilicet,  decem  solidos  ad  Pascha  et  decem 

19.  l  It  is  probable  that  the  donor  here  is  the  second  William 
de  Fortibus,  earl  of  Albemarle.  Hawise,  daughter  of  William 
le  Gross  and  Cicely  de  Rumelli,  was  married,  firstly,  to  William 
de  Mandevill-  who  died  in  1189  (Hoveden,  iii.  19)  :  secondly, 
to  William  de  Fortibus,  earl  of  Albemarle,  who  died  in  1195 
(Ibid.,  iii.  306)  :  and  thirdly,  to  Baldwin  de  Betun  who  died  in 
1 2 12.  See  her  charter  to  the  Abbey  of  Garendon  in  Monasticon, 
v.  334.  The  order  of  these  marriages  in  the  Chron.  de  Melsa 
(Rolls  series),  i.  91,  is  not  trustworthy.  William  de  Fortibus, 
son  of  the  first  William  and  Hawise,  who  succeeded  his  mother 
some  time  after  1212,  died  in  1241. 

2  Charter  No.   454. 

8  No.  22. 

4  There  is  no  blank  space  in  the  manuscript,  but  the  word 
tenuit  is  evidently  omitted.  See  No.  21. 


48  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

solidos  ad  festum  beati  Michaelis,  salvo  servicio  et  homagio 
predict!  Willelmi  de  Ribbeton  et  heredum  suorum  michi 
€t  heredibus  meis  de  tenemento  illius  toto  pertinente. 
Volo  autem  hec  omnia  predicta  habeant  de  me  et  heredi- 
bus meis  libere  et  quiete  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam  sicut  prcdictum  est.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gaufrido 
de  Scaunden'5,  domino  Petro  Gillot  tune  constabulario  de 
Cokerm[outh],  domino  Thoma  filio  Johannis,  domino 
Willelmo  de  Yreby,  domino  Radulfo  de  Feritate,  domino 
Gaufrido  de  Talantir,  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
et  aliis. 

20.  CARTA  W.  COMITIS  ALBEMARLIE  DE  v  S[OLIDATIS] 

IN  MOLENDINO  DE  EGREMONT. 

WILLELMUS,  comes  Albemarlie,1  omnibus  has  literas 
videntibus  et  audientibus,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  dedisse  et 
concess[iss]e  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco  et  fratribus 
ibidem  commorantibus  v  solidatas  redditus  in  molendino 
de  Agremunt  in  perpetuam  et  puram  et  elemosinam 
liberam,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum 
meorum.  Quare  precipio  omnibus  ballivis  meis  Cope- 
landie  ut  predictis  fratribus  predictum  annuatim  solvant 
redditum  quousque  vel  in  terra  vel  in  re  alia  predictum 
assign  [a vero]  redditum  ad  v'ra  antu  [voluntatem  ?] 
pr  edict  orum  firm  [fratrum?].  Testibus  Willelmo  de 
Esseby,  Willelmo  vic[e]archidiacono,  Willelmo  cam- 
[erario],  Stephano  de  Killun.  Apud  Driffeld. 

21.  CARTA  W.  FORC  COMITIS  ALBEMARLIE  DE  ALLER- 

DAL,  DE  COUPLAND  ET  XHIJ  SALMONIBUS  ET  VJ  ACRIS 
TERRE  IN  ASPATRIK  ET  J  MARCA  IN  MOLENDINO  FULLON- 
[UM]  IN  KOKIRMOWTH. 

6  Chandener  in  No.   21. 

20-  l  From  the  mention  of  William  de  Esseby  as  a  witness  to 
this  deed,  it  is  suggested  that  the  donor  was  William  le  Gross 
who  died  in  1179.  Esseby's  name  occurs  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  of 
1158-1160  and  1163. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  49 

WILLELMUS  de  Forz,  comes  Albemarlie,  omnibus  hom- 
inibus  has  literas  uisuris  vel  audituris,  salutem.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  me  concessisse  et  hac  present!  carta 
confirmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  antecessorum  et 
successorum  meorum,  omnes  donaciones  quas  habent 
prefati  monachi  de  an[te]cessoribus  meis  in  foeodo  meo 
de  Allerdal  et  de  Coupland,  scilicet,  quatuordecim  salmones 
quos  habent  de  dono  Alani  filii  Waldef,  et  de  eadem 
donacione  dimidiam  carucatam  terre  in  villa  de  Aspatrik 
et  sex  acras  terre  in  alio  loco  in  eadem  villa,  sicut  con- 
tinetur  in  carta  ipsius  Alani  :  et  sex  salmones  quos  habent 
de  dono  Alicie  de  Romely  et  dimidiam  marcam  argenti 
de  eadem  donacione,  scilicet,  in  molendino  fulonfum]  de 
Cokerm[outh]  et  unam  mansuram  in  eadem  villa,  illam, 
scilicet,  quam  dudum  tenuit  Huctredus  de  Derham, 
sicut  in  carta  ipsius  Alicie.  Preterea  dedi,  concessi,  et 
hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  ecclesie  beate 
Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
unam  marcam  argenti  in  dicto  molendino  fulonum  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  singulis  annis  redden- 
dam,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  aliam  medie- 
tatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  recipiendam  et  per  manum 
ballivorum  meorum  de  eadem  villa.  Volo  eciam  ut  hec 
omnia  predicta  habeant  prefati  monachi  de  me  et  heredi- 
bus  meis  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  sicut  pre- 
dictum  est.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Galfrido  de  Chandener, 
domino  Thoma  Keret,  domino  Willelmo  de  Yreby,  Willel- 
mo  de  Driffeld  tune  senescallo  de  Cokerm[outh],  Alano- 
persona  de  Caldebece,  Hugone  Moricebfy]  Ada  de  Haver- 
yngton,  Galfrido  de  Talentir,  Johanne  de  Brigham,  et 
mult  is  aliis.1 


21.     xThe  original  of   this  grant  still  survives  at  the  British 
Museum.     It  is  officially  described  as  Cotton  Charter  xi.  13. 

E 


50      REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

22.  CARTA  ALANI  FILII  WALTHEF  DE  DIMIDIA  CARU- 
CATA  TERRE  IN  ASPATRIK  ET  VJ  ACRIS  IN  ALIO  LOCO  E JUS- 
DEM  VILLE  CUM  PRATO  ET  COMMUNI  IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  legentibus  vel  audientibus  literas  has,  Alarms 
filius  Walthef1  et  Sigerid  mater  et  Rogerus  vir  ejus, 
salutes.  Notum  sit  vobis  nos  concess[iss]e  et  dedisse 
sancte  Marie  et  specialiter  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  dimidiam  carucatam  terre  in 
Aspatrik,  pro  animabus  nostris  et  antecessorum  nos- 
trorum  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  libere  et 
quiete  de  omnibus  serviciis  terrenis  et  excepta  ilia  dimidia 
carucata  terre,  sex  acras  terre  et  dimidium  in  alio  loco  et 
domum  et  toftam  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  com- 
mune pastum  cum  prato  et  igrtario  sicuti  divisiones 
testantur.  Et  omnes  qui  hanc  elemosinam  prescriptam 
suis  beneficiis  accreverint  ejusdem  elemosine  participes 
riant.  Oui  autem  minuerint  de  Deo  et  sancta  Maria  et 
sancta  Bega  cui  hec  datur  elemosina  inperpetuum  excom- 
municentur.  Hiis  testibus  Waltero  presbitero,  Ailmero 
clerico,  Simundo  diacono,  Gamello  dapifero  de  Aspatric, 
Gamello  de  Appelby,  Edwardo,  Horme  fratre  ejus,  et 
Hamone  et  Alano,  Rodberto  filio  Hamonis,  et  Willelmo 
forester,  et  Rodberto  famulo  monachorum  et  multis  aliis. 

23.  DlMISSIO  FRATRIS  NlCHOLAI  LANGTON  PRIORIS  DE 
TERRA  IN  ASPATRIK. 

Hoc  cirographum  testatur  quod  frater  Nicholaus  dictus 

22.  l  Alan  son  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale.  His  wife  Emma 
is  mentioned  in  No.  308.  See  other  charters  by  him  in  Nos.  49, 
308  and  454,  Illus.  Doc.  No.  xin.,  and  Guisbro'  Chart.  (Surtees 
Soc.),  ii.  318-9.  His  mother,  Sigerid,  widow  of  Waldeve,  married 
Roger  son  of  Gilbert,  brother  of  the  first  William  de  Lancaster 
of  Kendal  (Nos.  223,  232).  Alan  had  a  son  Waldeve  who  died 
without  issue.  The  members  of  this  family  were  great  benefactors 
of  the  local  religious  houses,  Carlisle,  St.  Bees,  Holmcultram, 
Hexham  and  Guisbro'. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA  51 

prior  de  sancta  Bega,  de  consensu  et  assensu  fratrum 
suorum,  dimisit  ad  firmam  Ade  filio  Willelmi  Freman  de 
Aspatric  totam  tcrram  illam  cum  pertinenciis,  quam 
dictus  Willelmus  Freman  de  monachis  servientibus  Deo 
et  sancte  Bege  quondam  tenuit  in  villa  et  in  territorio  de 
Aspatric.  Habendum  et  tenendum  toto  tempore  vite 
sue.  Reddendo  hide  Deo  et  beate  Bege  quatuor  denarios 
annuatim  ad  duos  terminos  anni,  videlicet,  duos  denarios 
ad  Penthecosten  et  duos  denarios  ad  festum  sancti  Martini 
in  yeme.  Ita  tamen  quod  tota  predicta  terra  cum  per- 
tinenciis post  decessum  predicti  [Ade]  Deo  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  libere,  quiete,  bene 
et  in  pace  sine  aliqua  contradiccione,  retencione  vel 
impedimento,  inperpetuum  revertetur.  Et  ad  maiorem 
securitatem  utraque  pars  sigillum  suum  huic  cirografpho 
mutuo  apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de 
Wirkeinton,  Thoma  de  Lucy,  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
Johanne  de  Cambirton,  Ricardo  Flemang,  militibus, 
Hugone  de  Moriceby,  Thoma  de  Yreby,  Thoma  de  Ribbe- 
ton  et  aliis. 

24.      DlMISSIO   EJUSDEM    DE   TERRA   IN   ASPATRIK. 

Hoc  cirographum  testatur  quod  frater  dictus  Nicholaus 
prior  de  sancta  Bega  de  consensu  et  assensu  fratrum 
suorum  dimisit  ad  firmam  Ade  filie  Agnetis1  filie  Dolphin! 

24.  l  On  29  October  1241  John  de  Abbendon  and  Agnes  his 
wife,  and  Emma  and  Alice  daughters  of  Dolfin  exchanged  three 
parts  of  half  a  ploughland  in  Aspatrick  with  William  le  Marshal 
for  three  acres,  except  one  rood,  next  to  Dolfm's  Well  (propin- 
quiores  fonti  Dolfini)  on  the  west  side,  and  one  rood  next  the  toft 
of  Alexander  son  of  Ralf  of  Aspatrick,  to  hold  to  them  and  the 
heirs  of  Agnes,  Emma  and  Alice  of  the  chief  lords  of  the  fee,  for 
which  William  gave  them  twenty  shillings  (Feet  of  F.,  Cumb., 
26  Henry  III.,  No.  30).  Ada  in  No.  24  and  Christiane  in  Nos. 
25-6  were  daughters  of  Agnes  wife  of  John  de  Abbendon  and 
therefore  granddaughters  of  Dolfin.  The  daughters,  while  un- 
married, retained  their  mother's  name  as  was  not  infrequent  at 


52  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

de  Aspatrik  una[m]  acram  et  dimidium  terre  cum  per- 
tinenciis  in  villa  et  in  territorio  de  Aspatric  in  tola  vita 
sua  pro  duobus  denariis  annuatim  solvendis  Deo  et  beate 
Bege  ad  duos  terminos,  viz.,  unum  denarium  ad  Pente- 
costen  et  unum  denarium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Ita 
tamen  quod  predicta  terra  cum  pertinenciis,  post  deces- 
sum  predicte  Ade,  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  libere,  quiete,  bene  et  in  pace 
sine  aliqua  contradiccione,  retencione,  vel  impedimento, 
inperpetuum  revertetur.  Et  ad  maiorem  securitatem 
utraque  pars  sigillum  suum  huic  cirographo  mutuo 
apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkington, 
Thoma  de  Lucy,  Johanne  de  Ireby,  Johanne  de  Camerton, 
Ricardo  Flema[n]g,  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Ribbeton, 
Roberto  de  Haverington,  Hugone  de  Morisceby  et  aliis. 

25.      DlMISSIO   EJUSDEM    DE  TERRA  IN    ASPATRIK. 

Hoc  cirographum  testatur  quod  frater  dictus  Nicholaus 
prior  de  sancta  Bega,  de  consensu  et  assensu  fratrum 
suorum,  dimisit  ad  firmam  Rogero  filio  Tunny  de  Blene- 
coghow  et  Christiane  uxori  sue  unam  acram  et  dimidiam 
terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  et  in  territorio  de  Aspatrik 
in  tota  vita  eorum,  vel  cui  eorum  alteri  diucius  vixerit, 
pro  duobus  denariis  annuatim  solvendis,  Deo  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege,  viz.,  unum  denarium  ad  Pentecosten  et 
unum  denarium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Et  sciendum 
est  quod  predicta  terra  cum  pertinenciis  post  decessum 
predictorum  Rogeri  et  Christiane  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  libere,  quiete, 
bene  et  in  pace  sine  aliqua  contradiccione,  retencione  vel 
impedimento,  inperpetuum  revertetur.  Et  ad  maiorem 
securitatem  utraque  pars  sigillum  suum  huic  cirographo 

that  date  when  inheriting  her  property.  The  dates  of  Nos.  24-6 
will  be  between  1258  and  1282,  the  priorate  of  Nicholas  de 
Langton. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  53 

mutuo  apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de 
Wirkington,  T.  de  Lucy,  J.  de  Yreby,  J.  de  Camerton, 
Ricardo  Flemang,  militibus,  W.  de  Ribbeton,  Robert  de 
Haverington,  Hugone  de  Morisceby  et  aliis.1 


26.  CARTA  CHRISTIANE  FILIE  AGNETIS  FILIE  DOLPHYN 
ET  ADE  SORORUM  EJUSDEM  DE  TERRA  IN  ASPATRYK. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Christiana  filia  Agnetis  filie  Dolphyn 
de  Aspatrik  et  Ada  soror  ejus,  salutem  in  domino  sempi- 
ternam.  Noveritis  nos  in  libera  viduitate  et  in  legitima 
pot  estate  nostra  reddidisse,  concessisse,  et  quietum 
clamasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  in  Copelandia 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus  et  clamium 
quod  habuimus  vel  unquam  habere  potu[er]imus  in  tota 
terra  ilia  cum  pertinenciis,  quam  Agnes  mater  nostra 
quondam  tenuit  in  villa  et  in  territorio  de  Aspatric  de 
sancta  Bega  sine  ullo  retenemento  nobis  et  successoribus 
nostris.  It  a,  viz.,  quod  nee  nos  nee  aliquis  ex  parte  nostra 
aliquod  jus  vel  clamium  in  predicta  terra  cum  pertinenciis, 
nostrorum  nomine  vel  heredum  nostrorum  jure  heredit- 
ario  vel  aliquo  alio  modo  de  cetero  exigere  poterimus  vel 
eciam  vendicare.  Et  ad  maiorem  securitatem  hanc 
cartam  presentem  sigillorum  nostrorum  impressione  robor- 
avimus.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkington 
T.  de  Lucy,  J.  de  Ireby,  J.  de  Camerton,  Ricardo  Flemang, 
militibus,  Willelmo  de  Ribbeton,  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
Hugone  de  Morisceby,  et  aliis. 


27.    CARTA  CECILIE  COMITISSE  ALBAMARLIE  DE  mj 

CARUCATIS  TERRE  INTER  ESK  ET  DUDEN. 


25.     l  In  the  manuscript  this  deed  is  recorded  in   duplicate, 
of  which  the  above  text  is  a  collation. 


54  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

CECILIA1  comitissa  Albamarlie,  omnibus  hominibus 
et  amicis,  Francis  et  Anglis,  tarn  presentibus  quam 
futuris,  has  literas  audientibus  vel  videntibus,  salutem. 
Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  dedisse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea 
confirmasse,  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpet- 
uam  elemosinam,  quatuor  carucatas  terre  inter  Esc  et 
Duden,  scilicet,  Kirkesantan  et  Haverigg  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis  et  Thueites2  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis 
suis  in  bosco  et  piano,  in  pratis  et  pascuis,  in  viis  et  semitis, 
in  aquis  et  molendinis,  et  in  omnibus  ad  easdem  terras 
pertinentibus,  solas,  liberas,  et  quietas  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio,  quod  michi  et  heredibus  meis  pertinet  vel  pertin- 
ere  poterit,  necnon  et  servicium  Willelmi  de  Boi villa  et 
heredum  suorum  de  predictis  terris  inperpetuum.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  concedo  et  confirmo  donum  patris 
mei  et  matris  mee  quod  ipsi  dederunt  Deo  et  sancte  Marie 
et  sancte  Bege  uirgini,  scilicet,  quod  prior  et  monachi  de 
sancta  Bega  habebunt  pasturam  ad  omnia  peccora  sua 
pascenda  in  Welingmora  et  in  Brunrig8  sine  contradic- 
cione  aliqua  vel  impedimento  alicujus  et  quod  possidebunt 
in  perpetuam  elemosinam  decimam  molendini  mei  de 

27.  1  Deeds  in  this  collection  (Nos.  17,  18,  27-28.  225),  show 
that  the  barony  of  Coupland  was  in  the  administration  of  Cicely, 
eldest  daughter  of  William  fitz  Duncan,  and  of  her  husband 
William  le  Gros,  earl  of  Albemarle,  for  some  time  after  the  death 
of  her  parents.  As  countess  of  Albemarle  and  lady  of  Coupland 
(domino,  de  Caupelandd),  Cicely  confirmed  the  monks  of  Calder 
in  their  possessions  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxxi.).  In  1182  Arthur  son 
of  Godard,  lord  of  Millom,  rendered  account  for  an  enquiry  into 
his  right  of  one  knight's  fee  against  the  countess  (comitissam) 
of  Coupland  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  353). 

2  The  three  townships  of  Kirksanton,  Haverigg  and  Thwaites, 
in  the  parish  of  Millom,   were  afterwards  demised  to  William 
de  Boivill  by  Clement,  abbot  of  York  (No.  441),  who   died  in 
1184. 

3  Whillimoor  and   Brownrigg,    now  forming  one   township,    in 
the  parish  of  Arlecdon. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  55 

Egremunt.  Concede  autem  et  confirmo  donum  W[illelmi] 
fratris  mei4  de  ecclesia  de  Gosf ord  quod  ipse  dedit  predictis 
monachis.  Insuper  concede  et  confirmo  donum  Cospatric 
filii  Horm  quod  ipse  dedit  dictis  monachis,  scilicet,  quod 
possidebunt  villam  de  Salterge  cum  communi  pastura  de 
Arlokedene  inperpetuum,  sicut  cart  a5  ejusdem  Cospatric 
testatur.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  concede  et  confirmo 
donum  Reineri  Flandrensis  de  Prestegile  et  de  Brunrig 
quod  ipse  dedit  predictis  monachis  sicut  in  cart  a6  ejusdem 
Reineri  continetur.  Hanc  autem  elemosinam  feci  pro 
salute  anime  regis  Henrici  et  pro  salute  anime  Willelmi 
fratris  mei  et  pro  salute  animarum  Matildis  regine  et 
Matildis  imperatricis  et  pro  animabus  omnium  parentum 
meorum  et  pro  vita  domini  mei  regis  Henrici  et  regine 
sue  et  prosperitate  filiorum  suorum  et  pro  memetipsa  et 
pro  omnibus  amicis  meis  vivis  et  mortuis  ut  simus  par- 
ticipes  omnium  bonorum  que  fiunt  vel  facienda  sunt  in 
abbacia  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  predicta  domo  sancte 
Bege  et  in  omnibus  locis  prefate  abbacie  pertinentibus  in 
vita  et  in  morte.  Testibus  hiis  Galfrido  filio  comitis7, 
Radulfo  de  Fribois,  Aschatino  filio  Durand,  Symone  de 
Schelflinges,  Waltero  camerario,  Ricardo  clerico,  Richero 
de  Waletona,  W.  filio  Walteri,  Stephano  nepote  prioris> 
Symundo  filio  Hugonis,  Huberto  coco,  et  aliis  multis  et 
preter  hos  omnes  Jfohanne]  filio  Punchun. 

28.     CARTA  CECILIE  COMITISSE  ALBAMARLIE  DE  CAP- 
ELLA  DE  LOWSWATER  ET  IJ   BOVATIS  TERRE. 

4  The  charter  of  the  "  Boy  of  Egremont,"  brother  of  Cicely, 
is  not  extant. 

5  Gospatric's  charter  will  be  found  at  No.  33. 

6  Not  extant. 

7  Geoffrey  son  of  the   Earl  is  a  puzzle.       In  Cicely's  charter 
No.  225,  he  is  described  as  "  Geoffrey  son  of  the  earl  of  Albemarle." 
If  Geoffrey  was  a  legitimate  son,  the  Earl  must  have  been  married 
twice. 


56  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

CECILIA  comitissa  Albamarl  omnibus  tarn  presentibus 
quam  futuris  has  literas  audientibus  vel  videntibus  salut- 
em.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte 
Marie  et  sancte  beate  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  capellam  de  Lowswater1  cum  duabus  bovatis 
terre  eidem  capelle  pertinent ibus,  quam  capellam  et 
terram  predicti  monachi  jam  quinquaginta  annis  tran- 
sactis  tenuerunt  et  pasturam  quantum  pertinet  ad  duas 
bovatas  terre  avariis  suis  cum  eisdem  divisis  quas  in 
tempore  Willelmi  de  Egremunt2  fratris  mei  habuerunt. 
Testibus  hiis  Thoma  filio  Gospatric,  Willelmo  de  Chirif, 

28.  l  The  original  donors  of  this  chapel  are  mentioned  in 
No.  75.  For  its  confirmation  by  Archbishop  Roger  of  York 
(1154-1181),  see  No.  107.  As  the  monks  had  possession  of  the 
chapel  for  fifty  years  before  the  countess  Cicely's  confirmation, 
it  must  have  been  bestowed  soon  after  the  foundation  of  the 
priory. 

2  In  No.  27  the  "  young  Romilly,"  celebrated  by  Wordsworth, 
is  called  by  the  countess  Cicely  "  William  my  brother  "  and  here 
"  William  de  Egremunt  my  brother,"  but  in  No.  166  he  appears 
as  "  William  de  Egren  und  son  of  William  fitz  Duncan."  So 
early  as  1223,  he  was  known  as  the  "  Boy  of  Egremunt,"  when  it 
is  stated  that  he  had  been  in  the  King's  ward  and  had  died  in 
ward  (Coram  Rege  R.,  7  &  8  Hen.  III.  No.  17,  m.  22d.).  But 
from  charters  in  this  collection  it  is  clear  that  he  administrated 
the  Meschin  barony  after  his  mother's  death.  As  William  de 
Agremont,  he  witnessed  the  deed  of  confirmation  by  Henry  II. 
of  the  agreement  between  the  monks  of  Furness  and  William 
de  Lancaster  on  the  division  of  Furness  Fells.  Eyton  dates  the 
deed  in  1157  which  cannot  be  far  wrong.  The  identification  of 
the  Boy  of  Egremont  with  William  Odling  or  William  the  Noble 
"  whom  all  the  Scots  wished  to  have  for  their  King,"  as  com- 
memorated in  the  Sagas  (Orkneyinga  Saga,  p.  46,  ed.  J.  Anderson), 
appears  doubtful.  William  fitz  Duncan  seems  to  have  had 
other  sons,  though  not  by  Alice  de  Rumelli.  One  of  these, 
Donald  Bane,  is  said  by  Fordun  to  have  caused  an  insurrection 
against  William  the  Lion  in  1179  (Chronica,  i.  268,  ed.  Skene), 
and  another,  Gospatric,  witnessed  a  charter  to  the  monks  of 
Durham  by  Gospatric  brother  of  Dolfin  (Raine,  North  Durham, 
App.  p.  25). 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  57 

Willelmo  de  Boivil,  Petro  de  Alnebur,  Symone  de  Brocton, 
Willelmo  filio  Hugonis,  Simone  de  Roinges,  Radulfo 
famulo  comitisse,  Herberto  de  camera,  Ricardo  Buc  et 
multis. 

29.     CARTA  RICARDI  LUCY  DE  TERRA  IN  LOWESWATYR 

CUM  PRATO  ET  CAPELLA. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Ricardus  de  Lucy1, 
pro  salute  Ade  uxoris  mee,  antecessorum  et  successorum 
meorum,  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmavi 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  quam 
habent  in  villa  de  Louswater  cum  prato  et  capellam 
ejusdem  ville  ex  dono  Rann[ulfi]  de  Lyndesey  et  Hetrede 
sponse  sue2,  ita  tamen  quod  predicti  monachi  inveniant 
in  eadem  singulis  diebus  dominicis  tantum  unum  capellan- 
um  celebrant  em.  Item  concessi  eisdem  monachis  unam 
placeam  terre  de  quatuorviginti  pedibus  in  longitudinem 

29.  1  Richard  de  Lucy,  son  of  Reginald  de  Lucy  and  Amabilla 
daughter  of  William  fitz  Duncan,  succeeded  to  the  barony  of 
Coupland  in  1200  (Rot.  de  Oblat.  et  Fin.,  p.  45,  Rec.  Com.).  Ada, 
his  wife,  one  of  the  coheiresses  of  Hugh  de  Morville,  lord  of  Burgh 
by  Sands,  had  her  inheritance  and  dower  in  1213  after  the  death 
of  Richard  de  Lucy  of  Egremunt  her  husband  (Ibid.,  pp.  474-5). 
In  addition  to  this  group,  see  other  charters  of  Richard  de  Lucy 
at  Nos.  372-3,  and  at  Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxvuj. 

2  According  to  No.  498,  Ranulf  de  Lyndesay  married  Ethereda 
sister  of  Alan  son  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale,  and  had  Blener- 
hasset  and  Ukmanby  as  her  mariiage  portion.  This  identification 
of  Ethereda  or  Hectreda  is  interesting.  Ranulf,  who  was  with 
King  David  at  Lamplugh  (Nos.  39,  352),  held  land  also  in  Lorton 
and  Arthuret  which  he  gave  to  the  canons  of  Carlisle.  The 
property  in  Cumberland  probably  came  to  him  with  Hectreda. 
He  was  dead  before  1158  when  William  de  Eseby,  who  married 
his  widow,  appears  in  the  Pipe  Rolls.  See  note  on  No.  52.  In 
1 1 88  William  de  Lindesey  owed  forty  marks  for  proving  right 
in  the  King's  court  against  the  countess  of  Albemarle  for  Lowes- 
water  and  other  places  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  364). 


58  REGISTRUM    PKIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

et  quadraginta  in  latitudinem  ad  vaccariam  suam  faciend- 
am  ubicunque  voluerint  in  foresta  mea,  et  eciam  concessi 
eisdem  monachis  pasturam  in  eadem  foresta  viginti 
vaccis  et  uni  tauro  cum  sequela  sua  de  tribus  annis  et 
aliis  peccoribus  sine  numero  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  libere,  pacifice,  quiete,  et  honorifice  cum 
omnibus  libertatibus  et  esiamentis,  sicut  aliqua  terra 
elemosinata  melius  vel  liberius  concedi  poterit  vel  con- 
firmari.  Concessi  et  quod  predicti  [monachi]  habebunt 
in  bosco  meo  de  Lowswater  ea  que  eis  necessaria  fuerint 
ad  edificandum  et  ardendum  et  quantum  in  planis  et  in 
pascuis  et  in  assertis  in  utilitate  eorundem  vertere  poter- 
unt,  et  decimas  omnium  piscariorum  nostrorum  et  om- 
nium pullorum  nostrorum  et  omnium  rerum  nostrarum 
quas  habemus  in  confines  Couplandie.  Insuper  concessi 
predictis  et  perpetue  confirmavi  omnium  hominum 
suorum  inter  Derwent  et  Esc  pannagium  possidere,  et  ut 
tarn  hominum  suorum  inter  Derwent  et  Esc  quam  dominii 
sui  in  omnibus  boscis  et  planis,  de  quibus  ad  me  pertinet 
pannagium,  pascua  possideant  absque  ullo  impedimento 
mei  vel  heredum  meorum.  Concessi  eciam  eisdem  mon- 
achis omnes  libertates  ad  me  pertinentes  tarn  in  aquis 
dulcibus  quam  salsis  et  in  portibus  et  in  piscacionibus 
et  piscariis  et  wrec  et  waf,  ubicunque  inventa  fuerint 
infra  di visas  terrarum  suarum,  nee  licebit  alicui  facere 
piscarias  infra  divisas  suas  sine  consensu  predictorum 
monachorum.  Et  omnes  qui  hanc  elemosinam  accrever- 
int  ejusdem  participes  fiant.  Qui  autem  minuerit  de 
Deo  et  sancta  Maria  et  sancta  Bega  cui  hec  datur  elemosina 
inperpetuum  excommunicentur.  Hiis  testibus  Alano  filio 
Ketelli,  W.  et  Michaele  et  Benedicto  fratribus  ejus,  Willel- 
mo  de  Boyvilla,  Adam  de  Lanploclh.,  Alano  filio  Benedicti, 
Ad[am]  filio  ejus,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Rannulfo  de  Atting- 
ton,  Gerardo  de  Branthayte,  Jordano  serviente,  Johanne 
marescallo,  Aimero  de  Auerton,  Ad[am]  janitore,  et 
multis  aliis. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA  59 

30.  CARTA  RICARDI  LUCY  DE  SALTER,  WYNDER,  ET 
PANNAGIO  INTER  DERWENT  ET  ESK. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  qui  viderint  vel 
audierint  lit  eras  has  Ricardus  de  Luci  salutem.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  me  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro  salute 
Ade  uxoris  mee  et  pro  animabus  antecessorum  et  suc- 
cessorum  meorum  concessisse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea 
confirmasse  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  Deo  et 
beate  Marie  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Coupelandia  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  terram  que  vocatur 
Salterre  et  Winderye1  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et 
aisiamentis  suis  et  totum  forinsecum  servicium2  dedi  et 
quietum  et  quietum  clamavi  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  solute  et  quiete  ab 
omni  terreno  servicio  et  exaccione,  sicuti  aliqua  elemo- 
sina  liberius  dari  potest  vel  confirmari.  Et  volo  si 
averia  monachorum  sancte  Bege  in  forestam  meam 
prohibitam  venerint  vel  intraverint  sine  escapagio  et 
sine  causa  mei  vel  heredum  meorum  quiet  a  redibunt. 
Insuper  dedi  prefate  ecclesie  et  perpetue  confirmavi 
omnium  hominum  suorum  inter  Derwent  et  Hesk  pan- 
nagium  possidere,  ut  et  tarn  porci  hominum  suorum 
inter  Derwent  et  Hesk  quam  dominii  sui  in  omnibus 
boscis  et  planis,  de  quibus  ad  me  pertinet  pannagium, 
pascua  habeant  absque  ullo  impedimento  et  redditum  que 
inde  faciant.  Preterea  hec  omnia  prenominata  et  omnes 
elemosinas  et  beneficia  et  omnes  donaciones  ab  ante- 
cessoribus  meis  et  a  me  et  a  probis  hominibus  meis 
monachis  predictis  collatas  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam confirmavi  sicuti  carte  eorum  testantur.  Hiis 

30-  :  Salter  and  Winder  are  contiguous  townships  (O.  S., 
Ixviii.,  N.W.),  the  former  of  which  is  reckoned  as  extra-parochial. 
For  the  donor  of  Salter,  see  No.  32.  There  is  more  about  these 
places  in  subsequent  charters. 

2  On  the  nature  of  this  service,  see  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  322-4. 


60  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

testibus  Henrico  filio  Arturi,  Willelmo  filio  ejus,  Willelmo 
filio  Ketelli,  Johanne  persona  de  Botyl,  Willelmo  de 
Boiwilla,  Radulfo  Corbed,  Roberto  de  Wiltona,  Adam  de 
Landplo,  Willelmo  de  Plumlund,  Rogero  filio  Edwardi, 
Regpnaldo]  Malet  et  multis  aliis. 

31.  CARTA  RICARDI  DE  LUCY  DE  DECIMA  VENACIONIS 
CUM  CORRIIS  DE  COUPLAND. 

SCIANT  omnes  tam  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego 
Richardus  de  Lucy  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  mea  presenti 
carta  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte 
Bege  de  Cauplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
totam  decimam  venacionis  mee  in  integrum  cum  coriis 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  libere  et  quiete  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  patris  mei  et  antecessorum  meorum. 
Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  rat  a  et  inconcussa  permaneat, 
sigilli  mei  apposicione  earn  corroboravi.  Hiis  testibus 
Alano  filio  Ketelli,  Willelmo  et  Michaele  et  Benedicto 
fratribus  ejus,  Willelmo  de  Bouuilla,  Ada  de  Landploh, 
Alano  filio  Benedicti,  Ada  filio  ejus,  Roberto  de  Wiltona, 
Ranulpho  de  Rotington,  Gerardo  de  Branthwait,  Jordano 
serviente,  Johanne  mariscaldo,  Rainero  de  Aictun,  Ada 
janitore,  et  aliis. 

32.  CARTA   GOSPATRICII   FILII   ORME   DE  TERRA  DE 
SALTER. 

GOSPATRICIUS  filius  Orm1  omnibus  hominibus  suis  et 

32.  l  The  deeds  in  this  collection  are  invaluable  for  the  early 
history  of  the  family  of  Curwen  of  Workington.  If  the  deed 
piinted  in  Illus.  Doc.  No.  xix.  be  genuine,  Gospatric  son  of  Orm 
had  Workington  and  Lamplugh  from  William  de  Lancaster  in 
exchange  for  Medilton  in  Lonsdale.  As  Chetell  son  of  Eldred  had 
been  lord  of  Workington  (No.  212),  the  descent  of  the  manor 
seems  to  show  that  Lancaster  had  inherited  from  Chetell.  In 
that  case  Gilbert  the  father  of  William  de  Lancaster  was  the 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  6l 

amicis  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  salutem.  Sciatis 
me  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  elemosinam  concessisse  et 
dedisse  villam  de  Salterge  ita,  videlicet,  ut  earn  sub  jure 
suo  tarn  bene  habeant  sicut  earn  habui  die  qua  dicte 
ecclesie  earn  donavi.  Preterea  sciendum  est  me  eidem 
ecclesie  concessisse  et  presenti  carta  confirmasse  ecclesiam 
de  Wirchinghetona  et  ita  plenarie  molendinum  ejusdem 
ville,  cum  terra  ad  ecclesiam  pertinente,  sicut  melius  et 
integrius  monachi  de  Eboraco  uno  die  et  anno  ista  habuere. 
Insuper  concessi  ut  omnes  terram  de  Wirchingetona  que 
de  elemosina  est  inhabitantes  cum  hominibus  meis  com- 
mune in  bosco  et  in  pastura  habeant  sine  servicio  quod 
inde  faciant.  Similiter  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci  ecclesiam  de  Halfringtuna  concessi,  ita  tamen 
quod  Elemerus  clericus,  cognatus  meus,  de  predicta 
ecclesia  in  vita  sua  earn  tenebit  et  post  predicte  sub  jure 
ecclesie  absque  omni  calumpnia  remanebit.  Testibus 
hiis  Alano  filio  Wallef,  Willelmo  Engaine,  Gilberto  fratre 
ejus,  Roberto  filio  Orm,  Micaele  fratre  ejus,  Gospatricio 

elder  son  of  Chetell  and  therefore  the  elder  brother  of  Orm,  father 
of  Gospatric.  From  No.  212  it  would  appear  that  William  was 
Chetell's  eldest  son  and  heir  who  died  before  he  inherited.  The 
following  table  sets  out  the  relationship  : — 

CHETELL  son  of  Eldred,  lord  of  Workington 
No.  212. 


1 

WILLIAM 

No.  212 

GILBERT 

I 

ORM 

i 
GOSPATRIC 

Nos.  32-4,  384 

THOMAS 
Nos.  35-7,  61 

WILLIAM  DE  LANCASTER  i                     ROGER 
Nos.  3,  5                               Nos.  223,  232 
1 
WILLIAM  DE  LANCASTER  ii 
No.  233 

Orm  son  of  Ketell  witnessed  a  charter  oi  Roger  the  Poictevin  in 
1094  (Farrer,  Pipe  Rolls  of  Lancashire,  pp.  289-290).  The  floruit 
of  Gospatric  son  of  Orm  was  between  about  1145  (Nos.  39,  352) 
and  1179  when  he  paid  a  fine  in  Westmorland  (Hinde,  Pipe  Rolls, 
p.  167). 


62       REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

sacerdote  de  Keltona,  Dolfino  presbitero  de  Camertona, 
Waltero  presbitero  de  Witthintona,  Osberto  capellano 
ejus,  Egliva  uxore  ipsius  Gospatricii,  Ebrea  matre  ejus, 
Ricardo  Harel,  Gilberto  de  Croftotona,  Thoma  filio 
Gospatricii,  Adam,  Roberto  fratribus  ejus,  Acca  prefecto 
de  Wirchutona,  Rogero  filio  Orm  multisque  aliis. 

33-  CARTA  GOSPATRICII  FILII  ORMI  DE  TERRA  DE 
SALTERG. 

NOTITM  sit  omnibus  legentibus  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  quod  ego  Gospatricius  films  Orm,  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium  liberorum  et  parentum 
meorum,  et  pro  anima  patris  et  matris  mee  et  omnium 
predecessorum  meorum,  dedi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboraci 
et  beate  Bege  virgini  advocatrici  mee  totam  terram  que 
vocatur  Saltargie  cum  suis  pertinenciis  in  pur  am  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam  et  proprie  in  ministerium  altaris 
•eju[s]dem  virginis,  liberam,  quietam,  et  solutam  ab  omni 
terreno  servicio.  Concessi  eciam  pro  me  et  heredibus 
meis  quod  possint  claudere,  fossare,  et  censare1  boscum 
suum  et  pasturam  infra  divisas  Saltergie  pro  voluntate 
sua.  Et  volo  quod  heredes  mei  warantizent  et  acquietent 
hanc  donacionem  meam  in  perpetuum.  Hanc  vero 
oblacionem  supradicte,  scilicet,  terre  feci  in  prefata 
ecclesia  super  altare  ejusdem  virginis  in  die  Assumpsionis 
sancte  Dei  genetricis  Marie.  Et  omnes  qui  hanc  elemosin- 
am prescript  am  suis  beneficiis  accreverint  ejusdem 
elemosine  participes  fiant.  Qui  autem  in  juste  minuerit 
de  Deo  et  sancta  Maria  et  sancta  Bega  cui  hec  datur 
elemosina  imperpetuum  excommunicentur.  Hiis  testibus 

33.  1  It  is  suggested  that  claudere  here  means  to  inclose : 
fossare,  to  dyke  :  and  censare,  to  sub-let  to  farm.  For  the  latter 
word,  see  Twysden's  Glossary,  s.v.  tassare.  The  word  in  the  script 
might  possibly  be  read  as  tensare,  to  tax,  which  is  inapplicable 
here.  Censare  must  come  from  census. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA  63 

Egeliva  uxore  mea,  T.  filio  et  herede  meo,  Michaele  fratre 
meo,  Gilberto  filio  Serlonis,  Alano  filio  meo,  Reginaldo  de 
Belcamp,  R.  filio  Tymte2,  Frumbaldo  et  Radulfo  mil  [it  i- 
bus]  comit[isse],  Cetello,  et  Edwardo  filio  Ulphi  et  mult  is 
aliis. 

34.  CARTA  GOSPATRICII  FILII  ORM  DE  TERRA  DE 
SALTER  ET  DE  ECCLESIA  DE  WYRKYNGTON  ET  DE  ECCLESIA 
[DE]  HAVERYNTON  ET  PASTURA  DE  ARLOKDEN. 

GOSPATRICIUS  filius  Orm  omnibus  hominibus  tarn 
presentibus  quam  futuris  salutem.  Sciatis  me  Deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  elemosinam  liberam,  puram,  et  per- 
petuam  concessisse  et  dedisse  villam  de  Salterge  cum  suis 
pertinenciis  adeo  integre  sicut  earn  habui  die  qua  predicte 
ecclesie  earn  donavi.  Preterea  sciendum  est  me  eidem 
ecclesie  concessisse  et  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse 
ecclesiam  de  Wirkynton  cum  terra  ad  earn  pertinente 
et  molendinum  ejusdem  ville  ita  plenarie  sicut  melius 
et  integrius  monachi  de  Eboraco  uno  die  et  anno  ista 
habuere.  Insuper  concessi  ut  omnes  terram  de  Wirking- 
ton  que  de  elemosina  est  inhabitantes  cum  hominibus 
meis  comunam  in  bosco  et  in  pastura  habeant  sine  servicio 
quod  inde  faciant.  Similiter  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci  ecclesiam  de  Haverinton  concessi  ita  tamen  quod 
Elmerus  clericus,  cognatus  meus,  predicta[m]  ecclesiam 
in  vita  sua  tenebit  et  post  sub  jure  predicte  ecclesie  semper 
remanebit  absque  omni  calumpnia.  Hec  autem  omnia 
una  cum  communi  pastura  de  Arlokedene  predictis 
ecclesiis  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  dedi  et  hac  carta  mea 
confirmavi  in  liberam,  puram,  et  perpetuam  [elemosinam] 

2  In  No.  384  the  name  of  this  witness  appears  as  R.  filio  Truite, 
probably  Richard  son  of  Truite  or  Troite,  whose  name  is  often 
found  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  from  1177  onward,  a  well-known  land- 
owner in  East  Cumberland. 


64  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

quiet  a  ab  omni  terreno  servicio.  Et  volo  quod  heredes 
mei  warantizent  et  acquietent  hanc  donacionem  meam 
imperpetuum  et  iccirco  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Testibus 
hiis  Alano  filio  Waltef,  Willelmo  Engaine,  Gilberto  fratre 
ejus,  Roberto  filio  Orm,  Michaele  fratre  ejus,  Gospatricio 
sacerdote,  Dolfino  presbitero  de  Camberton,  Waltero 
presbitero  de  Wirkinton,  Osberto  capellano  ejus,  Egeliva 
uxore  mea,  Ebrea  matre  mea,  Ricardo  Harel,  Gilberto 
de  Crofton,  Acca  prefecto  de  Wirkinton,  Rogero  filio 
Orm,  multisque  aliis. 

35.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  GOSPATRICII  DE  xx  SALMONI- 
BUS  IN  WYRKYNGTON  ET  VILLA  DE  SALTER  ET  ECCLESIA 
DE  WYRKY[N]GTON  ET  MOLENDINO. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  videntibus  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  quod  ego  Thomas1 
films  Gospatricii  de  Wirkintona  dedi  Deo  et  sancte  Mane 
et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  annuatim  xxt!  sal- 
mones  in  Wirkintona  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro  redemp- 

35.  l  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric,  of  the  house  of  Workington, 
was  a  munificent  benefactor  of  religious  houses.  He  was  the 
founder  of  Shap  (Monasticon,  vi.  869)  and  also  made  grants  to 
Byland  (Ibid.,  v.  352),  Calder  (Ibid.,  v.  341),  Holmcultram  (Reg. 
MS.  ff.  34,  36,  &c.),  and  St.  Bees.  In  1185  he  made  an  agreement 
with  Adam  de  Kerkebi  (Pipe  R.,  31  Hen.  II.).  On  13  Nov.  1200 
he  was  employed  on  the  King's  business  (Chart.  R.  2  John,  m. 
2yd.:  Pipe  R.,  2  John,  Westmorland),  but  he  must  have  died  soon 
after,  for  in  1201  Roger  de  Beauchamp  and  Grace  who  was  the 
wife  of  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric  gave  the  King  300  marks  for 
having  custody  of  his  land  and  heir  and  the  marriage  of  the  heir 
(Rot.  de  Oblat.,  pp.  157,  179,  194  :  Westmorland  Pipe  R.,  3  John). 
In  1209  and  1210  Grace  is  recorded  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  as  wife  of 
Roger  de  Beauchamp.  She  had  transactions  on  her  own  account 
with  the  monks  of  Holmcultram  about  land  in  Seton  to  which 
her  husband  Thomas  affixed  his  seal  (Reg.  of  Holmcultram  MS., 
f-  37). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  65 

clone  animarum  patris  et  matris  mee  et  omnium  ante- 
cessorum  meorum.  Et  cum  vocatus  fuero  ex  hac  luce 
ad  dominum,  heredes  mei  post  me  venturi  predict os  xx 
salmones  prefatis  monachis  annuatim  in  elemosinam  pro 
me  et  pro  semetipsis  imperpetuum  dabunt.  Et  n> 
aliquis  hanc  elemosinam  meam  minuere  vel  impedire 
[possit]  presentis  carte  mee  munimine  illam  confirmavi 
Deo  et  monachis  memoratis.  Preterea  sciendum  est 
quod  ego  concessi  et  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo 
et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  sepedictis  mona- 
chis villam  de  Salterga  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in 
bosco  et  piano  et  in  omnibus  aisiamentis  que  ad  eandem 
villam  pertinent.  Insuper  autem  concessi  et  confirmavi 
eisdem  monachis  ecclesiam  de  Wirkintona  et  molendinum 
ejusdem  ville  cum  terra  ad  eandem  pertinent e  ecclesiam 
sicut  monachi  de  Eboraco  unquam  melius  et  integrius 
ista  habuere.  Similiter  vero  concessi  et  confirmavi  mem- 
oratis monachis  ut  homines  qui  in  terra  ilia  que  ad  ecclesi- 
am de  Wirkintuna  pertinet  habitant  cum  hominibus  meis 
commune  in  bosco  et  in  pastura  habeant  sine  servicio  ullo 
quod  inde  faciant.  Confirmavi  eciam  eis  ecclesiam  de 
Haveringtuna  cum  terra  ad  earn  pertinente  et  omnia  que 
pater  meus,  Gospatricius,  memoratis  ecclesiis  in  elemosin- 
am dedit  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  et  libertatibus  suis, 
sicut  patris  mei  carta  testatur.  Testibus  hiis  Alano  filio 
Gospatricii  et  Adam  fratre  ejus,  Thoma  Engaina,  Roberta 
de  Haveringtuna,  Thoma  capellano  de  Wirkintona, 
Benedicto  filio  Gamelli  et  Alano  filio  ejus,  Alano  filio 
Ketelli,  Petro  de  Alneburch,  Michaele  filio  Acca,  Roberto 
de  Landploth,  Alano  de  Steinburna,  Elwino  de  Egre- 
mundia,  et  multis  aliis. 

36.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  GOSPATRICII  DE  xx  SALMONI- 
BUS  IN  WlRKYNGTON  ETC.  UT  SUPRA  ET  DIMIDIUM  RETE 
SUPER  DERWENT. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  videntibus  vel  audicntibus  .literas 

F 


<56  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

has  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  quod  ego  Thomas  films 
Gospatricii  dedi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege 
virgin!  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam  annuatim  viginti  salmones  in 
Wirkintona  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum 
et  cum  vocatus  fuero  ex  hac  luce  ad  dominum  heredes  mei 
predict os  xx  salmones  prefatis  monachis  annuatim  pro 
me  et  semetipsis  imperpetuum  dabunt.  Et  ne  aliquis 
hanc  elemosinam  meam  minuere  et  impedire  possit 
presentis  carte  mee  munimine  illam  predictis  monachis 
conrirmavi.  Preterea  sciendum  est  quod  ego  concessi  et 
presenti  cart  a  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
sepedictis  monachis  villam  de  Salterga  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis  in  bosco,  in  piano,  et  in  omnibus  asia- 
mentis  que  ad  eandem  villam  pertinent.  Insuper  autem 
concessi  et  confirmavi  eisdem  monachis  ecclesiam  de 
Wirkintona  cum  terra  ad  eandem  pertinente,  et  molendin- 
um  ejusdem  ville,  sicut  monachi  de  Eboraco  unquam 
melius  et  integrius  ista  habuere.  Similiter  vero  concessi 
et  dedi  Deo  et  eidem  ecclesie  beate  Marie1  de  Wirkinton, 
ut  omnium  oracionum  et  missarum  que  infra  eandem 
ecclesiam  decantate  fuerint  particeps  efncaciter,  dimidium 
rete  super  Derewenta[m]  solutum  ab  omni  terreno  ser- 
vicio  et  consuetudine  eidem  aque  adjacente.  Concessi 
eciam  et  confirmavi  memoratis  monachis  ut  homines  qui 
in  terra  ilia  que  ad  ecclesiam  de  Wirkintona  pertinet 
habitant  cum  hominibus  meis  communionem  habeant  in 
bosco,  in  pastura,  et  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis  sine  ullo 
servicio  quod  inde  faciant.  Insimul  siquidem  concessi 
et  confirmavi  eis  ecclesiam  de  Haveringtona,  cum  terra 
ad  earn  pertinente,  et  omnia  que  pater  meus  Gospatricius 
memoratis  monachis  et  ecclesiis  in  elemosinam  dedit  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  libertatibus  suis,  sicut  carta 
patris  mei  testatur.  Hiis  testibus  Alano  filio  Gospatricii, 

36.     l  The  parish  church  of  Workington  is  now  known  by  the 
title  of  St.  Michael. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA  67 

Ada  fratre  ejus,  T.  Engaina,  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
T.  capellano  de  Wirkintona,  Roberto  fratre  ejus,  Bene- 
dicto  filio  Gamelli  et  Alano  filio  ejus,  Alano  filio  Ketelli, 
Petro  de  Alneburch,  Michacle  filio  Acke,  Roberto  de 
Landploth,  Alano  de  Stainburne,  Elwino  de  Egremundia, 
et  multis  aliis. 

37-  CARTA  THOME  FILII  GOSPATRICII  DE  DECIMIS 
ANIMALIUM  SUORUM  DE  SALTERGE. 

SCIANT  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Thomas 
films  Gospatrici,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  present!  carta 
mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  omnes  decimas  propriorum  animalium 
suorum  de  Saltargha  liberas  et  quietas  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam.  Hanc  elemosinam  concessi  et  dedi 
Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  predictis  pro  salute  mea 
et  sponse  mee  et  liberorum  meorum  et  pro  animabus  patris 
et  matris  mee  et  omnium  parentum  meorum  inperpetuum 
possidendam.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Boivilla, 
Roberto  de  Haveringtona,  Roberto  de  Boivilla,  Alano  de 
Stainburna,  Michaele  capellano,  Ricardo  diacono  et 
multis  aliis. 

38.  CARTA  PATRICII  FILII  [THOME1]  DE  DIMIDIA 
MARCA  DE  WIRKY[N]GTON  ET  xinj  SALMONIBUS. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  presens  scriptum  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Patricius  films  Thome  de  Wirkinton2  eternam 

38.  l  A  word  has  been  erased,  but  not  Thome.  The  scribe 
probably  wrote  Gospatrici  in  error,  erased  it,  and  forgot  to  supply 
Thome.  It  appears  correctly  in  the  table  of  contents. 

2  In  Nos.  101,  213,  Thomas  is  described  as  the  son  and  heir  of 
Thomas  son  of  Gospatric  and  was  probably  alive  at  his  father's 
death  in  1201  when  Roger  de  Bello  Campo  and  Grace  widow  of 
Thomas  son  of  Gospatric  had  ward  of  the  land  and  heir  (Hinde, 
Pipe  Rolls,  p.  1 88).  About  1212  Patrick  son  of  Thomas  son  of 


68  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum 
et  successorum  meorum  dedisse,  concessisse  et  hac  pre- 
senti  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  abbacie  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci  et  celle  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosin- 
am  dimidiam  marcam  argenti  annuatim  percipiendam  ad 
duos  terminos,  medietatem  in  festo  sancti  Martini  in 
hyeme  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  Penthecosten  ad  quandam 
lampadem  ardentem  in  capella  sancte  Bege  in  predicta 
cella  existente  sustendandam,  viz.,  quinque  solidos  per- 
cipiendos  de  Thoma  de  Newton  et  Johanna  uxore  sua,  et 
heredibus  eorum  de  firma  sua  de  Kirkeby  crossan3,  et 
viginti  denarios  de  Henrico  de  Haverington  et  heredibus 
ejus  de  firma  sua  de  Wirkintona,  sal  vis  michi  et  heredibus 
meis  homagiis  et  residuo  servicio  dictorum  Thome  et 
Henrici  et  heredum  suorum  de  predictis  tenementis. 
Preterea  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi  predictis  monachis  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam  quatuordecim  salmones  annuatim  percipiendos 
de  stagno  molendini  mei  de  Wirkinton  per  manum  molen- 
dinarii  mei,  viz.,  sex  in  quadragesima  et  octo  residuo 
tempore  anni.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  predictas  dona- 
ciones  et  concessiones  predictis  monachis  warantizabimus 
contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum.  Et  in  cuius  rei 
testimonium  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  munimine 

Gospatric  had  a  grant  of  "  Tornthayt  in  Derwentfellez  "  from 
Alice  de  Rumelli  daughter  of  William  fitz  Duncan  during  her 
widowhood,  of  which  grant  there  is  a  copy  at  Workington  Hall. 
In  this  township  of  the  parish  of  Crosthwaite,  Patrick  founded 
a  chapel  about  1240  (Reg.  of  Fountains,  MS.  f.  97).  He  is  often 
called  Patrick  of  Workington  and  was  a  great  benefactor  of  the 
monks  of  St.  Bees  and  Holmcultram.  One  of  his  deeds  in  this 
collection  (No.  215)  bears  date  26  Nov.  1250,  and  was  given  at 
Workington,  but  Patrick  lived  till  a  later  date  (Pipe  Rolls,  ed. 
Parker,  177,  194.) 

3  See  No.  336  note  2. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  69 

corroboravi.  Hiis  testibus  magistro  Thoma  tune  official! 
Richemondie,  Domino4  de  Wirkinton  tune  decano  Coup- 
land[ie],  domino  Hugone  de  Moriceby,  dominis  Ada  et 
Thoma  de  Haverington,  Henrico  de  Wirkinton,  et  multis 
aliis. 

39.    CARTA  DAVIDIS  REGIS  SCOTTORUM  DE  ENERSETT. 

DAVID  rex  Scottorum1  omnibus  probis  hominibus  suis 
Couplandie  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  hac  mea 
carta  confirmasse  elemosinam  quam  Matildis  uxor 
Godardi,  viz.,  Enresate,2  dedit  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege 
et  fratribus  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  libere  et  quiete  ab 
omni  seculari  servicio,  sicut  carta  Willelmi  nepotis  mei 
et  Ade  filii  Sweni  testantur.3  Testibus  Waltero  can- 
cellario,  et  Roberto  de  Bruis,  et  Hugone  de  Morevilla,  et 
Ade  (sic)  filio  Sweni,  et  Willelmo  Sumervilla,  et  Alano 
filio  Waldef,  et  H.  filio  Sweni,  et  Willelmo  de  Heriz,  et 
Gospatricio  filio  Orm,  et  Randulfo  de  Lindeseia,  et 
Durando  milite,  apud  Lamplou. 

4  The  Christian  name  has  been  omitted.  See  his  full  description 
as  a  witness  in  No.  330. 

39.  l  The  region  south  of  the  Solway,  including  the  modern 
county  of  Cumberland,  was  ceded  to  David,  King  of  Scots,  by 
King  Stephen  in  1136  (Chron.  Steph.  Hen.  II.,  etc.,  iii.  146,  R.S.), 
but  it  was  recovered  by  Henry  II.  in  1157  from  King  Malcolm 
(Chron.  S.  Crucis,  p.  32,  Bann.  Club).  King  David  took  up  his 
residence  in  Carlisle,  where  he  died  on  24  May,  1153  (Priory  of 
Hexham,  i.  168,  Surtees  Soc.).  See  No.  352  for  another  text  of 
this  charter.  Thomas  Astle  included  all  the  Scottish  deeds  in 
this  Register  in  his  collections  for  Scottish  history  (Stowe  MS., 
552,  ff.  94-100). 

'2  Variously  written  in  this  collection  as  Enresate,  Ainreseta, 
Enereseiset,  Enrescenset,  Aynerset,  Andersetta,  but  in  the  four- 
teenth century,  Aynersett,  and  in  the  seventeenth,  Ainerside, 
now  Annaside,  a  hamlet  near  the  sea  in  the  parish  of  Whitbeck. 
In  1292,  John  de  Hudleston  gave  the  monks  of  Furness  free 
passage  through  his  whole  lordship  except  Anneys  (Anct.  D., 
L.  No.  458). 

3  For  the  texts  of  the  charters,  see  Nos.  40,  41,  350,  35,1- 


7O  REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

40.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  DUNCANI  DE  ENERSET. 

WILLELMUS  films  Dunecane1  omnibus  hominibus  suis 
de  Couplanda  tarn  futuris  quam  presentibus  salutem. 
Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse 
Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  villam  que  vocatur  Ainreseta, 
quam  Mahald  uxor  Godardi  dedit  sancte  Bege  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam  liberam  et  quietam  ab  omni 
terreno  servicio.  Preterea  concessi  sancte  Bege  et  pre- 
dictis  monachis  ut  habeant  minam  ferri  in  terra  mea  ad 
Chirnaby2  ad  ferrum  faciendum  sine  contradiccione  in- 
perpetuum  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium 
amicorum  meorum  et  pro  animabus  omnium  antecess- 
orum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Jordano  vicecomite,  Wal- 
tero  camberlano,  Ricardo  Matafelun  et  aliis  multis. 

41.  CARTA1   ADE   FILII   SUWANI   DE  ENERSEIT. 

40-  J  Nephew  of  David,  King  of  Scots,  and  lord  of  Coupland 
in  right  of  his  wife  Alice,  daughter  of  William  Meschin.  See 
note  on  No.  16-  Another  text  of  this  deed  is  given  in  No.  351- 

tt  A  very  early  instance  of  iron-mining  in  Cumberland,  on  which 
see  my  narrative  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  340-41.  In  the  fourteenth 
century,  when  iron  was  still  worked  there,  the  place  is  called 
Thernby,  Thirneby  and  Thirnby  (Cal.  of  Close,  1337-9,  pp.  476, 
478,  486,  494),  near  the  town  of  Egremont,  perhaps  now  called 
Thornley  or  Thorny  (O.  S.,  Ixii.,  S.E.). 

41.  *  The  date  of  this  charter  belongs  to  the  Scottish 
occupation  under  King  David,  1136-53.  It  is  not  clear  how 
Adam  son  of  Suan  had  any  right  within  the  lordship  of  Millom 
unless  he  had  custody  of  Godard's  land  and  heir.  Henry  I. 
enfeoffed  him  with  a  large  tract  on  the  east  of  the  Eden 
in  the  region  of  Melmerby  and  Kirkland  which  was  in  poss- 
ession of  his  heirs  at  the  time  of  the  Inquest  of  Service  in  1212. 
He  had  also  possessions  in  Yorkshire  and  elsewhere.  His  name 
appears  in  the  Pipe  Roll  of  Cumberland  for  1159  together  with 
his  brother  Henry  son  of  Suan  who  held  for  a  time  the  lands  of 
Langwathby  and  Edenhall.  There  is  a  pedigree  of  Adam  son 
of  Suan  on  the  De  Banco  Roll,  Michaelmas  term,  8  Henry  III. 
(Collect.  Top.  et  Geneal.,  i.  266).  See  also  the  "  progenies  Suani 
filii  Alurici  "  in  Dugdale,  Mon.,  v.  128. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA.  71 

ADAM  filius  Suwani  omnibus  hominibus  suis,  Francis 
et  Anglis,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  confirmasse 
elemosinam  quam  dedit  Mahald,  uxor  Godardi2,  Deo  et 
sancte  Bege,  viz.,  Encreseiset,  et  volo  et  precipio  ut 
monachi  de  sancta  Bega  habeant  et  teneant  earn,  liberam 
et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  et  in  pura  elemosina, 
et  do  eis  meam  firmam  pacem  et  earn  elemosinam  sicut 
ipsa  dedit  [et]  concessit.  Testibus  Jordano  ministro 
domini,  Waltero  Flandrigena,  et  Gilmichel  filio  Dunadag. 

42.    CARTA  ALANI  FILII  RONALDI  DE  j  MARCA. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presentibus  et 
futuris,  Alanus  filius  Rolandi,  dominus  Galwathpe]  et 
Scocie  constabularius,1  salutem.  Noveritis  nos  conces- 

2  Godard,  the  first  lord  of  Millom  on  record,  was  one  of  the 
earliest  benefactors  of  St.  Bees.  His  charter  of  endowment  is 
found  at  No.  76.  See  also  Nos.  1-4.  He  is  called  Godard  de 
Boivilla  in  a  charter  which  he  granted  to  the  monks  of  Furness 
(Annales  Fumes.,  p.  118).  The  family  of  Boyvill  was  afterwards 
known  by  the  territorial  name  of  Millom.  The  name  of  Arthur 
son  of  Godard  appears  in  the  Pipe  Roll  of  1182  as  paying  a  debt 
to  the  Crown  for  recognition  of  his  knight's  fee  against  the 
countess  of  Coupland. 

42.  x  Alan  son  of  Roland,  lord  of  Galloway  and  constable  of 
Scotland,  was  a  great  man  in  his  day,  called  indifferently  Alan 
the  Great  or  prince  of  Galloway,  who  treated  with  King  John  in 
apparent  independence  of  his  own  sovereign.  His  father  Roland 
son  of  Uctred  son  of  Fergus  seized  Galloway  in  1185  on  the  death 
of  his  uncle  Gilbert  son  of  Fergus,  but  he  made  his  peace  with 
Henryll.  at  Carlisle  in  the  following  year  (Hoveden,  ii.  299,  309). 
Roland  died  on  19  December,  1200,  and  was  buried  at  Northamp- 
ton (Ibid.,  iv.  145).  In  right  of  his  mother  Helena,  daughter  of 
Richard  de  Moreville,  Alan  became  constable  of  Scotland  and  in 
1209  married  a  daughter  of  David,  earl  of  Huntingdon,  brother 
of  the  Scottish  King  (Chron.  de  Mailros,  Bann.  Club,  p.  108).  In 
12 12  King  John  requested  him  to  send  1,000  of  his  best  and  most 
active  Galwegians  to  Chester  for  his  expedition  against  the  Welsh 
(Close  R.  14  John,  m.  yd.)  Shortly  after,  Alan  received  from 
that  King  grants  of  large  tracts  of  land  in  Ireland  (Chart.  R.  15 


72  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

sisse  et  dedisse  et  hac  present!  carta  nostra  confirmasse 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupel[and]  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  marcam  argenti 
annuatim  percipiendam  de  camera  nostra  donee  eis 
redditum  unius  marce  vel  in  terra  vel  in  ecclesiastica 
elemosina  assignaverimus,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  Pente- 
costen,  et  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Hanc 
autem  predictam  elemosinam  concedimus  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupeland  et  predictis  monachis 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  [elemosinam]  de  nobis  et  heredibus 
nostris  inperpetuum  percipiendam.  Ut  autem  hec  nostra 
concessio  perpetuis  rata  sit  et  firma  temporibus  earn 
presenti  pagina  et  sigilli  nostri  apposicione  corroboravi- 
mus.  Hiis  testibus  Alano  filio  Ketelli,  Alano  de  Camerton, 
Gilberto  filio  Gospatrici,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Willel- 
mo  de  Mara,  Randulfo  de  Caude  Campania,  Alexandro 
filio  Adam,  Michaele  capellano,  Alexandro  de  Stainburn, 
magistro  Thoma,  magistro  Adam  de  Thorn  clerico  nostro. 

43.  CARTA  GUTHREDI  REGIS  INSULARUM  DE  ESCBE- 
DALA  IN  BOSCO,  PLANO,  PASTURA,  ET  OMNIBUS  ALIIS. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego 
Guthredus1,  Dei  gracia,  rex  Insularum,  tarn  pro  salute 
mea  quam  pro  animabus  patris  et  matris  mee  necnon  et 
pro  statu  regni  et  populi  mei,  concessi  et  dedi  Deo  et 
sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  terram,  que  vocatur 

John,  m.  3,  17  John,  pt.  i.,  m.  10).  He  died  in  1234  ancl  was 
buried  in  the  abbey  of  Dundraynan,  leaving  three  daughters, 
one  of  whom  (Devorguil)  had  been  married  to  John  Balliol  in 
1233  (Chron.  de  Mailros,  pp.  143-4).  Alan  of  Galloway  had  a 
family  connection  with  Cumberland,  for  his  grandmother, 
Gunnild,  wife  of  Uctred  son  of  Fergus,  was  a  daughter  of  Waldeve 
son  of  Gospatrick,  lord  of  Allerdale  (Liber  S.  Crucis,  Bann.  Club, 
pp.  19-20). 

43.     1Guthred  or  Godred  II.   1154-1187. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  73 

Eschedala2,  in  bosco  et  piano,  aqua  et  pastura  et  omnibus 
rebus  eidem  pertinentibus,  liberam,  solutam,  et  quietam 
ab  omni  terreno  servicio  tarn  de  pecunia  quam  et  aciiez3 
et  ab  omni  gravamine  tarn  a  me  quam  ab  omnibus  meis 
cum  eisdem  legibus  et  libertatibus  quas  habent  super 
terram  et  homines  suos  circa  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  in 
Coupalandia.  Terram  eciam  que  vocatur  Asmunder- 
toftes4  de  eis  in  additamentum  prefate  terre  quamdiu 
potero  eis  warentire  absque  calumpnia  alicuius  meorum 
proborum  virorum.  Quod  si  contigerit,  scilicet,  me  non 
posse  cum  pace  eis  warentire  ea,  dabo  concambium  eis 
advalens  de  propinquioribus  et  sibi  magis  necessariis 
terris,  quas  in  venire  liberas  in  manu  mea  poterunt  cum 
eisdem  legibus  et  libertatibus  quas  prediximus  nos  prefate 
terre  concessisse.  Hanc  vero  donacionem  fecimus  eis 
in  excambium  pro  ecclesia  sancti  Olavi  et  villula  que 
vocatur  Euastad5,  quia  nimis  erat  brevis  et  angusta  eis 
tarn  ad  culturam  quam  ad  pascua  animalium.  Hanc 
elemosinam  servantibus  et  manutenentibus  sit  pax  con- 
tinua  et  salus  eterna  de  inimicis  victoria.  Hiis  testibus 
domino  G.  episcopo6,  Thoma  capellano  meo,  Gillochristo 
fratre  et  collactaneo7  meo. 

2  Now  Groudle  Glen  near  Douglas. 

8  This  word,  which  appears  again  in  No.  44.  is  given  as  aconu- 
weys  and  acconeuez  when  the  charters  are  inspected  in  Nos.  47-8. 
No  suggestion  of  the  nature  of  the  service  can  be  made.  The 
term  has  not  been  found  elsewhere.  Has  it  any  relation  to  the 
ecu  or  skeld,  an  ancient  basis  of  assessment  in  Friesland  ? 

4  Not  identified. 

5  Not  identified.      There  is  nothing  in  this  collection  of  deeds 
to  show  how  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  acquired  the  little  town  of 
Evastad  with  its  church  of  St.  Olave. 

"Gamaliel,  consecrated  between  1154  and  1161  by  Archbishop 
Roger  of  York  (Stubbs,  Registrum  Sac.  Avgl.,  p.  210).  Buried 
at  Peterborough. 

7  Gillechrist  appears  to  have  been  nursed  by  the  same  mother 
as  King  Guthred,  though  they  were  not  related  in  blood.  On 
the  custom  of  fostering  and  its  consequences,  see  E.  W.  Robertson, 
Hist,  Essays,  pp.  200-202. 


74  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

44.  CARTA  RAGNALDI  REGIS  INSULARUM  DE  DIMIDIA 
PARTE  DE  ORMESHAN. 

RAGDNALDUS,1  Dei  gracia,  rex  Insularum,  omnibus 
sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse,  dedisse, 
et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse,  pro  salute  mea  et 
pro  animabus  parentum  meorum,  necnon  et  pro  statu 
regni  mei,  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam,  totam  medietatem  terre  que  vocatur  Ormeshan,2 
illam  medietatem,  scilicet,  que  adjacet  versus  mare  apud 
portum  de  Corna,  et  aciam  terram  Asmundertoftes,  in 
bosco  et  piano,  in  aqua  et  pastura,  et  in  omnibus  aliis 
aisiamentis  eisdem  terris  pertinentibus,  liberas  et  quietas 
et  solutas  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  tarn  de  pecunia  quam 
aconeuz  et  ab  omni  gravamine  tarn  a  me  quam  ab  omnibus 
hominibus  meis  cum  eisdem  legibus  et  libertatibus  quas 
monachi  sancte  Marie  de  Russin3  habent.  Et  ut  mea 
donacio  rata  et  inconcussa  permaneat  illam  literarum 
mearum  et  sigilli  mei  apposicione  corroboravi.  Hiis 
testibus  Dermicio  archidiacono,  Reginaldo  capellano, 
Gospatricio  filio  Henrici,  Reginaldo  filio  Dermicii,  Lauren- 
cio  persona  sancte  Brigide4  et  aliis  multis. 

44.  *  Ragdnald,  Reginald,  Reynold,  1188-1226  (Chron.  Man- 
niae,  pp.  79-80,  90,  ed.  Munch). 

2  A.  W.  Moore  says  that  the  name  of  Ormeshan  is  obsolete  : 
it  was  on  the  site  of  the  Conchan  village  (Manx  Place-Names, 
p.  214),  but  this  does  not  agree  with  the  geographical  situation 
given  here.  Port  Cornah  is  many  miles  north  of  Onchan  or 
Conchan.  Several  Cumberland  place-names,  like  Eskdale,  Corney, 
Kirksanton  and  Fleswick  Bay,  are  repeated  in  the  Isle  of  Man. 

8  Founded  by  King  Olave  in  1134  and  colonized  from  Furness. 
See  the  extracts  from  the  Chronicle  of  Man  in  Dugdale  (Mon., 
v.  252),  or  the  Manx  Society  edition  (Munch),  i.  62. 

4  A  church  in  the  north-east  of  the  island  with  fragments  of 
two  Runic  crosses.  Now  called  Bride  or  Kirk  Bride. 


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45.  CARTA    OLAVI    REGIS    INSULARUM    DE    LICENCIA 

EMENDI   LX   BOVES   IN   MANNIA  AUT  TOT   OVES   ET  PORCOS 
QUOT  POSSUNT  EMI  PRO  PRECIO  LX  BOUM  ETC. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Olavus,  rex1  Insularum,  salutem. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  dedisse  et  concessisse  et 
hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  animarum 
antecessorum  meorum,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam,  licenciam  emendi  singulis  annis  in  terra  mea,  libere, 
quiete  sine  omni  exaccione  et  impedimento  mei  aut  hered- 
um  meorum  aut  ballivorum  meorum,  sexaginta  boves 
aut  tot  oves  et  porcos  quot  possunt  emi  in  terra  mea  pro 
precio  sexaginta  bourn  et  ut  hec  donacio  mea  firma  et 
stabilis  permaneat,  presenti  carte  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  magistro  Mauricio,  Therkillo  filio  Nigelli, 
Mauricio  clerico,  Johanne  Ruffo,  et  aliis. 

46.  CARTA  ABBATIS  ET  CAPITULI  ABBACIE  DE  RUSCHYN 
DE  ASMUNDIRTOFT  IN  MAN. 

OMNIBUS  ad  quorum  noticiam  litere  presentes  perven- 
erint,  abbas  et  conventus  de  Ruschin  in  Insula  de  Man, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  nos,  ex  communi  assensu  nostro,  concessisse, 
remisisse  et  omnino  pro  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris 
quietum-clamasse  abbati  de  Ebor[aco],  priori  et  monachis 
de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland,  totum  jus  et  clameum  quod 
habemus  vel  in  aliquo  modo  habere  poterimus  in  totis 
terris  et  tenementis  in  Asmundertoft  in  Insula  de  Man, 

45.  1  1226-1237.  Buried  in  the  abbey  of  Russin.  The 
Chronicle  of  Lanercost  (p.  46)  calls  him  Alan,  son  of  Godred, 
brother  of  Reginald.  The  mistake  was  easy,  Olavus,  Olanus, 
Alanus. 


76  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA. 

cum  messuagiis,  toftis,  molendinis,  pratis,  pasturis,  ser- 
viciis  liberorum  et  villanorum,  et  cum  aliis  omnibus  per- 
tinenciis  sine  aliquo  retenemento  que  ad  predictas  terras 
et  tenement  a  pertinent  seu  pertinere  poterunt.  Quas 
quidem  terras  et  tenementa  idem  abbas  de  Eboraco 
petiit  per  priorem  suum  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland 
cor  am  Waltero  de  Huntercumbe,  fratre  Willelmo  de 
Malt  on,  justiciariis  domini  Afntonii],  Dei  gracia,  Dunelmie 
episcopi  et  domini  dicte  Insule,1  ad  hoc  per  breve  suum 
assignatis  ad  audiendum  et  terminandum  versus  predictos 
abbatem  et  conventum  de  Ruschyn,  tenentes,  tenenda  et 
habenda  predictis  abbati,  priori  et  monasterio  de  sancta 
Bega  in  Coupland  et  successoribus  suis-  inperpetuum. 
It  a  videlicet,  quod  nee  nos,  dicti  abbas  nee  conventus, 
nee  successores  de  Ruschin,  nee  aliquis  nomine  nostro,  in 
predictis  terris  et  tenementis  cum  suis  pertinenciis  aliquid 
juris  vel  clamei  de  cetero  exigere  vel  vendicare  poterimus. 
Volumus  eciam  et  concedimus  pro  nobis  et  successoribus 
nostris  quod  si  aliqua  carta  sive  carte  inveniatur  sive 
inveniantur  predictas  terras  et  tenementa  de  Asmunder- 
toftes  in  aliquo  sive  in  aliquibus  tangent es  quantum  ad 
ilium  articulum,  omnino  sint  inanes  et  vacue.  Ita  quod 
alii  articuli  in  carta  tacta  stent  in  robore  suo  proprio  et 
remaneant.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  presentibus  script- 
urn  quiete  clam[acionis]  in  modum  cirografi  confectfum] 
parti  penes  predictos  abbatem  de  Eboraco,  priorem  et 

46.  :  The  chroniclers  are  not  agreed  on  the  precise  date  of  the 
cession  of  the  Isle  of  Man  to  Scotland,  the  Chronicle  of  Lanercost 
(Bann.  Club,  p.  64)  putting  the  date  so  early  as  1256.  Fordun 
(ed.  Goodall,  ii.  101-2),  who  is  probably  right,  dates  the  full 
cession  in  1266.  During  the  monarchical  troubles  in  Scotland, 
Edward  I.,  as  superior  dominus  regni  Scocie,  appointed  the  keepers 
of  Man  at  pleasure.  The  names  of  many  of  them  have  been 
entered  on  the  Patent  Rolls  and  the  Rotuli  Scocie.  Anthony  Bek, 
Bishop  of  Durham,  was  keeper  for  a  considerable  period.  Walter 
de  Huntercombe,  mentioned  in  this  deed,  had  been  keeper  in 
1290-92. 


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monasterium  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland  resident!,  nos 
predicti  abbas  at  conventus  de  Ruschin  sigillum  abbatis 
apposuimus.2  Hiis  testibus  domino  Marcho,3  Dei  gracia, 
Sodor[ensi]  episcopo,  Waltero  de  Huntercumbe  tune 
ballivo  de  Man,  et  Nicholao  de  Moricesby,  magistro  A. 
archidiacono  de  Man,  J.  de  Horreton  rectore  ecclesie  de 
Kirkemaghald,  Gilberto  mac  Askyl,  Reg.  Macsteph[en], 
Thorfin  Macthoryn,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  apud  Ruschyn 
die  mercurii  proximo  post  festum  Purificacionis  beate 
Marie  virginis,  anno  domini  m°cccmo  primo,  et  anno 
pontificatus  domini  A.,  Dei  gracia,  Dunelmie  episcopi 


47.  CARTA  RANULFI  COMITIS  MORAVIE  DE  DIMIDIE- 
TATE  TERRE  DE  HORMESHON  ET  HASMUNDERTOFT  IN 
BOSCO  ET  PLANO  ET  PASTURIS  ETC. 

OMNIBUS  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris,  Thomas 
Ranulphi,  comes  Moravie,  dominus  Wallie,  Anandie,  et 
Mannie,1  salutem.  Noveritis  nos  inspexisse  cartam 
Reginald!,  Dei  gracia,  regis  Insularum,  concessam  religi- 
osis  viris,  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii  beate  Marie  de 

2  The  bad  grammar  of  this  sentence  will  be  noticed. 

3  The  date  of  this  deed,  7  February,  1302,  supplies  an  incident 
in  the  life  of  Bishop  Mark  of  Sodor  unknown  to  Bishop  Stubbs 
(Reg.  Eccl.  Angl.,  p.  211)  and  Bishop  Dowden  (Bishops  of  Scotland, 
pp.  279-80).     Bishop  Mark  had  been  imprisoned  by  Edward  I. 
in  1299  :    the  pope  interceded  for  his  release  (Cal.  of  Pap.  Lett., 
i.  584)  :    the  Scotichronicon  (ii.   177)  says  he  was  a  prisoner  in 
London  in  1304.     His  presence  at  Russhen  in  1302  appears  to 
show  that  the  papal  request  was  granted. 

47.  l  Thomas  Randolph,  earl  of  Moray,  had  designs  on  the 
Isle  of  Man  in  1317  (Bain,  Cal.  Scot.  Doc.,  hi.  No.  562)  :  was  keeper 
of  Man  in  1321  (Foedera,  ii.  472)  and  in  1332  (Bain,  op.  cit.,  iii. 
No.  1048)  :  in  the  latter  year  he  died  at  Musselburgh — "  a  man  he 
was,  to  be  remembered  while  integrity,  prudence  and  valour  are 
held  in  esteem  among  men  "  (Hailes,  Annals  of  Scot.,  ii.  146). 
He  was  Regent  of  Scotland  after  the  death  of  King  Robert 
Bruce  during  the  minority  of  David  II. 


78  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

Eboraco  ac  priori  et  monachis  de  sancta  Bega,  ordinis 
sancti  Benedict!  in  Cowplandia  in  hec  verba  :  Reginaldus, 
Dei  gracia,  rex  Insularum,  omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie 
flliis,  etc.  (as  in  No.  44) .  Quam  quidem  cartam  ratificamus 
et  per  presentes  confirmamus.  Preterea  dedimus  et  con- 
cessimus,  ex  nostra  gracia  speciali,  predictis  viris  religiosis 
priori  sancte  Bege  in  Cowplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  dimidium  portum  de  Corna,  Tolloney  et 
Wrek  maris,  tenendum  et  habendum  sibi  et  successoribus 
suis  de  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  imperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
presenti  carte  confirmacionis  et  donacionis  nostre  sigillum 
nostrum  fecimus  apponi.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Eustachio 
de  Makeswell,  Waltero  senescallo,  Joceto  de  Scherelaw, 
Patricio  de  Carneto,2  Johanne  Fresere,  Philippo  de  Mel- 
drome,  Humfrido  de  Gardino,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum 
apud  Russyn  in  Mannia  secundo  die  mensis  Mail,  anno 
gracie  millesimo  cccmo  vicesimo  nono. 

48.  CONFIRMACIO  DOMINI  ANTONII  PATRIARCHE  DE 
ASMUNDIRTOFT  ET  ALIIS. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presentes  literas 
visuris  vel  audituris,  Antonius1,  miseracione  divina  sancte 

2  In  the  duplicate  of  this  deed  at  No.  497,  the  name  of  this 
witness  appears  as  Patricio  de  Garneto  :  that  of  Humfrido  de 
Gardino  as  Humfrido  de  Cardino. 

48.  1  This  famous  prelate  had  ecclesiastical  relations  with 
Cumberland  before  and  after  his  consecration.  In  1278,  before 
his  elevation  to  the  episcopate,  he  had  been  parson  of  the  church 
of  Brigham  (Cal.  of  Pat.,  1272-81,  p.  254).  In  1290  John  de 
Baliol,  heres  regni  Scocie,g3,ve  him  the  manors  and  lands  which 
King  Alexander  held  in  Cumberland  (B.  M.,  Campbell  Charter, 
xxx.  9) .  The  church  of  Sowerby,  the  appurtenant  of  one  of  these 
manors,  was  often  filled  on  the  presentation  of  Bishop  Bek  (Carl. 
Epis.  Reg.  Halton,  MS.,  ff.  8,  21,  46).  The  charter  here  was 
granted  at  Carlisle  shortly  after  the  death  of  Edward  I.,  whose 
body  the  Bishop  accompanied  southwards  (Chron.  de  Lanercost, 
p.  209). 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA.  79 

Jerusalemitane  ecclesie  patriarcha,  episcopus  Dunelmfie] 
ac  dominus  terre  Mannie,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam. 
Noveritis  nos  inspexisse  cartas  quasdam  et  literas  religios- 
orum  virorum  abbatis  et  conventus  monasterii  beate 
Marie  de  Eboraco  ac  prioris  et  monachorum  de  sancta 
Bega,  ordinis  sancti  Benedicti  in  Cauplandia,  Eboracensis 
dioceseos,  in  hec  verba  :  Ragdnaldus,  Dei  gracia,  rex 
Insularum,  omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  nliis,  etc. 
(as  in  No.  44).  Omnibus  ad  quorum  noticiam  littere 
present es  pervenerint,  abbas  et  conventus  de  Russyn  in 
Insuala  de  Man  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  nos  etc.  (as  in  No.  46) .  Universis  sancte 
matris  ecclesie  nliis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit, 
Olavus  rex  Insularum,  salutem.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  me  dedisse  et  concessisse  etc.  (as  in  No.  45).  Nos 
igitur  subditorum  commoditatibus  et  utilitatibus  provid- 
ere  volentes  per  has  literas  nostras  presentes  confirmamus 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  de  Eboraco,  abbati  et  conventui  beate 
Marie  de  Eboraco,  ac  priori  et  monachis  sancte  Bege, 
ordinis  sancti  Benedicti  in  Cauplandia,  Eborasensis 
dioceseos,  omnes  terras  et  libertates  quas  prenominati 
Ragdnaldus,  abbas  et  conventus  de  Russin,  et  Olavus, 
predictis  monachis  per  suas  cartas  et  literas  in  elemosinam 
contulerunt  seu  eciam  concesserunt  et  eas  auctoritate 
nostra  jure  perpetuo,  sicut  eis  possessis  juste  et  racion- 
abiliter  usi  sunt,  confirmatas  per  nos  fore  notificamus. 
Et  ne  predicti  monachi  super  predictis  terris  et  liber- 
tatibus  secundum  tenorem  cartarum  et  literarum  suarum 
precedencium  per  nos,  sicut  premittitur,  concessis  et 
contirmatis,  ab  aliquo  de  cetero  inquietari  valeant  seu 
turbari,  presentes  literas  sibi  fieri  fecimus  patent  es  sigilli 
nostri  munimine  roboratas.  Datum  Karl,  vicesimo 
quinto  die  Julii,  anno  domini  millesimo  cccmo  septimo, 
patriarchatus  nostri  secundo,  et  consecracionis  nostre 
vicesimo  quarto. 


80  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

49.     CARTA  ALANI  FILII  WALDEVI  DE  j  TOFTO  APUD 

SCADDEBUAS. 

ALANUS1  filius  Waldevi,  omnibus  hominibus  suis  tarn 
presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutem.  Sciatis  me,  Deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupelandia  et 
monachis  ibidem  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  concessisse  unam  plenariam  toftam  apud 
Scadebuas,2  octoginta  viz.  pedes  in  longitudine  habentem 
et  eandem  quam  pater  meus  sancte  Bege  ante  dedit  et 
concessit.  Quare  volo  et  precipio  ut  supradicti  monachi 
predictam  toftam  solutam  et  quietam  et  ab  omni  redditu 
et  servicio  et  consuetudine  liberam  teneant  et  ut  homines 
in  ea  habitantes  meam  firmam  pacem  habeant  et  sine 
injuria  et  molestia  in  eadem  maneant.  Insuper  quidem 
beate  Bege  concessi  ut  eadem  tofta  sua  de  redditu,  qui  de 
aliis  toftis  pro  custodia  illarum  exit,  sit  libera,  et  tamen 
cum  aliis  toftis  sit  in  eadem  hominum  meorum  custodia. 
Preterea  sciendum  est  quod  eidem  ecclesie  in  elemosinam 
dedi,  quod  quociens  navis  sua  propria  apud  Scaddebuas 
piscabitur,  ipsa  et  omnia  illorum  recia  qui  in  eadem  navi 
predictis  monachis  associabuntur  ab  omni  redditu  sint 
libera,  et  nichil  redditus  vel  consuetudinis  alicui  faciant 
nisi  fratribus  meis  de  sancta  Bega.  Si  autem  propriam 
navem  ibi  non  habuerint,  ilia  navis,  in  qua  eorum  recia 

49.  *  Alan  son  of  Waldeve  son  of  Earl  Gospatric,  lord  of 
Allerdale,  was  one  of  the  founders,  if  not  the  real  originator,  of 
the  abbey  of  Holmcultram  in  1150.  Like  Waldeve  his  father 
he  was  a  great  benefactor  of  the  local  religious  houses,  including 
the  priory  of  Hexham, 

2  In  the  great  confirmation  charter  of  Henry  II.  to  the  canons 
of  Carlisle,  there  is  the  recognition  of  Alan's  gift  of  Little  Crosby 
which  is  described  as  iuxta  Scaddebothes  sicam  and  of  William 
Engainne's  gift  of  a  moiety  of  his  land  of  Scadebothes  and  a  moiety 
of  his  herring  rent.  A  copy  of  Alan's  charter  to  the  canons  is 
still  extant.  The  place  survives  in  the  name  of  Scad  Beck  which 
passes  to  the  sea  near  Maryport  Cemetery  (O.  S.,  xxxv.  s.w.  : 
xlv.  N.W.). 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA      8 1 

erunt,  similiter  sit  omnino  quieta  et  libera,  et  de  redditu 
quern  alie  naves  faciunt  eis  tantum  intendat.  Testibus 
Waltero  priore  de  Karl.,  Gospatricio  filio  Horm,  Uctredo 
filio  Uctredi,  Ailwardo  filio  Dolf[ini],  Gospatricio  fratre 
suo,  Odardo  capellano,  Athelwaldo  clerico. 

50.  CARTA  LAMBERTI  DE  MULTON  DE  PANNAGIO  IN 
TERRIS  DE  COUPLAND. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Lambertus  de  Moleton,1  salutem  in 
domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  pro  salute  anime  Amabilie  uxoris  mee  et  pro 
animabus  omnium  antecessorum  et  heredum  nostrorum 
concessisse  et  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et 
beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  beate  Bege  virgini  et  monachis 
apud  sanctam  Begam  Deo  et  beate  Bege  servientibus, 
quod  omnes  homines  sui  de  Couplandia  inperpetuum 
sint  quieti  de  pannagio  omnium  porcorum  suorum  in 
omnibus  boscis  et  terris  meis  in  Coupelandia  ubi  pannag- 
ium  ad  me  pertinet,  sine  omni  redditu  et  servicio  michi 
vel  heredibus  meis  inde  faciendo.  Et  ut  hec  mea  concessio 
et  carte  mee  confirmacio  perpetuam  habeant  firmitatem 
presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  apposicione  munivi.  Hiis 

50.  l  Thomas  de  Multon,  who  obtained  the  wardship  of  the 
daughters  and  lands  of  Richard  de  Lucy  in  1213  (Rot.  de  Oblat., 
pp.  482-3),  married  the  widow  and  gave  his  wards  in  marriage  to 
his  two  sons  :  Amabil  to  Lambert  de  Multon  and  Alice  to  Alan 
de  Multon,  between  whom  the  Lucy  inheritance  was  divided 
in  1230.  The  manor  of  Egremont  and  the  bulk  of  the  lordship 
of  Coupland  were  apportioned  to  Lambert  and  Amabil  (Feet  of 
Fines,  Cumberland,  15  Hen.  III.,  No.  12).  The  chroniclers  have 
little  good  to  say  of  Lambert,  who  died  in  1246  (Inq.  p.m.,  31 
Hen.  III.,  No.  4).  M.  Paris  says  that  by  not  a  few  presents  to 
the  pope,  he  obtained  the  singular  privilege  that  nobody  could 
excommunicate  him  for  any  fault  except  by  special  mandate  of 
the  pontiff  himself,  as  if  he  might  be  allowed  to  sin  with  impunity 
(Chron.  Majora,  R.  S.,  iv.  587-8). 

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82  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

testibus  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Ricardo  le  Brun,  Hugone  de 
Moriceby,  Radulfo  de  Forset  tune  senescallo,  Ricardo 
filio  Asketill,  Thoma  de  Yrton,  Roberto  filio  Rogeri, 
Jordano  de  Dreg,  Michaele  de  Neuton,  Johannne  maris- 
callo,  Ricardo  Collan,  et  aliis. 

51.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  LAMBERTI  DE  CHIMING  IN 
KARESWATH. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidclibus  presens  scriptum  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Thomas  films  Lamberti  de  Multon,1  salutem  in 
domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  et  successorum 
meorum,  concessisse,  remisisse,  et  hoc  presenti  scripto  meo 
quietum  clamasse  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  et  meis 
assignatis  abbati  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  suis  success- 
oribus,  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  servientibus  inperpetuum  et  omni- 
bus eorum  hominibus  habere  chiminium  de  Kareswath2 
usque  ad  syketam  inter  terram  meam  de  Culdirton  et 
terram  quondam  Ranulfi  de  Mari,  et  sic  linialiter  ultra 

51.  x  Thomas  de  Multon  was  21  years  of  age  at  the  death  of 
Lambert,  his  father,  in  1246,  and  in  the  following  year  he  had 
seisin  of  his  father's  lands  (Excerpta  e  Rot.  Fin.,  ii.  5,  Rec.  Com.). 
He  died  in  1294  (Cal.  of  Fine  Rolls,  i.  337),  when  Margaret,  his 
widow,  was  assigned  her  dower  lands  (Inq.  p.m.,  22  Edw.  I., 
Nos.  118,  154).  This  Thomas  was  known  as  Thomas  de  Multon 
of  Egremont  to  distinguish  him  from  his  namesake  of  Gillesland. 

2  Kareswath  is  now  represented  by  Kersey  Bridge  which  spans 
the  river  Ehen  on  the  road  from  Ravenglass  to  Kyrkeby  or  St. 
Bees  (O.  S.,  Ixxii.  S.E.).  Like  Coulderton  and  Coneyside  (O.  S., 
Ixxii.  s.w.),  it  is  situated  in  the  Lowside  Quarter  of  St.  Bees. 
The  boundary  of  the  franchise  of  the  priory  began  from  the  sea- 
shore near  Culderton  (No.  370).  For  Cuningishou,  see  Nos.  9. 
12, 15, 16.  In  the  twelfth  century  Richard  de  Boisvilla  gave  to  the 
monks  of  Calder  ten  acres  of  land  within  his  part  of  Culdretun 
(Original  deed  at  Hesleyside). 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  83 

terram  meam  in  Culdirton  usque  ad  viam  de  Kyrkeby 
ex  parte  oriental!  de  Coningshou,  ad  carras  eorum  et 
carectas  et  omnia  alia  neccssaria  per  chiminium  faciendum 
omnibus  temporibus  anni.  Ita  quod  dictum  chiminium 
ad  minus  contineat  in  se  latitudinem  octodecim  pedum 
ubique,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et 
quietam  ab  omni  servicio  secular!,  exaccione,  et  demanda 
inperpetuum.  Et  ego,  Thomas  et  heredes  mei  et  mei 
assignati  predictum  chiminium  in  liberam,  puram,  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam  predictis  abbati  et  monachis  et 
eorum  successoribus  contra  omnes  homines  sicut  pre- 
dictum est  warantizabimus,  adquietabimus,  et  in  omni- 
bus defendemus  inperpetuum.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium 
present!  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Gilberto  de  Wyrkinton,  Alano  de  Coupland, 
Johanne  de  Hodeliston,  Alano  Penyton,  Ricardo  de 
Multon,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Ricardo  le  Flammannk, 
militibus,  Hugone  de  Moriceby,  Thoma  et  Johanne 
fratribus  suis,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Ricardo  de  Cletergh, 
et  aliis. 

52.  CARTA  WILLELMI  ESSEBY  DE  ij  BOVATIS  TERRE 
IN  LORTON. 

WILLELMUS  de  Esseby  omnibus  videntibus  vel  audienti- 
bus  literas  has  salutem.  Sciatis  me  consilio  et  assensu 
Hectredis  uxoris  mee  et  Symonis  heredis  mei  dedisse  et 
concessisse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duas  bovatas  terre  in 
Loretona,1  liberas  et  quietas  ab  omni  terreno  servicio 

52.  l  Lorton  appears  to  have  come  into  possession  of  the 
grantor  through  his  wife,  who  was  sister  of  Alan  son  of  Waldeve, 
lord  of  Allerdale,  and  widow  of  Ranulf  de  Lyndesay.  See  note  on 
No.  29.  The  name  occurs  as  William  de  Essebi  in  the  Pipe  Rolls 
of  1158-1160  and  1163,  but  as  Essevilla  in  Nos.  54  and  75  and  as 
Sauilla  in  No.  224.  He  afterwards  married  Goditha  daughter  of 
Michael  of  Furness  who  had  property  in  Eglesfeld  (No.  381). 


84  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

inperpetuum,  pro  anima  mea  et  pro  anima  predicte 
Hectredis  uxoris  mee  et  pro  animabus  heredum  nostrorum. 
Si  vero  forte  aliquando  contigerit  me  non  posse  hanc 
terrain  warentizare  predictis  monachis  alibi  in  terra  mea 
ubicunque  elegerint  excambium  eis  dabo.  Testibus  hiis, 
Hectrede  uxore  mea,  Symone  herede  meo,  Gerardo  de 
Dumvilla,  Gospatricio  clerico  de  Derann,  Ricardo  coco 
comitis,  Johanne  de  Teindale,  Waltero  filio  Danielis, 
Thoma  filio  Gocellini,  Savarico  fratre  ejus,  Radulfo  coco 
abbatis,  Fulcone  de  Buthum.2 

53.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  ij  BOVATIS  TERRE  IN  LORTUNA. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  audierint  vel  legerint  literas  has 
quod  ego  Willelmus  de  Esseby  et  Hectreda  uxor  mea 
concessimus  et  dedimus  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibi  servientibus  duas  bovatas  terre  in 
Lortun  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  liberam  et 
quietam  (sic)  ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  et  quod  nos  et 
heredes  nostri  post  nos  adquietabimus  predictam  terram 
contra  omnes  homines.  Hanc  terram  predictis  monachis 
dedimus  pro  salute  animarum  nostrarum  et  pro  animabus 
patrum  et  matrum  nostrarum  et  omnium  nostrorum 
parentum.  Testibus  hiis  Gilla  Michael  presbitero,  Jo- 
hanne filio  Punzun,  Ricardo  de  Frisingaton,  Frumbaldo 
milite,  Gamello  preposito,  Rainero  famulo  prioris,  Rod- 
berto  filio  Alani. 

54.  CARTA  WILLELMI  ESSEVILLE  ET  HECTREDE  UX- 
ORIS EJUS  DE  IJ  BOVATIS  TERRE  IN  ALNEBURGH. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  legentibus  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  quod  ego  Wiilelmus  de  Essevilla  et  Hectreda  sponsa 
mea  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 

2  The  original  of  this  deed,  with  several  others  of  the  priory 
of  St.  Bees,  is  in  the  muniment  room  at  Lowther.  It  is  endorsed 
"W.  de  Heseby  super  ij  bovatas  terre  in  Loretona  capt." 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  85 

ejusdem  loci  in  elemosinam  duas  bo  vat  as  terre  in  Alne- 
burhd,1  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  servicio  terreno,  dedimus, 
et  toftam  eisdem  bovatis  pertinentem  et  omnia  que 
pertinent  eidem  terre.  Hoc  beneficium  fecimus  pro 
salute  et  redempcione  animarum  nostrarum  et  parentum 
nostrorum. 


55.    CARTA    ISAAC    CLERICI    DE    SCHEFTLYNG    DE   n 

BOVATIS  TERRE  IN  ALNEBURGH. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  literas  has 
quod  ego,  Ysaac  clericus  de  Scheftling,1  concessi  et  dedi 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupeland  et  mona- 
chis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duas  bovatas  terre  in  Alne- 
burg  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  liberas  et  quietas 
ab  omni  terreno  servicio  pro  salute  anime  et  pro  salute 
animarum  omnium  parentum  meorum. 


56.    CARTA  ROGERI  DE  BELLOCAMPO  DE  ij  BOVATIS 

TERRE  IN  LE  SESCHALIS. 

OMNIBUS  literas  has  videntibus  vel  audientibus  ego, 

54.  l  In  addition  to  these  grants  of  land  in  Lorton  and  Ellen- 
borough  to  the  monks  of  St.   Bees,   see  another  by  William  de 
Essebi  and  Hectred  his  wife  to  the  abbey  of  Calder,  at  Illus.  Doc. 
No.  xxxij. 

55.  1  The  family  of  Scheftling,  of  whom  Symon  and  Nicholas 
are  mentioned  as  witnesses  to  deeds  in  this  Register  (Nos.  27, 
390.  455),  in  addition  to  Ysaac  the  clerk,  were  landowners  on  the 
west  coast  near  Maryport.     William  son  of  Symon  de  Skefteling 
gave  the  monks  of  Holmcultram  a  fishery  in  the  sea  on  the  water 
of  Alne  with  liberty  to  moor  their  fishing  boat  on  his  land  of 
Alynburgh    (Reg.    MS.,    fols.    44-5).     Geoffrey    of    Tallentire,    a 
notable  man,  was  brother  of  William  of  Skefteling  (Ibid.,  f.  59). 
Symon  was  a  contemporary  of  Cicely  countess  of  Albemarle  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  twelfth  century. 


86  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Rogerus  de  Bellocampo1,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  dedisse 
et  concessisse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo 
et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duas  bovatas  terre  mee  in  Lese- 
schalis,2  illas,  scilicet,  que  jacent  propinquius  terre  sancti- 
monialium  de  Ainstapillith3  in  eadem  villa,  inter  terram 
suam,  scilicet,  et  Leseschalis,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et 
uxoris  mee  et  animarum  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et 
omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  liberas 
et  quietas  ab  omni  servicio  seculari,  scilicet,  tarn  libere 
et  quiete,  tarn  absolute  et  honorifice,  sicut  ulla  terra 
elemosine  melius  vel  liberius  dari  poterit  pro  participacione 
precum  et  oracionum  predictorum  monachorum  vel 
aliquorum  ordinatorum,  scilicet,  cum  omni  pastura  et 
cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  communibus  aisiamentis 
quantum  pertinet  ad  predict  as  duas  bovatas  terre  in 
eadem  villa,  in  boscis  et  planis,  in  pratis,  in  pascuis, 
in  moris,  in  mussis,  et  in  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis  ad 
predictam  villam  adjacentibus,  in  liberam  et  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberas  et  quietas  ab  omni 
servicio  et  exaccione  et  consuetudine.  Hanc  terram 
et  hanc  donacionem  warentizabimus  ego,  Rogerus  de 
Bellocampo,  et  heredes  mei  predicte  domui  et  monachis 
contra  omnes  homines  defendemus  [et]  adquietabimus 
inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  de  Levingtona, 
Radulfo  de  Feritate,  W.  de  Jonesby,  Johanne  Mariscallo, 
W.  de  Airemine,  Umfrido  de  Wederhal,  Waltero  portario 
et  aliis. 

56.  *  On  Roger  de  Bello  Campo  and  his  charters  to  the  monks  of 
Wetheral,  see  Archdeacon  Prescott's  notes  in  Reg.  of  Wetherhal, 
Nos.  153-4,  172.  His  name  appears  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  of  Cumber- 
land and  Westmorland  from  1200  to  1229.  It  will  be  observed 
that  the  witnesses  of  the  deed  include  Humfrey  of  Wetheral  and 
some  well  known  men  in  North  Ciimberland. 

2  Probably  Seascale  on  the  west  coast  in  the  parish  of  Gosforth. 

3  For  the   nunnery  of   Ainstable,  see   V.  C.  H.  Cumberland,  ii. 
189-190.     It  was  better  known  as  the  nunnery  of  Armathwaite. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA  87 

57.    CARTA  ADE  FILII  HENRICI  DE  MILLUM  DE  SALINA 

IN    EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  Christ!  fidelibus  presens  scriptum  visuris  vel 
audit uris,  Adam  filius  Henrici  de  Millum1,  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  success- 
orum  meorum  dedisse,  concess[iss]e  et  hac  present!  carta 
mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  monasterio  sancte  Marie  Eboraci, 

57.  1  The  family  of  Godard  dapifer  or  Godard  de  Boivill, 
lords  of  Millom,  were  considerable  benefactors  of  the  religious 
houses  of  Furness,  Conishead,  Russhen  in  the  Isle  of  Man,  Holm- 
cultram  and  the  nunnery  of  Lekelay  or  Seton,  as  well  as  St.  Bees. 
For  Godard's  grant  to  St.  Bees,  see  No.  76.  The  following  table 
will  show  the  descent  of  the  lordship  : — 

GODARD  dapifer  (No.  76) 
ARTHUR  son  of  Godard  (No.  382) 

HENRY  son  of  Arthur  or 
HENRY  DE  MILLUM  (Nos.  30,  372-3,  &c.) 


I  I 

WILLIAM  DE  MILLUM  ADAM  DE  MILLUM 

(Nos.  30,  372-3,  &c.]  | 

JOAN  =  JOHN  DE  HODLESTON 

JOHN  DE  HODLESTON 

William  de  Millum  appears  to  have  succeeded  soon  after  1200, 
for  on  25  Oct.  1202  he  made  an  agreement  with  one  of  his  tenants 
in  Old  Hyton  in  the  parish  of  Bootle  (Feet  of  F.,  Westmor.,  4 
John,  No.  15).  His  wife  Amice  or  Avice  was  a  daughter  of 
Richard  son  of  Roger  of  Woodplumpton  in  Lancashire  (Pipe 
Rolls,  ed.  Farrer,  203,  346-7).  The  church  of  Holy  Trinity, 
Millom,  was  given  to  the  monks  of  Furness  by  him  before  1228 
(West,  Antiq.  of  Furness,  App.  xi.,  No.  62),  but  he  must  have  died 
soon  after,  for  on  23  Dec.  1230  the  advowson  was  quit-claimed  to 
the  monks  by  Adam  de  Millum  his  brother  (Anct.  D.,  L.,  No.  459). 
Adam,  however,  was  in  possession  in  1229  when  he  was  party  to 
a  suit  about  a  tenement  in  Whitbeck  (Pat.  R.,  13  Hen.  III.,  m. 
5d.).  John  de  Hodleston,  with  the  consent  of  Joan  his  wife, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Adam  son  of  Henry,  lord  of  Millom,  made 
certain  confirmations  to  the  monks  of  Holmcultram  (Reg.  MS., 
ff.  62-3).  In  this  Register,  see  No.  367. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

celle  sue  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupelandia  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam,  unam  salinam  in  territorio  de  Millum  et  aream 
predicte  saline  convenientem  iuxta  Slepul,  et  totam 
terram  que  continetur  infra  subscriptas  divisas,  scilicet, 
inter  Slepul  ubi  cadit  in  sabulo  de  Dudene  ex 
transverse  usque  ad  pomerium  quod  stat  super 
mariscum  de  Dudene,  et  a  predicto  pomerio  linealiter 
ascendendo  usque  ad  magnam  quercum  que  stat 
super  Slepul  juxta  magnam  turberam  et  ita  descendendo 
per  Slepul  usque  ad  sabulum  de  Dudene.  Preterea 
licebit  predictis  monachis  omnia  commoda  sua  facere  de 
tota  terra  cum  pertinenciis  infra  predictas  divisas  con- 
tent a  et  eandem  sepire  et  fossatis  includere.  Et  sciendum 
est  quod  prefati  monachi  sine  contradiccione  et  impedi- 
mento  mei  et  heredum  meorum  capient  omnia  estoveria 
sua  predicte  saline  necessaria  ubicunque  voluerint  in 
magna  turbera  inter  Arnulfpule  et  Slepul2.  Preterea 
habebunt  pasturam  infra  divisas  de  Millum  ad  duos  equos 
et  octo  boves  et  sex  vaccas  et  viginti  oves  cum  sequela 
duorum  annorum.  Et  insuper  licebit  eis  edificare  salinam 
suam  et  alias  domos  eidem  saline  necessarias  de  bosco 
meo.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  predictam  salinam  et 
predictam  terram  cum  pertinenciis  sicut  supradictum  est 
predictis  monachis  warantizabimus  contra  omnes  homines 
imperpetuum.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  et  concessio 
stabilis  et  inconcussa  imperpetuum  permaneat  presenti 
scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  -Hiis  testibus  domino 
Ricardo  filio  Alani,  domino  Alano  de  Penyngton,  Edwardo 
de  Cornay  tune  senescallo  de  Millum,  Willelmo  filio 
Johannis  de  Botel,  Jordano  de  Dreg',  et  aliis. 

'2  Inlets  or  pools  were  common  in  the  estuary  of  the  Duddon. 
For  Lairpul  and  Helupul  or  Helevepul  in  the  same  locality  in  the 
twelfth  century,  see  the  charters  of  Henry  son  of  Arthur  and 
Robert  de  Boivilla  in  Anct.  D.,  L.,  463-4,  and  Cart.  Miscell., 
iii.  44. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA  89 

* 

58.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  JOHANNIS  HODILSTON  UE 

SALINA   IN    MlLLUM. 

SCIANT  present es  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Johannes  films 
Johannis  de  Hodeliston,  domini  de  Millum  in  Coupland, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  suc- 
sessorum  meorum,  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
confirmavi  Deo  et  monfasterio]  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et 
celle  sue  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
quandam  salinam  in  territorio  meo  de  Millum,  quam 
habent  ex  dono  Ade  filii  Henrici  de  Millum,  antecessoris 
mei,  habendam  et  tenendam  predictis  monachis  et  eorum 
successoribus  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  et  meis  assignatis, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  ab 
omni  seculari  servicio,  exaccione,  et  demanda,  prout  in 
carta  predicti  Ade,  antecessoris  mei,  predictis  monachis 
concessa  plenius  continetur.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Gilberto  de  Wyrkyngtona,  Roberto  de  Haveryng- 
ton,  Ricardo  le  Flammannk,  Johanne  de  Kyrkeby  Irelyth, 
Richardo  de  Broctona,  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Thueytis, 
Willelmo  de  Waybyrthueyt,  Willelmo  de  Morthyng, 
Waltero  de  Sennthooues,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  et  aliis. 

59.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  HODISTON 

DE  QUADAM  PLACEA  IN  MlLLUM. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Johannes  films  Johannis  de  Hodeleston,  dom- 
ini de  Millum  in  Coupland,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis 
me,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et 
successorum  meorum,  dedisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
concessisse,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  et  meis  assignatis, 
abbati  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  suis  successoribus  et 
ecclesie  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in 


90  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  virgini  servientibus,  inperpetuum  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam,  quandam  placeam  terre  in  territorio 
meo  de  Millum,  jacentem  inter  salinam  quam  dicti  mon- 
achi  habent  de  dono  Ade  filii  Henrici  de  Millum,  ante- 
cessoris  mei,  et  mangnam  turbariam  juxta  Slepul,  et 
quam  placeam  Thomas  perpetuus  vicarius  de  Millum1 
de  me  quondam  habuit  ad  firmani  et  fossatis  inclusit. 
Ita,  scilicet,  quod  licebit  predictis  monachis  et  eorum  suc- 
cessoribus  omnia  commoda  sua  infra  predictam  placeam 
terre  omnibus  tcmporibus  anni  facere,  et  predictam 
placeam  prout  melius  vident  expedire  fossatis  predictis 
et  sepibus  includere,  tenendam  et  habendam  pro  me  et 
heredibus  meis  et  meis  assignatis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  predictis  abbati  et  monachis  et  eorum  suc- 
cessoribus.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  michi,  heredibus 
meis  vel  meis  assignatis  duodecim  denarios,  viz.  medie- 
tatem  ad  festum  Pasche  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum 
sancti  Michaelis,  percipiendos  de  predict  a  placea  terre 
pro  omni  servicio  seculari,  exaccione,  et  demanda,  forin- 
seca  vel  intrinseca.  Et  ego,  Johannes  et  heredes  mei  et 

59.  l  The  church  of  Holy  Trinity,  Millom,  with  its  chapels, 
was  given  to  the  monks  of  Furness  by  William,  lord  of  Millum, 
in  the  early  part  of  the  thirteenth  century.  See  note  on  No.  57. 
In  May,  1228,  Archbishop  Walter  Gray  issued  his  licence  for  its 
appropriation  (D.  of  L.,  Box  A.,  No.  395),  and  on  13  Nov.  1230, 
he  assigned  one  moiety  for  the  maintenance  of  three  chaplains 
who  should  pray  daily  for  the  archbishops  and  canons  in  the  church 
of  York,  their  appointment  and  removal  being  retained  by  the 
archbishop  with  the  consent  of  the  chapter,  and  another  moiety 
for  the  use  of  the  convent  of  Furness.  By  another  deed  Abbot 
Robert  of  Furness  confirmed  the  ordination  and  allotted  a  yearly 
sum  of  34  marks  for  the  portion  of  the  chaplains  (Annales  Fumes., 
pp.  194-5).  On  23  Dec.  1230,  Adam  de  Millum,  who  succeeded 
his  brother  William  to  that  lordship,  quit-claimed  the  church 
and  advowson  to  Furness  (Anct.  D.,  L.,  No.  459).  There  is  much 
about  the  early  history  of  this  church  in  Archbishop  Gray's 
Register  (Surtees  Soc.,  No.  56). 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  91 

mei  assignati  predict  am  placeam  terre,  ut2  supradictum 
est,  predict  is  monachis  et  eorum  successoribus  waurantiz- 
abimus,  adquietabimus,  et  defendemus  inperpetuum 
contra  omnes  mortales.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium  present! 
script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Gilberto  de  Wirkington,  Johanne  de  Kyrkebilith,  Ricardo 
de  Brocton,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Ricardo  de  Flam- 
marik,3  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Thueytis,  Willelmo  de 
Waybirthueit,  Willelmo  de  Morthyng,  et  aliis. 

60.    CARTA  ROGERI  MASCULI  DE  SALINA  DE  KULWEN. 

SCIANT  present es  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Rogerus  Masculus, 
dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  mea  cart  a  confirmavi,  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  de  Coupeland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  unam  salinam  in  medietate  mea 
in  Kylwen1  cum  omni  aisiamento  nemoris  quod  saline 
tenetur  pertinere,  tenendam  sibi  in  liberam  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  et  unum  toftum  plenarium  in  eadem  medie- 
tate mea  de  Kylwen  ad  quandam  domum  sibi  desuper 
edificandam,  cum  pascuis  quatuor  bovum  et  quatuor  vac- 
car  um  et  unius  caballi.  Concessi  itaque  eisdem  monachis 
licenciam  scindendi  materiem  per  totum  boscum  meum 
proprium  ad  eorum  proprios  usus  et  ecclesie  sue  edifi- 
caciones.  Testibus  domino  Rollando  filio  Uctredi,2 
Thoma  de  Colevill  constabulario  de  Dunfr',  Willelmo  de 
Coningburc,  Gilberto  filio  Gospatricii,  Roberto  de  Port, 
Radulfo  de  Luvecot,  Laurencio  filio  Orm,  Johanne  pres- 
bitero,  Waltero  clerico,  Roberto  clerico,  Willelmo  filio 
Petri,  Roberto  filio  Symonis,  et  multis  aliis. 

*et  in  MS. 

3  Ricardo  le  Flammanc  in  No.  368. 

60.  l  Kylwen,  Culwen  in  No.  61,  now  Colvend  on  the  south 
coast  of  Scotland  to  the  west  of  Criffel  near  the  mouth  of  the  river 
Urr. 

2  The  first  witness,  Roland  son  of  Uctred,  prince  of  Galloway, 
who  died  on  19  Dec.  1200  (Hoveden,  iv.  145),  places  the  date  of 
this  deed  in  the  last  quarter  of  the  twelfth  century. 


92  REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

61.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  GOSPATRICII  DE  SALINA  IN 
CULWEN. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  futuri  quam  presentes  quod  ego, 
Thomas  films  Gospatrici,  consilio  et  consensu  Patricii 
filii  mei,1  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta  confirmavi 
Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  sancte 
Marie  servientibus  quamdam  salinam  in  Culwen,  scilicet, 
inter  Dufpol  et  castellum,2  tenendam  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis  libere  et  quiete,  solute  et  honorifice,  pro  omni  seculari 
servicio  michi  et  heredibus  meis  pertinent e,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  sponse 
mee  et  liberorum  meorum  et  omnium  antecessorum 
meorum  et  successorum  meorum.  Preterea  concessi  eis 
pasturam  quatuor  averiis  et  uni  equuo  ad  sustinendam 
predictam  salinam.  Hiis  testibus  Hugone  de  Morvill, 
Ormo  de  Yreby,  Radulfo  de  Bethum,  Alano  de  Camertona, 
Gilberto  fratre  ejus,  Toma  filio  Tome,  Roberto  de  Haver- 
yngton,  Ricardo  de  Bellocampo,  Alexandro  de  Caldebek, 
Hugone  filio  Esward,  Willelmo  ejus  filio,  Thoma  filio 
Michaelis,  Adam  filio  suo,  Galfrido  de  Talentire.3 

62.  CARTA  RONALDI  FILII  UCTREDE  DE  UNA  SALINA 
IN  PRESTONA. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Rollandus  films 

61.  l  For  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric,  see  note  on  No.  35,  and  for 
Patrick  son  of  Thomas,  the  note  on  No.  38. 

aThe  castellum  of  Culwen  is  now  probably  represented  by 
Castle  Hill  Point  at  the  mouth  of  the  Urr. 

8  This  deed  confirms  the  statement  of  John  Denton  (Accompt 
&c-.  P-  35)'  that  "  to  this  Thomas  son  of  Gospa trick,  one  Holland 
the  son  of  Ughtred  the  son  of  Fargus,  sometime  lord  of  Galloway, 
gave  the  great  lordship  of  Culwen  in  Galloway  in  Scotland,  in 
which  grant  the  brothers  of  the  said  Thomas,  Alexander  and 
Gilbert  sons  of  Gospatrick,  and  Thomas  and  William  sons  of 
the  said  Gilbert,  are  mentioned  as  witnesses."  Denton  must  have 
seen  a  copy  of  the  grant  :  it  is  not  now  at  Workington  Hall. 
Gilbert  son  of  Gospatric  is  mentioned  in  Nos.  42,  60,  62. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  93 

Uctred1,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo 
et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgin!  de  Coupland  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  salinam  in 
Prestona2  cum  omni  aisiamento  nemoris  quod  saline 
tenetur  pertinere,  tenendam  sibi  in  liberam  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  et  unum  toftum  plenarium  in  eadem  Prestona 
ad  quamdam  domum  sibi  desuper  edificandam  cum  pas- 
cuis  quatuor  bovum,  quatuor  vaccarum,  et  unius  caballi. 
Concessi  itaque  eisdem  monachis  licenciam  scindendi 
materiem  per  totum  boscum  meum  dominicum  ad  eorum 
proprios  usus  et  ecclesie  sue  edificaciones.  Testibus 
Jacobo  decano,  Gilberto  filio  Gospatricii,  Roberto  de 
Port,  Radulfo  de  Luvecot,  Johanne  presbitero,  Laurencio 
filio  Orm,  Rogero  Masculo,  Waltero  clerico,  Durando 
clerico,  Roberto  'clerico,  Willelmo  filio  Petri,  et  multis 
aliis. 

63.    CARTA  WILLELMI   HARiz1   DE    UNA    SALINA    IN 

REINPATRIK.2 

62.  l  Roland  son  of  Uctred,  lord  or  prince  of  Galloway,  the 
acer  et  industrius  adolescens  (William  of  Newburgh,  i.  182,  E.  H. 
S.)  who  resented  his  father's  murder  in  1174,  is  a  great  political 
figure  in  Scottish  history.     His  military  activities  greatly  exasper- 
ated King  Henry  II.,  who  summoned  him  to  Carlisle  in  1186 
where  peace  was  made  between  them  (Benedictus  Abbas,  i.  348). 
Roland  became  justiciar  as  well  as  constable  of  Scotland.     His 
mother  Gunnild  was  a  daughter  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale 
(Liber  S.  Crucis,  p.  19,  Bann.  Club).     Roland  died  at  Northampton 
in  1 200  (Hoveden,  iv.  145). 

2  At  the  base  of  Criffel  near  the  river  of  Southwick.  Uchtred 
son  of  Fergus,  father  of  Roland,  gave  to  the  canons  of  Holyrood 
the  tithe  of  his  venison  from  the  Urr  to  the  Nith  (Liber  S.  Cruets, 
p.  19). 

63.  *  The  grantor  was  a  tenant  of  the  Brus  fee  in  Annandale 
and  often  occurs  as  a  witness  to  the  Brus  charters  about  1200, 
of  which  see  those  in  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  indexed  by  Bain 
(Cat.  Doc.  Scot.,  i.  Nos.  606-7).     The  family  of  Heriz  were  bene- 
factors of  Holmcultram. 

2  In  the  Brus  charters  to  Holmcultram   (Harl.   MS.    3911,   ff- 


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SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Wilelmus  de  Heriz,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  mea  present! 
carta  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  unam  salinam  in  Reinpatrik  inter  meam 
salinam  et  Presthou,  tenendam  de  me  et  heredibus  meis, 
solutam  et  quietam  ab  omni  seculari  servicio  et  exaccione 
cum  eisdem  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  quas  michi  dom- 
inus  meus  Robertus  de  Brus  carta  sua  confirmavit.  Hiis 
testibus  Michaele  capellano,  Symone  de  Heriz,  Hugone  de 
Brus,  Richardo  de  Haumewilla,  Willelmo  de  Haumewilla, 
Roberto  filio  Willelmi  de  Torduf ,  Radulfo  de  Hariz,  Yvene 
de  Hariz,  Johanne  de  Meus,  Waltero  de  Lyllyng,  Gilberto 
filio  Roberti,  Rogero  filio  Gaufridi,  et  pluribus  aliis. 

64.  DlMISSIO  EJUSDEM  PER  ROBERTUM  PRIOREM  Hu- 
GONI  MALEVERERE. 

SCIANT  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Robertus1 
prior  de  sancta  Bega,  cum  communi  consilio  capituli 

102-106),  Reynpatrick  occupies  a  prominent  place.  In  the  first 
of  these  William  de  Brus,  for  the  health  of  King  William  of 
Scotland  and  Earl  David  his  brother,  gave  the  monks  that  place 
near  the  church  of  Rainpatrik  to  make  a  fishery  :  the  place  was 
between  a  quarry  and  the  file  of  the  water  of  Esk.  He  also  gave 
a  saltpan  on  the  sands  of  Raynpatrik  towards  the  east  as  the  great 
way  leads  from  Blawath  to  the  church  of  Rainpatrik.  In  a 
subsequent  charter  Robert  de  Brus  describes  the  file  of  the  Esk 
as  the  boundary  between  his  land  and  the  county  of  Cumberland. 
Rainpatrick  has  long  since  disappeared  :  the  position  of  the 
church  is  now  indicated  by  Redkirk  Point. 

64.  l  Prior  Robert  was  engaged  in  a  plea  with  Richard  son  of 
Peter  in  1202  about  land  in  Whitehaven  (Feet  of  Fines,  Cumb., 
p.  5,  Rec.  Com.),  and  was  prior  when  Richard  de  Lucy  founded 
the  borough  of  Egremont.  The  charter  is  printed  in  facsimile  in 
Cumb.  and  Westmor.  Transactions,  i.  281-5.  F°r  another  Prior 
Robert,  see  No.  15,  but  the  Prior  Robert  of  No.  165  may  be 
identified  with  the  grantor  of  this  deed. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  Q5 

nostri,  concessi  et  dedi  ct  hac  present!  carta  confirmavi 
Hugoni  Malleverer2  et  heredibus  suis  tenere  de  nobis  et 
successoribus  nostris  in  domo  sancte  Bege  salinam  quam 
Willelmus  de  Hericio  nobis  dedit  et  carta  sua  confirmavit 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  aisiamentis.  Quam 
eciam  idem  Willelmus  nobis  debet  warantizare  et  similiter 
heredes  sui  post  obitum  ejus  contra  omnes  homines. 
Hanc  salinam  concedimus  prenominato  Hugoni  ita  libere 
et  quiete  sicut  predictus  Willelmus  earn  nobis  dedit. 
Reddet  autem  idem  Hugo  et  heredes  sui  singulis  annis 
domui  sancte  Bege  duos  solidos  et  dimidium  integre  ad 
Penthecosten  pro  omni  servicio.  Idem  vero  Hugo 
juravit  fide  interposita  quod  ipse  artem  nee  ingenium 
queret  quibus  domus  sancte  Bege  predictam  salinam 
amittat.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Boiuilla,  Roberto 
filio  Willelmi  de  Torduf,  Radulfo  de  Hericio,  Rolando 
fratre  ejus,  Radulfo  de  Gramario,  Patricio  Brun,  Hugone 
de  Korri,  Ricardo  de  Bosco,  Rogero  de  Claxton,  Waltero 
de  Lillingam,  et  multis  aliis. 


65.  CARTA  ROBERTI  DE  VETERI  PONTE  DE  x8  AUT  DE 

UNO   PULLANO   EQUICII    SUI. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Robertus  de  Veteri  Ponte1  et  Idonea 
uxor  ejus  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra 
nos,  pro  salute  animarum  nostrarum  et  Johannis  filii 
nostri  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  nostrorum, 
in  honore  Dei  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virginis,  Deo 

2  Hugh  Malleverer,  and  several  of  the  witnesses  to  this  and  the 
preceding  deed,  were  tenants  of  Annandale,  and  their  names  are 
often  found  in  the  early  Brus  charters  already  mentioned. 

65.  l  For  this  Robert  de  Veteri  Ponte,  first  lord  of  Westmor- 
land, 1203-1228,  and  Idonea  de  Builli  his  wife  who  died  in  1241, 
see  Dr.  Prescott's  note  in  the  Reg.  of  Wetherhal,  pp.  328-9. 


96  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  virginis  in  qua  armilla2  beate  Bege 
virginis  est  reservata,  decem  solidatas  redditus  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam  ad  dictam  ecclesiam  cooperien- 
dam  contulisse,  de  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  annuatim 
ad  festum  sancti  Laurencii  perpetuo  percipiendas,  vel 
unum  pullanum  de  equicio  nostro  de  precio  decem  solid- 
orum.  Hoc  pro  nobis  et  omnibus  heredibus  nostris 
lirmiter  et  fideliter  promittimus,  et  heredes  nostros  ad 
annuam  solucionem  predictarum  decem  soliditarum 
redditus  vel  pullani  prout  predictum  est  obligamus.  Et 
ut  hec  nostra  donacio  in  posterum  rata  et  inconcussa 
perse veret,  presens  script um  sigillorum  nostrorum  muni- 
mine  roboravimus. 

66.    RECOGNICIO  ROGERI  CLIFFORD  JUNIORIS  DE  x8 

AUT    DE    UNO   PULLANO. 

IN  itinere  Johannis  de  Vallibus,1  Rogerus  Clifford 
junior  et  Isabella  uxor  ejus  et  Rogerus  de  Leyburn  et 
Idonia2  uxor  ejus  cognoverunt  pro  se  et  heredibus 

2  On  the  bracelet  of  St.  Bega,  as  the  chief  relic  to  which  the 
monks  of  St.  Bees  gave  veneration,  see  my  narrative  in  V.  C.  H. 
Cumberland,  ii.  181.  The  relic  is  often  mentioned  in  this  Register, 
for  which  refer  to  the  Index  s.  v.  armilla  S.  Bege.  For  the 
antiquity  of  the  custom  of  swearing  on  the  halgan  beage  or  holy 
bracelet,  compare  Anglo-Saxon  Chronicle  (R.  S.,  i.  144,  ii.  63 
with  note)  under  the  year  876  with  Asser  on  the  oath  super 
armillam  in  Mon.  Hist.  Brit.  (Rec.  Com.),  p.  478.  Ethelwerd 
translates  halgan  beage  by  armilla  sacra  (M.  H.  B.,  op.  cit.,  p.  515). 

66.  1  This  deed,  which  is  a  confirmation  of  No.  65,  was  given 
in  1278  when  John  de  Vallibus  was  on  circuit  in  the  northern 
counties  (Foss,  Biog.  Jurid.,  p.  689). 

2  Robert  de  Veteri  Ponte,  third  lord  of  Westmorland,  was  a 
minor  in  1253  after  the  death  of  John  de  Veteri  Ponte  his  father 
(Cal.  of  Pat.,  1247-58,  pp.  223,  366),  but  he  seems  to  have  been  in 
full  possession  of  his  inheritance  in  1256  (Ibid.,  p.  504).  Heming- 
burgh  (E.  H.  S.,  i.  308)  and  Wykes  (Annal.  Mon.,  iv.  133,  R.S.) 
tell  that  he  took  the  side  of  the  baronial  party  in  the  rebellion  of 
Earl  Simon  of  Montfort.  On  7  Dec.  1261  he  was  invited  to  sign 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA      97 

ipsarum  Isabella  et  Idonie  quod  ipsi  tenentur  priori 
celle  sancte  Bege  et  successoribus  suis  in  decem  solidis 
redditus  ad  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  cooperiendam  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam  annuatim  ad  festum  sancti 
Laurencii  percipiendis,  vel  unum  pullanum  precio  decem 
solidorum  inperpetuum,  prout  carta  Roberti  de  Veteri 
Ponte  antecessoris  ipsarum  Isabelle  et  Idonie  et  cujusdam 
Idonie  uxoris  predict e  Roberti,  quam  predictus  prior 
profert  sub  nomine  ipsorum  Roberti  et  Idonie,  que  pre- 
dictam  obligacionem  predicti  redditus  annui  testatur, 
continet,  et  quam  predicti  Rogerus,  Isabella,  Rogerus, 
et  Idonea  cognoscunt. 

67.    CARTA  BERNARDI  DE  RIPPLAY  DE  DIMIDIA  MARCA 

IN    KlRKEANDRES. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 

the  peace  the  King  had  made  with  his  barons,  and  on  17  Oct.  1263 
he  was  summoned  to  come  to  the  King  at  Windsor,  the  summons 
being  afterwards  cancelled  (Col.  of  Pat.,  1258-66,  pp.  195,  290). 
On  1 6  Dec.  1263  he  was  ordered  to  deliver  up  the  castles  of 
Richmond  and  Bowes  which  he  had  in  custody  to  another  keeper 
(Ibid.,  p.  301),  but  he  was  dead  before  7  June  1264,  when  the 
custody  of  his  castles  and  lands  in  Westmorland  was  granted  to 
John  son  of  John  during  pleasure  (Ibid.,  p.  322).  On  30  June 
following  an  extent  of  his  lands  in  Westmorland  and  eight  other 
counties  was  ordered  to  be  made  (Ibid.,  p.  362).  On  8  Aug.  1265 
Roger  de  Clifford  had  wardship  of  the  lands  falling  to  Isabel 
first-born  daughter  of  Robert  de  Veteri  Ponte  with  her  marriage, 
and  at  the  same  time  Roger  de  Leyburn  had  the  wardship  of 
Idonea  his  second  daughter  (Ibid.,  p.  435).  Remission  of  Robert's 
trespasses  in  adhering  to  Simon  de  Montfort  was  made  on  15  Feb. 
1266  at  the  instance  of  the  two  guardians  (Ibid.,  pp.  555,  586), 
of  whose  military  services  to  the  King  during  the  rebellion  the 
chroniclers  have  much  to  say.  Isabel  was  a  widow  on  4  Feb. 
1283  (Cal.  of  Fine  R.,  i.  179)  and  Idonea,  aged  22,  was  a  widow 
in  the  following  year  (Cal.  of  Inquis.,  ii.  315).  Isabel  and  Idonea 
were  daughters  of  the  same  mother,  Isabel  de  Veteri  Ponte  wife 
of  the  above  Robert  (Ibid.,  hi.  282). 

H 


90  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

scriptum  pervenerit,  Bernardus  de  Ryppelay1  et  Margaret  a 
sponsa  sua  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos 
dedisse  et  concessisse  et  hac  present!  carta  confirmasse 
Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpet- 
uam  [elemosinam]  quolibet  .anno  dimidiam  marcham 
argenti  de  molendino  nostro  de  Kirkeandres  recipiendam 
ad  nundinas  Karlioli  ad  sustentandam  unam  lampadem 
ardentem  die  ac  nocte  coram  reliquiis  dicte  ecclesie. 
Volumus  eciam  quod  heredes  nostri  ratam  teneant  hanc 
donacionem  nostram  et  waurantizent,  sicut.et  nos  war- 
antizabimus.  Et  ut  hec  donacio  nostra  stabilis  permaneat 
inperpetuum  presenti  scripto  sigilla  nostra  apposuimus. 
Hiis  testibus  domina  Roesya  de  Lascy,  Patricio  filio 
Thome,  Luciano  de  Arkille,  Roberto  de  Lascy  clerico, 
Waltero  de  Lonshal  clerico,  Thoma  capellano,  Johanne 
de  Suthak,  Bertramo  de  Champaine,  et  multis  aliis. 

68.  CARTA  DANIELIS  FILII  DANIELIS  DE  FURNES  DE 
DECIMA  DE  CARUCA  SUA  ET  DE  VICTU  DECIMAS  COLLI- 

GEN[TIS]. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Daniel  films  Danielis  de  Furnes,1  pro  salute  anime  mee 

67  l  The  grantor,  who  had  a  plea  in  1206  touching  a  messuage 
in  York,  seems  to  have  belonged  to  Ripley,  near  Harrogate 
(Yorks.  Fines,  Surtees  Soc.,  pp.  18,  106).  The  Kirkandrews  men- 
tioned in  this  deed  cannot  refer  to  the  places  of  that  name  on 
Eden  or  Esk  near  Carlisle.  In  the  margin  it  is  noted  that  the 
charter  habetur  sub  cera  in  libra  de  Nederhall  in  cella  de  Kirkandres. 

68.  *  In  the  foundation  charter  (printed  by  Farrer,  Pipe  Rolls 
of  Lanes.,  pp.  301-2)  of  the  Abbey  of  Furness,  given  by  Count 
Stephen  in  1127,  the  lands  of  Michael  le  Fleming  in  Furness, 
which  included  Aldingham,  were  excepted.  This  Michael  had 
several  children,  William  his  heir,  Anselm,  Daniel,  Marsilius, 
Jordan  and  Goditha.  For  charters  of  Anselm  and  Goditha  in 
this  Register,  see  Nos.  466  and  381.  The  family  was  known  by 
the  territorial  name  of  Aldingham  as  well  as  of  Furness.  The 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  99 

€t  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  pro  salute  omnium  ante- 
cessorum  meorum,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta 
mea  confirmavi,  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  vita  mea,  omnem 
decimam  de  caruca  mea  in  Haldyngham.  Hoc  quoque 
sciendum  est  quod  dum  homo  dictorum  monachorum  in 
a[u]tumpno  colliget  diet  am  decimam,  victui  necessaria 
ei  dabo.  Hiis  testibus  Waldevo  decano  de  Coupland, 
Willehno  de  BoivilJ,  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Willelmo 
clerico  de  Wirkinton,  Jordano  filio  Gameli,  Henrico  filio 
Keteli,  Michaele  sacerdote,  Ricardo  de  Boivill,  et  multis 
aliis. 

69.    CARTA  ALYNE  DE  CAUNSFELD  DE  j  CRIBLA  FRU- 

MENTI    RECIPIENDA   APUD    ALDYNGHAM. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  ndelibus  hanc  cartam  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Alyna  de  Caunsfeld1  salutem  in  domino  sempi- 
ternam.  Noveritis  me  in  propria  potestate  et  legitima 
viduitate  mea,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro  animabus 
Willelmi  de  Furneys  patris  mei  et  Johanne  matris  mee, 
Michaelis  de  Furneys  fratris  mei,  Ricardi  de  Cansfeld 
quondam  sponsi  mei,  et  pro  animabus  omnium  antecess- 
orum  et  successorum  meorum,  concessisse  et  present! 
carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et 
monachis  apud  sanctam  Begam  Deo  et  sancte  Bege 
servientibus,  unam  criblam  frumenti  recipiendam  annu- 
atim  apud  Aldyngham  in  festo  apostolorum  Symonis  et 
Jude.  Et  ut  hec  mea  concessio  et  carte  mee  connrmacio 

grantor  here  was  son  of  Daniel  and  grandson  of  Michael.  Daniel 
the  elder  was  parson  of  Aldingham  (Anct.  D.,  L.,  Nos.  343,  374). 

69.  l  On  the  death  of  Michael  Fleming  of  Furness,  who  was 
drowned  in  the  river  Leven,  the  manor  of  Aldingham  descended 
to  his  sister  Alyne,  wife  of  Richard  de  Cancefeld  knight.  Alyne 
was  a  widow  in  1282  (Cal.  of  Inquis.,  ii.  258).  For  several  deeds, 
illustrative  of  the  descent  of  this  family,  see  Coucher  Book  of 
Furness  (Chetham  Soc.),  pp.  78-89. 


IOO  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

perpetuam  habeant  firmitatem  present!  carte  sigillum 
meum  pro  meis  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Alano  de 
Coupland,  J.  de  Kyrkeby  et  Ricardo  de  Brocton,  militi- 
bus,  Alano  de  Turribus,  Symone  de  Hursewyk,  Waltero 
de  Cansfeld,  Hugone  de  Glestona,  Willelmo  del  Bank, 
domino  Adam  de  Esyngwald  tune  capellano  meo,  et  aliis. 

70.     CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  RICARDI  DE  CAUNCEFELD 

DE  UNA  CRIBRA  FRUMENTI  RECflPIENDA]  APUD  ALDING- 
HAM. 

SCIANT  present es  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Johannes1  films 
Richard!  de  Cauncefeld,  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta 
mea  confirmavi,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  et  meis  assig- 
natis,  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  virgin! 
in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  servientibus,  unam  cribram  frumenti  recipi- 
endam  annuatim  apud  manerium  meum  de  Aldyngham 
in  festo  apostolorum  Symonis  et  Jude,  quam  cribram  fru- 
menti habent  ex  dono  Alyne  de  Dauncefeld  (sic)  matris 
mee,  habendam  et  tenendam  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  et 
meis  assignatis  predictis  monachis  et  eorum  successoribus 
in  liberam,  puram,  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Et  ego, 
Johannes  et  heredes  mei  et  mei  assignati  predictam 
cribram  frumenti  prefatis  monachis  et  eorum  successori- 
bus, prout  predictum  est,  waurantizabimus,  acquietabi- 
mus,  et  defendemus  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  testi- 
monium  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Johanne  de  Hodeliston,  Alano  de  Coup- 
land,  Roberto  de  Haveryngtona,  Ricardo  de  Flemang, 
militibus,  Willelmo  de  Bethum,  Alexandro  Kyrkeby, 
Willelmo  de  Thueites,  et  aliis. 

70-  l  The  donor  died  before  1290  when  his  brother  and  heir, 
William,  was  entangled  in  a  curious  dispute  with  the  abbot  of 
Furness  (Cal.  of  Close,  1288-96,  pp.  124-5).  Tne  manor  of 
Aldingham  passed  in  a  few  years  to  the  Harringtons  with  Agnes 
de  Cancefeld,  sister  of  William. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         IOI 

71.  CARTA  NICHOLAI  DE  MORICEBY  DE  TERRIS  ET 
TENEMENTIS  SUIS  IN  KELDLANDES. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Johannes  films 
Nicholai  de  Moriceby,1  dedi,  concessi,et  hac  present!  carta 
mea  confirmavi  Roberto  de  Oueneby2  et  Johanne  uxori 
sue  et  heredibus  dicti  Robert!  atque  suis  assignatis,  totam 
terram  et  tenementa  mea  in  le  Keldlandes8  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis,  pro  quadam  summa  pecunie  quam  pre- 
dict! Robertus  et  Johanna  michi  dederunt  pre  manu. 
Habenda  et  tenenda  .  .  .  .  de  abbate  beate  Marie 
Eboraci  et  priore  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis 
....  quod  quidem  tenementum  tenetur  in  libero  dom- 
inico,  et  predict!  abbas  et  prior  illud  tenent  in  pura  et 
perpetua  elemosina  predicto  Roberto  et  Johanne  et 
heredibus  dicti  Roberti  et  suis  assignatis  sine  ullo 
retenemento  de  cetero  michi  vel  heredibus  meis. 
Reddendo  inde-annuatim  predictis  abbati  et  priori  duos 
solidos  argenti,  videlicet,  medietatem  ad  Penthecosten  et 

71.  1  The  family  of  Moresby,  whose  name  often  appears  in 
this  Register,  derives  its  origin  from  Dolfin  son  of  Ailward  who 
married  Matilda  or  Maud  sister  of  Waldeve  son  of  Earl  Gospatric, 
lord  of  Allerdale  (No.  498) .  Waldeve  son  of  Dolfin,  to  whom  Alan 
son  of  the  above  Waldeve  gave  Brackenthwaite  (No.  498  and 
Illus.  Doc.  No.  xiii.),  was  the  first  to  assume  the  territorial  name 
of  Moresby.  Waldeve  of  Moresby  appears  as  a  witness  in  Nos. 
223  and  341.  In  1196  Hukeman  or  Hugh  de  Moresby  paid  a  fine 
into  the  Exchequer  (Pipe  R.,  7  Ric.  I.)  and  in  1217  he  contributed 
to  the  scutage  (Close  R.,  2  Hen.  III.,  m.  i6d.).  William  de 
Fortibus,  earl  of  Albemarle,  confirmed  to  Hugh  the  grant  of 
Brackenthwaite  which  had  been  made  to  Waldeve  son  of  Dolfin, 
by  Alan  son  of  Waldeve  his  predecessor  in  the  fee  (Illus.  Doc., 
No.  xiv.).  Hugh  de  Moresby  was  tenant  in  1230  (Feet  of  F., 
Cumb.,  15  Hen.  III.,  No.  12)  and  Nicholas  de  Moresby  in  1256 
(Ibid.,  40  Hen.  III.,  No.  69).  The  manor  of  Moresby  is  on  the 
coast  near  Whitehaven. 

2  For  charters  of  Robert  de  Queneby  and  Joan  his  wife  and  their 
heirs  touching  this  property,  see  Nos.  256-8- 

3  Perhaps  now  Spring  Hill  (O.  S.,  Ixi.  S.E.). 


IO2  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

altcram  medictatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  hyeme  pra 
omni  servicio  et  demanda.  Et  ego,  predictus  Johannes,  et 
heredes  mei  ....  predieta  tenementa  ....  predictis 
Roberto  et  Johanne  et  heredibus  dicti  Roberti  vel  suis 
assignatis  contra  omnes  gentes  warantizabimus  et  defend- 
emus  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  presenti 
carte  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Willelmo  de  Derby  tune  priore  sancte  Bege,  domino  Thoma 
de  Cullewene,  domino  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  militibus, 
Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  Adam  de  Windscalis,  Hugone  de 
Moriceby,  et  aliis  multis.  Datum  apud  Distinton  die 
Jovis  proximo  ante  mediam  quadragesimam,  anno  grade 
millesimo  ccmo  nonagesimo  quarto.4 

72.  CARTA  HUGONIS  DE  MORICEBY  DE  TERRA  IN 
PRESTGILE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Hugo  de  Moricheby1  salutem  in  dom- 
ino. Noverit  ....  quod  ego,  Hugo  de  Moricheby, 
remisi  et  quiet um  clamavi,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis 
inperpetuum,  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie  Eboraci, 
et  monachis  suis  in  cella  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  Deo 
servientibus,  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere 
potui  in  tota  terra  de  Prestgile2  cum  pertinenciis  infra 
subscriptas  divisas  contenta,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  videlicet,  a  superiori  scala  super  sichetam 

4  10  March  1295.  Tnis  deed  has  been  collated  with  No.  255. 
of  which  it  is  a  copy.  The  only  material  difference  is  that  the 
name  of  the  attesting  prior  of  St.  Bees  appears  as  William  de 
Deseby,  and  Adam  de  Winscales  appears  as  David  de  Wyndscales. 

72.  :  This  lord  of  Moresby  was  in  possession  in  1230  :  see  note 
on  No.  71-  The  witnesses  agree  with  a  period  shortly  after  this 
date.  Ralf  de  Forset  was  steward  of  Egremont  under  Lambert 
de  Multon.  It  was  probably  this  Hugh,  but  at  a  much  earlier 
date,  who  gave  lands  in  Distington  to  the  monks  of  Holmcultram 
(Reg.  MS.,  f.  66). 

2  Now  Priestgill  (O.   S.,  Ixvii.  N.E.). 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEG  A  103 

quc  vocatur  Prestgil  sub  via  regia  que  ducit  ab  Egremunt 
versus  Dustinton  linealiter  usque  ad  superiorem  scalam 
super  Kekel  usque  Prestegile  sichettam  predictam  ubi 
cadit  in  Kekel :  et  sic  ascendendo  per  eandem  sichettam 
usque  ad  superiorem  scalam  predictam  sub  via  regia 
predicta.  Ita  quod  licebit  predictis  abbati  et  conventui 
et  monachis  suis  -de  sancta  Bega  commodum  suum  facere 
in  omnibus  pro  libitu  suo  de  tota  predicta  terra  cum 
pertinenciis  infra  predictas  divisas  sine  contradiccione  et 
impedimento  mei  et  heredum  meorum  inperpetuum. 
Habeant  insuper  predicti  monachi  de  sancta  Bega  sine 
contradiccione  et  impedimento  mei  et  heredum  meorum 
inperpetuum  communam  pasture  ad  pecora  sua  hominum 
suorum  de  parochia  sancte  Bege  pascenda  per  totam 
morarn  usque  ad  campum  excultum  de  Moricheby.  Ex- 
cepto  quod  si  inventa  fuerint  predicta  averia  infra  tractum 
unius  archus3  a  prefata  terra  seminata,  licebit  michi  et 
heredibus  meis  ea  inparcare  et  capere  de  viginti  quatuor 
unum  denarium.  Si  vero  contingat  quod  predicta  averia 
dampnum  faciant  in  segettibus  meis  vel  heredum  meorum, 
predicti  monachi  et  homines  sui  satisfacient  michi  et 
heredibus  meis  secundum  quantitatem  dampni  in  seget- 
ibus  facti.  Et  ut  omnia  predicta  rata  et  inconcussa 
inperpetuum  permaneant,  ego  Hugo  de  Moricheby  pro 
me  et  heredibus  meis  sigillum  meum  huic  scripto  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Roberto  de  Wilinton,  domino  Alano 
de  Peninton,  R.  de  Forset  tune  senescallo  de  Egremfont], 
R.  de  Brum',  A.  de  Haverinton,  R.  de  Bromtwetth,  Jo- 
hanne  de  Dreg,  David  de  Kyrkeby,  et  multis  aliis. 

73.    CARTA    NICHOLAI    MORICEBY    DE    TURBARIA    IN 
WYTHEMIR. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Nicholaus   de   Moriceby,1   salutem   in 

R  Bowshot. 

73.     l  For  this  grantor  see  note  on  No.   71.      The  witnesses 
appear  to  date  the  deed  about  1280. 


IO4  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

•domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me  concessisse  et  hac 
present!  carta  mea  confirmasse  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis 
abbati  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  successoribus  suis  et 
hominibus  suis  in  Kyrkeby,2  Rotington,  Sandwath, 
Preston,  Wytohaven,  et  Hotwaith,  quod  ipse  et  success- 
ores  sui  et  homines  sui  predicti  possint  fodere  turbas  in 
mussa  mea  in  Moriceby,  que  vocatur  Wythemir  et  tarn  in 
mussa  predicta  quam  super  moram  meam  sictam3  ibidem 
turbas  illas  sictarie  et  eas  sine  impedimento  inde  cariare 
singulis  annis  inperpetuum.  Et  ego,  Nicholaus,  et  her- 
edes  mei  concessionem  et  confirmacionem  predictas 
predictis  abbati  et  successoribus  suis  et  hominibus  suis 
predictis  in  predicta  mussa  mea  in  Moriceby,  sicut  pre- 
dictum  est,  contra  omnes  homines  imperpetuum  waurant- 
izabimus  et  defendemus.  Salvo  tamen  michi  et  heredibus 
meis  et  hominibus  meis  in  Moriceby  estoveria  nostra  in 
eadem  mussa  sine  dono  aut  vendicione.  In  cujus  testi- 
monium  huic  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Thoma  de  Culwene,  domino  Roberto 
de  Haverington,  Michaele  de  eadem  tune  temporis  ballivo 
de  Egremunt,  Ricardo  de  Cletergh,  Roberto  de  Gosford, 
Johanne  de  Moriceby,  et  aliis. 

74.     CARTA  THOME  NEWTON  DE  TERRA  IN  RUTGART. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Thomas  de  Newton1,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  ....  me,  concensu  et  assensu  uxoris  mee  Johanne, 

2  Kyrkeby  is  the  village  of  St.  Bees  :   Rottington,  Sandwith  and 
Preston  are  hamlets    of   that   parish.     For  Hotwaith  and  Wy- 
themir, see  notes  on  No.  12- 

3  This  deed  has  been  collated  with  its  duplicate,  No.  387,  but 
both  texts  are  faulty  :    sictam  is  probably  meant  for  siccam  or 
sectam,  and  sictarie  for  secure  or  siccare. 

74.  J  There  are  many  charters  in  this  Register  of  the  family 
of  Newton  or  Neuton  and  the  name  often  appears  among  the 
witnesses.  For  another  charter  of  Thomas  de  Newton,  see  No. 
342. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  IO5 

dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  abbati  Eboraci 
et  ejusdem  loci  conventui,  pro  salute  animarum  nostrarum 
et  omnium  antecessorum  nostrorum,  quandam  terram  in 
Rutgart,2  que  jacet  inter  terram  Thome  de  StargF  et  Ade 
filii  Helsi3  in  una  parte,  et  ex  alia  parte,  scilicet,  a  terra  a 
gamli4  usque  ad  antiquam  fossetam  que  est  versus  aus- 
trum  ad  latitudinem,  scilicet,  ejusdem  crofti  prefati 
gamli4  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  inperpetuum. 
Preterea  sciendum  est  quod  homo  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  in  predicta  terra  habitans  habebit  communem 
pasturam  omnibus  averiis  suis  propriis  et  catallis  et 
omnia  alia  aysiamenta  terre  de  Kyrcros5  pertinencia. 
Nos  autem  et  heredes  nostri  hanc  terram  cum  pertinenciis 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  contra  omnes  homines 
warentizabimus  inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Wydone  tune  temporis  priore  de  sancta  Bega,  W.  persona 
de  Wirigt',  Adam  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Bram- 
thuait,  Michaele  de  Stainburne,  Thoma  de  Stubescal, 
Thoma  filio  Dolfini,  W.  capellano,  et  aliis.6 

75.    CARTA  WILLELMI  DE  ESSEVILLA  DE  CAPELLA  DE 

LOWESWATER  ET  J    TOFTO   IN   ECREMONDE. 

OMNIBUS  legentibus  vel  audientibus  litteras  has,  Will- 

2  Rutgart  is  not  identified,  but  it  must  have  been  near  to  Star- 
gill  in  Winscales  (O.  S.,  liv.  s.w.),  a  hamlet  in  the  rural  part  of 
Workington. 

3  The  punishment  of  Adam  for  forswearing  himself  on  the  holy 
bracelet  of  St.  Bega,  touching  the  tribute  of  Noutgeld,  is  recorded 
among   the   miracles   of   that   saint    (Illus.    Doc.,    No.    I.).     His 
floruit  has  an  important  bearing  on  the  date  of  that  compilation. 

4  This  word  must  be  meant  for  Gamel  or  Gamlin  :    in  both 
instances  the  print  represents  the  script. 

5  For  Kyrcros,  see  note  on  No.  336. 

6  From  Guy,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  and  William,  parson  of  Working- 
ton,  the  date  of  this  deed  will  be  about  1230,  or  perhaps  a  few 
years  earlier. 


IO6  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

elmus  ct  Essevilla1,  salutes  (sic).  Sciatis  quod  capellam 
de  Lousewater  quam  Radulphus  de  Lyndesay  et  Hethreda 
sponsa  mea  dederunt  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ejusdem  loci  in  elemosinam  affirmo  et  manu- 
tenebo.  Et  huic  beneficio  addimus  ego  et  predicta 
Hethreda  dimidiam  carucatam  terre  in  eadem  villa  in 
similem  elemosinam,  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  servicio 
seculari,  et  quantum  in  nemore  et  piano  et  in  pascuis 
et  in  aqua  et  in  sarse  (sic)  in  utilitatem  eorum  vertere 
poterunt  cum  aliis  usque  ad  sufficienciam  accipiant,  et 
sicut  decimas  ceterarum  rerum  ejusdem  ville  habent,  ita 
decimas  omnium  pascariorum  habeant.  Item  sciatis  me 
dedisse  eisdem  monachis  unam  toftam  in  Egremunde 
in  perpetuum  benencium  pro  salute  animarum  nostra- 
rum,  ita  tamen  ut  hospicium  nostrum  illic  habeamus. 
Et  insuper  concedimus  ego  et  prefata  Hethreda  eisdem 
monachis  decimam  pullorum  et  omnium  rerum  nostrarum, 
que  ad  decimam  pertinent  et  quas  in  confiniis  Couplandie 
habemus.  Testibus  hiis  etc. 


76.    CARTA  GODARDI  DE  ECCLESIIS  [DE]  WITINGHAM 

ET   DE   BOTHLE   CUM   IJ    MANSURIS   ET  TOTIS   PAROCHIIS   ET 
DECIMIS   AD   EASDEM   PERTINENTIBUS. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis,  tarn  presentibus 
quam  futuris,   Godardus,1  salutem.     Sciatis  me   dedisse 

75.  1  For  the  grantor  and  his  wife,  see  notes  on  Nos.  29,  52-4 
and  the  references  there  to  Ranulf  de  Lyndesay  and  Loweswater. 

76.  l  The  lordship  of  Millom,  situated  between  the  Esk  and 
Duddon,  was  held  of  the  castle  of  Egremont  as  a  fee  of  one  knight 
(Reg.  of  Holmcultram,  MS.,  f.  60).     At  the  time  of  the  Domesday 
Survey  (i.  301  b),  where  it  is  registered  under  the  name  of  Hougun, 
it  was  part  of  the  possessions  of  the  earldom  of  Northumberland. 
Godard  de  Boivill  or  Godard  dapifer  was  the  first  owner  whose 
name  has  been  preserved.     As  stated  in  this  deed  and  in  its  sub- 
sequent confirmations  (Ncs.  2  and  3),  he  was  one  of  the  earliest 
benefactors  of  St.   Bees.     As  Godard  de  Boivilla  he  granted  a 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  IO/ 

et  hac  [carta]  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  abbacie  sancte 
Marie  Eboraci  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege,  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam,  ecclesias  de  Witingham  et  de  Bothle,2 
cum  duabus  mansuris  et  totis  parrochiis  et  decimis  ad 
easdem  ecclesias  pertinentibus,  pro  animabus  patris  et 
matris  mee  et  omnium  parentum  meorum,  et  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  Matildis,  necnon  pro  salute 
domini  mei  Willelmi,3  cujus  consilio  et  assensu  hanc 
donacionem  feci,  scilicet,  in  die  dedicacionis  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  in  presencia  domini  Turstini,  archiepiscopi  Ebora- 
censis,  specialiter  ad  luminaria  invenienda  in  eadem 
ecclesia.  Testibus  hiis  Turstino  archiepiscopo,  Willelmo 
filio  Ranulfi  domino  meo,  Willelmo  archidiacono,  Rainaldo 
capellano  domini  mei,  Rainero,  Waltherio,  Ketello, 
Odardo,  "Ricardo,  et  multis  aliis. 


77.  CARTA  WILLELMI  CORBETH  ET  DYONISIE  UXORIS 
SUE  DE  ECCLESIA  DE  WlTINHAM  CUM  OMNIBUS  PERTIN- 

ENCIIS. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego, 

ploughland  in  Coupland  called  Fossa  to  the  monks  of  Furness  as 
freely  as  his  father  had  held  it  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  131).  From  this 
it  may  be  inferred  that  Godard  was  not  the  first  of  the  family  in 
possession  of  Millom.  The  gift  of  Annaside  to  St.  Bees  by  Mahald, 
Matildis  or  Maud,  wife  of  Godard,  is  mentioned  in  Nos.  39,  40  and 
41.  Several  of  Godard's  immediate  descendants  are  found  as 
witnesses  in  this  Register.  For  the  story  of  Godard,  a  very  power- 
ful knight,  qui  munitionem  custodiebat  in  Eggremonte,  and  of  the 
miracle  of  his  horses,  see  the  Life  of  St.  Bega  in  Illus.  Doc.,  No.  i. 

2  It  is  evident  from  this  deed  that  Whicham  and  Bootle  were 
fully  equipped  parishes,  with  parsonage-houses,  ascertained 
boundaries  and  endowments  of  tithes,  at  this  early  date.  The 
practice  of  dealing  with  tithes  as  church  property  receives  ample 
illustration  in  this  Register. 

8  William  Meschin,  lord  of  Coupland,  of  whom  Godard  held  his 
fee  of  Millom.  The  deed  is  witnessed  by  him  as  William  son  of 
Ranulf. 


IO8  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

Willelmus  Corbeth,1  et  Dionisia  uxor  mea  concessimus  et 
confirmavimus  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  eccles- 
iam  de  Witinham,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  deci- 
mis  ad  eandem  ecclesiam  pertinentibus,  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam,  pro  animabus  patrum  et  matrum  et 
omnium  parentum  nostrorum,  et  pro  salute  animarum 
nostrarum  et  omnium  amicorum  nostrorum,  sicud 
Godardus  de  Boievill  earn  eisdem  donavit.  Hiis  testibus 
Roberto  presbitero  de  Witebec,  Thoma  persona  de 
Bricham,  Thoma  de  Dene,  Gillemichaele  de  Arlauchdene, 
Rogero  presbitero  de  Echermund,  Willelmo  de  Morttine, 
Roberto  de  Boievill,  Abraham  de  Annes,  Ricardo  pres- 
bitero de  Bechermet,  et  multis  aliis. 


78.  FlNALIS  CONCORDIA  INTER  PRIOREM  ET  RADULFUM 
CORBETH  DE  DONACIONE  DE  WHYTINGHAM. 

HEC  est  finalis  concordia,  facta  in  curia  domini  regis 
apud  Carliolum,  die  Sabbati  proxima  post  festum  sancti 
Bartholomei,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  secundi  xxxmo  iij°, 


77.  l  These  six  deeds,  Nos.  76-81,  form  an  interesting  series  in 
the  early  history  of  the  church  of  Whicham.  By  No.  77  William 
Corbet,  lord  of  the  manor,  and  Denise  his  wife,  confirmed  the  grant 
of  Godard,  their  feudal  superior.  In  1187  it  was  agreed  that  the 
advowson  belonged  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  and  that  Ralf  Corbet 
was  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  their  prayers  (No.  78).  This  church 
affords  an  early  instance  of  holding  a  benefice  in  moiety.  Abbot 
Clement  of  York  (1161-84),  of  which  house  St.  Bees  was  a  cell, 
appointed  two  clerks  to  the  church,  each  of  whom  was  obliged  to 
pay  a  yearly  pension  to  St.  Bees  and  discharge  episcopal  dues. 
Both  appointments  were  for  life  (Nos.  79,  80).  At  a  later  date 
Abbot  Robert  appointed  to  one  of  the  moieties  with  a  reversion 
of  the  other  when  it  became  vacant  (No.  81).  The  possession  of 
this  church  by  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  was  confirmed  by  Archbishop 
Roger  of  York  (1154-81).  See  No.  107.  The  yearly  pension  of 
ten  shillings  continued  to  be  paid  by  the  incumbents  of  Whicham 
to  the  monks  till  the  dissolution  of  the  monasteries. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  109 

coram  Godfr[edo]  de  Luci  et  Jocelino  Cicestrensi  archi- 
diacono  et  Willelmo  Vavasour,  tune  justiciariis1  domini 
regis,  et  aliis  baronibus  et  fidelibus  domini  regis, 
qui  tune  ibi  aderant,  inter  abbatem  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci  et  priorem  et  monachos  sancte  Bege  et  Radulfum 
Corbeth,  de  donacione  de  Hwithingham,  unde  recognicio 
summonita  fuit  inter  eos  in  curia  domini  regis  per  breve 
Ranulfi  de  Glanvill,  scilicet,  quod  predictus  Corbeth 
quiet  am  clamavit,  de  se  et  heredibus  suis,  predictis 
abbati  et  priori  et  monachis  sancte  Bege,  advocacionem 
prefate  ecclesie  de  Hwitingham,  et  predicti  abbas  et 
prior  et  monachi  concesserunt  predicto  Radulfo  oraciones 
abbacie  sue. 


79.  DIMISSIO  CLEMENTIS  ABBATIS  DE  ECCLESIA  DE 
WHYTINGHAM. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  litteras  has, 
quod  ego,  Clemens,  abbas  ecclesie  beate  Marie  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  con- 
cessi  et  dedi  Gilandree,  clerico  de  Witingham,  tenere  de 
nobis  in  vita  sua,  in  elemosinam,  ecclesiam  ejusdem  ville 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  salvo  omni  jure  quod 
Ricardus,  clericus,  films  Willelmi  Corbeth,  in  eadem 
ecclesia  debet  habere.  Reddet  autem  prefatus  Ghilandre 
ecclesie  nostre,  singulis  annis,  pro  memorata  ecclesia, 
iij  solidos,  dimidium,  viz.,  ad  Pentecosten,  et  dimidium 
in  festo  sancti  Martini,  et  episcopalia  jura  persolvet. 
Hoc  autem  ei  concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos 
habuerit,  et  prescript um  censum  bene  reddiderit.  Si 
vero  forte  vi  vel  racione  contigerit  eum  prenominatam 

78.  1  The  names  of  these  three  justices  appear  in  the  Pipe 
Roll  of  Cumberland  for  this  year,  1187,  making  a  tallage  of  the 
King's  demesnes  in  that  county.  This  is  a  very  early  instance 
of  a  fine  or  final  concord.  On  early  fines,  see  Eng.  Hist.  Rev., 
xxv.  708-710. 


110  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

ecclesiam  amittere,  non  dabimus  ei  excambium.  Hiis 
testibus  Jocelino  capellano,  Ivone  decano  de  Coupeland, 
Jordano  clerico  de  Gosford,  Alexandro  clerico  Nunning- 
tona,  Walthefo  clerico  de  Briggham,  Rogero  clerico  de 
Kirkeby,  Rogero  clerico  de  castello,  et  multis  aliis. 

80.  DlMISSIO   EJUSDEM   DE   EADEM   ECCLESIA. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  legentibus  vel  audientibus  litteras 
has,  quod  ego,  Clemens,  abbas  ecclesie  beate  Marie  Ebora- 
censis,  cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri, 
concessi  et  dedi  Ricardo,  clerico,  filio  Willelmi  Corbet, 
tenere  de  nobis  in  vita  sua,  in  elemosinam,  ecclesiam  de 
Witingham  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis.  Reddet 
autem  isdem  R[icardus]  ecclesie  nostre  pro  memorata 
ecclesia  duos  annuos  solidos,  dimidium,  viz.,  ad  Penthe- 
costen,  et  dimidium  in  festo  beati  Martini,  et  episcopalia 
jura  persolvet.  Hoc  ei  concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter 
erga  nos  habuerit  et  prescriptam  pensionem  bene  reddid- 
erit.  Si  vero  forte  vi  vel  racione  contigerit  eum  prenomin- 
atam  elemosinam  amittere,  non  dabimus  ei  excambium. 
Testibus  hiis  Jocelino  capellano,  Adam  de  Rotomago, 
Gaufrido  portario,  Turgisio  de  cellar',  Gervasio  const ab- 
ulario. 

81.  DlMISSIO    ROBERTI    ABBATIS    DE    ECCLESIA    DE 
WHYTINGHAM. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  litteras  has, 
quod  ego,  Robertus,1  abbas  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi 
et  dedi  Alano  clerico  de  Cauplandia  medietatem  ecclesie 
de  Witingham,  in  elemosinam,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis. 
Retinemus  autem  in  manu  nostra  de  beneficiis  ejusdem 

81.  l  The  abbot  of  York  here  mentioned  is  probably  Robert 
de  Harpham,  1184-89,  and  not  Robert  de  Longo  Campo,  his 
successor  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  538). 


REGISTRLM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  III 

medietatis  v  solidos,  quos  predictus  Aflanus]  nobis  annua- 
tim  persolvet  ad  duos  terminos,  dimidium  ad  festum 
sancti  Martini,  et  dimidium  ad  Pentecosten.  Preterea 
sciendum  est  quod  si  Ricardus  de  Boivilla,  qui  alteram 
habet  medietatem  in  fatum  cedat  suppremum,  Aflano] 
clerico  vivente,  aut  quoquomodo  vacaverit  ilia  medietas, 
quam  jam  dictus  Rficardus]  tenet,  A[lanus]  clericus  in 
totam  ecclesiam  succedet,  reddens  annuatim  decem 
solidos  ad  duos  terminos.  Sciendum  est  itaque  quod 
episcopalia  jura  persolvet.  Hoc  ei  concedimus  quamdiu 
legaliter  se  erga  nos  habuerit  et  predictam  pensionem 
bcne  reddiderit.  Quod  si  vi  vel  racione  predictam 
possessionem  amiserit,  non  dabimus  ei  excambium. 
Hiis  testibus  Rogero  Bernulfi,  Roberto  Win,2  Thoma 
janitore,  Roberto  presbitero  de  Witebec,  Walthevo  de 
Penicton,  Walterio  Arundel,  et  multis  aliis. 

82.    CARTA    ROGERI    FILII    COPSI    DE    ECCLESIA    DE 

CORNEIA    CUM    PERTINENCIIS    SUIS.1 

2  Perhaps  Wlsi,  but  Robert  son  of  Ulf  seems  more  probable. 

82.  l  These  deeds,  Nos.  82-87,  afford  a  late  instance  of  the 
foundation  of  a  parish  church  in  Cumberland.  For  similar 
instances,  see  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  15-8.  The  gift  of  the  church 
of  Corney  in  the  south  west  of  the  county,  of  which  Copsi  was  the 
founder  (No.  86),  was  made  to  St.  Bees  while  Henry  Murdac  was 
Archbishop  of  York  (1147-1153).  The  subsequent  confirmations 
and  inquisitions,  which  form  this  series,  appear  to  have  taken 
place  in  1185,  with  which  date  all  the  parties  and  witnesses  agree. 
Godfrey  de  Lucy  (No.  87)  was  archdeacon  of  Richmond  (Bene- 
dictus  Abbas,  i.  334)  and  a  justice  on  circuit  in  Cumberland 
(V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  357)  in  that  year.  Before  him  an  agreement 
between  Alexander  (probably  an  error  for  Alan)  son  of  Benedict 
and  Christiane  daughter  of  Copsi,  the  Cristine  of  Cauplande  of 
No.  84,  was  made  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  358).  At  the  time  of  the 
inquisitions,  the  church  had  been  enjoyed  by  the  monks  during 
the  pontificates  of  three  Archbishops  for  thirty  years  and  more 
(No.  87).  This  statement  agrees  with  the  dates  above  indicated. 
It  will  be  observed  that  the  members  of  the  chapter  of  the  deanery 


112  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEG  A 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego, 
Rogerus  filius  Copsi,  concessi  et  present!  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  [Bege]  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  ecclesiam  de  Corneia,  quam 
Copsi,  pater  meus,  dedit  eis  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis 
suis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  absque  omni 
servicio  seculari,  pro  salute  anime  predicti  Copsi,  patris 
mei,  et  omnium  antecessorum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis 
Benedicto  de  Penigtona,  Alano  filio  ejus,  Roberto  decano, 
Thoma  presbitero  de  Wirkintona,  T.  persona  de  Dena, 
Gillemichel  de  Arlachadena,  Rogero  cappelano,  Willelmo 
capellano,  Ricardo  persona  de  Beckirmed,  et  pluribus 
aliis. 

83.  CARTA  BENEDICTI  DE  PENIGTONA  DE  ECCLESIA 
DE  CORNEIA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  suis. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis,  Benedictus  de 
Penigtona,1  salutem.  Notum  sit  vobis  me  dedisse  et  hac 

of  Coupland  did  not  change,  the  clergy  being  the  same  in  all  the 
deeds.  The  name  of  the  founder  was  perpetuated  in  a  parcel  of 
meadow,  called  Copsiholm,  till  a  late  date  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  558). 
83.  1  The  feudal  position  of  Benedict  of  Pennington,  lord  of 
Muncaster,  in  the  manor  of  Corney  is  not  quite  clear.  Corney  is 
in  the  lordship  of  Millom,  but  Muncaster,  being  north  of  the  Esk, 
is  not.  One  would  have  expected  the  confirmation  of  the  lord 
of  Millom  rather  than  of  the  lord  of  Muncaster.  But  the  Pen- 
ningtons  had  lands  in  Corney  at  this  date,  Langliferga,  Langli- 
vergh  or  Langley,  a  considerable  estate  in  that  parish  belonging 
to  them.  Meldred,  son  of  Gamel,  mentioned  in  No.  87,  gave  to 
the  canons  of  Conishead  una  mansura  in  Langliferga  with  the 
easements  of  that  vill  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  556).  For  the  later 
history  of  the  Pennington  connexion  with  Corney,  see  the  cal- 
endar of  Lord  Muncaster 's  manuscripts  in  Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rep., 
x.  App.  iv.  223-5).  It  was  at  "  Langalyver  in  Coplandia  "  that 
Bishop  Richard  of  Sodor  died  about  1275  (Chron.  Manniee, 
p.  116,  Manx  Soc.)  on  his  way  from  the  Council  of  Lyons.  The 
interest  of  the  Penningtons  in  Corney  may  be  explained  by  the 
next  charter,  where  see  the  note. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  113 

present!  carta  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  ecclesiam  de 
Corneia  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  pur  am  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  pro  salute  corporis  et  anime  mee 
et  uxoris  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum.  Testibus 
Roberto  decano,  Walt  he  vo  persona  de  Bricgaham,  Thoma 
presbitero  de  Wirkintun,  Turgisio  Dispensatore,  et 
pluribus  aliis. 

84.  CARTA  CRISTINE  DE  COUPLAND  ET  WALDEVI  DE 
ECCLESIA  DE  CORNAI  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

SCIANT  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego,  Cristina 
de  Cauplande  et  Waldevus1  vir  meus,  cum  co[n]silio  hered- 
um  et  amicorum  nostrorum,  quietum  clamavimus  coram 
multis,  fide  interposita,  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  beate 
Bege  si  quid  juris  habuimus  in  ecclesia  de  Co[r]nai,  quam, 
videlicet,  ecclesiam  Rogerus  films  Copsi  dederat  ante,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  Deo  et  sancte  Marie 
et  beate  Bege,  et  presenti  carta  nostra  confirmavimus, 
ita  quod  nos  nee  heredes  nostri  amplius  ullam  calump- 
niam  super  prefata  ecclesia  movere  poterimus.  Testibus 
hiis  Rogero  decano  de  Caupland,  Roberto  capellano, 
Ricardo  de  Boivill,  Alano  filio  Benedicti,  Waltero  fratre 
ejus,  Ricardo  filio  Roberti,  Rogero  filio  Bernulfi,  et  multis 
aliis. 

85.  CARTA   HORMI    FILII    ROGERI    DE    ECCLESIA  DE 
CORNAI. 

SCIANT  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego,  Hormus 

84.  x  Waldeve,  husband  of  Cristine  of  Cauplande  or  Christiane 
daughter  of  Copsi,  is  almost  certainly  the  Waltheve  of  Penicton 
who  witnessed  No.  81.  The  marriage  of  Waldeve  and  Christiane, 
together  with  the  agreement  in  1185  between  Alan  son  of  Bene- 
dict and  Christiane,  as  stated  in  the  note  to  No.  82,  will  explain 
the  origin  of  the  Pennington  connexion  with  Corney,  as  well  as 
Benedict's  confirmation  in  No.  83. 

I 


114  REGI'STRUM   PRIORATUS    DE!  SANCTA   BEGA 

filius  Roger! ,  cum  consilio  heredum1  meorum  et  ami- 
corum,  quietum  clamavi  coram  multis,  fide  interposita, 
Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  beate  Bege,  si  quid  juris  habui  in 
ecclesia  de  Cornai,  ita  quod  nee  ego  nee  heredes  mei 
amplius  calumpniam  super  predicta  ecclesia  movere 
poterimus.  Unde  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi. 
Testibus  hiis  Roberto  capellano  de  Cauplande,  Rogero 
decano,  Ricardo  de  Boiville,  Alano  filio  Benedict!,  Waltero 
fratre  ejus,  Rogero  filio  Bernulfi,  et  multis  aliis. 

86.     INQUISICIO  FACTA   DE  ECCLESIA   [DE]   CORNAI. 

VENERABILIBUS  patribus  suis  et  dominis  Y.  abbati, 
videlicet,  Jeravallis,  et  Willelmo,  priori  de  Botheltona,1 
major  ac  salvior  pars  capituli  Couplandie,  scilicet,  Thomas 
persona  de  Dena,  Gillemichel  persona  de  Arlachadena, 
Thomas  presbiter  de  Wirkintona,  Gilmer  persona  de 
Havarringtona,  Willelmus  capellanus  de  Cletertha,  Roger- 
us  presbiter,  Ricardus  persona  de  Beckirmeth,  Robertus 
presbiter  de  Puncuneby,  salutem  in  domino.  Quemad- 
modum  ut  rei  veritatem  excellencie  vestre  commisse 
diligenter  inquiratis  postulat  racio,  ita  nos  ad  perhi- 
bendum  testimonium  veritati  conpellit  caritas,  fere  enim 
ejusdem  criminis  participes  efftciuntur,  et  veritatem 
deprimentes  et  falsitatem  proferentes.  Unde  scriptum 

85.  *  It  is  probable  that  the  heirs  of  Orm  son  of  Roger  adopted 
the  name  of  Corney.     Early  in  the  thirteenth  century  the  terri- 
torial name  is  often  found.     Edward  of  Corney  was  steward  of 
Millom  when  Adam  son  of  Henry  was  lord   (No.   57)  :     Cicely 
widow  of  Edward  of  Corney  granted  in  fee  to  her  son  John  of 
Corney  all  her  land  in  the  vill  of  Quitebec  or  Whitbeck  which  had 
been  given  to  her  in  free  marriage  (D.  of  L.  Box  A.  No.  327)  : 
Ives  son  of  Arthur  of  Corney  owed  one  mark  to  the  Exchequer 
in  1235  f°r  a  false  claim  (Pipe  Rolls,  ed.  Parker,  p.  60).     For  the 
grants  of  Agnes  and  Amabel,   daughters  of  Michael  of  Corney, 
see  Nos.  443-4. 

86.  l  The  names  of  Y.  abbot  of  Jervaulx  and  William  prior  of 
Bolton  do  not  occur  in  Dugdale's  lists  (Mon.,  v.  567,  vi.  201-2). 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  115 

est  Oui  metu  potestatis  veritatem  occultat  ipsius  veritatis 
iracundiam  sibi  celitus  prov[o]cat.  Eapropter  vestre 
discrecioni  notificamus  quod  super  ecclesia  de  Corneia, 
videlicet,  quod  Copsi,  qui  erat  dominus  et  fundator 
ecclesie  de  Cornea,  eandem  ecclesiam  Deo  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  servientibus  Deo  in  faciem  capituli 
de  Cauplandie  dedit,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
in  tempore  Henrici  Murdaci  archiepiscopi,  et  ex  illo 
tempore  semper  annuatim  pensionem  habuerunt  sine 
alicujus  contradiccione.  Vidimus  eciam  Rogerum,  nlium 
et  heredem  prefati  Copsi,  supradictam  ecclesiam,  sicut 
donum  patris  sui  prefatis  monachis  carta  sua2  in  facie 
capituli  confirmare.  Valete. 

87.      [lNQUISl]CIO    FACTA    DE    ECCLESIA    DE    CORNAI. 

DOMINO  Godardo  de  Lucy1  archidiacono,  pocior  et 
major  pars  capituli  de  Egremund,2  salutem  :  scilicet, 
Thomas  de  Dene,  Robertus  de  Punzunby,  Willelmus  de 
Cleter,  Ricardus  de  Becchmeaz  (sic)  Rogerus  capellanus, 
Gillemichel,  T.  de  Wirchinton,  Willelmus  capellanus, 
Ailmferus]3  de  Hafrincton,  Gilleandreas,  presbiteri  : 
Layci  sunt  Getel  films  Wlf,4  Alanus  miles,5  Johannes 

-  For  Roger's  charter,  see  No.  82. 

87-  l  Archdeacon  of  Richmond  in  1185  (Benedictus  Abbas,  i. 
334)  :  Hardy's  Le  Neve  (iii.  141)  makes  him  archdeacon  of  the 
East  Riding  in  1189  when  he  became  Bishop  of  Winchester. 

2  Called  the  chapter  of  Coupland  in  No.  86. 

fi  Gilmer  in  No.  86  Elmer,  the  cognatus  of  Gospatric  son  of 
Orm  in  Nos.  32  and  34. 

4  There  are  no  charters  of  Ketel  son  of  Ulf  in  this  Register,  but 
his  name  occurs  as  a  witness  in  Nos.  223.  382  and  384. 

5  Alan  the  knight  is  a  puzzle.     The  deed  is  too  late  to  identify 
him  with  Alan  son  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale,  and  perhaps  too 
early  for  Alan  son  of  Benedict,  lord  of  Muncaster,  to  be  a  knight. 
Miles  is  probably  a  corruption  of  filius  eius  :    if  so,  it  is  meant 
for  Alan  son  of  Ketel  who  had  lands  in  Hensingham  and  Bolton. 
See  his  charter  No.  226. 


Il6  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

filius  Puncun  et  Ricardus  frater,6  Meldred  filius  Gameli7 
et  Benedictus  filius  ejus,  et  alii  multi,  tarn  clerici  quam 
layci,  testimonium  perhibent,  quod  ecclesia  de  Corneia 
pertinet  ad  sanctam  Begam  et  quod  persona  ex  tempore 
trium  archiepiscoporum  Eboraci  per  triginta  et  eo  amplius 
annos  pensionem  reddidit  monachis  sancte  Bege. 

88.  CARTA  ROBERTI  HAFRYNCTONA  DE  ECCLESIA  DE 
HAFRYNGTON  ETC. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego, 
Robertus  de  Hafrinctuna,1  cum  consilio  uxoris  mee 

6  John  son  of  Puncon  and  Richard  his  brother  often  occur  as 
witnesses  about  this  date.     To  the  grant  of  the  land  of  the  moor 
of  Skeldhou  to  the  monks  of  St.  Mary  in  the  Isle  of  Man  by 
Benedict  of  Penigtona  and  Meldred  his  brother,  among  the  wit- 
nesses are   Ives   dean  of   Coupland,   Adam  parson    of    Millum, 
Robert  priest  of   Punzunebi,   William   de   Essebi,    John  son   of 
Ponce  (filius  Poncii)  and  William  his  son,  Efward  son  of  Ulf  and 
Ketel  his  brother,  Richard  son  of  Ponce  (Ric.  filius  Poncii) ,  Hugh 
son  of  Efward  and  Alan  son  of  Ketel  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  546).     To 
the  confirmation  of  this  grant  by  Arthur  son  of  Godard,  lord  of 
Millom,  the  witnesses  are  Hardreus  abbot  of  Caldra,  Ives  dean  [of 
Coupland],   Benedict  de  Millum,   Robert  priest  of  Poncioneby, 
John  son  of  Ponce  and  William  his  son,  Efward  son  of  Ulf  and 
Ketel  his  brother,  Richard  son  of  Ponce,  Hugh  son  of  Efward, 
Alan  son  of  Ketel  and  others  (D.  of  L.  Cart.  Miscell.,  ii.  n).     John 
son  of   Puncon  appears  in  the   Pipe   Rolls   as   in   debt  to   the 
Exchequer  from  1177  to  1185  when  he  got  an  acquittance  after  his 
last  payment.     He  was  lord  of   Ponsonby  :     there  are  several 
charters  of  his  descendants  in  this  Register. 

7  Gamel,  the  patriarch  of  the  knightly  family  of  Pennington  of 
Muncaster,   was  a  benefactor  of  the   hospital  of   Conishead  in 
Lancashire,  his  gifts  being  afterwards  confirmed  by  Benedict  his 
eldest  son   (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.   556-7).     Benedict  of  Penington 
paid  a  fine  for  a  plea  in  Coupland  in  1185  (Pipe  R.  31  Hen.  II.). 
For  Meldred  his  brother,  see  note  on  No.  83. 

88.  1  The  grantor  appears  to  have  been  the  second  lord  of 
Harrington  whose  name  has  been  preserved.  The  pedigree  on 
the  Plea  Roll  of  1277  (De  Banco  R.  No.  21,  m.  43d.)  furnishes  a 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA. 

Cristiane  et  amicorum  meorum,  cum  assensu  heredum 
meorum,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  mea  carta  confirmavi 
Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupeland  et  mon- 
achis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  ecclesiam  de  Hafrincton,2 
cum  duabus  bovatis  terre  eidem  ecclesie  pertinentibus  et 
cum  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  a  me  et  omnibus  heredi- 
bus  meis  inperpetuum.  Ita  quod  nee  ego  nee  heredes 
mei  aliquod  dominium  poterimus  clamare  in  predictam 
ecclesiam.  Et  hanc  concessionem  feci  eis  pro  salute  mea 
et  omnium  benefactorum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Wal- 
tero  vicearchpdiacono]  Richemondie,  Roberto  decano, 
J.  persona  de  Botel,  Walthef  de  Dena,  Roberto  et  Michaele 
presbiteris,  Alexandro  clerico,  Alano  filio  Get  [el],  Roberto 
de  Landploc,  et  aliis  multis. 


useful  table  for  the  early  descents  of  this  family,  all  of  whom 
except  Osulph  appear  as  grantors  or  witnesses  in  this  Register. 
It  is  as  follows  : — 

OSULPH 

ROBERT  DE  HAFRINCTUNA  (No.  88) 
I 

I  I 

ADAM  THOMAS 

d.s.p.  | 

MICHAEL 

I 
ROBERT  DE  HAVERINGTON  (No.  89). 

Osulph,  sometimes  called  Aculf,  held  the  lands  in  Flimby  which 
Gospatric  son  of  Orm  gave  to  the  priory  of  Carlisle — "  totam  ter- 
rain quam  Aculfus  de  eo  tenuit  iuxta  Flemyngeby  inter  duas 
valles."  The  grants  of  Gospatric  to  the  monks  of  Holmcultram 
and  the  claims  of  the  Harringtons,  the  descendants  of  Aculf, 
form  an  interesting  series  of  deeds  in  the  Register  of  that  House. 

2  By  No.  32  Gospatric  son  of  Orm  confirmed  the  church  Half- 
ringtuna,  saving  the  incumbency  of  Elemer  the  clerk,  his  cognatus, 
during  life,  and  by  Nos.  34  and  36  the  confirmation  was  renewed 
by  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric. 


Il8         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

89.  RECOGNICIO  DE  PASTURA  IN  COMMUNI  DE  MORETON 
ET  WEDDAKER  ETC. 

NOVERINT  universi,  quod  cum  Robertus  de  Haverington1 
miles  tulit  breve  coram  domino  Hugone  de  Cressingham  et 
sociis  suis,  justiciariis  itinerantibus,  apud  Karl[iolu]m, 
in  crastino  animarum,  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  vicesimo2, 
versus  abbatem  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  quo  jure  idem 
abbas  exigebat  communiam  pasture  in  terra  dicti  Roberti 
in  Morton,  desicut  idem  Robert  [us]  non  habuit.communam 
in  terris  ipsius  abbatis.  Nee  idem  abbas  servicium  ei 
facit,  quare  communam  in  terra  ipsius  Roberti  habere 
debuit.  Tandem  ita  conventum  est  inter  eos,  quod  pre- 
dictus  Robertus  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis  concessit  quod 
dictus  abbas  et  successores  sui  habeant  et  teneant,  tan- 
quam  jus  ecclesie  sue  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  et  monachi 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupeland,  communam  pasture  propriis 
averiis  suis  ad  cellam  sancte  Bege  pertinentibus  in  pre- 
dicta  villa  de  Merton3  ubique  et  in  Weddaker4,  que  est 
hameleta  de  Morton,  sine  contradiccione  vel  impedimento 
dicti  domini  Roberti,  heredum  et  assignatorum  suorum 
imperpetuum.  Salvo  predicto  Roberto  et  suis  heredibus 
quod  possint  se  appruyare  in  terra  arabili  in  predicta 
hameleta  de  Wedaker,  et  in  culturam  redigere  et  pratum 
ubicunque  facere.  Salvo  predicto  abbati  et  successoribus 
suis  et  monachis  predictis  communam  pasture  in  terris  et 
pratis  apruyatis  post  vesturam  asportatam,  et  quod 
possunt  communare  cum  omnibus  propriis  averiis  suis 

89.  :  For  the  Robert  of  Harrington  of  this  date,  see  the  note 
on  No.  88. 

2  3  November,   1292. 

8  Merton,  Moreton,  Morton  or  Murton  in  the  parish  of  Lamplugh: 
see  Nos.  173  and  220. 

4  Wedaker  or  Weddaker,  here  called  a  hamlet  of  Murton,  had 
a  chapel  of  its  own  (No.  107)  and  was  an  independent  township 
of  the  parish  of  St.  Bees  supporting  its  own  poor.  It  is  now  allied 
with  Hensingham  for  ecclesiastical  purposes.  See  next  deed. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA  OBEGA  IIQ 

ad  cellam  sancte  Bege  pertinentibus  ubiqu€  super  moram 
predictam  cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu  ubi  averia  prefati 
Robert!  et  tenencium  suorum  de  Wedaker  communant 
quolibet  tempore  anni.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum 
predict!  domini  Robert!  presentibus  est  appensum.  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Thoma  de  Colewey,  domino  Johanne  de 
Hodeleston,  domino  Alano  de  Penyngton,  domino  Alano  de 
Coupeland,  domino  Thoma  de  Hyreby  militibus,  Hugone 
Moriceby,  Johanne  fratre  suo,  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Roberto 
de  Gosforde,  Willelmo  de  Rotington,  Johanne  de  Moring', 
Symone  de  Aynerset,  Willelmo  de  Walton  clerico,  et 
multis  aliis. 


90.  QUIETA  CLAMACIO  GlLLOMICHAELIS  DE  DECIMIS 
DE  WEDDAKER. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  audierint  vel  viderint  litteras  has, 
quod  post  multas  controversias  que  habite  sunt  inter 
fratres  de  sancta  Bega  et  Gillomichaelem1  et  fratres  de 
de  Kunigeshoved,2  ad  hoc  tandem  ventum  quod  pre- 
dictus  G.  quiet um  clamavit  quicquid  juris  habuit  super 
decimacionem  de  Wedaker,  et  prius  super  altare  sancte 
Bege  illud  offerendo,  et  postea  in  pleno  capitulo  prior 
vero  de  Kunigeshoved  et  fratres  ejusdem  loci  in  perpetuam 
possessionem  predictam  decimacionem  de  priore  sancte 
Bege  et  fratribus  ibi  commorantibus  pro  annuis  tribus 
solidis  tenebunt,  reddendo  dimidium  ad  Pentecosthen, 
et  dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  ;  hoc  eis  concedimus 
quamdiu  legaliter  se  erga  nos  habuerint  et  predictum 
censum  bene  reddiderint.  Hec  convencio  statuta  est 
inter  nos  tarn  communiter  per  fratres  nostros  quam 
archidiaconum  et  totum  capitulum. 

90.     Probably  the  parson  of  Arlecdon  (Nos.  77,  82,  86-7). 

2  The  hospital  of  Conishead  in  Lancashire,  not  yet  raised  to  a 
priory  of  Austin  canons.  The  deed  falls  in  the  last  quarter  of 
the  twelfth  century. 


120         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

91.  INDENTURA  FACTA  INTER  ABBATEM  ET  CONVENTUM 
MONASTERII  BEATE  MARIE  EBORACI  ET  PRIOREM  ET  CON- 
VENTUM DE  CONYNGESHEVED,  DE  DECIMIS  GARBARUM 
INFRA  PAROCHIAM  DE  WHITBEK. 

HEC  indentura  facta  inter  religiosos  viros,  abbatem  et 
conventum  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  ex  parte  una, 
et  priorem  et  conventum  domus  de  Conyngesheved, 
ordinis  sancti  Augustini,  Eboracensis  dioceseos,  ex  parte 
[alt era],  testatur,  quod  predicti  abbas  et  conventus  con- 
cesserunt  et  ad  firmam  dimiserunt  dictis  priori  et  con- 
ventui  omnes  decimas  garbarum,  quas  dicti  abbas  et 
conventus  infra  parochiam  ecclesie  de  Whitbek  in 
Coupland  dictis  priori  et  conventui  de  Conyngesheved 
appropriates]  percipere  consueverunt  vel  percipere  debe- 
bant,  ad  commodum  et  utilitatem  utriusque  domus,  pro 
decem  solidis  sterlingorum  prefatis  abbati  et  conventui 
monasterii  beate  Marie  antedicte  vel  priori  celle  sue  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland,  nomine  ipsorum  abbatis  et  conventus, 
infra  cellam  predictam,  singulis  annis,  ad  festa  sancti 
Martini  in  yeme  et  Pentecostes,  per  equales  porciones, 
vel  infra  quadraginta  dies  dicta  festa  immediate  sequentes, 
per  ipsos  priorem  et  conventum  de  Cunyngesheved 
perpetuis  futuris  temporibus  solvend[is],  sub  pena  dupli- 
[ci]  si  in  toto  vel  in  parte  defecerint  fabrice  dicti  monas- 
terii beate  Marie  Eboraci  applicand[a]  rata  similiter 
manente  convencione  seu  pacto  in  futurum  tarn  in  toto 
quam  in  parte  ;  ad  quam  quidem  firme  sive  redditus 
solucionem  annuam  prefatis  abbati  et  conventui  vel 
priori  predicto  dictis  locis  et  terminis  ut  premittitur 
faciend[am],  predicti  prior  et  conventus  de  Conynges- 
heved obligarunt  et  obligant  se,  monasterium  suum,  et 
omnia  bona  sua,  presensia  et  futura,  tam  spiritualia 
quam  temporalia,  ubique  existencia,  cohercione  et  dis- 
triccioni  judicis  cujuscumque  ecclesiastici  vel  secularis. 
Et  nos,  abbas  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci,  premissa  rata  et  grata  [habentes]  communi  et 


REGI STRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  121 

unanimi  assensu  nostro,  quatinus  ad  nos  at  tine  t,  promit- 
timus,  volumus,  et  concedimus  pro  nobis  et  successoribus 
nostris  ea  inperpetuum  firma  remanere.  Et  nos,  prior 
et  conventus  de  Cunygesheved  sepedicti,  premissa  rata 
et  grata  habentes,  communi  et  unanimi  consensu  nostro, 
quatinus  ad  observacionem  premissarum  per  reverendum 
virum  dominum  archidiaconum  Richemondie  vel  ejus 
official  [em]  nos  prior  et  conventus  predicti  sub  penis 
suspensionis,  excommunicacionis  in  priorem,  suppriorem, 
precentorem,  et  cellerarium  ejusdem  domus  nostre,  viz., 
si  in  aliquo  terminorum  dicte  solucionis  faciend[e]  et  per 
quadraginta  dies  habemus  terminum  proximo  sequentem 
defecerimus  vel  cessaverimus  ex  nunc  prout  ex  tune 
latarum  simus  condempnati.  Item  partes  predicte  volunt 
et  concedunt  pro  se  et  successoribus  suis  quod  quamdiu 
ista  convencio  sive  composicio,  fideliter  omnes  alie  con- 
venciones  sive  composiciones,  concernent[es]  decimas 
infra  parochiam  ecclesie  de  Witbek  predictam,  inter 
partes  predictas,  edite  sint  irrite  et  inanes  alioqui,  in  suo 
robore  perse verent.  In  quorum  omnium  et  singulorum 
testimonium,  nos,  abbas  et  conventus  predicti,  parti 
hujus  indenture  penes  dictos  priorem  et  conventum 
remansure,  et  nos,  prior  et  conventus  antedicti,  parti 
hujus  indenture  penes  prefatos  abbatem  et  conventum 
remansure,  sigilla  nostra  communia  apponi  fecimus 
alternatim.  Datum  quoad  nos,  abbatem  et  conventum 
monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci,  in  domo  nostra  capitulari 
sub  sigillo  nostro  communi,  tercio  decimo  die  mensis 
Augusti  anno  domini  millesimo  cccmo  octogesimo  septimo  : 
et  quoad  nos,  priorem  et  conventum  de  Cunyngesheved 
memorat[os],  in  domo  nostra  capitulari,  sub  sigillo 
nostro  communi,  vicesimo  quinto  die  mensis  Septembris 
anno  domini  supradicto.1 

91.  ^his  deed,  dated  13  August  1387,  touching  the  dispute 
about  the  tithes  of  Whitbeck  between  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  and 
the  canons  of  Conishead,  has  not  been  inserted  in  the  Register 
in  chronological  order. 


122  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

92.  CONCORDIA  INTER  ABBATEM  MONASTERII  .BEATE 
MARIE  EBORACI  ET  CONVENTUM  DE  CONIGHESHEVED  DE 
QUINQUE  SOLIDIS. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ccclesie  filiis,  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  R.  de  Longo  Campo,  abbas  sancte 
Marie  Eboraci,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra,  quod  cum  mota  esset  controversia  inter  nos  et 
canonicos  de  Kuningesheved  super  ecclesia  de  Witebec, 
tandem  considerantes  et  attendentes  paupertatem  pre- 
dicte  domus  de  Kuningesheved  in  hunc  modum  de 
communi  consensu  capituli  nostri  et  predictorum  canoni- 
corum,  mediante  eciam  magistro  H.  tune  temporis  archi- 
diacono  Richemondie,  talem  fecimus  composicionem, 
videlicet,  quod  nos  concessimus  memoratis  canonicis 
omne  jus  quod  habebamus  in  ecclesia  de  Witebec  in  per- 
petuum,  sine  ulluo  (sic)  impedimento.  Reddendo  inde 
annuatim  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  quinque 
solidos  ad  duos  terminos,  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti 
Martini,  et  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten.  Ita  quod  nos 
nichil  amplius  ab  eis  de  hac  ecclesia  poterimus  exigere, 
nee  ipsi  per  se  vel  per  alios  aliquid  machinabuntur  unde 
ecclesia  nostra  de  sancta  Bega  de  predicto  censu  aliquam 
sustineat  jacturam.  Et  ad  hujus  rei  majorem  firmitatem 
presentem  composicionem  utriusque  capituli  sigilli  apposi- 
cione  duximus  roborandam.  Hiis  testibus  magistro 
H.  archidiacono  Richmondie,  magistro  Johanne  officfiali] 
suo,  magistro  W.  de  Driffeld,  Thoma  de  Wilfton],  Petro 
de  Mon',  G.  de  Forset  decano,  G.  filio  suo,  Johanne  de 
Bainton,  Sampsonfe]  clerico,  Nicholao  clerico  de  Eboraco, 
et  ahis.1 

92.  x  The  church  of  Whitbeck  was  given  to  the  canons  of  Conis- 
head  by  Gamel  of  Pennington,  said  to  be  their  founder  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  vi.  557).  In  the  charter  of  confirmation  by  Archbishop 
Roger  of  York  (1154-81)  to  St.  Bees,  the  church  is  enumerated 
among  its  spiritual  possessions  (No.  107),  but  in  a  similar  instru- 
ment to  Conishead  by  Archdeacon  Honorius  of  Richmond  about 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         123 

93.  CARTA  CAPITULI  DE  CONINGHESHEVED  DE  QUINQUE 
SOLIDIS  PRO  ECCLESIA  DE  WHITTBEK. 

OMNIBUS  sancti  matris  ecclesie  filiis,  Thomas,  prior  de 
Cunengesheved  et  ejusdem  loci  conventus,  salutem  in 
domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  et  successores 
nostros  teneri  inperpetuum  in  quinque  solidis  annuis 
solvendis  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in  Caupeland,  nomine  con- 
cordie  facte  inter  nos  et  monachos  sancte  Marie  Eboraci 
super  ecclesia  de  Witebec.  Ita  quod  nuncquam  amplius 
nomine  predicte  ecclesie  exigere  possunt  a  nobis  vel  a 
nostris  successoribus.  Et  ut  hec  solucio  rat  a  inperpetuum 
habeatur,  earn  sigilli  nostri  apposicione  corroboravimus. 
Hiis  testibus  magistro  H.  archidiacono  Richmondie1, 
magistro  J.  officiali  Richmondie,  Rogero  clerico  de  Kent,. 
Ricardo  de  Boivill. 

94.  RECOGNICIO  DE  xs  (sic)  DE  WHITEBEK. 

PATEAT  universis  per  presentes,  quod  nos,  prior  et  con- 
ventus domus  de  Cunyngesheved,  ordinis  sancti  Augustini, 
Eboracensis  dioceseos,  ecclesiam  parochialem  de  Whitebec 

1199,  it  is  stated  that  he  confirmed  the  church  to  the  canons  as 
Archbishop  Roger  had  done  before  him  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  291). 
There  is  little  doubt  that  both  houses  had  rights  in  the  church 
as  the  composition,  recorded  in  this  deed,  shows.  The  date  is 
about  1199.  The  obligation  is  acknowledged  in  No.  93.  The 
advowson  of  the  church  was  in  dispute  in  1261  between  William 
de  Morthing,  plaintiff,  and  John,  prior  of  Conishead,  defendant, 
but  judgment  was  given  in  favour  of  the  prior,  and  William  was 
admitted  to  the  benefit  of  the  prayers  of  the  house  (Feet  of  F. 
Cumb.,  45  Hen.  III.,  No.  78).  In  1291  the  value  of  the  benefice 
was  taxed  at  ^10,  subject  to  a  pension  of  five  shillings  to  St.  Bees 
(Pope  Nich.  Tax.,  pp.  308-9)  :  and  in  1535  the  church  appears  as 
wholly  appropriated  to  Conishead  (Valor  Eccl.,  v.  271). 

93.  x  Roger  de  Hoveden  (R.S.,  iv.  52,  89,  158,  181-5)  has 
much  to  say  about  Honorius,  archdeacon  of  Richmond,  who 
figures  in  this  and  the  previous  deed.  Both  deeds  belong  to  the 
same  period,  about  1199. 


124  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

in  Coupland  [nobis]  et  dicte  domui  nostre  canonice  unitam 
•el  appropriatam  in  usus  proprios  optinentes,  ad  com- 
parendum  pro  nobis  et  nomine  nostro  coram  reverendo 
viro,  domino  archidiacono  Richmondie  seu  ejus  officiali, 
in  ecclesia  cathedrali  Eboraci  vel  aliby  infra  archidiacon- 
atum  Richmondie,  ....  et  ad  recognoscendum  nos  et 
dictam  domum  nostram  teneri  et  obligari  abbati  et  con- 
ventui  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  in  quodam  annuo 
redditu  decem  solidorum,  ....  necnon  ad  nos,  priorem 
•et  conventum,  ad  observacionem  omnium  et  singulorum, 
si  in  aliquo  termino  solucionis  hujus  faciend[e]  et  per  xl 
•dies  hujusmodi  termini  proxime  sequentis  defecerimus 
....  dilectum  nobis  in  Christo,  fratrem  Nicholaum  de 
Washington,  canonicum  dicte  domus  nostre,  nostrum  ver- 
um  et  legitimum  procuratorem  et  nuncium  specialem 

ordinamus,  ....  per     presentes In     cujus     rei 

....  Dat[um]  in  domo  nostra  capitulari  de  Cunyng- 
[esheved]  vicesimo  quinto  die  mensis  Septembris  anno 
domini  millesimo  cccmo  octogesimo  septimo. 


95.    INSTRUMENTUM  SIVE  PLACITUM  DE  WHITTEBEK. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  ad  quos  ....  presens  publicum  in- 
strument um  pervenerit,  Willelmus  de  Irby  incept  or  in 
decretis,  rector  ecclesie  parochialis  de  Medburn,  Lincoln- 
iensis  dioceseos,  ....  archidiaconi  Richmondie  offici- 
alis,  salutem  in  scinceris  amplexibus  dextere  salvatoris. 
Noverit  ....  quod  ....  dominus  Nicholaus  de  Was- 
sington,  canonicus  domus  sive  prioratus  de  Conyngeshed, 
•ordinis  sancti  Augustini,  archidiaconatus  Richmondie, 
....  procurator  religiosorum  virorum,  prioris  et  con- 
ventus  domus  ....  nomine  procuratorio  pro  eisdem 
coram  nobis  ad  jura  reddenda  pro  tribunali  sedentfibus] 
in  ecclesia  parochiali  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland,  .... 
vicesimo  secundo  die  mensis  Octobris,  anno  domini 
millesimo  ccc  octogesimo  septimo  ....  personaliter  in 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA.  125 

judicio  comparens,  quoddam  procuratorium  sibi  per 
dictos  priorem  et  conventum  factum  et  concessum  sigillo 
communi  dictorum  religiosorum  in  cera  rubea  pendent! 
sigillatum  manu  discreti  viri,  Thome  de  Killum,  clerici 
dicte  dioceseos,  public!  auctoritate  apostolica  notarii 
confectum  ....  coram  nobis  judicialiter  exhibuit,  .  .  . 
cujus  tenor  talis  est.  Pateat  universis  per  presentes, 
quod  nos,  prior  et  conventus  domus  de  Conyngeshed, 
ordinis  sancti  Augustini,  etc.,  as  in  No.  94.  Et  ego, 
Thomas  de  Killum,  clericus,  Eboracensis  dioceseos,  pub- 
licus  auctoritate  apostolica  notarius,  ....  personaliter 
presens  interfui,  eaque  sic  fieri  vidi  et  audivi  ....  per 
alium  scribi  feci  signoque  meo  et  nomine  consuetis  signavi 
rogatus  in  fidem  et  testimonium  premissorum.  Que  (sic) 
quidem  procuratorio  publice  perlecto  comparuit  person- 
aliter coram  nobis  dominus  Nicholaus  de  Warthill,  prior 
celle  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland,  predictorum  procurator] 
Religiosorum  virorum  dominorum  Abbatis  et  Conventus 
monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  predict.,  ac  quoddam 
procuratorium  per  dictos  dominos  Abbatem  et  Conventum 
sibi  factum  et  concessum  et  eorum  sigillo  communi  in 
cera  glauca  pendente  sigillatum  judicialiter  produxit  et 
exhibuit,  cuius  tenor  sequitur  in  hec  verba.  Noverint 
universi  per  presentes  quod  nos,  Abbas  et  conventus 
monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci,  ordinis  sancti  Benedict!. 
In  omnibus  causis  et  negociis,  litibus  et  querelis,  motis 
et  movendis,  nos  dictum  monasterium  nostrum  ecclesias 
seu  capellas  ac  pensiones  quascunque  nobis  qualiter- 
cunque  debit  as  conjunctim  et  divisim  quomodolibet 
contingentibus  seu  contingere  valentibus,  et  precipue  in 
quibuscunque  causis  que  inter  nos,  ex  parte  una,  et  religi- 
osos  viros  Priorem  et  Conventum  de  Conyngeshed,  ordinis 
sancti  Augustini,  Eboracensis  dioceseos,  ecclesiam  parochi- 
alem  de  Whytebec  in  Coupland  eisdem  priori  et  conventui 
unitam  et  annexam  in  usus  proprios  optinentes,  ex  altera, 
vertuntur  sen  verti  sperantur  coram  Reverend!  viri 


T26  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

do-mini  Archidiaconi  Rich[mondie]  Officialis  (sic)  in  ec- 
clesia  Ebor[aci]  vel  alibi  infra  Archidiaconatum  Richmond- 
ie,  ubi  idem  officialis  sedere  ad  jura  reddenda  consuevit, 
quociens  nos  abesse  vel  adesse  contigerit.  Dilectos  nobis 
in  Christo  fratres  Nicholaum  de  Warthill1  et  Thomam  de 
Stayngreue,2  cellarum  nostrarum  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland 
et  sancti  Martini  iuxta  Richmondiam  priores  conjunctim 
et  quemlibet  eorum  per  se  divisim  et  in  solidum  .... 
nostros  et  dicti  monasterii  nostri  procuratores  .... 
ordinamus,  ....  per  presentes,  dantes  et  concedentes 
....  potestatem  generalem  ....  Dat'  in  domo  nostra 
capitulari  ultimo  die  mensis  Septembris  anno  Domini 
millesimo  cccmo  octogesimo  septimo.  Quo  quidem  pro- 
curatorio  publice  perlecto  dictus  dominus  Nicholaus  de 
Wassyngton,  procurator  prioris  et  conventus  domus  de 
Conyngeshed  predictorum,  fatebatur  et  puplice  recognovit 
nomine  procuratorio  dictorum  dominorum  suorum,  quod 
ipsi  prior  et  conventus,  domini  sui,  et  eorum  successores 
ac  domus  tenentur  et  sunt  firmiter  obligati  prefatis 
dominis,  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii  beate  Marie 
predicte  et  eorum  successoribus  in  quodam  annuo  redditu 
decem  solidorum  solvendo  eisdem  singulis  annis  inperpetu- 
um,  locis  et  temporibus  in  quibusdam  indentatis  sigillo 
communi  dictorum  prioris  et  conventus  in  cera  rubea  pen- 
dente  sigillatis  quas  coram  nobis  judicialiter  exhibuit  plene 
specificatas,  quarum  tenor  sequitur  in  hec  verba.  Hec 
indentura  facta  inter  religiosos  viros,  abbatem  et  convent- 
urn  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci,  ex  parte  una,  et  pri- 
orem  et  conventum  domus  de  Conyngeshed,  ordinis  sancti 

95.  l  Nicholas  de  Warthill,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  only  occurs  in 
this  deed,  dated  22  Oct.,  1387,  in  this  Register. 

2  Thomas  de  Stayngrave,  found  here  as  prior  of  St.  Martin's 
near  Richmond,  a  cell  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  in  1387,  was  elected 
abbot  in  1389  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  539)  and  died  in  1398  (Cal.  of 
Pat.,  1396-9,  p.  290).  Nicholas  de  Stayngreve  often  occurs  in 
this  Register  (Nos.  251.  260-62,  321)  as  vicar  of  Kirkby  Lonsdale, 
a  church  appropriated  to  the  abbey. 


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Augustini,  ....  ex  parte  altera,  testatur  quod  predict! 
abbas  et  conventus  concesserunt,  etc.,  as  in  No.  91.  Qua 
perlecta,  dictus  dominus  Nicholaus  de  Wassyngton, 
procurator  predictus,  ....  omnia  et  singula  in  dictis- 
litteris  comprehensa  fideliter  adimplere  priorem  et  con- 
ventum  de  Conyngeshed  .  ...  in  prefato  annuo  redditu 
petiit  palam,  publice,  et  expresse.  Nos  igitur  officialis 
antedictus  ....  ad  peticionem  eciam  instantem  domini 
Nicholai  de  Warthill,  procuratoris  dictorum  dominorum, 
abbatis  et  conventus  beate  Marie  in  negocio  premisso 
duximus,  condempnandum,  ....  in  forma  que  sequitur 
verborum.  In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Nos,  Willelmus  de 
Irby,  archidiaconi  Richmondie  officialis,  te  Nicholaum 
Wassington,  canonicum  domus  sive  prioratus  de  Conynges- 
hed, ordinis  sancti  Augustini,  ....  procuratorem  .... 
prioris  et  conventus  dicti  prioratus  ....  ecclesiam 
parochialem  de  Whitebek  in  Coupland,  ....  dicte 
domui  sive  prioratui  canonice  unitam  et  appropriatam  in 
usus  suos  proprios  optinencium  fatentem  et  recognos- 
centem  dictos  dominos  tuos  et  eorum  domum  .... 
teneri  et  firmiter  obligari  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii 
beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  eorum  successoribus  in  quodam 
annuo  redditu  decem  solidorum  solvendo  eisdem  .... 
Quibus  sic  factis,  dictus  dominus  Nicholaus  de  Wassyng- 
ton, procurator  predictus,  ac  tactis  per  eundem  sacro- 
sanctis  Evangeliis  in  animas  dominorum  suorum  juravit 
prout  in  quadam  papiri  cedula  quam  in  manibus  suis 
tenebat  continebatur,  cujusquidem  continencie  tenor  talis 
est.  In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Ego,  Nicholaus  de  Wassyng- 
ton, ....  sententiam  precepti  et  condempnacionem, 
....  per  reverendum  virum  magistrum  Willelmum  de 
Irby,  ofhcialem  archidiaconi  domini  Richmondie  super 
quodam  annuo  redditu  decem  solidorum  per  dictos  dom- 
inos meos  et  eorum  successores,  abbati  et  conventui 
monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  vel  priori  celle  sancte 
[Bege]  eorum  nomine,  sponte  et  absolute  juxta  omnem 


128  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

vim,  formam,  et  effectum  earundem  indenturarum  sen- 
tentie  et  condempnacionis  palam  et  publice  subeo  et 
admitto.  Et  juro  ad  hec  sancta  Dei  evangelia  ....  In 
•quorum  testimonium  presentes  litteras,  sive  presens 
puplicum  instrumentum  per  Ricardum  Pittes,  clericum, 
Licolniensis  dioceseos,  publicum  auctoritate  apostolica 
notarium  .  .  .  .  et  registrarium  ....  Datum  et  actum 
anno,  indiccione,  pontificatu,  mense,  die,  et  loco  predictis. 
Presentibus  discretis  viris  dominis  Willelmo  de  Egremund* 
decano  Furnes[ii]  et  Couplandie,  Willelmo  rectore  ecclesie 
de  Haryngton,  Radulfo  Belle  et  Jacobo  Fychbothe 
capellanis,  Willelmo  Richmond  et  Thoma  Bowland  clericis, 
Johanne  Monkell,  Ricardo  Taylour  et  Benedicto  de 
Aysthwayt,  Eboracensis  dioceseos,  testibus  ad  premissa 
vocatis  specialiter  et  rogatis. 

Et  ego  Richardus  dictus  Pittes,  clericus,  Lincolniensis 
dioceseos,  puplicus  auctoritate  apostolica  notarius,  .... 
presens  interfui  eaque  omnia  et  singula  sic  ut  premittitur 
fieri  vidi  et  audivi  ac  de  mandate  dicti  domini  omcialis 
scripsi  puplicam  et  in  hanc  puplicam  formam  redegi 
signoque  meo  solito  et  consueto,  unacum  appensione 
sigilli  dicti  domini  officialis  consignavi  rogatus  et  requisitus 
in  fidem  et  testimonium  premissorum. 

"William  was  at  this  date  parson  of  Egremont  as  well  as 
dean  (No.  282),  but  was  preferred  to  Workington  on  26  November 
of  that  year  (1387)  by  the  Crown  (Col.  of  Pat.,  1385-9,  p.  369).  As 
"  persone  of  Wirkyngton,"  he  was  the  victim  of  ill-usage  by  some 
01  his  neighbours  in  1401  when  he  petitioned  the  Lord  Chancellor 
for  redress  (Early  Chancery  Proc.,  File  3,  No.  39).  For  a  fuller 
account  of  this  petition,  see  the  original  deed  and  my  translation 
in  Transactions  of  C.  6-  W.  Avchceol.  Soc.,  N.S.  x.  139-42.  As 
William  was  dean  of  Furness  and  Coupland  in  1387,  it  is  clear  that 
the  old  deanery  of  Coupland,  which  included  both  districts  in  1291 
(Tax.  Eccles.,  p.  308,  Rec.  Com.),  had  been  divided  at  some  inter- 
vening date.  The  new  taxation  was  assessed  on  the  single  area 
in  1334  (Ibid.,  p.  328),  but  in  the  assessment  schedules  in  Reg. 
Honor,  de  Richmond,  App.  pp.  76-7,  they  are  distinct  deaneries  : 
also  in  1535  (Valor  Eccles.,  v.  264-72) — Furness  appearing  under 
the  double  name  of  Furness  and  Cartmell. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

96.  CONVENCIO  INTER  PRIOREM  SANCTE  BEGE  ET 
ABBATEM  DE  CALDER  SUPER  TERCIAM  PARTEM  BONORUM 
INFRA  LIMITES  SUAS  INVENTORUM. 

Hoc  scriptum  testatur,  quod  cum  lis  esset  inchoata  in 
capitulo  Couplandie,  coram  official!  domini  archidiaconi 
Richemondie,  inter  dominum  abbatem  et  conventum  de 
Caldra,  ex  parte  una,  et  dominum  Nicholaum  tune  temp- 
oris  priorem  de  sancta  Bega,  procuratorem  abbatis  et 
conventus  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  legitime  constitutum,  ex 
alt  era,  cujus  procuratorii  tenor  talis  fuit.  Universis 
sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presentes  litteras  inspecturis 
vel  audituris,  S.,  permissione  divina,  abbas  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  conventus,  salutem  eternam  in 
domino.  Notum  facimus  universitati  vestre  quod  omnia 
et  singula,  que  dilectus  frater  noster,  Nicholaus,  prior 
celle  nostre  de  sancta  [Bega],  pro  commodo  et  utilitate 
dicte  celle  nostre  in  judiciis  vel  extra  duxerit  faciendfa] 
ratincamus  et  acceptamus.  Datum  Eboraci  die  Martis 
proximo  post  festum  sancti  Andree  apostoli,  anno  domini 
millesimo  ccmo  lmo  viij™.1  Super  tercia  parte  omnium 
bonorum  mobilium  parochianorum  predictorum  abbatis 
et  conventus  infra  limites  parochie  sancte  Bege  tempore 
mortis  inventorum,  necnon  super  decima  venacionis  et 
piscacionis  in  parco  de  Egremund.  Tandem  anno  domini 
millesimo  ccmo  lxma  viijvo,  die  Jovis  proximo  ante  Con- 
versionem  sancti  Pauli,2  in  pleno  capitulo  eodem  die  apud 
Egremund  celebrate,  lis  conquievit  in  forma  subscript  a, 
viz.,  quod  predictus  prior,  pro  se  et  ecclesia  sua  de  sancta 
Bega  et  abbate  et  conventu  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  in- 
perpetuum  concessit  prenotatis  abbati  et  conventui  de 

96.  l  The  date  here  printed,  3  Dec.  1258,  agrees  with  the  manu- 
script, but  it  is  probably  a  scribal  error  for  1268.  The  earlier 
date,  however,  is  consistent  with  the  incumbency  of  St.  Mary's, 
York,  by  Simon  de  Warrewik,  who  had  the  temporalities  on  25 
July,  1258  (Pat.  Rolls,  1247-58,  pp.  640,  642). 

2  24  January,   1269. 

K 


I3O  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

Caldra  et  ecclesie  sue,  quod  de  omnibus  bonis  mobilibus 
parochianorum  ipsorum  abbatis  et  conventus  de  Caldra 
in  parochia  de  sancta  Bega  tempore  mortis  ipsorum  par- 
ochianorum consistentibus,  dicti  abbas  et  conventus  de 
Caldra  et  ecclesia  sua  terciam  partem,  tercie,  libere,  et 
integre  percipiant,  sine  aliqua  contradiccione,  reclamacione 
yel  juris  vendicacione  ipsius  prioris  vel  abbatis  et  con- 
ventus sancte  Marie  Eboraci.  Dum  tamen  dicti  paroch- 
iani  predictorum  abbatis  et  conventus  de  Caldra  nullum 
certum  domicilium  habeant  in  parochia  sancte  Bege, 
predicti  vero  abbas  et  conventus  de  Caldra  concesserunt 
pro  se  et  ecclesia  sua  de  Caldra  predictis  priori  et  abbati 
et  conventui  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  quod  de  cetero  sine 
aliqua  contradiccione  et  impedimento,  omni  tempore 
libere  percipiant,  vel  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit,  decimam 
tocius  venacionis  similiter  et  piscacionis  in  parco  de 
Egremund  pro  quadam  summa  pecunie  quam  in  ista 
composicione  predictis  abbati  et  conventui  predictus 
prior  de  sancta3  Bega  pacavit.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
utraque  pars  parti  alterius  in  modum  Cirograffi  confecti 
una  cum  sigillo  domini  officialis  sigillum  suum  apposuit. 
Teste  pleno  capitulo. 


97.  CONCORDIA  IN[TER]  PRIOREM  SANCTE  BEGE  ET 
CONVENTUM  DE  CALDER  DE  DECIMIS  DE  BEKERMET. 

NOVERINT  universi  quod  cum  inter  religiosos  viros, 
dominos  abbatem  et  conventum  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci,  ecclesiam  parochialem  sancte  [Bege],  Eboracensis 
dioceseos,  in  usus  suos  proprios  optinentes,  ex  parte  una, 

8  Prior  Nicholas  here  may  be  identified  with  Prior  Nicholas  de 
Langton  of  Nos.  179,  403,  and  479.  His  incumbency  of  St.  Bees 
is  particularized  in  this  Register  from  1258  (Nos.  144,  157  and  418) 
to  1282  (No.  408),  intervening  dates  being  found  in  Nos.  406  and 
427.  This  prior  followed  the  happy  rule  of  dating  most  of  his 
charters. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     13! 

ac  abbatem  et  conventum  de  Caldra,  ejusdem  dioceseos, 
ecclesiam  parochialem  sancti  Johannis  de  Bekermet1  in 
usus  suos  proprios  optinentes,  ex  altera,  dissencio  seu 
brige2  materia  super  decimis  garbarum  et  de  nutrimentis 
animalium,  viz.,  pullanorum,  agnorum,  vitulorum,  por- 
corum,  et  quorumcunque  aliorum  animalium  domitorum 
seu  mansuetorum  qualitercumque  depascensium  seu 
cubancium  infra  parcum  domini  de  Egremund  apud 
Egremund  eamdem,  ubicunque  ex  parte  orientali  infra 
parcum  predictum  quandocumque  provenientibus,  sub- 
orta  fuisset,  parte  predict orum  abbatis  et  conventus  beate 
Marie  Eboraci  pretendente  quod  abbates  et  conventus 
ejusdem  monasterii,  pre[de]cessores  sui,  et  eorum  monas- 
terium,  videlicet,  dicta  ecclesia  parochialis  sancte  Bege, 
et  ipsi  nomine  ejusdem  per  se  et  suos,  precipue  per  priores 
celle  sue  sancte  Bege  predicte,  fuerint  notor[ie]  in  plena, 
pacifica,  canonica,  et  sufficienti  possessione  vel  quasi 
juris  percipiendi  omnes  et  singulas  et  decimas  tarn  majores 
quam  minores  qualitercumque  et  quandocumque  proveni- 
entes  de  quibuscumque  terris,  possessionibus,  pascuis, 
pasturis,  rebus  et  animalibus,  existentibus,  depascentibus 

97.  l  The  church  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  of  Bechirmet  was 
appropriated  to  the  abbey  of  Caldra  by  licence  of  Archbishop 
Godfrey  de  Ludham  of  York  on  19  Dec.  1262.  The  licence  was 
to  take  effect  on  the  death  or  cession  of  William  the  rector.  The 
patronage  was  already  in  possession  of  the  monks  but  as  they 
alleged  in  their  petition  it  was  of  little  value  to  them  inasmuch 
as  they  were  not  free  to  present  a  parson,  for  when  they  obliged 
one  local  potentate  they  incurred  the  displeasure  of  many.  The 
Archbishop  granted  the  petition  on  the  ground  that  the  church 
was  near  the  house  (domui)  of  Caldra  and  the  parish  of  St.  Bridget 
which  was  already  appropriated  to  it  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  v.  341). 
By  reason  of  this  appropriation  the  jurisdiction  of  Calder  extended 
to  the  borders  of  the  parish  of  Egremont  which  belonged  to  the 
priory  of  St.  Bees.  The  dispute  between  the  two  houses  in  1327 
over  the  tithe  of  sheaves  and  trespa?s  in  the  park  of  Egremont 
was  settled  according  to  the  terms  of  this  interesting  agreement. 

2  briga,  a  dispute  ;    Fren.  brigue  ;   etymology  unknown. 


132  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA. 

et  cubantibus  quomodolibet  ubicumque  tarn  ex  parte 
occidental!  aque  de  Eghen  quam  ubicumque  ex  parte 
orientali  ejusdem  aque  infra  parcum  predictum  a  tempore 
et  per  tempus,  cujus  contraria  memoria  non  existit  nee  ex- 
titit  tempore  discordie  dicte  inchoate,  totumque  predictum 
parcum  esse  et  fuisse  de  parochia  et  infra  loca  decimacionis 
dicte  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  per  tempora  suprascripta, 
predictis  autem  abbate  et  conventu  de  Caldra  e  contrario 
asserentibus,  demum  dicta  dissencio  amicabiliter  con- 
quieverat  et  est  in  hunc  modum  sopita,  videlicet,  quod 
predict!  abbas  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci,  nomine  dicte  ecclesie  sue  sancte  Bege,  percipiant 
et  habeant  jure  suo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege,  ut  predicitur, 
omnes  et  singulas  decimas  supradictas  inperpetuum, 
absque  reclamacione  seu  impedimento  abbatis  et  con- 
ventus de  Caldra  predictorum,  aut  nomine  seu  ex  parte 
ipsorum  faciendo.  Et  insuper  iidem  abbas  et  conventus 
de  Caldra  renunciarunt  pure,  sponte,  simplicitur,  et 
absolute  omnibus  accionibus,  peticionibus,  articulis,  et 
querelis,  et  in  integrum  restitucionibus  et  impetracionibus 
et  nominatim  impetracioni  litterarum  sacrosancte  sedis 
apostolice  que  dicuntur  ea  que  de  bonis  tarn  in  majore 
quam  in  minori  formis  et  omnibus  aliis  et  singulis  juris  et 
facti  remediis  si  que  eis  unquam  competebant  aut  com- 
petere  poterant  seu  poterunt  per  que  effectus  premissorum 
jus  et  possessio  dictorum  abbatis  et  conventus  monasterii 
beate  Marie  Eboraci,  ut  premittitur,  concernencium, 
impedire  valeat  differri  seu  quomodolibet  enervari. 
Et  predict!  abbas  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci  concesserunt  pro  bono  pacis,  tranquillitatis,  et 
quiet atis  super  premissis  perpetuo  habendarum,  quod  si 
contingat  animalia  qualiacunque  parochianorum  ecclesie 
sancti  Johannis  de  Bekermet  casualiter,  propter  defectum 
negligencium  custodum,  et  contra  voluntatem  et  preter 
scienciam  ipsorum  parochianorum,  intrare  dictum  parcum 
et  inibi  depasci  tali  modo  qui  wlgariter  dicitur  Wythover- 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  133 

lepe3  et  quibusdam  vocatur  Wyth£schape,  quod  de 
illis  animalibus  sic  intrantibus  et  depascentibus  ipsum 
parcum  non  exigatur  decima  ex  parte  abbatis  et  conventus 
monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  nomine  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  predict e.  Si  vero  contingat  hujusmodi  animalia 
qualiacumque  agistari  vel  pro  eis  aut  eorum  herbagio 
quicquam  solvi  aut  licenciam  qualemcumque  gratuitam 
seu  voluntariafm]  seu  toleranciam  predict!  domini  de 
Egremund  seu  ministrorum  suorum  sive  claudatur  dictus 
parcus  sive  non  claudatur  infra  predictum  parcum  depasci, 
quod  predicti  abbas  et  conventus  de  Caldra  concesserunt 
quod  liceat  prefatis  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii  beate 
Marie  Eboraci,  nomine  sue  ecclesie  sancte  Bege,  exigere 
decimas  a  quibuscumque  habentibus  hujusmodi  animalia 
inibi  depascencia  pro  tempore  seu  rata  temporis  quo 
inibi  depascantur.  Consenserunt  eciam  tarn  predicti 
abbas  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  quam 
abbas  et  conventus  de  Caldra  predicti,  quod  si  contingat 
dictum  parcum  non  cludi  infra  quatriennium  proximo 
futurum,  et  animalia  parochianorum  predicte  ecclesie 
sancti  Johannis  inibi  depasci,  quod  predicti  abbas  et 
conventus  recipiant  et  habeant,  nomine  conduccionis  et 
ex  locacione  predictorum  abbatis  et  conventus  monasterii 
beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  nomine  eorumdem  et  ecclesie  sue 
sancte  Bege,  fructus  decimales  provenientes  de  animalibus 
dictorum  parochianorum  ecclesie  sancti  Johannis  de 
Bekermet,  que  depasci  contigerit  infra  .dictum  parcum 
infra  dictum  quatriennium,  videlicet,  solvendo  in  festo 
Pentecostes  et  sancti  Martini  per  equales  porciones 
singulis  annis  ipsius  quatriennii  duos  solidos  argenti 
nomine  decime  supradicte  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii 
beate  Marie  Eboraci,  in  recognicionem  juris  et  possessionis 

3  These  two  local  terms  have  not  been  met  with  elsewhere. 
They  seem  to  mean  a  fine  for  trespass,  wite  being  a  mulct  or  penalty. 
The  word  still  lingers  in  the  Cumberland  dialect  as  weyte  in  the 
sense  of  blame. 


134  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

abbatis  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et 
ecclesie  sue  sancte  Bege,  ut  superius  annotantur.  Pre- 
dictique  abbas  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci  concesserunt  pro  bono  pacis,  tranquilitatis,  et 
quietis  perpetuo  habendarum,  et  ad  evitacionem  licium, 
amfractuum,  laborum,  sumptuum,  et  expensarum,  peri- 
culorum  animarum  et  aliorum,  que  contingere  possent 
ex  brigis  et  dissencionibus  memoratis,  solvere  predictis 
abbati  et  con  vent  ui  de  Caldra  viginti  marcas  argenti.  In 
quorum  testimonium  predicte  partes  presentibus  litteris 
indentatis  sigilla  sua  alternatim  apposuerunt.  Actum 
et  datum  Eboraci  die  Martis  proximo  post  festum 
sancti  Valentini  martiris,4  anno  gracie  millesimo  cccmo 
xxvj°.  Et  datum  consignacionis  per  dictos  abbatem  et 
conventum  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  die  dominica 
in  festo  beate  Petri  quod  dicitur  Cathedra,5  anno  domini 
predicto.  Et  datum  consignacionis  per  abbatem  et 
conventum  de  Caldra,  videlicet,  per  abbatem  de  Caldra, 
die  sabbati  proximo  ante  festum  beati  Petri  predictum6 
et  per  ejusdem  loci  de  Caldra  conventum,  die  Jo  vis 
proximo  post  predictum  festum,7  anno  domini  supradicto. 

98.    INQUISICIO  DE  CAPELLA  DE  CLIFTON. 

UNIVERSIS    Christi    ndelibus    has    litteras    visuris    vel 
audituris,  R.  decanus,1  G.  penitenciarfius]2  J.  Romanus8 

4  17  February,   1327. 

5  Sunday,  22  Feb.,   1327. 

6  21   Feb.         726  Feb. 

98.     1  Roger  de  Insula,  dean  of  York  (Hardy,  Le  Neve,  iii.  121). 

2  This  must  be  Geoffrey  of  Norwich,  who  is  called  precentor  in 
No.  103. 

3  This  cannot  be  John  le  Romeyn,  who  became  Archbishop  of 
York  in  1286,  but  the  canon  of  York  of  that  name,  who  figures  in 
Matthew  Paris  from  1232  till  his  death  in  1255  or  1256.     In  one 
place   (Chron.  Majora,  v.  534)   he  describes  him  as  "  avarus  et 
cavillosus,  dives  valde  et  senex,"  and  in  another  (Ibid.,  v.  544) 
as  "  hominum  avarissimus." 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  135 

canonicus  Eboraci,  in  vero  salutari  salutem.  Mandatum 
domini  pape  in  hec  verba  suscepimus  :  Honorius  epis- 
copus,  servus  servorum  Dei,  dilectis  filiis  decano,  peni- 
tenciario,  canonico  Eboraci,  salutem  et  apostolicam 
benediccionem.  W.  rector  ecclesie  de  Wirkyngton  nostro 
apostolatui  est  conquestus,  quod  T.  rector  ecclesie  de 
Dene,  Eboracensis  dioceseos,  corpora  parochianorum 
suorum  villarum  de  Clifton  [blank  in  MS.]  ad  ecclesiam 
suam  tradere  presumit  ecclesiastice  sepulture  in  suum 
prejudicium  et  gravamen.  In  aliis  gravis  eidem  et 
injuriosus  exist  ens.  Quocirca  discrecioni  vestre  per 
apostolica  scripta  mandamus  quatinus  partibus  convo- 
catis  audiatis  causam  et  appellacione  remota  fine  debito 
terminetis,  facientes  quod  decreveritis  per  censuram 
ecclesiasticam  firmiter  observari.  Testes  autem  qui 
fuerint  nominatim,  si  se  gracia,  odio  vel  timore  subtrax- 
erint,  per  districcionem  ecclesiasticam,  cessante  appell- 
acione, cogatis  veritati  testimonium  perhibere.  Et  si 
non  omnes  hiis  exequendis  potueritis  interesse  duo  ves- 
trum  ea  nichilominus  exequantur.  Datum  Rome  apud 
sanctum  Petrum  xv  Kalendas  Maii,  pontificatus  nostri 
anno  tercio.4  Hujus  igitur  auctoritate  mandati,  partibus 
in  presencia  nostra  constitutis,  et  inter  easdem  lite  sol- 
lempniter  contestata,  testes  huic  inde  admisimus  demum 
puplicatis  attestacionibus  et  auditis  allegacionibus  et 
racionibus  hinc  inde  propositis,  quia  tarn  per  dicta  testi- 
monia  quam  per  puplica  instrumenta  nobis  plene  constitit 
de  intencione  memorati  W.  probata,5  communicato 
virorum  prudencium  et  juris  peritorum  consilio,  corpora 
defunctorum  cum  pertinenciis  in  utraque  villa  que 
dicitur  Clifton  ad  ecclesiam  de  Wirkyngton  tanquam  ad 
matricem  ecclesiam  jure  parochiali  debere  pertinere 
sentencialiter  adjudicamus.  In  hujus  autem  rei  testi- 

4  17  April  3  Honorius  iii.   1219. 

5  William  rector  of  Workington  and  Thomas  rector  of  Dean 
often  occur  in  the  Register  about  this  date. 


136  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

monium  huic  script o  sigilla  nostra  apposuimus.  Hiis 
testibus  magistro  Mauricio  canonico  Eboraci,  Roberto 
de  Schegenesse  senescallo  abbatis,  Johanne  de  Bovinthon 
clerico,  Sampsone  clcrico,  et  aliis.6 

99.  RECOGNICIO  CAPELLE  DE  CLIFTON. 

SCIANT  omnes  tam  futuri  quam  presentes,  quod  ego, 
T.  clericus  de  Dene,  coram  abbate  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco 
et  ejusdem  loci  conventu,  et  coram  Waltero  de  Marisco 
officiali  archidiaconatus  Richemondie,  et  coram  Roberto 
decano  Couplandie,  et  coram  multis  aliis,  clericis  et  laicis, 
tactis  sacrosanctis,  juravi  quod  nu[n]cquam  in  vita  mea 
movebo  calumpniam  super  capella  de  Clifton,  et  quod 
corpora  defunct  orum  de  Clifton  nu[n]cquam  efferri 
faciam  ad  ecclesiam  meam  de  Dene,  in  prejudicium  pre- 
dictorum  monachorum  de  Eboraco  et  in  prejudicium 
matricis  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton,  et  quoniam  predictos 
monachos  aliquando  in  juste  vexavi  pro  jam  dicta  capella 
de  Clifton,  in  qua  nullum  jus  poterit  clamari  nomine 
ecclesie  de  Dene,  eisdem  plene  satisfacere  volui  exhibendo 
eis  presentem  cart  am  sigillo  meo  signatam.  Hiis  testibus 
magistro  Waltero  de  Marisco  tune  officiali  Richmondie, 
Thoma  de  Melsis,  Roberto  decano  de  Coupland,  Alano 
filio  Ketelli,  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Rogero  persona 
de  Kirkebiyrlid,  Alano  fratre  ejus,  Gamello  de  Clifton, 
Johanne  de  Botle,  et  multis  aliis.1 

100.  DlMISSIO    CAPELLE    DE    CLIFTON. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  litteras  has, 

(;  For  early  chapelries  in  Cumberland  and  their  dependence  on 
the  mother  church,  see  Viet.  Hist,  of  Cumb.,  ii.  17-8.  In  1263 
Bishop  Robert  of  Carlisle  had  a  plea  in  the  King's  Court  against 
James,  parson  of  Dene,  for  holding  a  plea  in  the  Court  Christian 
of  the  advowson  of  the  church  of  Clifton  against  the  prohibition 
(Curia  Regis  Roll,  No.  173,  m.  5d.). 

99.     J  This  deed  is  the  result  of  the  im/uisicio  of  No.  98. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  137 

quod  ego,  C.,  abbas  sancte  Marie  Eboracensis,  cum  com- 
muni  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi  et  dedi 
Walthef1  filio  Thome  clerici  de  Dene  capellam  de  Cliftona, 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  tenere  de  nobis  in  vita  sua 
in  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Reddet  autem  nobis  pre- 
nominatus  Walthef,  singulis  annis,  duos  solidos,  dimidium 
ad  Pentecosten,  et  dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini,  et 
onera  episcopalia  persolvet.  Hoc  ei  concedimus  quamdiu 
se  legaliter  erga  nos  habuerit,  et  predictam  pensionem 
bene  reddiderit.  Si  vero  contingat  eum  vi  vel  racione 
prefatam  capellam  amittere,  non  dabimus  ei  exscambium. 
Testibus  hiis  Deodato  priore  de  sancta  Bega  et  Willelmo 
priore  de  Wederale,  Mudac  decano,  Roberto  decano  de 
Coupland,  Walthef  persona  de  Briggam,  J.  presbitero  de 
Vochemanby,  T.  de  Camertona,  Adam  persona  et  Adam 
presbitero  de  Morelund,  Herbert o  de  Thibei,  Turgisio 

100.  1  The  date  of  Walthef 's  appointment  to  the  chapel  must 
lie  between  1161  when  Clement  became  abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  and 
1184  when  he  died  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  538).  But  the  mention  of 
Herbert  de  Thibei  as  a  witness,  who  succeeded  to  his  land  in  Tibei 
in  1178  (Pipe  Rolls,  ed.  Hinde,  p.  164),  narrows  the  date  to  1178-84. 
Deodatus,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  and  William,  prior  of  Wederale,  are 
not  found  elsewhere.  The  witness,  J.  priest  of  Vochemanby, 
supplies  proof  of  the  existence  of  an  early  chapel  of  Uckmanby, 
now  Allhallows,  a  township  in  the  parish  of  Aspatria.  The 
original  deed  of  Bishop  Barrow,  dated  16  February,  1424-5, 
touching  this  chapel,  printed  by  Nicolson  and  Burn  (ii.  150-57), 
is  now  at  Hesleyside,  but  the  duplicate  "  in  the  archives  of  Rose  " 
cannot  now  be  found.  An  earlier  appointment  to  the  chapel  of 
Clifton  by  Abbot  Clement  is  at  No.  363.  The  patronage  of  the 
chapel  was  confirmed  to  the  monks  of  York  by  Archbishop  Roger, 
1154-81  (No.  107)-  In  1219  Thomas,  rector  of  Dean,  caused  no 
small  stir  in  that  locality  by  persuading  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Two  Cliftons  to  bury  their  dead  in  his  churchyard,  whereat  the 
rector  of  Workington  made  a  successful  protest  (Nos.  98  and  99). 
By  a  notarial  instrument,  dated  19  Oct.  1365,  it  was  declared  that 
the  chapel  was  dependent  on  the  mother  church  of  Workington 
and  was  obliged  to  pay  a  yearly  pension  of  two  shillings  to  the 
abbey  of  St.  Mary's,  York  (No.  216). 


138  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

dispensatore,  Rogero  diacono,  magistro  Adam  de  Roto- 
mago,  Richardo  filio  Eustachii,  Stephano  de  Mythona, 
Galfrido  portario,  Gervasio  constabulario,  et  multis  aliis. 

101.      DlMISSIO  ECCLESIE   DE  WlRKYNGTON. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  litteras  has, 
quod  ego,  Robertus,1  [abbas]  ecclesie  beate  Marie  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi 
et  dedi  Willelmo,2  clerico,  filio  Thome  de  Wirkinton, 
tenere  de  nobis  in  vita  sua  in  elemosinam  ecclesiam 
nostram  de  Wirkinton,3  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis. 

101.  l  Robert  de  Longo  Campo,  elected  in  1189  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  Hi.  538). 

2  William  son  of  Thomas  de  Wirkinton,  that  is,  son  of  Thomas 
son  of  Gospatric,  lord  of  Workington,  and,  therefore,  a  brother 
of  Patrick  son  of  Thomas  or  Patrick  de  Wirkinton,  who  ultimately 
succeeded  to  the  lordship.  As  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric,  the  first 
of  the  witnesses  and  father  of  the  presentee,  died  in  1201  (Rot.  de 
Oblat.,  pp.  157,  194),  William's  presentation  to  the  benefice  must 
have  taken  place  before  that  date.  As  parson  of  Workington  and 
dean  of  Coupland,  William  is  often  found  in  this  Register.  In 
1225  he  proved  before  Archbishop  Walter  Gray  that  he  did  not 
succeed  his  father  in  Workington,  because  his  father  was  only 
the  "  farmer  "  of  that  church  and  not  the  rector  (Reg.,  p.  3, 
Surtees  Soc.),  and  in  1227  he  witnessed  an  agreement  between 
Abbot  Robert  of  York  and  Patric  son  of  Thomas  de  Wirkington 
about  pasture  in  Staynburn  (No.  338). 

8  The  church  of  St.  Mary  (Nos.  432-6),  Workington,  was  given 
to  the  monks  of  St.  Mary,  York,  with  two  ploughlands  and  the 
mill  of  the  town  by  Chetell  or  Ketel  son  of  Eldred  with  the  consent 
of  Cristiane  his  wife  and  William  his  son  (No.  212).  As  there  is 
no  mention  of  the  priory  of  St.  Bees  in  the  grant,  it  was  probably 
made  before  its  foundation.  The  grant,  however,  was  confirmed 
to  the  priory  as  well  as  the  abbey  by  Ranulf  Meschin,  lord  of 
Coupland,  and  by  Gospatric  son  of  Orm  son  of  Chetell  (Nos.  4, 
32,  34)  :  also  by  Archbishop  Roger  of  York,  1154-81  (No.  107). 
Thomas  son  of  Gospatric  made  several  additions  to  the  benefac- 
tions of  his  ancestors  tht  he  might  be  a  participator  in  the  prayers 
and  masses  sung  in  that  church  (Nos.  35  and  36).  Though  the 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  139 

Retinemus  autem  in  manu  nostra  de  beneficiis  ejusdem 
ecclesie  dimidiam  partem  decime  piscium  et  quatuor 
marcas  argenti,  quas  prefatus  W.  nobis  annuatim  persol- 
vet  ad  duos  terminos,  dimidium,  scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten, 
et  dimidium  in  festo  beati  Martini.  Preterea  sciendum 
est  quod  idem  W.  tarn  abbati  quam  omnibus  monachis 
et  eorum  servientibus  venientibus  Wyrkinton,  hospit- 
andi  gracia,  hospicium  et  necessaria  honest e  exhibebit,  et 
episcopalia  jura  persolvet,  et  omnia  onera  sustinebit. 
Hoc  ei  concedimus  quamdiu  legaliter  erga  nos  habuerit 
et  prescriptam  pensionem  bene  reddiderit.  Si  vero  con- 
tingat  eum  vi  vel  racione  prenominatam  ecclesiam  amit- 
tere,  non  dabimus  excambium.  Testibus  hiis  Thoma 
filio  Gospatrici,  Thoma  herede  suo,  magistro  Michaele  de 
Clavill,  Thoma  de  Melsa,  Waltero  de  Bovyngton,  magistro 
Rogero,  Walthef  decano,  Roberto  de  Haveryngton, 
Thoma  de  Brunnefeld,  Thoraldo  capellano,  et  multis  aliis. 

102.  INQUISICIO  FACTA  DE  DECIMIS  ET  MINUTIS  OB- 
LACIONIBUS  DE  SORESCAL  ET  MOLKORKYN. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  R.  decanus,  G.,  et  magister  J.  Romanus 
canonicus  Eboraci,1  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  univer- 
sitas  vestra  quod  cum  coram  nobis,  auctoritate  litterarum 
domini  Honorii  pape  tercii,  questio  verteretur  inter  abbat- 
em  et  conventum  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  ex  una  parte,  et 

monks  had  the  advowson,  the  church  remained  a  rectory.  Before 
the  parson  was  admitted,  however,  he  was  obliged  to  sign  a  bond 
for  the  payment  of  a  yearly  pension  to  the  monks  and  for  other 
matters  (Nos.  213-1).  In  recent  centuries  this  church  has  been 
reputed  as  entitled  in  the  name  of  St.  Michael. 

102.  l  For  the  parties  mentioned  in  this  deed,  see  the  notes 
on  No.  98,  but  the  date,  owing  to  change  in  the  names  of  the 
rectors  of  Dean,  is  some  years  later,  but  not  later  than  1227,  when 
Honorius  III.  died. 


140  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

R.  rectorem  ecclesie  de  Dene2,  ex  altera,  super  decimis  et 
oblacionibus  minutis  de  Forescales3  et  Molcorkilne,  quas 
dicti  abbas  et  conventus  ad  ecclesiam  suam  de  sancta 
Bega  de  jure  spectare  dicebant,  et  a  prefato  R.,  rectore 
ecclesie  de  Dene,  injuste  occupatas  et  detentas,  partibus 
tandem  in  presencia  nostra  constitutis,  post  placita 
edicta  a  nobis  proposita,  dictus  R.  rector  ecclesie  de  Dene, 
in  grave  anime  sue  periculum,  nolens  diet  am  ecclesiam 
sancte  Bege  jure  suo  super  dictis  decimis  et  minutis 
oblacionibus  in  aliquo  ulterius  defraudare,  spontanea 
voluntate  in  presencia  nostra  in  jure  constitutus,  con- 
fessus  est  se  in  dictis  decimis  et  minutis  oblacionibus 
nullum  jus  habere,  nee  ad  ecclesiam  de  Dene  in  aliquo 
spectare,  et  easdem  decimas  et  minutas  oblaciones  ad 
diet  am  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  pleno  jure  protestabatur, 
omni  juri,  quod  dicebat  se  habere  in  dictis  decimis  et 
minutis  oblacionibus  spontanea  voluntate  renuncians. 
Idem  R.  sacramento  corporaliter  prestito,  promisit  se 

2  The  name  of  this  rector  occurs  only  in  this  deed  and  that  which 
follows. 

8  In  this  and  the  next  deed,  Forescales  is  probably  a  scribal 
error  for  Sorescales  :  the  name  occurs  as  Sorachegil  in  No.  230. 
It  is  now  Sosgill.  The  two  vills  formed  a  small  township  in  the 
parish  of  St.  Bees  between  Dean  and  Loweswater.  In  1208 
Richard  de  Alneburg  exchanged  a  ploughland  in  Saurescall  and 
Moldcarkyn  with  Richard  de  Lucy,  lord  of  Egremont,  and  in  the 
same  year  Lucy  settled  certain  claims  of  Alan  de  Penning  ton  at 
Ravenglass  by  the  grant  of  privileges  in  Saurescal  and  Moldcorkin 
(Pedes  Finium,  Cumb.,  pp.  10-13,  Rec.  Com.).  Molkerkin  tarn 
was  known  in  1230  as  the  lake  called  Thermeran  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb. 
15  Hen.  III.  No.  12),  and  in  1343  as  Ternmeran  (Cal.  of  Close, 
1343-6,  pp.  237,  258).  This  isolated  district  is  the  centre  of  a 
group  of  Welsh  legends  which  make  Molkerkin  the  site  of  the  city 
and  castle  of  Morken,  king  of  the  Cumbri.  Jocelyn  of  Furness 
(Vita  Kentegerni,  pp.  197-9,  Hist,  of  Scot.)  states  that  the  King 
was  buried  in  his  royal  town  of  Thorpmorken.  The  legends  have 
gained  in  amplitude  among  the  local  inhabitants  and  given 
occasion  to  several  ballads. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  141 

extunc  nee  per  se  nee  per  alium  dicte  ecclesie  sancte  Bege 
super  dictis  decimis  et  minutis  oblacionibus  aliquam 
controversiam  moturum  vel  procuraturum,  et  unde  jus 
dicte  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in  dictis  decimis  et  minutis 
oblacionibus  in  aliquo  perturbetur.  Ne  autem  ea,  que 
coram  nobis  acta  sunt,  in  posterum  possint  revocari4  in 
dubium,  presenti  pagine  sigilla  nostra  una  cum  sigillo 
predicti  R.  duximus  apponenda. 

103.  RECOGNICIO  DE  DECIMIS  ET  MINUTIS  OBLACIONI- 
IBUS  DE  SOURESCHALIS  ET  MOLKORKLYN. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  'presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  R.  decanus,  et  G.  precentor,  et  magister  J. 
Romanus  canonicus  Eboracensis,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra,  quod  cum  inter  abbatem  et 
conventum  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  ex  una  parte,  et  R. 
rectorem  ecclesie  de  Dene,  ex  altera,  super  decimis  et 
minutis  oblacionibus  de  Forescales1  et  Molkorkilne,  auc- 
toritate  litterarum  domini  Honorii  pape  tercii,  coram  nobis 
questio  verteretur,  dictus  R.,  in  presencia  nostra  in  jure 
constitutus,  spontanea  voluntate,  confessus  est  se  in 
dictis  decimis  et  minutis  oblacionibus  nullum  jus  habere, 
nee  ad  ecclesiam  suam  de  Dene  jure  parochiali  spectare, 
viz.,  easdem  ad  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege,  que  est  dictorum 
abbatis  et  conventus,  pleno  jure  protestabatur.  Quare 
eas  in  manus  nostras  et  in  manus  dicti  abbatis  in  jure 
resignans,  omni  juri,  quod  dicebat  se  aliquando  habuisse 
in  dictis  decimis  et  minutis  oblacionibus,  sponte  renuncia- 
vit  ;  sacramento  eciam  corporaliter  prestito,  promisit 
se  fideliter  ex  tune,  nee  per  se  nee  per  alium,  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  aliquam  in  posterum  moturum  controversiam 
vel  procuraturum,  unde  jus  dicte  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in 

4  denotari  or  perhaps  devocari  in  No.  103. 

103.  l  See  note  in  No.  102.  Though  written  Forescales  in 
both  deeds,  the  nomenclature  of  the  rubrics  is  more  trustworthy. 


142  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

•dictis  decimis  et  minutis  oblacionibus  in  aliquo  possit 
perturbari.  Ne  autem  ea,  que  coram  nobis  acta  sunt,  in 
posterum  possint  denotari  in  dubium,  presenti  pagine 
sigilla  nostra  una  cum  sigillo  predicti  R.  duximus  appon- 
enda. 


104.    INQUISICIO  FACTA  DE  DECIMIS  DE  THAKTHWAYT. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  has  litteras  visuris  vel  audit- 
uris,  R.  decanus1  ecclesie  Eboracensis,  et  W.  sancte 
Trinitatis,2  et  B.  sancti  Andree,8  Eboraci,  priores,  eternam 
in  Deo  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra,  nos  mandat- 
um  domini  Honorii  pape  tercii  in  hec  verba  suscepisse  : 
Honorius  episcopus,  servus  servorum  Dei,  dilectis  nliis, 
sancte  Trinitatis  et  sancti  Andree  prioribus  et  decano 
Eboracensi,  salutem  et  apostolicam  benedeccionem.  Sua 
nobis  abbas  et  conventus  sancte  Marie  Eboracensis  con- 
questione  monstrarunt,  quod  T.  clericus  de  Brigham,4 
Robertus  et  Rogerus,  laici,  Eboracensis  dioceseos,  super 

104      l  Roger  de  Insula  as  in  No.  98. 

2  W.  prior  of  Holy  Trinity,  York,  does  not  appear  in  Dugdale's 
list  of  priors  of  this  house.  Stephen  was  admitted  prior,  he  says, 
in  1231  (Mon.,  iv.  681),  and  was  probably  successor  to  W. 

8  There  is  no  list  of  priors  of  St.  Andrew,  York,  in  the  Mon- 
asticon,  vi.  962. 

4  The  townships  of  Mosser  and  Thackthwaite  were  the  occasion 
of  this  ecclesiastical  dispute.  The  rector  of  Brigham  claimed 
the  tithing  against  St.  Bees.  No  doubt,  Robert  and  Roger  here 
mentioned  were  the  lords  of  the  respective  townships.  In  1230 
Roger  de  Lindeby  was  lord  of  Thacthwayt  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb. 
15  Hen.  III.  No.  12),  and  in  1246  Roger  son  of  Margaret  held  land 
in  Mosergh  (Ibid.,  30  Hen.  III.  No.  49).  If  Roger  son  of  Margaret 
was  lord  of  Mosser  in  1246,  he  must  have  been  a  descendant  of 
Adam  de  Mosergh  who  was  enfeoffed  of  the  manor  by  Richard 
de  Lucy  of  Egremont.  For  the  deed  of  enfeoffment,  see  Illus. 
Doc.  No.  xxvin.  The  result  of  the  dispute  (No.  105)  shows  that 
neither  township  was  in  the  parish  of  Brigham  :  their  feudal 
relations  were  with  Egremont  and  not  with  Cockermouth. 


REGISTRJM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  143 

redditibus  et  rebus  aliis  injuriantur  eisdem.  Quo  circa 
discrecioni  vestre  per  apostolica  scripta  mandamas, 
quatinus,  partibus  convocatis,  audiatis  causam  et  appel- 
acione  remota  fine  debito  terminetis,  facientes  quod 
decreveritis  per  censuram  ecclesiasticam  firmiter  observ- 
ari.  Testes  autem  qui  fuerint  nominati,  si  se  gracia, 
odio,  vel  timore  subtraxerint,  per  censuram  eandem, 
cessante  appellacione,  cogatis  veritati  testimonium  per- 
hibere.  Quod  si  non  omnes  hiis  exequendis  potueritis 
interesse  duo  vestrum  nichilominus  exequantur.  Datum 
Lateran'  vi  idus  Octobris,  pontificatus  nostri  anno  tercio.5 
Hujus  auctoritate  mandati,  T.  rectore  ecclesie  de  Brigham 
et  procuratore  dictorum  abbatis  et  conventus  in  presencia 
nostra  constitutis,  controversia  inter  eos  mota  amicabili 
composicione  coram  [nobis]  conquievit  in  hunc  modum, 
scilicet,  quod  predictus  T.  rector  ecclesie  de  Brigham 
dimisit  et  quietas  clamavit  inperpetuum  omnes  decimas 
bladi  et  leguminis,  et  omnes  minutas  decimas,  et  omnes 
proventus  ecclesiasticos,  et  omnia  jura  parochialia  de 
Tacthwayte  predictis  abbati  et  conventui  sine  ullo  retene- 
mento  et  pro  bono  pacis,  et  pro  decimis  et  obvencionibus 
de  Moserge  solvet  dictus  T.  annuatim  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  unam  libram  incensi  boni  die6  sancte  Bege  apud 
sanctam  Begam.  In  hujus  rei  testimonium  nos  presens 
scriptum  sigillis  nostris  una  cum  sigillo  predicti  T.  corro- 
boravimus.  Actum  Eboraci  in  majore  ecclesia,  septimo 
idus  Octobris,7  anno  Incarnacionis  Domini  m°  ccmo  xxmo. 
Hiis  testibus  magistris  J.  Romano  et  Mauricio  canonicis 
Eboraci,  et  Johanne  Jeremie  tune  decano  civitatis  Eboraci, 
magistris  A.  de  Claxt'  et  T.  de  Langwath,  Sampsone 
clerico  domini  abbatis  et  aliis. 

5 10  October,   1218. 

6  The  day  of  St.  Bega  is  uncertain,  6  Sept.,  22  Nov.,  or  17  Dec. 
See  fuller  note  on  No.  227. 

7  9  October,   1220. 


144  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

105.  CONCORDIA    DE    DECIMIS    DE   THAKTHWAYT. 

SUB  hac  pads  forma  conquievit  controversia  mota  inter 
abbatem  et  conventum  sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  ex  una 
parte,  et  R.  procuratorem  Thome,  rectoris  de  Brigham. 
Datum  ad  componendum  die  Jovis  proxima  post  festum 
sancti  Bartholomei  apostoli1  in  majore  ecclesia  Eboraci, 
scilicet,  quod  predictus  T.  dimisit  et  quietas  clamavit 
inperpetuum  omnes  decimas  bladi  et  leguminis  et  minu- 
tas  et  omnes  proventus  ecclesiasticos  de  Thacthwait  pre- 
dictis  abbati  et  conventui  sine  ullo  retenemento  et  pro 
bono  pacis  ;  nomine  decimarum  de  Moserge  solvet  annu- 
atim  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  unam  libram  incensi  boni  et 
legalis  die  sancte  Bege.  Estimacio  autem  garbarum  et 
leguminis  de  Thacthwait  presentis  autumpni  anni,  vide- 
licet, Incarnacionis  Domini  millesimi  ccmi  xxmi,  solvetur 
dictis  abbati  et  conventui  infra  instans  Natale.  Ad 
istam  composicionem  confirmandam  datum  est  dies 
Jovis  proximus  post  sinodum  in  majori  ecclesia  Eboraci, 
et  eo  die  comparebit  dictus  Th.  vel  ejus  procurator,  ad 
istam  composicionem  confirmandam  sufncienter  in- 
struct us. 

106.  CONCORDIA  INTER  THOMAM  LUCY  DE  PASTURA 
DE  LAWSWATIR. 

CUM  contencio  mota  esset  inter  dominum  Thomam  de 
Lucy1  filium  quondam  Alani  de  Multon,  ex  una  parte, 

105.  l  27  August,  1220. 

106.  l  For  the  coming  of  the  Multons  to  Egremont,  see  note 
on  No.  50.     In  the  award  of  1230  between  the  heiresses  of  Richard 
de  Lucy,  Loweswater  was  apportioned  to  Alan  de  Multon  and 
Alice  de  Lucy  his  wife  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.  15  Hen.  III.  No.  12), 
whose  son  Thomas,  here  mentioned,  adopted  his  mother's  name  of 
Lucy  to  distinguish  him  from  Thomas  son  of  Lambert  de  Multon 
his  cousin.     Alice  de  Lucy  died  in  1288  when  Thomas  her  son 
succeeded  to  her  estates  (Cal.  of  Fine  R,,  i.  245-6). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  145 

et    Benedictum2    priorem   sancte    Bege   in    Coupland   et 
monachos  ibidem  Deo  servientes,  ex  altera,  de  hoc  quod 
idem  Thomas  fecerat  unum  novum  parcum  in  communa 
pasture  eorundem  monachorum  infra  divisas  de  Lows- 
water,3    et    viam    illorum    obst[r]uxerat,    que    ducit    de 
capella  de  Lows  water  ad  Dupwath4  versus  Brakanthweit. 
Predicta  contencio  in  hunc  modum  conquievit  die  veneris 
proxima  post  Invencionem  sancte  Crucis,  anno  domini 
millesimo  ccmo  octogesimo  sexto,5  videlicet,   quod   idem 
Thomas  dictum  parcum  omnimodo  prosterneret,  ita  quod 
nee  ipse  Thomas  nee  heredes  sui  nee  aliquis  pro  eis  seu 
per   eos   predictum   parcum   vel   ejus   aliquam    partem, 
contra  voluntatem  dictorum  monachorum  in  posterum, 
levarent  nee  facerent  nee  fieri  permitterent.     Verump- 
tamen   de   parco   veteri   facto   per  Alanum   de   Multon, 
patrem  dicti  Thome,  nichil  curavit  sternere.     Concessit 
itaque  predictus  Thomas  et  remisit  et  hoc  scripto  suo 
confirmavit  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis,  in  pur  am  et  perpet- 
uam  [elemosinam],  prefatis  monachis  et  eorum  success- 
oribus  et  omnibus  hominibus  suis  habere  viam  prenota- 
tatam  (sic)  linialiter  de  capella  de  Lowswater  usque  ad 
Dupwath  ad  carras  et  carrectas  eorum  et  ad  omnia  alia 
necessaria    per    viam    faciend[am]    omnibus    temporibus 
anni ;   quod  licite  et  sine  contradiccione  vel  impedimento 
ejusdem  Thome  vel  heredum  suorum  vel  quorumcumque, 
per  eos  vel  pro  eis  possint  ducere  animalia  sua,   cum 

2  Benedict,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  occurs  also  in  No.  407,  which  is 
dated  n  Nov.  1282.  His  incumbency,  therefore,  included 
ii  Nov.  1282 — 10  May  1286. 

8  For  the  donors  of  Loweswater  to  the  monks,  see  Nos.  28-9  and 
75. 

4  The  old  park  made  by  Alan  de  Multon,  and  its  extension  by 
Thomas   de   Lucy  his   son   still   survive   on   the   Ordnance   Map 
(Ixiii.,    s.w.)    as   High   Park   and   Low   Park.     Dupwath   is   now 
represented  by  Park  Bridge,  the  lower  portion  of  Dub  Beck  being 
now  called  Park  Beck. 

5  Jo  May,   1286. 

L 


146  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

necesse  fuerit,  de  capella  de  Lowswater  usque  ad  Kirke- 
heved  et  ad  pasturam  suam  secundum  quod  carte  prede- 
cessorum  predict!  Thome  plenius  proporta[n]t  et  testa[n]- 
tur.  Salvis  racionabilibus  emendis  de  dampnis  factis  in 
pratis  vel  in  bladis  vicinorum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
dictus  T.,  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis,  presenti  script o  sigillum 
suum  apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Thoma  de  Cur- 
wen,  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Ricardo  de  Flemmyng, 
mm'tibus,  Johanne  de  Lucy,  Roberto  de  Landplog', 
Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Willelmo  de  Punconby,  Roberto  de 
Gosford,  et  aliis. 

107.  [CONFIRMACIO  ROGERI  ARCHIEPISCOPI  EBORA- 
CENSIS  DE  SINODIS  ET  AUXILIIS  NON  SOLVENDIS.] 

ROGERUS/  Dei  gracia,  Eboracensis  archiepiscopus  et 
apostolice  sedis  legatus,  omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie 
nliis,  salutem  in  Christo  Jesu.  Sciat  universitas  vestra 
nos  presenti  carta  confirmasse'2  abbati  et  monachis  sancte 
Bege  omnes  ecclesias  et  capellas  et  decimas,  quas  habent 
infra  Couplandiam,  cum  omnibus  terris  et  pertinenciis 
eorundem  :  videlicet,  ecclesiam  de  Wyrchynton,  capellam 
de  Haveryngton,  capellam  de  Clyfton,  capellam  de 
Loswater,  ecclesiam  de  Goseford,  ecclesiam  de  Cornay, 
ecclesiam  de  Botell,  ecclesiam  de  Wytebek,  ecclesiam  de 
Wytyngham,  capellam  et  decimas  de  Wedaker,  ad  susten- 
tacionem  domus  sancte  Bege  et  monachorum  usibus 
omnibus  modis  pro  futuris.  Concessimus  autem  eis  ut 

107.     l  Roger  of  Pont  1'Eveque,  1154-81. 

~  The  isolation  of  St.  Bees  in  the  vast  diocese  of  York  may 
explain  the  singular  coincidence  that  this  deed  is  the  only  archie- 
piscopal  confirmation  in  the  Register.  The  origin  of  the  advow- 
sons  of  the  churches  and  chapels  here  enumerated  will  be  found  ; 
Workington,  in  Nos.  4,  212 ;  Harrington,  No.  32 ;  Clifton,  Nos. 
98-100 ;  Loweswater,  Nos.  28-9,  75  ;  Gosforth,  No.  27  ;  Corney, 
Nos.  82-7  ;  Bootle  and  Whicham,  No.  76  ;  Whitbeck,  Nos.  91-5; 
and  Weddicar,  Nos.  89-90. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  147 

ecclesia  sancte  Bege  libera  sit  et  quieta  imperpetuum, 
tarn  a  synodis  quam  ab  omni  auxilio  archiepiscopi  et 
archidiaconi.3  Insuper  eciam  potestatem  dedimus  pre- 
dictis  monachis  sancte  Bege,  ut  si  quis  clericorum  suorum 
infra  Couplandiam  redditum  seu  pensionem  seu  aliquod 
jus  eis  detinere  presumpserit,  libere  eum  constringant, 
scilicet,  vel  suspensione  divini  officii  vel,  si  causa  popos- 
cerit,  expulsione  ecclesiastici  beneficii.  Testibus  hiis 
domino  Gilberto  abbate  de  Selby,  Roberto  decano  et  toto 
capitulo  sancti  Petri  Eboraci,  Alano  de  Pykeryng,  Adam 
de  Thornour  et  aliis. 

108.  QUANTUM  AD  CANTARIAM  DE  LOUND'  INVENI- 
ENDAM. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  pateat  per 
present es,  quos  nos  J.,1  permissione  divina,  abbas  monas- 

8  The  churches  in  the  deanery  of  Coupland  belonging  to  St. 
Bees  were,  like  the  rest,  subject  to  archidiaconal  procurations  and 
synodals,  but  "  denarii  S.  Petri  non  dantur  in  Cowpland."  Of 
the  procurations  due  from  the  church  of  St.  Bega,  it  is  stated  that 
"  allocantur  hae  procurations  pro  esculentis  et  poculentis  cum 
venit  ibi  Archidiaconus."  St.  Bees  also  paid  a  pension  of  "  vjs. 
viijd.  ad  festum  S.  Martini  pro  carterio  vel  conductore  ad  aquam, 
si  necesse  sit"  (Reg.  Honoris  de  Richmond,  pp.  76-7).  Officials, 
lay  and  ecclesiastical,  seem  to  have  had  an  objection  to  pass 
Duddon  Sands.  One  of  the  justices  itinerant  excused  himself 
for  going  on  circuit  in  Cumberland  in  1262  as  well  on  account  of 
the  distance  of  the  place  as  "  propter  distemperantiam  aeris 
meae  complexioni  valde  discordantem  "  (Royal  Letters,  ii.  222, 
R.S.).  In  the  same  year  the  church  of  Arlokedene  was  appropri- 
ated to  the  use  of  the  Archdeacon  of  Richmond,  as  he  had  no 
"  receptacle  "  for  himself  and  his  officials  in  that  deanery  when 
they  ventured  "  per  loca  sabulosa  et  aquarum  inundationes  et 
varias  tempestates  "  to  discharge  their  duties  there  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  v.  341).  From  an  early  period,  therefore,  Cumberland  had 
the  reputation  of  enjoying  an  obstreperous  climate. 

108.  *  John  de  Gylling,  sometime  prior  of  Wetheral,  was  abbot 
of  St.  Mary,  York,  from  1303  to  1313  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  538). 


348  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

terii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  conventus 
tenemur  et  obligamur  invenire,  sumptibus  nostris,  umim 
capellanum  secularem  ad  celebrandum  divina  perpetuis 
temporibus  in  capella  de  Loundo2  situata  extra  cellam 
nostram  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia,  vel  infra  ipsam 
cellam,  si  contingat,  dictam  capellam  aliquo  casu  interdici, 
pro  anima  domini  Walteri  Dayncourt,  rectoris  ecclesie 
de  Plumland,3  Karliolensis  dioceseos,  et  animabus  parent- 
urn  suorum  et  omnium  fidelium  defunctorum,  pro  terris 
et  tenementis  que  fuerunt  quondam  et  Ad'  de  Wytegyft4 
in  villa  de  Staynburn,  quas  et  que  predictus  rector  nobis 
donari  fecit  et  suis  sumptibus  fieri  procuravit  ad  cantariam 
hujusmodi  inveniendam,  et  pro  aliis  beneficiis  nobis  ob 

2  Perhaps  Lund  or  Lound,  a  hamlet  of  Murton  or  Moreton,  in 
the  parish  of  Lamplugh,  where  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  had  pro- 
prietary rights   (Nos.   89,   173,   220)-      In  1374  the  escheator  in 
Cumberland  was  ordered  to  remove  the  King's  hand  from  lands 
in    Stayneburne,    Hensyngham    and    other    places    because    the 
ancestors  of  the  Deyncourtes  (antecessores  de  Deyncourtes)iounded 
a  chantry  at  the  Lund  by  St.  Bede,  to  which  they  gave  divers 
lands  in  Stayneburne  and  elsewhere  to  find  there  one  chaplain 
celebrating  divine  service  for  the  souls  of  the  king  and  his  ances- 
tors and  the  ancestors  of  the  Deyncourtes  (de  les  Deyncourtes), 
and  though  the  said  chantry  was  long  time  withdrawn  and  no 
chaplain  was  found  there,  the  King  reckoned  the  causes  insuffi- 
cient for  him  to  seize  the  lands  which  were  worth  ^10  a  year  (Cal. 
of  Close,    1374-77,   p.    53).     There  was  a  chapel  or  chantry  at 
Dundragh  and  Neuton,  founded  by  Gilbert  de  Dundragh,  knight, 
in  a  similar  predicament,  with  the  same  result.     The  chapel  or 
oratory  in  Stainburne  was  the  occasion  of  a  dispute  in   1407 
(Illus.  Doc.  No.  LXXXIV.). 

3  Walter  Dayncourt  was  rector  of  Plumbland  in  1277,  when 
John  de  Arkilby  arraigned  against  him  an  assize  of  novel  disseisin 
touching  common  of  pasture  in  Plumbland   (Dep.   Keep.   Rep., 
xlvj.  App.  ii.  254),  and  died  in  1310  (Carl.  Epis.  Reg.  Halton, 

MS.  ff.  134-5). 

4  Adam    de   Wytegift   was   apparently   the   originator   of   the 
project  for  founding  the  chantry.     In  Nos.  345-6,   John  son  of 
Adam  de  Whitgift  gave  lands  in  Stainburn  to  Abbot  Gilling  and 
his  convent,  lords  of  that  township. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  149 

hoc  per  ipsum  factis  et  collatis  :  ad  quamquidem  cantar- 
iam  fideliter  perpetuis  temporibus  inveniendam,  oblig- 
amus  nos,  monasterium  nostrum  et  cellam  nostram  pre- 
dictam  de  sancta  Bega  et  fructus  ecclesie  nostre  de  Broun- 
feld5  ad  nos  qualitercumque  spectantes.  Ita,  videlicet, 
quod  si  contingat,  quod  absit,  capellanum  ibidem  cele- 
braturum  in  divinis  cessare  per  tres  dies  continues,  justo 
cessante  impedimento,  liceat  archidiacono  Richemondie, 
et  ejus  vicario  generali,  vel  officio  ejusdem,  compellere 
priorem  celle  nostre  predicte,  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit, 
per  suspensionem  et  excommunicacionis  sentencias  et 
interdicti  in  ipsam  cellam  ad  resuscitandam  et  inveni- 
endam cantariam  predict  am  fideliter  ut  incumbit.  Et 
similiter  quod  liceat  episcopo  Karliolensi,  qui  pro  tempore 
fuerit,  fructus6  ecclesie  de  Brounfeld  predicte  sue  dioceseos 
sequestrare,  et  sub  arco  sequestro  custodiri,  donee  ipsa 
cantaria,  si  cessaverit,  quod  absit,  resuscitata  et  inventa 
fuerit,  ut  est  dictum,  concedentes  et  promittentes  bona 

5  The  church  of  Bromfield  was  given  to  St.  Mary's  by  Waldeve 
son  of  Earl  Gospatric,  lord  of  Allerdale  (Cal.  of  Chart.,  iii.  116). 
The  monks  of  St.  Bees  and  Wetheral,  cells  of  that  house,  situated 
at  about  equal  distances  from  Bromfield,  were  rivals  for  obtaining 
its  appropriation,  but  it  was  never  assigned  to  either.     St.  Bees 
had  Bromfield  and  other  local  churches  embodied  in  a  confirm- 
ation charter  by  Chetell  son  of  Eldred  (No.  212),  and  Wetheral 
had  confirmations   thereof   by   Henry   II.    and   Bishops   Adelulf 
and  Bernard  of  Carlisle  (Reg.  of  Wetherhal,  pp.  43,   46,  48,  64)  - 
The  church  is  included  in  the  confirmation  grant  of  Gilbert  son 
of  Roger  son  of  Reinfred  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxvi.).     In  1302  the 
church  was  appropriated  to  the  abbey  of  York,  the  Bishop  of 
Carlisle  reserving  to  his   see   the  right  of   presentation   to    the 
vicarage   (Carl.   Epis.    Reg.   Halton,    MS.  f.    172).     The  original 
deeds  of   the   appropriation   are   at  the   British   Museum    (Add. 
Charters,  Nos.  17155,  17156)  of  the  gift  of  Sir  W.  C.  Trevelyan. 

6  When  Abbot  Gylling  gave  the  bond,  he  had  the  fruits  of  the 
rectory  in  possession,  for  a  vicar  had  been  admitted  under  the 
new  conditions  on  12  January,   1304  (Carl.  Epis.   Reg.  Halton, 
MS.  f.  76). 


150  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

fide  promissa  fideliter  observare  et  in  nullo  contrain- 
venire  vel  expresse.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  duabus 
partibus  hujus  script!  quadripartiti  penes  episcopum 
Karliolensem  et  ipsum  rectorem  residentibus  sigillum 
capituli  nostri  apposuimus  :  et  aliis  duabus  partibus 
quarum  una  residet  in  monasterio  nostro  et  alia  in  cella 
nostra  sancte  Bege  predicta.  Item  rector  predictus 
sigillum  saum  apposuit  ad  perpetuam  memoriam  pre- 
scriptorum.  Datum  apud  Plumland  per  me  Walterum, 
rectorem  ecclesie  de  eadem,  vij  K.  Marcii  anno  domini 
millesimo  ccc°  octavo.7 

109.    CARTA  ADE   FILII    RICARDI    DE   NEWTONA  DE 

TERRA  QUE  JACET  INTER  ECCLESIAM  DE  GOSEFORD  ET 
MAGNAM  VIAM  IN  NEWTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  films  Richardi  de  Neuton, 
salutem.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virginf  et  monachis  ibidem  servienti- 
bus  totam  terram  meam  que  jacet  inter  terram  ecclesie 
sancte  Marie  de  Goseford  et  magnam  viam  que  vadit  de 
Caldra  usque  Goseford  et  divisam  de  Neuton,  cum  prato 
adjacente  infra  diet  as  di  visas.  Dedi  eciam  predictis 
monachis  unam  acram  terre  mee  et  unam  percatam, 
scilicet,  propinquiorem  ex  alia  parte  vie  ejusdem  adjacen- 
tem,  et  totam  terram  meam,  que  vocatur  Kylnebannch, 
et  totum  pratum  quod  jacet  inter  Kylnebanch  et  semitam 
que  vadit  de  domo  mea  usque  magnam  viam  de  Gosseford. 
Insuper  dedi  prefatis  monachis  octo  acras  et  dimidiam 
terre  mee  in  Scelrunbanch,  scilicet,  propinquiores  vie  de 
Goseford  ascendendo  usque  ad  divisam,  que  est  inter  me 
et  Goseford.  Item  dedi  eisdem  monachis  totam  terram 
meam,  que  jacet  inter  terram  Roberti  filii  Ulf  et  terram 

7  23  February,  1308-1309.  It  is  noted  in  the  margin  that  this 
deed  habetur  sub  cera,  but  that  propter  vetustatem  non  potest  legi. 
A  copy  must  have  been  previously  made. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  151 

ecclesie  sancte  Marie,  scilicet,  duas  acras  et  unam  rodam 
cum  pertinenciis.  Item  unam  acram  terre  que  jacet  inter 
unam  acram,  quam  Johannes  de  Brakenthuerth  tenet 
de  me,  et  terram  meam  juxta  domum  dicti  Johannis. 
In  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  ....  ad  lumen, 
scilicet,  capelle  sancte  Bege  virginis  perpetue  sustinendum, 
cum  omnibus  communibus  et  aisiamentis  ville  de  Goseford 
pertinentibus.  Preterea  dedi  et  concessi  prefatis  mona- 
chis  ut  habeant  mecum  communem  pasturam  in  villa  de 
Goseford,  scilicet,  quadraginta  averiis  cum  sequela  unius 
anni  :  et  octo  suibus  cum  sequela  unius  anni  ;  et  centum 
quadraginta  ovibus  cum  sequela  unius  anni ;  et  quadra- 
ginta capris  cum  sequela  unius  anni  ;  et  sex  equabus 
cum  sequela  unius  anni.  Ego  vero  Adam  et  heredes 
mei  has  terras  cum  predictis  pratis  infra  predictas  divisas 
et  cum  supradictis  aliis  aisiamentis  et  communibus  et 
libertatibus  prefatis  monachis  contra  omnes  homines 
warantizabimus.  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Hen- 
rico  de  Hale,  Ricardo  de  Punchunby,  Ricardo  de  Cleter, 
Ada  de  Haverington,  Thoma  de  Yrton,  Jordano  de  Dreg', 
Alexandro  filio  Ricardi  de  Punchunby,  Willelmo  fratre 
ejus,  Davit  de  Kyrkeby,  et  multis  aliis.1 

109.  :  There  are  many  deeds  relating  to  the  parish  of  Gosforth 
in  this  Register.  In  addition  to  the  group  here,  Nos.  109-133, 
see  also  Nos.  308-326.  The  earliest  grants  the  monks  of  St.  Bees 
had  in  this  parish  were  from  Alan  son  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale 
(No.  308),  and  Robert  de  Vallibus  (No.  309),  the  latter  of  which 
had  probably  been  given  at  a  previous  date  by  Hubert  his  father 
(see  No.  314)  -  These  grants  apparently  refer  to  the  same  property 
which  was  leased  to  Richer  son  of  Punzun  by  Abbot  Savaric  of 
York,  1132-61  (No.  323).  In  the  first  half  of  the  thirteenth 
century,  to  which  most  of  the  deeds  (Nos.  109-133)  belong,  the 
monks  had  considerably  augmented  their  possessions  in  this  dis- 
trict. Several  of  the  deeds  relate  to  small  parcels,  the  names  of 
which  do  not  now  survive.  With  very  few  exceptions,  like 
Newton,  Fleminghall  and  Bolton,  places  have  been  unidentified, 
but  their  relative  positions  are  well  known  in  respect  of  the  prin- 
cipal sites. 


152  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

110.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  RICARDI  DE  ja  PARTE  TERRE 
IN  NEWTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  filius  Richard!  de  Neuton, 
salutem.  Noveritis  me,  consilio  et  assensu  sponse  mee 
et  heredum  meorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie 
et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
unam  partem  terre  in  Neuton,  scilicet,  totam  terram  infra 
has  divisas,  scilicet,  a  fonte  sancte  Helene  qui  est  ad 
corneriam  gardini  mei  ex  parte  austri,  et  ita  a  fonte  usque 
ad  crossum  Graesten,1  et  ab  eodem  Graesten  usque  ad 
alterum  Graesten,  qui  stat  super  fossatum,  usque  capud 
ejusdem  ex  parte  australi,  et  ita  a  capite  fossati  recte  et 
quasi  linea  usque  ad  australem  sidam  de  Sceleirun  :  et 
de  Sceleirun  recte  et  quasi  linea  usque  ad  crucern  que  stat 
in  Stainraisse  supra  Wetteberch  ;  et  ita  a  cruce  usque  ad 
sicum  qui  descendit  de  Hessepile  et  per  eundum  sicum 
descendendo  usque  ad  magnam  viam  que  venit  de  Caldra ; 
et  ex  eadem  via  per  divisas  que  sunt  inter  terram  meam  et 
terram  sancte  Marie  de  Gouseford  usque  ad  Radulfi  de 
Feritate  divisas  ;  et  per  divisas  prefati  Radulfi  usque  ad 
Grucocpilbeck ;  et  per  eundem  ascendendo  usque  ad 
descensum  prefati  fontis  ;  et  inde  per  eundem  sicum 
usque  ad  fontem  sancte  Helene  prefatum ;  in  puram 

ad    lumen,    scilicet,    capelle    sancte    Bege 

virginis  perpetue  sustinendum,  cum  omnibus  communi- 
bus  aisiamentis  ad  villam  de  Gowseford  pertinentibus. 
Preterea  dedi  et  concessi  prefatis  monachis  ut  habeant 
mecum  communem  pasturam  in  villa  de  Gowseford, 
scilicet,  quadraginta  averiis  cum  sequela  eorum  unius 
anni ;  et  octo  suibus  cum  sequela  unius  anni :  et  centum 
quadraginta  ovibus  cum  sequela  unius  anni ;  et  quadra- 
ginta capris  cum  sequela  unius  anni  :  et  sex  equabus  cum 
sequela  earum  unius  anni.  Et  sciendum  quod  concessi 
eisdem  monachis  infra  has  divisas  habere  quatuor  edificia 

110.     l  "Grossam  grisam  petram  "  in  the  next  deed. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  153 

ignem2  habencia  cum  pertinenciis,  et  servicium  Johannis 
Brakenthueith.  Item  notandum  quod  prefati  monachi 
michi  et  heredibus  meis  invenient  viam  racionabilem 
inter  Grucocbilebeck  et  fossatum  usque  ad  divisas  Radulfi 
de  Feritate.  Item  sciendum  quod  prefati  monachi 
nullum  super  prefatam  terram  habebunt  molendinum. 
Hanc  igitur  prefatam  terram  cum  dictis  aisiamentis;, 
communibus  et  libertatibus  ad  villam  de  Gowseford 
pertinentibus,  ego  Adam  films  Richardi  et  heredes  mei 
prefatis  monachis  warantizabimus  inperpetuum,  et  contra 
omnes  homines  defendemus.  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de 
Wilton,  Henrico  de  Hale,  Ricardo  de  Ponchunbi,  Ricardo 
de  Cleterch,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Thoma  de  Hyrton, 
Alexandro  de  Pounchunby,  Willelmo  fratre  ejus,  Jordano 
de  Dreg',  David  de  Kirkeby,  et  aliis. 

111.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  A.  DE  EADEM  PARTE  ETC.1 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  filius  Richardi  de  Neuton, 
salutem.  Noveritis  me,  consilio  et  assensu  sponse  mee 

et  heredum  meorum,  dedisse Deo  et  beate  Marie 

et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus, 
unam  part  em  terre  mee  in  Neuton,  scilicet,  tot  am  terram 
que  jacet  infra  has  divisas,  ita  eciam  sicut  divise  extendunt 
a  fonte  sancte  Helene,  qui  est  ad  corneriam  gardini  mei 
versus  austrum,  usque  ad  grossam  grisam  petram,  et  inde 
usque  ad  alteram  grisam  petram,  que  stat  super  fossatum  ; 
et  ita  per  fossatum  usque  ad  capud  ejusdem  fossati  ex 
parte  austri,  et  ita  a  capite  fossati  recte  et  quasi  linea 
usque  ad  australem  sidam  le  Scelerun  ;  et  de  Scelerun 
recte  et  quasi  linea  usque  ad  crucem,  que  stat  in  Stanraise 

2  This  is  an  early  instance  of  a  dwelling  being  described  as  a 
firehouse. 

111.  *  In  the  margin  it  is  noted  that  ista  carta  facit  pro  Nether- 
gwhynbanke  alias  lyngbanke  in  Newtona  in  Gosford.  It  is  evident 
that  the  identification  of  the  place-names,  always  indeterminate, 
was  the  endeavour  of  the  compiler  of  the  Register. 


154  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

supra  Wetteberch  ;  et  ita  a  cruce  usque  ad  sicum  qui 
descendit  de  Hessepile,  et  per  eundern  sicum  descendendo 
usque  ad  magnam  viam  que  venit  de  Caldra  :  et  ex 
eadem  via  per  di visas,  que  mediant  meam  terram  et 
terrain  sancte  Marie2  de  Gousefor[d],  descendendo  usque 
ad  divisas  domini  Radulfi  de  Feritate  :  et  per  easdem 
divisas  prius  dictas  usque  in  Grucocpilebech,  et  per 
eundem  bech  ascen[den]do  usque  ad  descensum  prefati 
fontis  ;  et  inde  versus  austrum  per  eundem  sicum  usque 
ad  font  em  sancte  Helene  prefatum  ....  ad  lumen, 
scilicet,  capelle  sancte  Bege  virginis  perpetue  sustinendum, 
cum  omnibus  libertatibus  communibus  et  aisiamentis 
ad  villam  de  Gouseford  pertinentibus.  Preterea  dedi  et 
concessi  prefatis  monachis,  ut  habeant  mecum  communem 
pasturam  in  villa  de  Goseford,  scilicet,  quadraginta 
averiis  et  octo  suibus  et  centum  quadraginta  ovibus  et 
quadraginta  capris  et  sex  equabus,  cum  sequelis  omnium 
predictorum  unius  anni.  Et  sciendum  quod  concessi 
eisdem  monachis,  infra  has  prefatas  divisas,  quatuor 
habere  edificia  ignem  habencia,  cum  pertinenciis,  et  ser- 
vicium  Johannis  Bakenthueith.  Notandum  vero  est 
quod  prefati  monachi  michi  et  heredibus  meis  viam 
invenient  racionabilem  inter  Grucocpilebech  et  fossatum 
usque  ad  divisas  domini  Radulfi  de  Feritate.  Item  sciend- 
um quod  prefati  monachi  nullum  super  prefatam  habe- 

2  The  church  of  St.  Mary,  Gosforth,  was  given  to  the  monks  of 
St.  Bees  by  William,  the  Boy  of  Egremont,  during  minority,  and 
was  confirmed  to  them  by  his  sister,  Cicely  countess  of  Albemarle 
(No.  27)-  The  church  is  included  among  their  spiritual  posses- 
sions in  the  confirmation  charter  of  Archbishop  Roger  of  York, 
1154-81  (No.  107).  But  there  is  no  doubt  that  it  remained 
rectorial  and  that  the  advowson  was  held  by  the  lords  of 
Egremont.  A  claim  was  made  in  1256  to  the  advowson  by  John 
le  Faucuyner  against  Thomas  son  of  Lambert  de  Multon,  when 
John  acknowledged  it  to  be  the  right  of  Thomas  (Feet  of  F., 
Cumb.,  40  Hen.  III.  No.  67).  In  the  feudal  "  extents  "  of  Egre- 
mont, the  church  of  Gosforth  always  finds  a  place. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  155 

bunt  molendinum  .  .  .  .  Et  ut  hec  donacio  ratissima  sit 
et  stabilissima,  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  apposicione 
corroboravi,  et  presentis  script!  testimonio  confirmavi. 
Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Henrico  de  Hale, 
Ricardo  de  Ponchunbi,  Ricardo  de  Cleeterch,  Ada  de 
Haverington,  Thoma  de  Hirtona,  Alexandro  de  Pon- 
chunby,  Willelmo  fratre  ejus,  Jordano  de  Dree,  David 
de  Kirkebi,  et  aliis. 

112.  CARTA    ADAM    DE    NEWTON  FILII  ADE  FIL[II] 
RlCARDI  DE  UNA  ACRA  TERRE  IN  NEWTON  CUM  PERTIN- 

ENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ada  de  Neuton  films  Ade  fil[ii]  Rich- 
ardi,  eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me 
dedisse,  .  .  .  .  et  quietam  clamasse  priori  et  monachis 
sancte  Bege,  patronis  meis,  unam  acram  terre  mee  in 
Neuton,  cum  pertinenciis,  scilicet,  illam  que  jacet  inter 
terram  Willelmi  filii  Jurdani  et  foveam,  et  cum  pastura 
octo  animalibus,  quadraginta  ovibus,  uni  equo,  decem 
capris,  uni  porco,  cum  sect  a  eorum  unius  anni  :  et  cum 
omnibus  aliis  communibus  aisiamentis  ad  predictam 
terram  pertinentibus.  Ego  siquidem  et  heredes  mei 
predictam  terram  cum  pertinenciis  predicto  priori  et 
monachis  contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum  warantiz- 
abimus  et  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic 
script o  signum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Johanne 
de  Boyvill,  David  de  Swalwirst,  Henrico  de  Amchorie, 
Willelmo  de  Puncunesby,  Jurdano  filio  Hannrici,  Huberto 
de  Neuton,  Hugone  fratre  ejus,  et  aliis. 

113.  CARTA  ANDREE  CAPELLANI  DE  UNA  ACRA  TERRE 
ET  UNA  RODA  ET  DUABUS  DOMIBUS  CUM  QUADAM  PARTE 
UNIUS  GARDINI  IN  NEWTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Andreas  tune  temporis  capellanus  de 
Gosford,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  .  .  . 


156  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

me  dedisse,  ....  Ade1  de  Neuton  fil[ie]  Rich'  Tyllof, 
imam  acram  terre  et  unam  rodam  super  bancum  in  villa 
de  Neuton,  et  duas  domus  sub  predicto  banco,  cum  quad- 
am  parte  unius  gardini  incipiente  a  parte  grangii  pre- 
dicte  (sic)  Ade  versus  partem  orientalem  descendendo 
usque  quemdam  cynum2  in  predicto  gardino,  et  sic  de  cyno 
usque  ad  terram  Radulfi  servientis  Johannis,  rectoris 
ecclesie  de  Goseford  tune  temporis,  versus  partem  merid- 
ionalem,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  aisiamentis  predicte 
terre  pertinentibus.  Tenendum  .  .  .  .  de  domo  sancte 
Bege.  Reddendo  inde  predicte  domui  annuatim  tres 
denarios  ad  duos  terminos  anni,  viz.,  tres  obolos  ad 
festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  et  tres  obolos  ad  Pente- 
costen,  pro  omni  servicio  seculari,  exaccione,  consuetudine, 
et  demanda.  Et  ego  vero  predictus  Andreas  capellanus 
predictam  terram  predicte  Ade  warantizabo  et  suis 
assignatis.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  script o  sigillum 
meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  Vegedenay  ballivo 
de  Caupeland,  domino  Thoma  de  Cleeterch,  Willelmo  de 
Waybutywaiter,  Willelmo  de  Poconby,  Waltero  de  Sewen- 
houis,  Huberto  de  Neuton,  et  multis  aliis. 


114.    CARTA  ADAM  FIL[IE]  RICARDI  TYLLOF  DE  UNA 

ACRA  ET  UNA  ROD  A  TERRE  IN  NEWTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ada  filia1  Ricardi  Tyllof  de  Neuton, 
salutem.          Noverit  ....  me    dedisse,  ....  Ricardo 

113.  *Ada  and  Adam  are  difficult  words  in  charters,   some- 
times representing  the  feminine  Ada  and  sometimes  the  masculine 
Adam.     The  difficulty  is  made  no  easier  by  the  contractions  of  the 
copyist.     Unless  the  gender  is  in  some  way  indicated  by  the 
terminals  of  the  adjectives,  the  masculine  has  been  always  adopted. 
The  compiler  of  the  Register  often  contradicts  himself. 

2  Hawthorn  or  other  evergreen. 

114.  *  Here  there  is  no  mistake  :    filia  is  written  in  full,  though 
in  the  rubric  of  the  charter  the  contracted  sign  for  Adam  is  used. 
See  note  on  No.  113. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  157 

Ward  de  Dreg'  et  heredibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis,  unam 
acram  et  unam  rodam  terre  super  bancum  in  villa  et 
territorio  de  Neuton  in  Goseford,  et  duas  domos  sub 
predict o  banco,  cum  quadam  parte  unius  gardini  incipi- 
ente  a  parte  grangii  predicte  Ade  versus  partem  orientalem 
descendendo  usque  quendam  cynum  in  predicto  gardino, 
et  sic  de  cyno  usque  ad  terram  Radulfi  servientis  Johannis 
rectoris  ecclesie  de  Goseford  tune  temporis,  versus  partem 
meridionalem  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  aisiamentis 
predicte  terre  pertinentibus  infra  villam  et  extra.  Ten- 
endum  .  .  .  .  de  abbate  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  mona- 
chis  apud  sanctam  Begam  Deo  servientibus.  Reddendo 
inde  annuatim  priori  sancte  [Bege],  qui  pro  tempore 
fuerit,  duos  solidos  argenti  ad  duos  anni  terminos,  mediet- 
atem,  scilicet,  in  festo  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  et  aliam 
medietatem  ad  Pentecosten,  pro  omni  servicio  seculari, 
consuetudine,  exaccione,  et  demanda.  Et  ego  vero 
predicta  et  heredes  mei  predictam  terram  cum  edificiis, 
sicut  predict um  est,  contra  omnes  warantizabimus,  ad- 
quietabimus,  et  defendemus  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  presenti  script  o  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Johanne  de  Flammaunc, 
Roberto  de  Goseford,  Willelmo  de  Wayburthueit,  Willel- 
mo  de  Punzunby,  Nicholao  de  Sevinhoues,  Roberto  de 
Frisington,  Willelmo  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  clerico  de 
sancta  Bega,  et  aliis. 

115.  CARTA  RICARDI  WARDE  DE  DREG'  DE  UNA  ACRA 
ET  UNA  RODA  TERRE  IN  NEWTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  Ward  de  Dreg',  salutem  in 
domino.  Noveritis  me  reddidisse,  remisisse  et  hoc  pre- 
senti scripto  meo  quietam  clamasse,  abbati  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci  et  monachis  apud  sanctam  Begam  commorant- 
ibus,  totum  jus  et  clamium,  quod  habui  vel  habere 
potui,  in  una  acra  et  una  roda  terre,  cum  suis  pertinenciis, 


158  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

super  bancum  et  sub  banco  in  Neuton  in  Goseford,  quas 
habui  de  dono  Ade  filie  Ricardi  Tylliolf  de  Neuton.  Ita 
quod  nee  ego  Ricardus  nee  heredes  mei  nee  aliquis  per 
nos  vel  pro  nobis  jus  aut  clamium  in  predict  a  terra  cum 
suis  pertinenciis  de  cetero  poterimus  exigere  vel  clamare. 
In  cujus  rei  testimonium  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum 
apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  Flemmaunc,  Ricardo 
de  Cletere,  Roberto  de  Goseford,  Willelmo  de  Wayburth- 
ueit,  Nicholao  de  Sevinhoues,  Willelmo  de  Puncunby, 
Willelmo  de  Rotigton,  Willelmo  clerico  de  sancta  Bega, 
et  aliis. 

116.  CARTA  ADE  FIL[II]  ADE  FIL[IE]  RICARDI  DE  TERRA 
IN  NEWTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  films  Ade  fil[ie]  Richardi,  etern- 
am  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me  dedisse, 
....  domino  priori  de  sancta  Bega  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus,  quandam  terram  meam  in  Neuton, 
que  jacet  inter  sepem  petrosam  que  descendit  de  le  chance1 
et  tendit  usque  Gretigate,  et  terram  Johannis  Kalewar,  et 
sic  totam  aliam  terram  que  jacet  inter  Gretigate  et  terram 
predicti  Johannis  ex  parte  occidentali  et  unam  acram 
jacentem  sub  exitu  versus  occidentem  propinquiorem 
terre  domini  de  Goseford,  cum  libero  exitu  et  introitu 
et  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  et  libertatibus  et  aisiamentis 
ad  predictam  terram  de  Neuton  pertinentibus.  Ita, 
scilicet,  quod  nee  ego  nee  heredes  mei  aliquod  jus  vel 
clamium  in  predictam  terram  contra  predictum  priorem, 
dominum  meum,  et  conventum  inperpetuum  vendicare 
poterimus.  Ego  siquidem  et  heredes  mei  predictam 
terram  prefatis  priori  et  conventui  contra  omnes  homines 
inperpetuum  waurantizabimus,  et  ab  omni  seculari  ser- 
vicio  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  scripto 
signum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Ricardo  le  Brun, 

116.     l  For  this  word,  see  note  on  next  deed. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  159 

Johanne  de  Langliuerh',  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de 
Goseford,  David  de  Swalwirst,  Roberto  de  Hothwayt  et 
aliis. 

117.  DlMISSIO  EJUSDEM  TERRE  PER  GWYDONEM 
PRIOREM. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  ....  Gwydo,1  prior,  et 
monachi  de  sancta  Bega,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit 
....  nos  demisisse,  ....  Willelmo  filio  Jordani  et 
heredibus  suis,  quandam  terram  nostram  in  villa  de  Neu- 
ton,  quam  habuimus  de  dono  Ade  fil[ii]  Ade  fil[ie]  Richardi, 
illam,  scilicet,  terram  que  jacet  inter  sepem  petrosam  que 
descendit  de  le  Chance2  et  tendit  usque  Gretigate  et  terram 
Johannis  Calewar,  et  sic  totam  aliam  terram  que  jacet 

117.  lFor  this  prior  of  St.  Bees,  see  No.  74.  With  Priors 
Ralf  of  Carlisle,  William  Rundel  of  Wetheral  and  Robert  of  St. 
Mary  York,  William  de  Ulvesby,  official  of  Carlisle,  and  Richard 
de  Hardres  steward  of  the  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  Prior  Guy  of  St. 
Bees  witnessed  a  charter  to  the  priory  of  Wetheral  (Reg.,  p.  345), 
the  date  of  which  appears  to  be  about  1231-9. 

2  Halliwell  explains  canch  as  "  a  trench,  cut  sloping  to  a  very 
narrow  bottom  :  a  certain  breadth  in  digging  or  treading  land." 
It  occurs  again  in  No.  314  in  reference  to  the  same  locality.  The 
name  seems  to  have  been  used  in  Cumberland  for  a  hollow,  slack 
or  depression,  low  lying  land.  Early  in  the  thirteenth  century 
Nicholas  of  Braithwaite  gave  to  the  monks  of  Fountains  all  his 
arable  land  in  Braithwaite  iuxta  le  Chanche  :  Abbot  Adam  of 
Fountains  (1259)  demised  one  acre  of  meadow  in  Cance  near  the 
meadow  of  Nicholas  de  Insula  :  William  son  of  William  de  Insula 
granted  to  the  monks  one  acre  of  his  meadow  in  le  Chancey  :  this 
meadow  is  again  referred  to  as  being  in  a  place  called  Chanze 
(Register  of  Fountains,  MS.  ff.  82-84,  Cott.  MS.  Tib.  c.  xij.).  In 
1294  the  bounds  of  Meterdale  in  Eskdale  are  described  as  from 
the  place  where  Hollegill  falls  into  the  Irt,  ascending  to  Wasse- 
water  on  that  side  to  the  stream  of  Lesagh  and  along  Lesagh 
ascending  to  Ederlangebeck,  and  along  Ederlangebeck  ascending 
to  le  Cance,  and  thus  by  the  boundaries  of  the  abbot  of  Furneys 
to  the  boundaries  of  John  de  Hodeleston  (Cat.  of  Close,  1288-96, 
p.  402). 


l6o  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

inter  Gretigate  et  terram  predict!  Johannis  ex  parte 
occidental!,  et  unam  acram  jacentem  sub  exitu  versus 
occidentem,  propinquiorem  terre  domini  de  Goseford. 
Habendas  ....  cum  libero  exitu  et  introitu,  et  cum 
omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis,  ....  sicut  plenius  continetur 
in  cart  a  quam  habemus  de  dono  Ade  fil[ii]  Ade  filfie] 
Richardi.  Reddendo  nobis  inde  annuatim  sex  denarios 
ad  duos  terminos,  medietatem,  scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten, 
et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  hyeme. 
Hoc  autem  ei  concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos 
habuerit  et  diet  am  nrmam  reddiderit.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  present!  scripto  sigillum  prioris  est  appen- 
sum.  Hiis  testibus  domino  le  Brun,  domino  Johanne 
de  Langlie,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Goseford, 
David  de  Swaluhirst,  Roberto  de  Hophuait,  et  aliis. 

118.    CARTA  ROBERT:  ABBATIS  DE  TERRAIN  NEWTONA. 

SCIANT  omnes  .  .  .  quod  ego,  Robertus1  abbas  ecclesie 
sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu 
capituli  nostri,  concessi,  .  .  .  Michaeli  filio  Huberti  de 
Meles  et  heredibus  suis  totam  terram,  quam  habemus  de 
dono  Ade  filpi]  Richardi  in  territorio  de  Neuton  que  jacet 
inter  has  divisas  subscriptas,  scilicet,  sicut  divise  se 
extendunt  a  fonte  sancte  Helene  que  est  ad  corneriam 
gardini  predicti  Ade  versus  austrum  usque  ad  grossam 
grisam  petram2  et  inde  usque  ad  alter  am  grisam  petram, 
que  stat  super  fossatum,  et  it  a  per  fossatum  usque  ad 
capud  ejusdem  ex  parte  austri,  et  ita  a  capite  fossati 
quasi  linialiter  usque  ad  australem  sidam  de  Scelrun,  et 
de  Scelrun  quasi  linialiter  usque  ad  Stenraise  supra 
Waiteboc  et  ita  a  Stenrase  usque  ad  sicum  qui  descendit 
de  Hesilgile,  et  per  eundem  sichum  descendendo  usque 

118.     1  Probably  Robert  de  Longo  Campo,  said  to  have  been 
abbot  of  York  from  1189  to  1239  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.,  538). 
2Graesten  in  No.  110. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  l6l 

ad  magnam  viam  que  venit  de  Caldera,  et  ex  eadem  via 
per  divisas  que  mediant  terram  prefati  Ade  et  terram 
sancte  Marie  de  Goseford,  descendendo  usque  ad  divisas 
domini  Radulfi  de  Feritate,  et  per  easdem  divisas  prius 
dictas  usque  in  Grucockesgylebec,  et  per  eundem  bee 
ascendendo  usque  ad  descensum  prefati  fontis,  et  inde 
versus  austrum  per  eundem  sichum  usque  ad  fontem 
sancte  Helene  prefatum.  Et  dicti  Michael  et  heredes 
sui  habebunt  communam  pasturam  in  territorio  de 
Goseford  quadraginta  averiis  et  octo  suibus  et  centum 
quadraginta  ovibus,  et  quadraginta  capris  et  sex  equabus, 
cum  sequelis  omnium  predictorum  unius  anni.  Habebunt 
eciam  quatuor  edificia  ignem  habencia,  cum  pertinenciis, 
infra  supradictas  divisas  et  servicium  annuum  Johannis 
de  Brakenthwait.  Set  supra  terram  prefatam,  nullum 
habebunt  molendinum.  Predicti  vero  Michael  et  heredes 
sui  totam  terram  predictam  .  .  .  tenebunt  de  nobis  in 
feodo  et  hereditate,  .  .  .  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  celle 
nostre  de  sancta  Bega  triginta  duos  denarios,  medietatem 
ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  hyeme,  et  medietatem  ad 
Pentecost  en.  ...  Si  vero  contigerit  eos,  vi  vel  racione, 
aliquid  de  supradicto  tenemento  amittere,  non  dabimus 
eis  excambium.  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Skegnes'  tune 
senescallo  abbatis  et  monachorum  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci, 
Johanne  de  Seleby  clerico  eorundem,  Roberto  Supe, 
Waltero  de  Asch,  Thoma  janitore,  Rogero  coco,  Roberto 
de  Wilton,  Adam  de  Haverington,  Henrico  de  Hale, 
David  preposito,  et  aliis. 

119.    CARTA    HUBERTI    DE   NEWTON    DE   xvj   ACRIS 

TERRE  ET  UNA  ROD  A  IN  NEWTON. 

UNIVERSIS  .  .  .  Hubertus  de  Neuton,  in  salutem  in 
domino.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  et  concessisse  .  .  .  Deo 
et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  sexdecim  acras  terre 

If 


l62  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

et  unam  rodam  cum  pertinenciis  suis  in  territorio  de 
Neuton  jacentes  in  loco,  qui  vocatur  Acris,  juxta  terram 
Raduln,  hominis  persone,  in  parte  australe,  incipientes 
apud  divisafm]  de  Goseford  et  tendentes  usque  Hayusbanc 
et  Scalerun.  Et  preterea  dedi  predictis  monachis  tot  am 
terram  quam  habui  a  quadam  petra  forinseca  versus 
austrum,  que  vocatur  Greystan,  descendendo  linealiter 
ad  aliam  petram,  que  vocatur  Greystan  sub  banco,  et  sic 
linialiter  descendendo  per  port  am  usque  ad  aquam,  que 
vocatur  Neuton-bec,  et  sic  ascendendo  per  predictam 
aquam  usque  ad  terram  Gilberti  cimentarii,  salvo  racion- 
abili  introitu  et  exitu,  sic  ascendendo  per  predictam 
terram  Gilberti  cimentarii  usque  ad  terram  Radulfi 
hominis  persone.  Tenendas  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Johanne  de  Langlivere,  domino  Roberto  de  Lanplou, 
domino  Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  Elia  tune  senescallo  de 
Egremund,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosford, 
Roberto  de  Wiltona,  Benedicto  de  Rotingtona,  et  aliis. 

120.  CARTA  HUBERTI  DE  NEWTONA  DE  xmj  ACRIS 

TERRE  ET  UNA  RODA  IN  NEWTON.1 

121.  CARTA  HUBERTI  DE  ALIIS  xij  ACRIS  TERRE  IN 
NEWTONA. 

UNIVERSIS  .  .  .  Hubertus  de  Neutona,  salutem  in 
domino.  Noveritis  me  resignasse  et  omnimodo  quietum 
clamasse,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis,  Deo  et  beate  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Bege  servientibus,  totum 
jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  duodecim 
acris  terre  in  territorio  de  Neuton  in  Coupland,  cum  om- 

120-  1  This  deed  is  an  exact  copy  of  the  foregoing  except  in 
the  number  of  acres  :  the  description  and  boundaries  of  the  land 
and  the  names  and  order  of  the  witnesses  are  the  same.  There 
is  little  doubt  that  there  is  an  error  in  the  number  of  acres  in  one 
of  the  deeds.  From  No.  121  it  would  appear  that  the  gift  comp- 
prised  sixteen  acres,  as  in  No.  119. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  163 

nibus  suis  pertinenciis,  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus,  videlicet, 
que  jacent  propinquiores  juxta  illas  sexdecim  acras,  quas 
habent  dicti  monachi  in  predicto  territorio  de  Neutona, 
prout  carte  ipsorum  porporta[n]t  et  testa[n]tur  ;  quorum 
decem  acre  incipiunt  a  divisis  sexdecim  acrarum  dictarum, 
extendentes  se  in  latitudine  usque  ad  le  Brathaurane,  et 
sic  extendit  se  ad  semitam  in  Hollesalc  juxta  Stelerun 
in  parte  occidentali,  et  de  Holleslac  usque  ad  di visas  de 
Goseford  in  parte  orient ali :  et  duas  acras,  videlicet, 
jacentes  propinquiores  le  Brathaurane  ex  parte  australi. 
Concessi  eciam  dictis  monachis  et  hominibus  suis,  ut 
omnia  peccora  sua,  ad  dictam  terram  et  ubique  ad  pastur- 
am  suam,  sine  molestia  et  aliquo  gravamine,  exitum 
habeant  liberum  et  introitum.  Ita  quod  ego  Hubertus 
de  Neutona  vel  heredes  mei  seu  aliquis  alius  nomine  meo 
vel  heredum  meorum  nullum  jus  vel  clamium  in  predictis 
duodecim  acris  terre  cum  suis  pertinenciis  de  cetero 
poterimus  vendicare,  exigere,  vel  habere.  Et  ut  hec  mea 
resignacio  et  quieta  clamacio  perpetuam  habeant  firmit- 
atem,  hoc  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  apposicione  munivi. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Wirkintona,  domino 
Ricardo  Flemyng,  domino  Thoma  de  Cleter,  domino 
Ricardo  de  Gedeney  tune  senescallo  de  Egremund,  Rob- 
erto de  Haverington,  H.  de  Moriceby,  Willelmo  de  Pun- 
cunby,  Johanne  de  Puncunby,  et  aliis.1 

122.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  ADE  DE  NEWTON  DE  DIMIDIA 
PARTE  TOCIUS  TERRE  SUE  IN  NEWTONA. 

SCIANT  .  .  .  quod  ego,  Adam  nlius  Ade  de  Neuton, 
dedi,  .  .  .  Huberto  filio  Michaelis  dimidiam  partem  tocius 
terre  mee  de  Neuton  in  omnibus,  et  sine  aliquo  retin- 
emento,  cum  omnibus  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  dicte 
terre  pertinentibus,  et  unam  acram  super  Wetebanc. 

121.  *  In  the  Register  there  follows  here  another  copy  of  this 
deed,  each  being  described  as  habetur  sub  cera. 


164  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Tenendam  .  .  .  Reddendo  annuatim  michi  et  heredibus 
meis  duos  solidos  et  sex  denarios  pro  omni  servicio,  con- 
suetudine,  et  demanda  michi  et  heredibus  meis  pertin- 
entibus,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten,  et  medie- 
tatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  hyeme.  Ut  autem  hec 
mea  donacio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat  inperpetuum 
hanc  cartam  present  em  sigilli  mei  impressione  roboravi. 
Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Cureda1  de  Waybuth', 
Johanne  falconar',  Thoma  de  Heton,  Alexandra  de  Pun- 
chunby,  David  de  Swaluhirst,  et  aliis. 

123.  CARTA  HUBERTI  NEWTONA  DE  vij  ACRIS  TERRE 
IN  NEWTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Hubertus  de  Neutona,  dedi  et 
....  quietum  clamavi  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
beate  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servient- 
ibus  septem  acras  terre  in  territorio  de  Neuton  et  totum 
jus  quod  habui  vel  uncquam  habere  potui  in  predict  is 
septem  acris  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis,  videlicet, 
propinquiores  terre  Radulfi  hominis  persone.  Que  acre 
extendunt  se  usque  ad  Hayhusbanc,  et  sic  ad  terram 
Johannis  le  faucuner  et  quandam  placiam  terre  cum 
edificiis  in  eadem  placia  edificatis.  Que,  videlicet,  placia 
incipit  ad  Graystan  in  banco  et  extendit  se  usque  ad 
Graystan  sub  banco,  et  sic  usque  ad  cornerium  domus 
prioris,  et  sic  usque  ad  quandam  Ran  usque  Likebulbec, 
et  sic  per  stan  Ran  per  finem  domus  mee  usque  ad  viam, 
et  sic  per  aliam  Ran  que  jacet  juxta  terram,  que  fuit 
Gilberti  cementarii,  usque  in  banchum  ad  Graystan  juxta 
viam.  Tenendum  ....  It  a,  videlicet,  quod  nee  ego, 
Hubertus,  nee  heredes  mei  umquam  de  cetero  in  dicta 
terra  jus  hereditarium,  clamium,  [vel]  calumpniam 

122.  x  The  contraction  in  the  manuscript  is  not  decisive.  The 
name  may  be  also  read  as  Cralda  or  Curlda.  It  does  not  occur 
again  in  the  Register. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     165; 

exigere,    vendicare,    vel    calumpniare    poterimus 

Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langeliver,  Roberto  de. 
Lantploch,  Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  Elia  tune  senescallo 
de  Egremunt,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Goseford, 
Benedicto  de  Rotineton,  et  aliis.1 

124.  CARTA  HUBERTI  FILII  CLAR[E]  DE  NEWTON  DE 
TERRIS  ET  EDIFICII[S]  IN  NEWTONA  ET  GOSSEFORD. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Hubertus  films  Clar[e]  de 
Neuton,  dedi,  ....  Thome  filio  meo  et  heredibus  suis 
vel  suis  assignatis  quatuor  acras  terre  mee  cum  edificiis 
infra  villam  de  Goseford,  videlicet,  que  jacent  in  Neuton 
juxta  magnam  viam,  que  venit  de  Dreg  et  vadit  versus 
Grukocgile  ex  parte  brientali,  et  abuttat  versus  Stelrun, 
super  terram  quam  vendidi  priori  sancte  Bege  ex  australi 
parte,  et  communem  pasture  cum  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis 
et  libertatibus  prefate  terre  pertinentibus.  Tenendum 
....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis 
sex  denarios  argenti  ad  duos  terminos  anni,  scilicet,  tres 
denarios  ad  Pentecosten,  et  tres  denarios  ad  festum  sancti 
Martini  in  hyeme  pro  omni  servicio,  consuetudine,  exac- 
cione,  et  demanda.  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino  Ricardo 
Flandrensi,  Willelmo  de  Wayburwayt,  Willelmo  de 
Puncunby,  Waltero  de  Sevenhous,  Roberto  le  Rice,  et 
multis  aliis. 

125.  CARTA  HUBERTI   DE   NEWTONA  DE   nij   ACRIS 

TERRE  DE  GOSSEFORD  ET  NEWTONA. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  filius  Huberti  de 
Neuton,  dedi,  ....  Deo  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie,  Ebor- 
aci,  et  beate  Bege  virgini,  et  monachis  apud  sanctam 
Begam  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  servientibus, 

123-  l  This  deed  is  given  in  duplicate  where  Likebulbec  appears 
as  Lickebuske  :  of  the  witnesses,  Langeliver  appears  as  Longe- 
leuere  and  Lantploch  as  Laneploch. 


166  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

quatuor  acras  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Goseford,  illas, 
scilicet,  quas  habui  ex  dono  patris  mei,  et  [que]  jacent  in 
Neutona  juxta  magnam  viam  que  ducit  de  Dreg  versus 
Grucokgille  ex  parte  orientali  et  abuttant  versus  Scel- 
erun  super  terram  quam  predictus  pater  meus  dedit  ec- 
clesie  beate  Bege  ex  parte  australi.  Tenendas  .... 
cum  communia  pasture  et  omnibus  aliis  aysiamentis  ad 
tantam  terram  in  predict  a  villa  de  Goseford  pertinentibus. 
Ita  quod  nee  ego  vel  heredes  mei  seu  assignati  nichil 
preter  preces  et  oraciones  de  predicta  terra  exigere  vale- 
amus.  Et  ego,  Thomas,  et  heredes  mei  predictas  quatuor 
acras,  cum  earum  pertinenciis,  antedictis  monachis  sancte 
Bege  et  eorum  successoribus  inperpetuum  warantizabimus, 
acquietabimus,  et  defendemus  ....  Hiis  testibus  dom- 
inis  Radulfo  de  Bethun  et  Ricardo  le  Flemeng,  militibus, 
Willelmo  de  Morthinge,  Johanne  de  Thwaytis,  Willelmo 
de  Waythebuthwayt,  Willelmo  de  Punzuneby,  Roberto 
de  Wilton,  Nicholao  de  Hirton,  Waltero  de  Sevinhoues, 
et  aliis. 

126.  CARTA  HUBERTI  DE  NEUTON  DE  UNO  MESSUAGIO 
CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  NEWTON. 

OMNIBUS  .  .  .  .Hubertus  de  Neutona,  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  .  .  .  .me  dedisse,  .... 
Johanni  filio  meo  quoddam  messuagium  cum  pertinenciis, 
quod  Gilb[ertus]  le  masun  quondam  de  me  tenuit  in 
Neutona,  una  cum  toto  wasto  jacente  infra  has  di visas 
subscriptas,  scilicet,  inter  Grucokgilebek,  ex  parte  occi- 
dentali  et  magnum  iter  quo  itur  de  Neutona  versus  gran- 
giam  maris  de  Caldra  ex  parte  orientali,  cujus  unum  capud 
abuttat  super  font  em  juxta  veterem  situm  cujusdem 
molendini  versus  austrum,  et  aliud  capud  super  wastum  de 
Goseford  versus  aquilonem.  Tenendum  ....  Reddendo 
inde  annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  duos  denarios, 
scilicet,  unum  denarium  ad  Pentecost  en  et  unum  denari- 
um  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  pro  omni  servicio, 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  l6/ 

exaccione,   consuetudine,   et  demanda Hiis  test- 

ibus  domino  Thoma  de  Cletere,  Willelmo  de  Punsunby, 
Waltero  de  Sevinhoues,  Roberto  de  Montibus,  Johanne 
de  Neir',  Alano  de  Sevenhoues,  et  aliis. 


127.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  HUBERTI  DE  NEWTONA  DE 
UNO  MESSUAGIO  TERRE  IN  NEWTONA. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  filius  Hubert!  de 
Neutona,  dedi,  ....  Deo  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  apud  sanctam 
Begam  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  servientibus, 
quoddam  mesuagium  cum  pertinenciis  in  Neutona,  quod 
Hubertus,  pater  meus,  michi  per  cart  am  suam  dedit, 
cum  toto  wasto  adjacente  infra  has  subscriptas  di visas, 
scilicet,  inter  Grucokgilebeke  ex  parte  Occident ali  et 
magnum  iter  quo  itur  de  Neuton  versus  grangiam  maris 
de  Caldra  ex  parte  orientali,  cujus  unum  capud  abuttat 
super  fontem  juxta  veterem  situm  cujusdam  molendini 
versus  austrum,  et  aliud  capud  super  wastum  de  Goseford 
versus  aquilonem.  Tenendum  ....  cum  communia 
pasture  et  omnibus  aliis  aysiamentis  ad  predictam  terram 
in  predicta  villa  de  Neutona  pertinentibus.  Ita  quod 
ego,  Johannes,  vel  heredes  mei,  nee  aliquis  ex  parte  nostra 
nichil  preter  preces  et  oraciones  de  predicta  terra  cum 
pertinenciis  exigere  valeamus Hiis  testibus  dom- 
ino Gilberto  de  Wirkingtona,  domino  Radulfo  de  Betham, 
domino  Thoma  de  Cleter,  militibus,  Radulfo  de  Lampplod, 
Roberto  de  Haveringtona,  Willelmo  de  Mording,  Nicholao 
de  Irtona,  et  aliis. 

128.  CARTA  HUBERTI   DE   NEWTONA  DE  TERRA   IN 
NEWTON. 

Hoc  scriptum  cirografatum  testatur,  quod  Adam  filius 
Huberti  de  Neutona  concessit,  dimisit,  ac  tradidit  priori 


l68  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

sanete  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus  totam  terrain  suam,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis 
suis  tarn  cum  firmis  et  redditibus  quam  cum  aliis  adjacent- 
ibus,  quam  habet  in  villa  de  Neutona  ex  dimissione  et 
tradicione  predicti  Huberti,  patris  sui,  ad  terminum  sex 
annorum  proxime  subsequencium  et  plenarie  complet- 
orum.  Incipient e  termino  in  festo  sancti  [Martini]  in 
hyeme,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii  Johannis1  regis 
l°vjto.  Habendam  ....  donee  predictus  terminus  plen- 
arie fuerit  completus  :  predictus  autem  Adam  et  heredes 
sui  totam  predictam  terram,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus 
suis  tarn  in  firmis  et  redditibus  quam  in  aliis  pertinenciis 
suis,  predictis  priori  et  monachis  pro  quadam  pecunie 
summa  eidem  Ade  per  predictos  priorem  et  monachos 
in  sua  maxima  necessitate  pre  manibus  donata,  donee 
sex  vesturas  plenarie  inde  receperint,  contra  omnes 
gentes  warantizabunt  et  defendent  :  et  si  Hubertum, 
patrem  predicti  Ade,  ad  partes  Coupland  infra  terminum 
prenominatum  accedere  contigerit  et  terram  predictam 
pro  sua  calumpniare  voluerit  ;  et  dictus  Adam  predictis 
priori  et  monachis  warentizare  nequiverit,  tune  predictus 
Adam  concedit  et  statuit  totam  predicte  pecunie  summam 
eidem  prius  commissam,  una  cum  toto  custu  suo  quern 
ibidem  miserint  secundum  provisionem  virorum  fidedig- 
norum  predictis  priori  et  monachis,  absque  omni  contra- 
diccione  seu  strepitu  judicial!  plenarie  refundere  :  termino 
autem  plenarie  completo,  tota  predicta  terra  cum  domibus 
superedificatis  predicto  Ade  et  heredibus  suis  in  eodem 
statu  quo  earn  dimiserit,  salva  vetustate,  revertetur.  In 
cujus  rei  testimonium  presenti  scripto  ad  modum  cirografi 
confecto  hinc  et  inde  alternatim  signa  sua  apposuerunt. 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Thoma  de  Cleter,  Ricardo  de 
Flemyng,  Willelmo  de  Punsunby,  Roberto  de  Willton, 
Roberto  de  Sevinhoues,  et  aliis. 

128.     l  ii  November,   1271. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         169 

129.  CARTA  ADAM  DE  NEWTON  FILII  HUBERTI  DE 
TERRIS  IN  NEWTON  DE  SITU  MOLENDINI. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Adam  de  Neutona  filius  Hubert!  de 
Neuton,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  .  .  . 
me  concessisse  et  confirmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
et  beate  Bege  de  Coupeland  et  monachis  apud  sanctam 
Begam  Deo  et  beate  Bege  servientibus,  omnes  terras  et 
tenementa,  quas  Hubertus,  pater  meus,  eis  dedit  in  villa 
de  Neutona  et  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  quas  habent  de 
dono  et  concessione  Thome  et  Johannis,  fratrum  meorum, 
in  eadem  villa.  Concessi  eciam  predictis  monachis 
situm  molendini  et  quod  possint  construere  molendinum 
in  villa  de  Neutona  infra  terram  suam  propriam,  ubi- 
cumque  sibi  magis  viderint  expedire,  stagnum  facere  et 
exaltare  pro  sue  libito  voluntatis,  et  aquam  trahere 
ubicumque  commodius  facere  poterint.  Habendas  .... 
prout  carte  predicti  Huberti,  patris  mei,  et  predictorum 
T.  et  J.,  fratrum  meorum,  plenius  testantur  et  porportant. 
Et  preterea  concessi  ....  quod  annua  firma1  septem 
solidorum  et  octo  denarios  (sic)  quas  pater  meus  solebat 
solvere  predictis  monachis  de  terris  et  tenementis,  quas 
de  eis  tenuit  in  eadem  villa  de  Neutona,  eisdem  et  eorum 
successoribus  inperpetuum  ad  terminos  consuetos  plene' 
et  integre  persolvatur  de  residuis  terris  meis  et  heredum 

meorum    in    eadem    villa Hiis    testibus    domino 

Ricardo  Flandrensi,  domino  Thoma  de  Cletyre,  milite, 
domino  Radulfo  de  Betham,  milite,  Hugone  de  Moriceby 
Roberto  de  Brantheuit,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Willelmo  de 
Ponse[n]by,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam 
Begam,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii  Johannis  regis,  1° 
sexto.2 


129.  x  In  the  margin  :  nota  de  annua  firma  septem  solidorum 
et  octo  denariorum  apud  Fleminghall.  It  will  be  observed  how 
loose  the  scribe  is  in  his  grammar. 

a  1271-2. 


170         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

130.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  HUBERT:  DE  NEWTON  DE  TERRA 
IN  NEWTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  films  Hubert!  de  Neutona, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me 
concessisse,  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  ac 
sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus,  totam  terram  meam  cum  pertinenciis  quam 
habui  in  villa  de  Neutona  in  Coupland,  tarn  in  serviciis, 
firmis,  redditibus,  quam  in  dominicis  ;  quam  vero  terram 
a  dictis  monachis  tenui.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testibus, 
dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkington,  Radulfo  de  Beyom, 
Ricardo  de  Brocthon,  Ricardo  de  Flemyng,  Thoma  de 
Cleter,  militibus,  Thoma  de  Hale,  Willelmo  de  Moryng, 
Willelmo  de  Punsonby,  Willelmo  de  Gilling,  et  multis 
aliis.1 


131.    CARTA  MARGAR[ETE]  FILIE  HUBERTI  DE  TERRIS 

ET  EDIFICIIS  IN  NEWTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Margareta  filia  Huberti  de  Neutona, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  .  .  .  quod  ego  concessi, 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  [Deo]  servientibus  et  eorum  successori- 
bus  inperpetuum,  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui,  vel 
aliquo  modo  habere  potui,  in  tota  terra  ilia  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis  et  edificiis  super  eandem  fundatis  in  villa 
de  Neutona,  que  me  contingit  jure  hereditario  descendente 
ab  Alicia  sorore  mea.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod  ego  nee  heredes 
mei  nee  alius  jure  seu  nomine  nostro  in  predicta  terra  nee 
in  aliqua  illius  parte,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  nullo  modo 
jus  vel  clamium  de  cetero  exigere,  habere,  vel  vendicare 

poterimus    inperpetuum Hiis    testibus    dominis 

Thoma  de  Cleter,  Ricardo  de  Flemyng,  militibus,  Willelmo 

130.     l  This  deed  is  recorded  in  duplicate. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  171 

de  Punconby,  Waltero  de  Sevinhouis,  Willelmo  de  Way- 
burthauhyt,  Roberto  lee  Riche,1  et  aliis. 

132.  CARTA   PAVIE   FILIE  WILLELMI   CAPELLANI   DE 
PUNCHUNBY  DE  TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  NEWTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Pavia  filia  Willelmi,  capellani  de 
Punchunby,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
....  me  dedisse,  ....  domino  priori  de  sancta  Bega 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  meam 
quam  habui  ex  dono  patris  mei  in  Neutona  in  Coupland, 
que  terra  jacet  inter  terram  dicti  prioris  et  terram 
Radulfi  hominis  persone  de  Goseford,  cum  libero  introitu 
et  exitu,  et  cum  pertinenciis,  libertatibus,  et  aysiamentis 
ad  predictam  terram  de  Neutona  pertinentibus.  Ita, 
scilicet,  quod  nee  ego  nee  heredes  mei  nee  aliquis  ex  parte 
mea  aliquod  jus  vel  clamium  in  predictam  terram  contra 
predictum  priorem,  dominum  meum,  et  conventum  in- 

perpetuum    vendicare    poterimus Hiis    testibus 

dominis  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Johanne  de  Langlivere,  Rob- 
erto de  Lanplou,  Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  Ricardo  Flan- 
drensi,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosefort,  Roberto 
de  Wiltona,  Willelmo  de  sancta  Bega  clerico,  et  aliis.1 

133.  [CONFIRMACIO  THOME  DE  SENHOWS  DE  TERRIS 
IN  NEWTON.] 

131.  l  Meant  for  Robert  le  Riche.     See  John  son  of  Robert 
de  Bouilton  in  No.  293.     The  epithet  is  sometimes  expressed  as 
Dives.     He  appears  as  Robert  le  Rice  in  No.  124.     On  the  other 
hand,  if  the  doubtful  letter  in  both  words  be  read  as  '  t '  instead 
of  'c,'  we  should  have  le  Rite  in  No.  124  and  lee  Rithe  in  this 
deed,  both  words  being  descriptive  01  the  trade  or  calling  of  a 
wright. 

132.  1  This  deed  is  in  duplicate.     The  witnesses  are  from  the 
second  of  the  two  copies.     In  the  first,  domino  Roberto  de  Cleter 
is  omitted.     Other  differences  are  Langlevere,  Landplou,  Goseford. 


172  REGISTRUM   PRIORATU.S   DE   SANCTA.  BEGA 

OMNIBUS  ....  Thomas  de  Senhows,1  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me 
cartam  Ade  de  Newton  filii2  Huberti  inspexisse  in  hec 
verba  :  Universis  sancte  matris  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Adam  de  Neuton  filius  Huberti  de 
Neuton,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  uni- 
versitas vestra  etc.,  as  in  No.  129.  Ego  vero  dictus 
Thomas  de  Senhows,  ratum  habens  et  gratum  donum 
predicte  Ade  in  forma  predicta,  cartam  predictam  con- 
firmo  et  ratifico  pro  me  et  heredibus  et  assignatis  meis 
inperpetuum.  Ita  videlicet  quod  si  contingat  predictum 
annuum  redditum  septem  solidorum  et  octo  denariorum, 
in  quibus  dictus  Adam  et  antecessores  sui  solvere  tene- 
bantur  annuatim  predict  is  monachis,  apud  sanctam 
Begam  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  servientibus, 
pro  Flemynghall  cum  pertinenciis  et  aliis  terris  in  villa 
de  Newton>  quas  per  cartas  suas  tenuerunt  de  abbate 
beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  priori  et  monachis  sancte  Bege 

133.  l  Soon  after  the  disappearance  of  the  Neutons  from 
Gosforth  about  1271  (Nos.  129-131),  the  Sevenhoues  or  Senhouses, 
who  probably  took  their  name  from  Sevenhoues,  now  Hall  Senna, 
a  hamlet  of  Bolton  in  this  parish  and  an  early  possession  of  the 
family,  are  found  in  possession  of  Neuton  in  Gosforth.  Seven- 
houes is  met  with  as  a  place-name  there  so  early  as  the  beginning 
of  the  fourteenth  century  (Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rep.,  x.  App.  iv.  224). 
The  cornage  rent  of  Neuton  was  rendered  in  1322  by  Robert  de 
Sevenhowes  to  Eleanor,  widow  of  Thomas  de  Multon  of  Egremont 
(Close,  15  Edw.  II.,  m.  8).  In  1334  Nicholas  de  Sevenhous  was 
tenant  (Inq.  p.m.  8  Edw.  III.,  ist  Nos.  73).  The  property  remained 
with  this  family  till  1707  :  their  residences  were  at  Hall  Bolton 
and  Seascale  Hall.  For  a  pedigree  of  the  family,  based  on  docu- 
ments at  Netherhall,  see  an  interesting  paper  by  Miss  Senhouse  in 
Transactions  of  C.  &  W.  Archtsol.  Soc.,  xii.  247-260. 

2  The  carelessness  of  the  scribe  is  again  manifest  in  this  deed, 
showing  his  inability  to  distinguish  between  Ada  and  Adam  when 
copying  his  charters.  In  one  instance  we  have  filii  fully  written, 
denoting  Adam,  while  lower  down  there  is  predicte  Ade,  denoting 
Ada. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  173 

predictis  per  fidelitatem  et  annuum  redditum  predictum, 
quibus  et  ego,  heredes,  et  successores  mei  tenemur  per 
present es,  ad  aliquem  terminum  a  retro  fuisse  in  parte 
vel  in  toto,  quod  tune  liceat  priori  et  monachis  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  in  terris  et  tenementis  de  Flemynghall3 
in  villa  de  Newton,  et  in  qualibet  parcella  eorundem 
distringere  sine  contradiccione  mei  vel  heredum  meorum, 
et  districcionem  abducere  et  penes  se  retinere,  donee 
priori  et  monachis  de  sancta  Bega  de  predicto  redditu  et 
arreragiis  ejusdem,  si  que  fuerint,  plene  fuerit  satisfactum. 
Hiis  [testibus]  dominis  Christofero  Culwen,  Ricardo 
Hudylston,  militibus,  Ricardo  de  Irton,  Johanne  de 
Coupland,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam 
in  cathedra  sancti  Petri,  anno  domini  millesimo  cccc° 
decimo  nono.4 

134.    [CoNFiRMAcio    CHRISTOFERI    DE    MORESBY  DE 

COMMUNIA  PASTURE  PRO  PECORIBUS.] 

OMNIBUS  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris,  Christo- 
ferus  de  Moresby,1  miles,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam. 
Noveritis  me  inspexisse,  ratificasse,  et  concessisse  ven- 
erabilibus  et  religiosis  viris,  abbati  et  conventui  mon- 
asterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  ac  priori  et  monachis  in  cella 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  Deo  servientibus,  presentibus  et 
futuris,  ac  eorum  successoribus,  quoddam  scriptum 
relaxacionis  ac  quiete  clamacionis  factum  per  Hugonem 
de  Moresby,  antecessorem  meum,  predictis  abbati  et 
conventui  ac  priori  et  monachis  suis  in  predicta  cella  Deo 
servientibus,  presentibus  et  futuris,  cum  omnibus  juribus 
et  libertatibus  suis  in  predicto  script o  contentis,  cujus 

3  Still  called  by  this  name  (O.  S.,  Ixxviij.  N.W.). 

4  18  January,   1419-1420. 

134.  l  This  deed  is  clearly  a  fragment,  but  the  donor  may 
probably  be  identified  with  the  Christopher  de  Moresby  who 
appears  as  a  witness  to  Nos.  237-8,  which  make  his  date  about 
1 359-6.5- 


174  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

tenor  sequitur  in  hec  verba  :  Omnibus  hoc  scriptum  etc. 
Hugo  de  Moresby,2  salutem  in  domino  etc.  Et  insuper 
notum  sit  omnibus  hoc  scriptum  presens  visuris  vel 
audituris,  quod  cum  mota  fuisset  contencio  inter  predict os 
religiosos  viros,  abbatem,  videlicet,  et  conventum,  pri- 
orem  ac  monachos  suos  dicte  celle  sancte  Bege,  et  me 
Christoferum  de  Moresby  antedictum,  super  quadam 
communia  pasture  pro  pecoribus  dictorum  religiosorum 
virorum  ac  tenencium  suorum  de  parochia  sancte  Bege 
habenda,  prout  in  cartis  diversorum  dominorum  tocius 
Coupland  dictis  religiosis  inde  confectis  plenius  continetur, 
infra  quamdam  moram  dudum  vocatam  Welyngmore,  in 
di versa  nomina  ob  propinquitatem  villarum  adjacencium 
jam  trinomine  nuncupatam,  cujus  una  pars  Moriceby 
more,  alt  era  pars  Welyngmore,  tercia  vero  pars  Distyng- 
tone  more  modo  appellatur,3  cujus  mora  et  pastura  bene 
inferius  declarantur. 

135.    CARTA  ADE  DE  HARRAS   DE  vj   ACRIS  TERRE 

ARABILIS  JUXTA  HOTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri,  quod  ego,  Adam  de  Harras, 
voluntate  et  assensu  heredis  mei,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac 
presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Matilde  filie  mee  sex  acras 
terre  arabilis  juxta  Hothwait,1  que  continentur  infra  has 
di  visas,  viz.,  ut  rivulus  descendit  a  thurallo2  de  Hothwait 
per  pomerium,  et  influit  in  gilam  ;  et  inde  per  gilam  usque 
ad  divisam  ex  parte  Occident ali  terre  ejusdem  que  inde 

2  The  charter  of  Hugh  de  Moresby,  here  referred  to,  must  be 
No.  72. 

8  See  note  3  at  No.  12. 

135.  l  Hothwait,  a  parcel  now  forming  part  of  the  town  of 
Whitehaven  near  Brans ty  Railway  Station  (see  note  on  No.  12), 
abuts  on  Harras  Park  (O.  S.,  Ixvij.  N.W.). 

2Thurallum,  turelhim,  torrale,  torralium,  a  malt-kiln.  In  the 
Life  and  Miracles  of  St.  Bega  (lllus.  Doc.,  No.  i)  we  have  quandam 
domunculam  ad  evsicandos  fruges  factam,  que  vulgo  torellum  vocatur. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  175 

extenditur  usque  ad  moram  :  et  inde  ex  transverse  usque 
ad  prenominatum  rivulum  juxta  turellum.  Tenendas  et 
habendas  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  sibi  et  heredibus  suis, 
libere,  integre,  quiete  ab  omni  servicio,  consuetudine,  et 
et  exaccione,  cum  communibus  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus 
ad  Hotwaith  et  Harrais  pertinentibus.  Reddendo  inde 
annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  duodecim  denarios, 
sex  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  et  sex  ad  Pentecosten.  Ego 
autem  et  heredes  mei  warantizabimus  prefate  Matilde  et 
heredibus  suis  predictam  terram  contra  omnes  homines 
inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
domino  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  Roberto  de  Hothwait,  Alex- 
andro  filio  Ulkile,  Henrico  de  Hothwait,  Alexandra  filio 
Gilbert  i,  et  aliis.8 

136.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  RICARDI  COLLAN'  DE 
INTROITU  ET  EXITU  DE  HOTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Thomas  filius  Ricardi  Collan,  salutem 
in  domino.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  concessisse  et  hac 
presenti  carta  mea  connrmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus,  racionabilem  introitum  et  exitum  a 
terra  dictorum  monachorum  de  Hothwait  per  mediam 
terram  meam  usque  Quelingmor1  continentem  in  se  in 
latitudine  viginti  pedes  ubique.  Tenendum  et  habendum 
libere  et  quiete  intrandi  et  exeundi  ad  voluntatem  dic- 
torum monachorum  cum  omnibus  mobilibus  suis  et  com- 
[mjodis  eorum.  Ego  vero  predictus  Thomas  et  heredes 
mei  dictum  introitum  et  exitum,  sicut  predictum  est, 
dictis  monachis  warantizabimus,  adquietabimus,  et  in- 
perpetuum defendemus.  Et  si  it  a  contingat  quod  ani- 

8  From  the  witnesses  it  may  be  concluded  that  the  date  of  the 
deed  falls  about  1220. 

136.     1  For  this  place,  see  note  3  on  No.  12. 


176  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

malia  dictorum  monachorum  tarn  magnum  dampmim  in 
blado  meo,  causa  dictorum  introitus  et  exitus,  fecerint, 
ita  quod  diucius  sustinere  non  potero,  bene  licebit  michi 
et  heredibus  meis  ex  utraque  parte  dictorum  introitus  et 
exitus  fossare,  ita  tamen  quod  dicti  monachi  medietatem 
dicte  fosse  adquietabunt.  Preterea  sciendum  est  quod 
qualicumque  modo  dicti  introitus  et  exitus  sint  fossati, 
latitude  ubique  dictorum  viginti  pedum  integra  et  libera 
dictorum  introitus  et  exitus  semper  remanebit.  In  cujus 
rei  testimonium  huic  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum 
apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver, 
domino  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  domino  Elya  tune  ballivo 
de  Egremund,  Roberto  de  Braunthwait,  Michaele  de 
Haverington,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Johanne  de  Hale, 
Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  et  multis 
aliis.2 

137.    CARTA  HUGONIS  HARRAIS  DE  EISDEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Hugo  de  Harrais,  salutem  in  domino, 
Noveritis  me  dedisse,  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci 
et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus,  racionabilem  introitum  et  exitum  a  terra 
dictorum  monachorum  de  Hothwait  per  mediam  terrain 
meam  usque  Quelingmore  continentem  in  se  in  latitudine 
viginti  pedes  ubique.  Tenendum  ....  ad  voluntatem 
dictorum  monachorum  cum  omnibus  mobilibus  suis  et 
com[m]odis  eorum.  Ego  vero  predict  us  Hugo  et  heredes 
mei  dictum  introitum  et  exitum,  sicut  predictum  est, 
dictis  monachis  warentizabimus  inperpetuum  et  defend- 
emus.  Et  si  ita  contingat  quod  animalia  dictorum  mon- 
achorum tarn  magnum  dampnum  in  blado  meo,  causa 
dictorum  introitus  et  exitus,  fecerint,  ita  quod  diucius 

*  This  deed,  which  is  in  triplicate  without  appreciable  variation, 
may  be  dated  from  the  witnesses  about  1250.  For  another  deed 
of  the  grantor,  see  No.  138. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  177 

sustinere  non  potero,  bene  licebit  michi  et  heredibus  meis 
ex  utraque  parte  dictorum  introitus  et  exitus  fossare,  ita 
tamen  quod  dicti  monachi  medietatem  dicte  fosse  ad- 
quietabunt.  Preterea  sciendum  est  quod  qualicumque 
modo  dicti  introitus  et  exitus  sint  fossati,  latitudo  ubique 
dictorum  viginti  pedum,  integra  et  libera,  dictorum  in- 
troitus et  exitus  semper  remanebit.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langlivere,  domino 
Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  domino  Elya  tune  ballivo  de 
Egremund,  Roberto  de  Brampthwait,  Michaele  de  Hav- 
erington,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Ricardo 
le  Flemyng,  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  et  aliis.1 

138.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  RICARDI  COLLAN  DE  INTROITU 
ET  EXITU  DE  HOTHWAIT  USQUE  AD  MORAM  DE  HENSYNG- 

HAM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Thomas  films  Ricardi  Collan  de  Eger- 
mund,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  dedisse,  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  Couplandie  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  viam  per  mediam 
terram  meam  continentem  in  latitudine  viginti  pedum  et 
in  longitudine  de  Hothwait  usque  ad  moram  de  Hensin- 
ham,  cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu  ad  voluntatem  dictorum 
monachorum.  Tenendam  ....  Et  si  ita  contingat  quod 
animalia  dictorum  monachorum  tarn  magnum  [dampnum] 
in  blado  meo  causa  dicte  vie  fecerint,  bene  licebit  michi 
et  heredibus  meis  ex  utraque  parte  dicte  vie  tensare1  vel 
fossare,  ita  quod  dicti  monachi  medietatem  custi  haye 
vel  fosse  adquietabunt.  Preterea  sciendum  est  quod 
qualicunque  modo  dicta  [via]  sit  tensata  vel  fossata, 

137.  l  The  witnesses,  and  therefore  the  date,  are  the  same  as 
in  the  previous  deed.     Hugh  de  Harrais,  the  grantor,  was  evi- 
dently the  feudal  superior  of  Thomas  son  of  Richard  Collan. 

138.  1  The  words  here  may  be  taken  in  their  non -technical 
sense  :   tensare,  to  protect,  jto  hedge  :    haya,  a  fence,  not  a  fenced 
inclosure  for  hunting  :    tensata  vel  fossata,  fenced  or  ditched. 

N 


178  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

longitude  et  latitude  dictorum  viginti  pedum  integra2  et 
libera  dicte  vie  semper  remanebunt.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Roberto  de 
Lamplogh,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Elya  tune  ballivo, 
Nicholao  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Johanne 
de  Hale,  Ricardo  de  Flemyng,  Benedicto  de  Rotington, 
et  aliis. 

139.  CARTA  HUGONIS  HARRAIS  DE  EisDEM.1 

140.  CARTA  ROBERTI  DE  HOTHWAIT  DE  vj  ACRIS  TERRE 
ETC.  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Robertus  de  Hothwait,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  universitas  vestra  me  dedisse  et  hac  presenti  carta 
mea  confirmasse  Gilberto  filio  meo  sex  acras  terre  de 
dominico  meo  in  villa  de  Hothwait  per  istas  di visas, 
scilicet,  domum  que  fuit  Ade  filii  Whok  cum  tofto,  in  qua 
(sic)  continetur  una  acra,  et  dimidifam]  acram  que  jacet 
ex  parte  australi  spine,  et  quatuor  acras  et  dimidi[am] 
jacentes  juxta  terram  Henrici  de  Hothwait  fratris  mei. 
Tenendas  ....  pro  libero  servicio  suo  xij  denariorum 
annuatim  persolvendorum  michi  et  heredibus  meis  de 
se  et  heredibus  suis,  scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten  sex  denar- 
[iorum],  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  sex  denarfiorum]. 
Concessi  vero  predicto  Gilberto  et  heredibus  suis  pre- 
dictam  terram  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  ville  de  Hoth- 
wait pertinentibus,  et  ego  et  heredes  mei  predict  am 
terram  contra  omnes  gentes  inperpetuum  warantizabimus. 
Hiis  testibus  Johanne1  tune  priore  sancte  Bege,  Hugone 

2  The  grammar  here  cannot  be  defended. 

139.  x  Duplicate  of  No.  137. 

140.  *  John,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  gave  a  charter  (No.  430)  in 
anno  illo  quo  Odo  rex  Allemannie  venit  in  Angliam,  that  is,  in  1207 
(M.  Paris,  Chron.  Majora,  ii.  511),  but  this  is  not  the  Prior  John 
here,  who  may  be  identified  with  John  de  Lestingham  in  No.  230. 
The  date  of  the  deed  will  be  therefore  about  1250. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  179 

de  Moreceby,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby, 
Alexandra  filio  Willelmi,  Roberto  de  Harrais,  Waltero  de 
Godethwait,  et  aliis. 

141.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  TERRIS  IN  HOTHWAIT,  ETC. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Robertus  de  Hothwait,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  universitas  vestra  me,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  sive 
quibuscumque  aliis  exigentibus,  quiet  am  clamasse  et 
dedisse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  meam  quam  teneo 
in  Hothwait,  in  planis  et  pascuis  et  omnibus  aliis  aisia- 
mentis  dictam  terram  spectantibus.  Reddendo  inde 
monachis  sancte  Bege  vj  solidos.  Ita  videlicet  quod 
Henricus  de  Hothwait,  films  meus  et  heres  meus,  sive 
successores  ejus,  eundem  reditum  reddendo  annuatim  et 
precariam1  sancte  Bege  in  autumpno,  teneant  predict  am 
terram  meam  de  Hothwait  cum  pertinenciis,  sicut  ego 
aliquando  liberius  tenui.  Insuper  scientes  quod  Michael, 
quondam  f rater  meus,  terram  totam  quam  tenuit  ad 
quandam  certain  firmam  habuit  de  priore  sancte  Bege. 
Testibus  dominis  Elia  ballivo  de  Egremund,  Johanne  de 
Langliver,  Moris  de  Hairintwait,  Willelmo  de  Kirkebi- 
stephan,  Clemente  clerico  persone  serviente  de  Wytoft- 
havene,  et  aliis. 

142.  CARTA  GILBERTI  FILII  ROBERTI  DE  HOTHWAIT 
DE  TOTIS  TERRIS  SUIS  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego  Gilbertus  films  Roberti  de 
Hothwait  et  Christiana,  sponsa  [mea],  cum  consilio  amic- 

orum   nostrorum,    dedimus Deo   et   beate   Marie 

Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  Couplandie  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  nostram  in  campo  de  Hoth- 
wait sine  aliquo  retenemento  per  has  divisas,  scilicet, 

141.  1  Boon-service  or  service  in  labour  due  from  tenants  to 
their  landlords,  like  ploughing  or  harrowing. 


180  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

domum  que  fuit  Ade  filii  Hulkill,1  cum  tofto  in  quo  con- 
tinetur,  unam  acram  et  dimidiam  acram  que  jacet  ex 
parte  austral!  spine  et  quatuor  acras  terre  et  dimidiam 
jacentes  juxta  terram  Henrici  de  Ho th wait  fratris  mei. 
Tenendam  ....  Ita,  scilicet,  libere  quod  ego  Gilbertus 
nee  Christiana,  sponsa  mea,  nunquam  de  cetero  nee 
aliquis  ex  parte  nostra  in  dicta  terra  jus  vel  clamium 

exigere  poterimus Hiis  testibus  domino  Ricardo 

de  Cleter,  domino  Johanne  de  Langl[iver]  domino  Elia 
tune  ballivo  de  Egremund,  Alexandra  de  Puncunby, 
Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Benedict o 
de  Rotington,  et  aliis. 

143.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  DIVERSIS  TERRIS  IN  HOTH- 


144.  CONVENCIO  INTER  NlCHOLAUM  PRIOREM  ET 
WlLLELMUM  FILIUM  RADULFI  DE  TERRA  IN  HOTHWAYT. 

HEC  est  convencio  facta  inter  N.  priorem1  de  sancta 
Bega  et  monachos  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  (sic)  ex  una 
parte,  et  Willelmum  filium  Radulfi  et  Aliciam  uxorem 
suam,  ex  alia  parte,  viz.,  quod  ego  Willelmus  films  Radulfi 
et  Alicia  sponsa  mea  concessimus  dicto  N.  priori  et  dictis 
monachis  totam  terram  nostram  de  Ho  th  wait,  sine 
aliquo  retenemento.  Habendam  et  tenendam  usque  ad 
terminum  quadraginta  annorum  plene  completorum  pro 
decem  libris  argenti,  quas  ego  Willelmus  et  Alicia  sponsa 
mea  cepimus  pre  manibus  in  nostro  urgenti  negocio  de 

142.  l  This  deed  is  in  duplicate  ;   the  copy  printed  has  in  the 
margin  habetur  sub  cera  corrosa.     Adam  son  of  Hulkill,  which 
appears  in  both  copies,  is  the  same  person  as  Adam  son  of  Whok 
in  No.  140. 

143.  l  Duplicate  of  the  foregoing. 

144.  l  Nicholas  de  Langeton,  often  mentioned  as  prior  of  St. 
Bees  in  this  Register  from  1258  to  1282.     For  the  latter  date,  see 
No.  408. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  l8l 

catallis  proprie  domus.  It  a,  videlicet,  quod  ad  finem 
quadraginta  annorum  quando  solvimus  decem  libras 
predict  a  terra  nobis  quieta  remanebit.  Hec  convencio 
facta  fuit  anno  regni  regis  Henrici,  filii  regis  Johannis, 
•quatragesimo  secundo  in  domo  sancte  Bege  die  sancti 
Marci  evangelist e  in  May.2  Et  quia  volumus  quod  hoc 
sit  securum,  huic  script o  sigilla  nostra  apposuimus.  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino  Ricardo 
de  Cleter,  domino  Eliseo  tune  persona  de  Gosf ord,  Michaele 
de  Haverington,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Alexandro  de 
Puncunby,  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  et  aliis. 

145.  QUIETA  CLAMACIO  WILLELMI  FILII  RADULFI  DE 
TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  HOTHEWAIT,  ETC. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego  Willelmus  films  Radulfi  et 
Alicia  sponsa  mea,  consilio  amicorum  nostrorum,  dedimus, 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  Coup- 
landie  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 
nostram  de  Hothwait  sine  aliquo  retenemento,  scilicet, 
toftum  et  croftum  et  dimidiam  partem  de  Helkokmire,  et 
septem  acras  terre  jacentes  in  longitudine  juxta  terram 
Gille  Mighelbrother  et  in  latitudine  mensuratas  versus 
domum  meam.  Tenendam  ....  Ita  libere,  scilicet, 
quod  ego  Willelmus  nee  Alicia  sponsa  mea  nunquam  de 
cetero  nee  aliquis  heredum  nostrorum,  nee  aliquis  ex 
parte  nostra  in  dicta  terra  jus,  clamium,  vel  calumpniam 

exigere  poterimus Hiis  testibus  domino  Ricardo 

de  Cletere,  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino  Elia 
tune  ballivo  de  Egremund,  Alexandro  de  Puncunby, 
Roberto  de  Brampthwait,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  et  aliis. 
Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  sancti  Marci  evangeliste 
anno  regni  regis  H.  filii  regis  Johannis  quadragesimo 
secundo.1 

2  A  curious  error  for  April :   25  April,  1258. 
145.     *25  April  1258. 


182  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

146.  CARTA  WILLELMI  DE  HOTHWAYT  DE  SERVICIO 
TOFTI  ET  CROFTI  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Willelmus  de  Hothwait,  con- 
cessi  ....  Henrico  filio  meo  et  heredibus  suis,  pro 
humagio  et  servicio  suo,  toftum  et  croftum  quod  Eda,  que 
fuit  uxor  Yvonis,  quandoque  tenuit  de  me  in  Hothwait, 
et  dimidiam  partem  de  Helcocmire  et  septem  acras  terre 
jacentes  in  longitudine  juxta  terram  Gillemichaelbrother 
et  in  latitudine  mensuratas  versus  domum  meam.  Hab- 
endas  ....  Reddendo  michi  vel  heredibus  meis  annu- 
atim,  pro  omni  seculari  servicio  et  demanda  michi  vel 
heredibus  meis  pertinente,  octo  denarios,  dimidpum]  ad 
Pentecosten,  et  dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  si  dominus  abbas  sancte  Marie  de  Ebor- 
aco  a  me  vel  heredibus  meis  petierit,  jam  dictus  H.  et 
heredes  [sui]  michi  vel  heredibus  [meis]  ad  solvendum 
auxilium  quatuor  denar[iorum]  et  non  amplius  exibebunt. 
Et  ego  et  heredes  mei  warantizabimus  predicto  H.  et 
heredibus  suis  predictum  toftum  et  croftum  et  predictas 
vij  acras  inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  Gilberto  filio  Gil- 
berti,  W.  persona  de  Wirkinton,  Ad.  de  Haverington, 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Hugone  de  Bransti,  Swain  fratre 
suo,  Roberto  de  Lendwad,  Ad.  de  Harrais,  et  multis  aliis.1 

147.  CARTA  HENRICI  DE  HOTHWAIT  DE  j  TOFTO  ET 
CROFTO  IN  HOTHWAIT  ET  DIMIDIA  PARTE  IN  HELKOCMIRE 
ET  vij  ACRIS  IN  HOTHWAYT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Henricus  de  Hothwait,  dedi, 
....  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui 
in  terris  vel  habere  potui  quas  Willelmus  filius  Radulfi  et 
Alicia  sponsa  sua  dederunt  predictis  monachis  de  sancta 

146-  l  From  the  witness,  William  parson  of  Workington,  the 
date  falls  about  1200-1227. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  183 

>ega,  scilicet,  t  of  turn  et  croftum  quod  Eda,  que  fuit  uxor 
Yvonis,  quandoque  tenuit  de  me  in  Hothwait,  et  dimidiam 
part  em  de  Helkocmire,  et  sept  em  acras  terre  jacentes  in 
longitudine  juxta  terrain  Gillemichaell  brother,  et  in  lati- 
tudine  mensuratas  versus  domum  meam.  Habendas 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  domino 
Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino  Elya  tune  persona  de 
Goseford,  Alexandro  de  Puncunby,  Roberto  de  Bramp- 
thwait,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Benedicto  de  Rotington, 
et  aliis.1 

148.  CARTA  EDE  UXORIS  HENRICI  DE  HOTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Eda  quondam  uxor  Henrici 
de  Hothwait,  in  libera  viduitate  et  legitima  potestate  mea, 
concessi  et  omnino  quietum  clamavi  totum  jus  et  clamium 
quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  racione  dotis  in  totis  terris 
et  edificiis  et  homagiis  et  in  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis 
quondam  Henrici  de  Hothwait  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci 
et  beate  Bege  in  Coupland,  priori  et  monachis  ibidem 
servientibus  Deo,  pro  quadam  summa  pecunie  quam 
predicti  prior  et  monachi  michi  pre  manibus  in  mea 
necessitate  dederunt.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod  nee  ego  Eda 
nee  aliquis  nee  aliqua  ex  parte  mea  in  predictis  terris 
edificiis  et  homagiis  de  cetero  jus  vel  clamium  racione 
dotis  exigere  vel  vendicare  poterimus.  Et  ad  majorem 
securitatem  hoc  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  impressione 
roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  domino  RaduJfo  de  Bethom, 
domino  Thoma  de  Cletere,  domino  Ricardo  de  Flemyng, 
Willelmo  de  Morkyng,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  et  aliis. 

149.  CARTA  CHRISTIANE  DE  HOTHWAIT. 

SCIANT   presentes   et   futuri   quod  ego,   Christiana  de 

147.  l  About  the  same  date  as  No.  144.  Compare  the 
witnesses. 


184  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Hothwait,1  in  legia  potestate  et  libera  viduitate  mea, 
concessi  et  omnino  quietum  clamavi  abbati  sancte  Marie 
Eboraci  et  monachis  apud  sanctam  Begam  Deo  servient- 
ibus  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  nomine  dotis  vel  quoquo 
alio  modo  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  tota  ilia  terra  cum 
omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  quam  Benedictus  films  Roberti 
de  Hothwait,  quondam  vir  meus,  in  eadem  villa  quondam 
tenuit.  It  a  vero  quod  nee  ego,  Christiana,  nee  heredes 
mei  nee  aliquis  per  nos  vel  pro  nobis  jus  aut  clamium  in 
dicta  terra  cum  suis  pertinenciis  de  cetero  poterimus 
exigere  vel  clamare.  Et  ut  hec  mea  concessio  et  quiet  a 
clamacio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat  inperpetuum,  huic 
scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Roberto  de  Haverington,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Johanne 
fratre  suo,  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Roberto  de  Frisington, 
Johanne  de  Godeneye,  et  aliis. 

150.  CARTA  HENRICI  DE  HOTHWAIT  DE  REDDITU 
VIIJD.  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hothwait,  salutem. 
Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie 
Eboraci  et  beate  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servienti- 
bus  annuum  redditum  octo  denariorum  in  Hothwait, 
scilicet,  de  terra  quam  Bruning  aliquo  tempore  de  prede- 
cessoribus  meis  et  de  me  tenuit,  et  de  tofto  et  crofto  quos 
Eda,  que  fuit  uxor  Yvonis,  aliquando  tenuit  in  Hosvait, 
et  de  dimidia  parte  de  Helcocmire,  et  de  septem  acris 
terre  jacentibus  in  longitudine  juxta  terram  Gilmichael 
brother  in  latitudine  mensuratis  versus  domum  Willelmi 
de  Hosvait.  In  quo,  scilicet,  annuo  redditu  jus  non 
habeo  nee  habere  potero  nee  heredes  mei  post  me  per  ullam 

149.  1  Christiana  de  Hothwait  of  this  deed  must  be  distin- 
guished from  her  namesake  in  No.  142,  the  wife  of  Gilbert  son  of 
Robert  de  Hothwait,  unless  there  is  confusion  in  the  text  of  the 
charters  between  Gilbert  and  Benedict,  which  is  most  likely. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  185 

cartam  vel  saisinam  quam  ante  habuimus.  Set  sciant 
omnes  quod  nos  annuum  redditum  omnino  resignavimus 
sicut  ilium  in  quo  jus  non  habuimus  nee  habere  poterimus 
inperpetuum.  Et  quia  volo  quod  hoc  sit  notum  propter 
hoc  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Insuper 
quietum  clamo  predictis  monachis  auxilium  quatuor 
denariorum  quos  predecessores  mei  de  dicta  terra  per- 
ceperunt  quociens  dominus  abbas  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco 
auxilium  a  me  vel  heredibus  meis  petierit.  In  huius  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de 
Haverington,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosfort, 
Thoma  de  Cletere,  Alexandro  de  Puncunby,  David  de 
Svahirst,  et  multis  aliis. 

151.  CARTA  HENRICI  HOTHWAIT  DE  QUADAM  PARTE 
TERRE  IN  HOTHWAIT  DATA  AD  LUMINARE  ALTARIS  BEATE 
MARIE  IN  CELLA. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hosvait,  salutem.    Nov- 

•erit  ....  me    dedisse Deo    et    beate    Marie    et 

ecclesie  sancte  Bege  et  specialiter  ad  luminare  altaris 
beate  Marie,  ubi  cotidie  in  honore  ejusdem  missa  cele- 
bratur,  quandam  partem  terre  de  Hosvait,  illam,  scilicet, 
que  pretendit  se  de  mora  usque  in  Stocbrigil',  et  sicut 
Stockbrigil  se  extendit  usque  ad  Branstibec,  et  sicut 
Branstibec  se  extendit  usque  ad  terram  que  fuit  Bruning. 
In  qua  terra  jus  non  habeo  nee  habere  potero,  nee  heredes 
mei  post  me  per  ullam  cartam  vel  seisinam  quam  ante 
habuimus,  cum  prato  quod  est  inter  predict  as  di  visas. 
Set  sciant  omnes  quod  nos  predictam  terram  omnino 
resignavimus  sicut  illam  in  qua  jus  non  habemus  nee 
habere  poterimus  inperpetuum.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  Will- 
elmo  de  Wedakir,  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  Willelmo 
dispensatore,  Ricardo  filio  David,  Henrico  filio  Ricardi, 
Alexandro  filio  Laurencii,  Gilbert  o  fratre  suo,  Ricardo 


l86  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

filio  fabri,  et  aliis.  Et  si  quis  defraudaverit  vel  asport- 
averit  fermam  predicte  terre  a  predicto  luminari  sit  de 
abbate  Marie  Eboraci  et  ejusdem  loci  conventu  excom- 
municatus  inperpetuum. 

152.  CARTA    HENRICI    DE    HOTHWAIT    DE    QUADAM 
PECIA  TERRE  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hosvait,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  ....  me  concessisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie 
et  beate  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  quan- 
dam  peciam  terre  de  Hosvait,  illam,  scilicet,  que  pretendit 
se  de  mora  usque  in  Stocbriggil  et  sicut  Stocbrigil  se 
extendit  usque  ad  Branstibec  et  sicut  Branstibec  se 
extendit  usque  ad  terram  que  fuit  Bruning.  In  qua 
terra  jus  non  habeo  nee  habere  potero  nee  heredes  mei 
post  me  per  ullam  cartam  vel  seisinam  quam  ante  habu- 
imus,  cum  prato  quod  est  infra  predictas  divisas.  Set 
scian-t  omnes  quod  nos  predictam  terram  omnino  resig- 
navimus  sicut  illam  in  qua  jus  non  habemus  nee  habere 
poterimus  inperpetuum  :  et  quia  volo  quod  hoc  sit  notum 
propter  hoc  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  Benedict o  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  dispensatore, 
Ricardo  filio  David,  Henrico  filio  Ricardi,  Alexandro  filio 
Laurencii,  Gilberto  fratre  suo,  Ricardo  filio  fabri,  et 
multis  aliis. 

153.  CARTA    HENRICI    DE    HOTHWAIT    DE    QUODAM 
TOFTO. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hosvait,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Ebor- 
aci et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  et  specialiter  ad  luminare 
altaris  beate  Marie  ubi  cotidie  in  honore  ejusdem  missa 
celebratur,  quoddam  toftum  in  Hosvait  quod  Simon  de 
Harrais  aliquo  tempore  tenuit  de  Willelmo  de  Hosvait : 
et  unam  acram  terre  et  unam  rodam  et  quatuordecim 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  187 

falla.  Que  scilicet  terra  jacet  inter  terrain  que  fuit 
Binning  in  parte  meridional!  et  terram  Gilberti  filii 
Roberti  de  Hosvait  versus  orientem.  In  quibus  tofto 
et  terra  jus  non  habeo  nee  habere  potero  nee  heredes  mei 
per  ullam  cartam  vel  saisinam  quam  ante  habuimus  cum 

libero    introitu    et    exitu Hiis    testibus    domino 

Johanne  de  Langliver,  Willelmo  de  Wedakyr,  Benedicto 
de  Rotington,  Willelmo  dispensatore,  Ricardo  filio  David, 
Henrico  filio  Ricardi,  Alexandro  filio  Laurencii,  Gilberto 
fratre  suo,  Ricardo  filio  fabri,  et  mult  is  aliis.  Et  si  quis 
defraudaverit  vel  asportaverit  firmam  predicte  terre  a 
predicto  luminari  ab  abbate  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et 
tocius  ordinis  con  vent  u  sit  inperpetuum  excommunicatus. 

154.  CARTA  HENRICI  DE  HOTHWAIT  DE  TOTA  TERRA 
SUA  IN  HOTHWAIT,  ETC. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Henricus  de  Hothwait  filius 
Roberti,  dedi.  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  beate 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 
meam  de  Hothwait  et  totum  jus  quod  habui  vel  unquam 
habere  potui  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  infra  villam  et 

extra.     Tenendum  .  .  .  .  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio 

Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  Johanne  de 
Langliver,  Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  Ely  a  tune  sinescallo, 
Rogero  persona  de  Wirkynton,1  Nicholao  de  Moreceby, 
Alexandro  de  Puncunby,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Willelmo  de 
sancta  Bega  clerico,  Willelmo  dispensatore,  Johanne  de 
sex  decim  vallibus,  et  aliis. 

155.  QUIETA    CLAMACIO    HENRICI    DE    HOTHWAIT    DE 
TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

154.  x  From  the  witness,  Roger  parson  of  Workington,  the 
date  of  the  deed  may  be  placed  between  1247,  when  he  was 
appointed  (No.  214)  and  1258  (Nos.  356-7),  when  he  was  a  witness 
to  deeds  of  certain  date. 


l88  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Henricus  de  Hosvait  films 
Robert!,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  beate 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terrain 
meam  de  Hosvait  et  totum  jus  quod  habui  vel  uncquam 
habere  potui  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in  eadem 

villa.     Tenendum  .  .  .  .  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio 

H;is  testibus  domino  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  Johanne  de 
Langliver,  domino  Roberto  de  Lamplou,  Nicholao  de 
Moreceby,  Alexandro  de  Punchunby,  Johanne  de  Hale, 
et  aliis. 

156.  CARTA  HENRICI  FILII  ROBERTI  DE  HOTHWAIT  DE 

TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  HOTHWA[l]T  ET  EXTRA. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Henricus  de  Hothwait  filius 
Roberti,  dedi,  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  beate 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 
meam  de  Hothwait  et  totum  jus  quod  habui  vel  unquam 
habere  potui  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  in  eadem  villa  et 
extra.  Tenendum  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo 
de  Cleterne,  Johanne  de  Langliver,  Roberto  de  Lampl[ou], 
Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Alexandro  de  Punchunby,  Johanne 
de  Hale,  magistro  Willelmo,  Willelmo  de  Kirkebystephan, 
Johanne  de  sexdecim  vallibus,  et  aliis. 

157.  CARTA  CECILIE  UXORIS  ROBERTI  DE  HOTHWAIT 
DE  TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  EADEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Cecilia  quondam  uxor  Roberti 
de  Hothwait,1  in  viduitate  mea  et  libera  potestate  dedi, 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  Coup- 
landie  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 
meam  de  Hothwait  et  totum  jus  quod  unquam  habui  vel 
unquam  habere  potui  in  dicta  terra,  nomine  dotis,  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in  eadem  villa,  pro  quadam 

157.  1  For  the  charters  of  Robert  de  Hothwait,  the  grantor's 
deceased  husband,  see  Nos.  140-141. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  189 

summa  pecunie  quam  Nicholaus2  tune  prior  de  sancta 
Bega  in  mea  maxima  necessitate  michi  dedit  pre  manibus. 
Tenendum  .  .  .  .  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  ....  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  domino  Johanne  de 
Langliver,  domino  Elia  tune  ballivo  de  Egremund,  Roberto 
de  Brampthwait,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Alexandra  Pun- 
cunby,  Johanne  de  sexdecim  vallibus,  et  aliis.  Datum 
apud  Egremund  quinto  Idus  Aprilis  anno  regni  regis 
H[enrici]  filii  regis  Johannis  quatragesimo  secundo.3 

158.  CARTA  CECILIE  UXORIS  ROBERTI  DE  HOTHWAIT 
DE  QUADAM  PECIA  TERRE  IN  HOTHWAIT. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Cecilia  de  Hosvait,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  ....  me  concessisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et 
beate  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  quan- 
dam  peciam  terre  de  Hosvait,  Illam,  scilicet,  que  pretendit 
se  de  Mora  usque  in  Stocbrigil  et  sicut  Stocbrigil  se 
extendit  usque  ad  Branstibec  et  sicut  Branstibec  se 
extendit  usque  ad  terram  que  fuit  Bruning,  in  qua  jus 
habui  nomine  dot  is.  Et  quia  volo  quod  sit  no  turn  propter 
hoc  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 
Benedicto  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  dispensatore,  Ricardo 
filio  David,  Henrico  filio  Ricardi,  Alexandro  filio  Laurencii, 
Gilberto  fratre  suo,  Ricardo  filio  fabri,  et  multis  aliis. 

159.  CARTA  S.  ABB  AXIS  FACTA  HENRICO  DE  HOTHWAYT 

DE  VJ  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  QWYTOFTHAVENE  CUM  UNO  TOFTO 
IN  EADEM. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecciesie  filiis,  Henricus  de 
Hothwait,  salutem.  Noveritis  me  habere  cart  am  domini 
S.1  abbatis  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et  ejusdem  loci  conventus 

2  See  notes  on  Prior  Nicholas  in  Nos.  96,  144. 

3  9  April  1258. 

159.  l  Simon  de  Warrewik,  abbot  of  York,  1258-96.  Robert  de 
Cuton  or  Cwiton,  one  of  the  witnesses,  occurs  in  Nos.  214  and 
292,  dated  respectively  in  1247  and  1271,  the  latter  being  a 
charter  of  Abbot  Simon. 


190  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

in  hec  verba  :  Omnibus  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris, 
S.,  divina  miseracione,  abbas  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et 
ejusdem  loci  conventus  eternam  in  domino  salutem. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  concessisse  et  hac  present! 
carta  confirmasse  Henfico  de  Hothwait  et  heredibus  suis 
pro  magna  utilitate  celle  nostre  de  sancta  Bega  sex  acras 
terre  et  dimidiam  in  campo  de  Wytofthavene  cum  uno 
tofto  in  villa  de  Whitofthaven.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
•celle  nostre  de  sancta  Bega  tres  solidos  et  sex  denarios, 
medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  et  aliam 
medietatem  ad  Pentecosten.  Insuper  faciendo  nobis  et 
celle  nostre  servicia  et  consuetudines  quas  alii  homines 
•de  eadem  villa  nobis  faciunt.  Nee  licebit  dicto  Henrico 
vel  heredibus  suis  dictam  terram  cum  tofto  nee  aliquam 
paitem  illius  terre  vel  tofti  vendere  nee  invadiare  nee 
alicui  ad  firmam  dimittere  nee  aliquo  alio  modo  alienare 
sine  licencia  prioris  nostre  celle  de  sancta  Bega.  Si 
autem  hoc  fecerit  licebit  dicto  priori  illam  in  manu  sua 
capere  et  pro  voluntate  sua  de  eadem  disponere.  Si  vero 
contingat  dictam  terram  vi  vel  racione  amittere,  non 
dabimus  eis  excambium.  Hoc  autem  eis  concedimus 
quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos  habueiint  et  dictam  firmam 
bene  reddiderint.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  present! 
scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Johanne  de  Oketon,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Elia  clerico, 
Rogero  de  Wedergh,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Roberto  de  Cuton' 
et  aliis. 

160.  CARTA  HENRICI  DE  HOTHWAYT  DE  TOTA  MEDIE- 
TATE  TERRE  SUE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  TERRITORIO  DE 

WlTTOFTHAVENE. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hothwait,  salutem  in 
'domino.  Noveritis  me  dedisse.  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  tot  am  medietatem  terre  mee 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  IQI 

cum  pertinenciis  in  territorio  de  Whitouthavene,  quam 
tenui  de  predicta  domo  per  cartam  abbatis  et  conventus 
ejusdem  loci.  Tenendam  ....  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de 
Harrington,  militibus,  Radulfo  de  Lamplou,  Roberto  de 
Wilton,  Benedicto  de  Rotington  tune  serviente  domini 
Prioris  apud  Wythohavene,  Roberto  de  Wymundham,  et 
aliis. 

161.  CARTA  HENRICI  HOTHWAYT  DE  nj  ACRIS  TERRE 

CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  WlTTOFTHAVENE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hothwait,   salutem  in 

domino.     Noveritis    me    dedisse Deo    et    beate 

Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  tres  acras  terre  cum  pertinenciis 
in  territorio  de  Wythothavene,  scilicet,  dimidiam  acram 
terre  in  Blomelandes1  et  dimidiam  acram  juxta  Wlfhou 
in  parte  aquilonis,  et  dimidiam  acram  in  parte  occidental! 
ejusdem  Wlfhou,  et  aliam  dimidiam  acram  super  Gate- 
landes  ad  Brighestaynes,  et  unam  acram  jacentem  juxta 
terrain  quondam  Elene  dicte  la  loughe,  extendentem 
usque  ad  viam  regiam  que  ducit  apud  Egremund  et  eciam 
usque  ad  Pol  in  longitudine  et  latitudine.  Tenendam 
....  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Nicholao 
de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de  Harrington,  militibus,  Ricardo 
de  Lamplow,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Benedicto  de  Rotington, 
Serlone  tune  serviente  domini  Prioris  apud  Wythothavene, 
Roberto  de  Wymundham  clerico,  et  aliis. 

162.  CARTA  HENRICI  DE  HOTHWAIT  DE  TOTA  TERRA 
DEL  FLAT'. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hothwait,   salutem  in 

161.  l  Blomelands  is  a  place-name  suggestive  of  furnaces 
for  smelting  iron  ore.  For  early  notices  of  iron  mining  in  White- 
haven  and  district,  see  my  article  in  V.  C.  //.  Cumb.,  ii.  .340-41. 


IQ2  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA. 

domino.     Noverit  ....  me    concessisse Deo    et 

beate  Marie  et  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii  sancte 
Marie  Eboraci  et  monachis  apud  sanctam  Begam  in  Coup- 
land  Deo  servientibus  et  eorum  successoribus  in  perpetuum 
totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  quoquomodo  habere 
potui  in  tota  terra  del  Flat1  et  in  edificiis  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis  que  habui  in  Wythofhavene  occasione 
escambii  tocius  terre  quondam  mee  in  Hothwait.  Ita 
scilicet,  quod  ego  nee  heredes  mei  nee  alius  per  nos  seu 
nomine  nostro  in  predicta  terra  nee  edificiis  cum  sui[s] 
pertinenciis  nee  in  aliqua  eorum  parte  nullomodum  jus 
vel  clamium  habere  vel  exigere  vel  vendicare  poterimus 
inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Gilberto  de  Wirkinton,  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  Thoma  de 
Cleter,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de 
Brampthwait,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Radulfo  de  Lamplour 
et  aliis. 

163.    CARTA  HENRICI  DE  HOWTHWAIT  DE  ij  ACRIS 

CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  TERRITORIO  DE  WlTOFTHAVEN. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Henricus  de  Hothwait,   salutem  in 

domino.     Noveritis    me    dedisse Deo    et    sancte 

Marie  Eboraci  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duas  acras  terre  cum  pertinenciis 
in  territorio  de  Wythotha[ve]ne,  scilicet,  dimidiam  acram 
in  Blomelandes,  et  dimidiam  acram  juxta  Wlfhou  in  parte 
aquilonis,  et  dimidiam  acram  in  parte  occidental!  ejusdem 
Wlfhou,  et  aliam  dimidiam  acram  super  Gatelandes  ad 

Bruggestaynes.     Tenendas  ....  In    cujus    rei 

Hiis  testibus  dominis  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de 

162.  l  Richard  de  Lucy,  lord  of  Egremont,  confirmed  all 
Whitehaven  and  all  the  land  called  Flatth  to  the  monks  of  St. 
Bees  at  the  beginning  of  the  thirteenth  century  (No.  373).  Fifty 
or  sixty  years  later  by  this  deed  Henry  de  Hothwait  surrenders 
his  tenancy  del  Flat.  The  parcel  is  now  occupied  by  Whitehaven 
Castle  and  grounds. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  193 

Hawrington,  militibus,  Radulfo  de  Lamplou,  Roberto  de 
Wilton,  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  Serlone,  Roberto  clerico- 
de  Wymundham,  et  aliis. 

164.    PRO  FALCONIBUS. 

MEMORANDUM  quod  anno  domini  m°cccc°  Ixxxxvj0 
controversia  erat  inter  Edmundum  Thornton,1  priorem 
celle  sancte  Bege,  et  Christoferum  Sandes2  pro  falconibus 
in  lez  berghe,3  et  eodem  anno  vj°  die  mensis  Julij,  Chris- 
toferus  Sandes  ostendebat  evidencias  suas  in  camera 

164.  l  Called  Edmund  Smyth  in  No.  451-  Prior  Thornton 
must  have  been  absent  from  St.  Bees  in  1498  when  William 
Sandes,  son  of  Christopher  Sandes,  made  an  agreement  with 
Thomas  Barwyke,  custos  of  the  cell  of  St.  Bees,  touching  the 
bounds  of  Rottington  and  St.  Bees  (No.  452).  Thornton  was 
promoted  to  the  abbacy  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  in  1507  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  iii.  539). 

2  Early  in  the  fifteenth  century  the  family  of  Sandes  succeeded 
the  Rottingtons  in  the  manor  or  township  of  Rottington  (Feet 
of  F.  Cumb.  9  Hen.  V.,  No.  8)  and  it  remained  with  them  till  it 
was  sold  in  1579  by  Robert  Sandes  to  Henry  Curwen  knight 
(Ibid.,  21  Elizabeth,  Trinity). 

8  An  interesting  name  for  St.  Bees  Head  :  Swed.  berg,  Dan. 
bierg,  Ger.  berg,  Ang.  Sax.  beorh,  a  hill,  a  mountain.  It  was 
known  in  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth  century  as  Berh  (Nos. 
427-8).  T.  Denton  wrote  of  it  about  1687  as  "  the  Great  Cliff 
or  Rock  called  the  Barfe  "  (Perambulation,  MS.  f.  29),  a  name 
which  still  survives  on  the  Ordnance  Map  (Ixvii.  s.w.)  as  Cloven 
Barth  on  the  north  head  above  Fleswick.  We  have  it  also  in 
Houtbergh  (No.  416)  and  Seberth  (No.  414)  in  the  same  district. 
It  was  the  common  name  for  mountain  in  the  fifteenth  century 
as  we  learn  by  the  agreement  between  Prior  Thornton  and 
Christopher  Sandes  where  the  land  of  Rottington  is  described  as 
"  non  barghe  neque  vastum,"  neither  mountain  nor  waste.  The 
quarries  in  Barfe  Rocks  are  often  referred  to  in  late  leases.  The 
district  was  famous  for  its  breed  of  hawks,  as  may  be  seen  in 
Illus.  Doc.  Nos.  xcvj.,  cvj.  Sandwith  Marsh  was  demised  in 
1622  as  a  sheepgate,  the  lessees  having  all  the  fowls  and  hawks 
breeding  thereon. 

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194  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

prioris  sancte  Bege  coram  venerabili  patre  et  domino,  dom- 
ino Willelmo  Sevos,4  episcopo  Karliolenci,  et  abbate  mon- 
asterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci,  per  quas  procurabat  de  dom- 
ino cj  Rotyngton  capitalium  situm  de  Rodyngton  et 
•diversos  toftos  cum  Ix  acris  terre  et  non  plus  in  Rodyngton, 
non  barghe  neque  vastum.  Sed  pro  tenemento  de  Walton 
non  ostendebat  evidenciis,  sed  inter  evidencias  de  Rodyng- 
ton erat  interliniatus  cum  tenemento  de  Walton,  et  hoc 
erat  false  scriptum,5  quia  dominus  de  Rotyngton  nunquam 
habebat  jus  in  Walton  et  propter  hoc  dominus  episcopus 
precipiebat  Christofero  Sandes  ut  non  amplius  occuparet 
predictum  tenementum  de  Walton,  quia  pertinebat  ad 
cellam  sancte  Bege  ut  patet  per  cartam  liberam,  sed  ad 
instanciam  Christoferi  Moresby  militis  et  Edmundi 
Redman  armigeri  et  justiciarii  pacis  et  aliorum  multorum 
ibi  presencium,  dominus  episcopus  ex  speciali  gracia  sua 
licenciebat  predictum  Christcferum  Sandes  occupare 
predictum  tenementum  de  Walton,  sicut  alii  tenentes  ad 
voluntatem  occupabant  et  hoc  ad  placitum  predictorum 
episcopi  et  successorum  suorum  abbatum  et  monachorum 
pro  tempore. 


4  The  surname  of  this  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  1495-1502,  is  found  in 
various  forms  as  Sever,  Seueyer,  Siveyr,  Sveyet,  with  perhaps  no 
original  authority  for  the  guesses.     The  text  of  this  deed  may  be 
read  as  Seuos  or  Senos  and  that  of  the  duplicate  (No.  451)   as 
Seuus  or  Senus.     Bishop  Stubbs  calls  him  Senhouse,  thus  favour- 
ing the  reading  of  Senos  or  Senus.     The  point  may  be  determined 
by  the  will  of  Sir  Richard  York,  proved  on  17  July  1498,  in  which 
the  Bishop's  full  name  is  given  as  William  Senose  (Testamenta  Ebor., 
iv.   135).     It  was  natural  that  Bishop  Senose  should  have  been 
called  in  to  adjudicate  in  a  dispute  at  St.  Bees,  as  he  had  been 
abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  before  his  consecration,  and  perhaps 
a  member  of  the  family  of  Seascale  Hall.     The  bull  for  his  trans- 
lation from  Carlisle  to  Durham  in  1502  is  printed  in  Hist.  Dunelm. 
Scriptores  Tres,  App.  No.  cccix. 

5  For  the  donor  of  Walton  to  the  monks,  see  No.  232  and  its 
confirmations. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA.         195 

165.  DlMISSIO    ROBERTI   PRIORIS  DE  J  TOFTO  ET  IJ 
ACRIS  IN  KALDIR. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderunt  vel  audierunt  litteras  has 
quod  ego,  Robert  us1  prior  de  sancta  Bega,  et  monachi 
ejusdem  loci  concessimus  et  dedimus  Godfrido  de  Kaldir 
et  heredibus  suis  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam 
unum  toftum  et  duas  acras  terre  in  Kaldir,  liberas  et  qui- 
etas  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  cum  communi  pastura  et 
omnibus  aisiamentis  que  ad  predict  am  terram  pertinent. 
Reddendo  nobis  annuatim,  ille  et  heredes  sui,  octo  denarios 
ad  duos  terminos,  scilicet,  dimidium  ad  Pentecosten  et 
dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Hiis  testibus 
Alano  filio  Ketelli,  Willelmo  de  Boyvill,  Adam  filio  Ricardi, 
Ricardo  filio  Willelmi,  Stephano  fratre  ejus,  Thoma 
persona  de  Wirkyngton,  Roberto  de  Egremund,  Waltero 
de  Birst',  et  multis  aliis. 

166.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  ADE  DE  j  TOFTO  ET  ij 

ACRIS  TERRE  IN  KALDIR. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Willelmus  films  Ade,  cum  consilio  et  assensu  heredum 
meorum,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosin- 
am unum  toftum  et  duas  acras  terre  de  domin[i]o  meo  in 
Calder  tenendas  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  liberas  et  quietas 
ab  omni  terreno  servicio  et  exaccione.  Has  itaque 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ejusdem 
loci  pro  amore  Dei  et  pro  anima  regis  Henrici  regis  domini 
mei  filii  Matildis  et  pro  anima  Willelmi  de  Egremund  filii 
Willelmi  filii  Dunecan  et  pro  anima  Ade  filii  Ricardi 

165.  1  For  Prior  Robert,  see  note  on  No.  64,  but  the  mention 
of  Thomas  parson  of  Workington  here  as  a  witness  throws  the 
date  of  the  deed  into  the  twelfth  century,  but  it  must  be  late  in 
that  century.  See  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  183. 


196  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

patris  mei  et  Godenilde  matris  mee  et  pro  animabus 
omnium  antecessorum  meorum  necnon  et  pro  salute  mea 
et  uxoris  mee  et  filiorum  et  parentum  meorum,  concessi 
cum  communi  pastura  et  omnibus  aisiamentis  eidem  terre 
pertinentibus.  Hiis  testibus  Waldefo  tune  decano,  Rob- 
erto de  Panzunby,  magistro  Alano  de  Witingham,  Roberto 
de  Egremunt,  Thoma  de  Wirkinton,  Michaele  capellano, 
Thoma  filio  Pol',  Gilberto  filio  Willelmi,  Ricardo  et  Steph- 
ano  fratribus  ejus,  Ad'  Edgaro,  Willelmo  filio  Gillemihall, 
Godrico  de  Caldra,  et  multis  aliis1. 

167.  CARTA  ROBERTI  DE  KALDER  DE  j  ACRA  IN  VILLA 
DE  CALDER  CUM  COMMUNIBUS  AISIAMENTIS. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  has  litteras  visuris 
vel  audituris,  Robertus  de  Calder,  salutem.  Noveritis 
me  dedisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et 
beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro  animabus 
patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum,  necnon 
et  heredum  meorum,  unam  acram  terre  in  villa  de  Caldere, 
illam  scilicet  super  quam  habitavit  Gilbertus  canus,  cujus 
caput  tangit  viam  et  descendit  usque  in  sicham  que 
descendit  in  pratum  predicti  Roberti  de  Calder  in  latere 
australi  terre  Henrici  Schilehare,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  cum  omnibus  communibus  aisiamentis  ejus- 
dem  ville  de  Calder  tante  terre  pertinentibus,  libere  et 
quiete,  solute  et  integre.  Et  ut  hec  donacio  mea  rat  a  et 
inconcussa  permaneat,  huic  scripto  in  testimonio  sigillum 

166.  l  The  grantor  was  evidently  a  contemporary  of  Henry 
II.,  his  sovereign,  and  William  de  Egremont,  son  of  William 
fitz  Duncan,  his  feudal  superior,  but  these,  like  Adam  son  of 
Richard  his  father  and  Godenild  his  mother,  are  now  dead,  which 
taken  with  the  witnesses  places  the  date  of  the  deed  near  the  close 
of  the  twelfth  century.  Godric  de  Caldra,  one  of  the  witnesses, 
is  probably  the  same  person  to  whom  this  property  was  demised 
in  the  previous  charter.  Both  charters  have  common  witnesses. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  197 

meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Patricio  de  Wir- 
kynton,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Bastunthwait, 
Hugone  de  Moresceby,  Thoma  de  Stubescales,  Alexandro 
de  Punsunby,  Galfrido  le  Faukenere,  Thoma  de  Hirth', 
et  aliis.1 

168.  CARTA  GODIVE  FILIE  GODRICI  DE  CALDER  DE 
IIJ  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  VILLA  DE  CALDER. 

OMNIBUS  has  literas  visuris  vel  audituris,  Godiva  filia 
Godrici  de  Calder,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universi- 
tas  vestra  me,  in  legitima  potestate  mea  et  in  libera 
viduitate  mea,  quietum  clamasse,  concessisse,  et  present! 
carta  mea  confirmasse  Waltero  de  Sevenhoues  et  heredibus 
suis  vel  suis  assignatis,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis,  totum 
jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  tribus  acris 
terre  in  villa  de  Calder,  jacentibus  infra  fossatum  inter 
novam  terram  ex  parte  australi  et  j  rodam  ex  parte 
boriali,  que  vocatur  roda  de  bovata,  et  incipientes  in 
longitudine  super  viam  que  tendit  per  mediam  Calderam 
ad  orient  em  et  tendentes  versus  Occident  em.  Tenendum 
et  habendum  in  liberam  et  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam  de  Deo  et  de  sancta  Bega,  priore  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  dictis  priori 
et  monachis  x  denarios,  scilicet,  dimidium  ad  Pentecosten, 
et  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  pro 
omni  servicio,  consuetudine,  et  demanda.  Et  ut  hec 
mea  quieta  clamacio  et  carte  confirmacio  rate  sint  et 
stabiles  permaneant,  hanc  cart  am  presentem  sigilli  mei 
impressione  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de 
Langlish,  Alexandro  de  Puncunby,  Johanne  Falconare, 
Ricardo  Flandrensi,  Ricardo  de  Ranglass,  David  de 
Swaluh[irst],  Huberto  de  Neuton,  Roberto  de  Wilton 
clerico,  et  aliis. 

167.  l  The  witnesses  here  would  seem  to  denote  a  date  about 
1240.  See  note  on  Patrick  son  of  Thomas  at  No.  38. 


IQo  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

169.  CARTA  WALTER:  DE  SEVENHOUES  DE  nj  ACRIS 
TERRE  IN  KALDRA. 

OMNIBUS  Christ!  fidelibus  has  litteras  visuris  vel  audit- 
uris,  Walterus  de  Sevenhoues,  salutem  in  domino  sempi- 
ternam.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  quietum  clamasse, 
concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  domino 
Nicholao  priori  de  sancta  Bega  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis,  totum  jus  et  clam- 
ium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  tribus  acris  terre  in 
villa  de  Caldra  quod  quondam  habui  ex  dono  Godive  filie 
Godiici  de  Caldra.  Tenendas  et  habendas  in  liberam  et 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  pro  omni  servicio,  con- 
suetudine,  seculari  exaccione  et  demanda.  Et  ut  hac  mea 
quieta  clamacio  et  carte  confirmacio  rata  sint  et  stabiles 
permaneant,  hanc  cart  am  present  em  sigilli  mei  impressione 
roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton, 
domino  Radulfo  de  Bezum,  domino  Thoma  de  Cleter, 
domino  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  militibus,  Hugone  de  Morece- 
by,  Willelmo  de  Puncelby,  Willelmo  de  Way burgth wait, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  et  aliis.1 

170.  CARTA  ROBERTI  SETON  DE  mj  ACRIS  TERRE  IN 
SELEKER. 

OMNIBUS  has  litteras  visuris  vel  audituris,  Thomas 
films  Roberti  de  Seton,  eternam  in  domino  salutem. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  caritatis  intuitu,  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  quietum  clamasse  Deo  et  beate 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus  et 
clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  quatuor  acris 
terre  in  Selekere1  jacentibus  inter  terram  sancte  Marie  de 

169.  1  Nicholas,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  taken  with  the  witnesses, 
fixes  the  date  of  the  deed  about  1270.     See  another  charter  of 
Walter  de  Sevenhows  at.  No.  283. 

170.  l  Selker,  a  hamlet  on  the  coast  of  Bootle  near  Selker  Bay 
(O.  S.,  Ixxxv.  s.w.)  cannot  be  the  place  mentioned  here,  but  per- 
haps Skellerah  in  Corney  above  Seton  (O.  S.,  Ixxxv.  N.E.),  which 
better  suits  the  situation  indicated. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA  199 

Caldra  et  siketum  quod  currit  in  Seton,  cum  pratis  et 
omnibus  aliis  commodis  et  libertatibus  eidem  terre  per- 
tinentibus  sicut  continetur  in  carta  Gunilde  ave  mee.  Ita 
tamen  quod  ego,  Thomas,  nee  heredes  mei,  qui  de  me 
procedunt  vel  procedere  poterunt,  jus  nee  clamium  in 
eandem  terram  de  cetero  vendicare  poterimus  nee  habere 
debemus.  Ego  vero  Thomas  et  heredes  mei  istam  quiet- 
am  clamacionem  Deo  et  beate  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  contra  omnes  homines  et  feminas  war- 
antizabimus  et  defendemus  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  huic  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langliv',  domino  G.  persona 
de  Botill,2  Ada  de  Hiton,  Thoma  de  Langliv',  Henrico 
filio  Johannis,  Henrico  filio  Thome  de  Botill,  et  aliis.3 

171.  CARTA  ROBERT:  LAMPLOU  DE  TERRA  JUXTA 
RUKWRABEK  ET  XVJ  DENARIIS  DE  LAMPLOU. 

OMNIBUS  has  lit  eras  visuris  vel  audituris,  Robertus  de 
Lamplou,  eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  universi- 
tas  vestra  me  concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  con- 
firmasse  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  quod  tota  terra  jacens 
inter  altam  viam  et  Rucwrabek1  et  sic  sicut  alta  via  se 
extendit  usque  ad  Sathou,  pertinens  ad  meam  medie- 
tatem  ville  de  Arlokedene,  jacet  inculta  et  sine  edificiis 
et  sine  manuopere  in  com[m]uni  inter  me  et  heredes  meos 
et  priorem  et  monachos  de  sancta  Bega  imperpetuum. 
Ita  quod  nee  ego  nee  heredes  mei  nee  predictus  prior 
neque  monachi  dictam  terram  colere  possimus  neque 

2  Gilbert,  parson  of  Bootle,  occurs  in  full  in  No.  282  and  some 
others  in  this  Register. 

8  The  date  of  this  charter  must  fall  about  the  middle  of  the 
thirteenth  century. 

171.  :  Rowrah,  reckoned  a  hamlet  of  Winder  in  the  parish  of 
Lamplugh.  The  position  of  Sathou,  which  is  found  only  here  in 
the  Register,  is  a  little  doubtful  :  it  may  be  identified  perhaps 
with  Scallow  (O.  S.,  Ixii.  s.w.)  to  the  north  of  Rowiah. 


2OO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

edificare  inperpetuum.  Preterea  ego  et  heredes  mei 
tenemur  reddere  dicto  priori  et  monachis  sexdecim 
denarios  annuatim,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten 
et  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  hyeme  pro 
quiet  a  clamacione  duarum  bovatarum  terre  in  Lampl[ou], 
in  quibus  bovatis  dicti  prior  et  monachi  clamaverunt  se 
jus  habere.  It  a  scilicet  quod  si  ego  vel  heredes  mei 
defecerimus  in  aliquo  termino  de  solucione  dicte  firme 
licebit  predictis  priori  et  monachis  nos  distringere  per  cat- 
alla  et  namia2  nostra  in  duabus  bovatis  terre  in  Lampljou]. 
quas  Thomas  clericus  quondam  tenuit.  In  cujus  rei  testi- 
monium  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Patricio  filio  Thome,  Ricardo  de  Cleter, 
Ada  de  Haverington  tune  decano  Couplandie,  Roberto 
de  Brampthwait,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Rogero  de  Morton, 
Roberto  de  Ulnelaike,  Gilberto  de  Wirkyntfon],  Johanne 
de  Eglesfeld,  et  aliis.  Datum  die  sancti  Mathie  Apostoli,3 
anno  gracie  m°  cc°  xlviij0. 

172.  CARTA  RADULFI  FILII  JOHANNIS  LAMPLOU  DE 
EISDEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Radulphus  films  et  heres  domini  Jo- 
hannis  de  Lamplogh,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  uni- 
versitas  vestra  me  cartam  Roberti  de  Lamplogh,  ante- 
cessoris  mei,  inspexisse  in  hec  verba  :  Omnibus  has  litteras 
visuris  vel  audituris,  Robert  us  de  Lamplogh,  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  etc.,  as  in 
No.  171.  Ego  dictus  Radulphus,  habens  ratum  et  gratum 
donum  antecessoris  mei  in  forma  predicta,  et  cartam 
predict  am  confirmo  et  ratifico  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis 
inperpetuum.  It  a  videlicet  quod  si  contingat  predictum 
annuum  redditum  sexdecim  denariorum  ad  aliquem 
terminum  aretro  fuisse  quod  liceat  predictis  priori  et  mon- 
achis celle  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  terras  et  tenementa 

2  Distraint,  things  taken  by  distraint. 
;!2i   September,    1248. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  2OI 

mea  in  Lamplogh  sine  contradiccione  mei  vel  heredum 
meorum  distringere  et  districcionem  retinere,  donee 
predictis  priori  et  monachis  de  predicto  redditu  et  arrer- 
.agiis  ejusdem  plene  fuerit  satisfactum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Bampton,  Hugone  de 
Moreceby,  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Johanne  Flemyng,  militi- 
bus,  Johanne  de  Kirkebythore,  Roberto  de  Rotington, 
Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Thoma  de  Frisington,  Hugone  Flemyng, 
et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Egremond,  die  dominica  proxima 
ante  festum  Purificacionis  beate  Marie,  anno  gracie 
millesimo  ccc°  tricesimo  septimo.1 

173.  CARTA  EDWARDI  REGIS  ANGLIE  DE  COMMUNI 
PASTURA  IN  MURTON. 

EDWARDUS,  Dei  gracia,  rex  Anglie,  dominus  Hibernie, 
et  dux  Aquitanie,  dilectis  et  fidelibus  suis  Ricardo  de 
Aldburgh,  Thome  de  Heppescotes  et  Roberto  Paruyng,  sal- 
utem.  Sciatis  quod  constituimus  vos  justiciarios  nostros 
unacum  hiis  quos  vobis  assoc[iavimus]  ad  assisam  nove 
disseisine  capiendam  quam  abbas  beate  Marie  Eboraci 
arrainiavit  coram  nobis  per  breve  nostrum  versus  Radulf- 
um  de  Lamplogh  et  Emmam  uxorem  ejus  et  Johannem 
Beauchamp  de  Kelton  de  communa  pasture  in  Murton 
juxta  Lamplogh.  Et  ideo  vobis  mandamus  quod  ad 
certos  diem  et  locum  quos  ad  hoc  provideritis  assisam 
illam  capiatis,  facturi  inde  quod  ad  justiciam  pertinet, 
secundum  legem  et  consuetudinem  regni  nostri.  Sal  vis 
nobis  amerciamentis  inde  provenientibus.  Mandavimus 
enim  vicecomiti  nostro  Cumbrie  quod  ad  certos  diem  et 
locum  quos  ei  scire  fac[iatis]  assisam  illam  coram  vobis 
venire  fac[iat].  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  has  litteras 
nostras  fieri  fecimus  patentes.  Teste  meipso  apud 
Karliolum  vj  die  Julii  anno  regni  regis  nono.1  Grym 

172.  l  i   February,   1338. 

173.  a  6  July,  1335.     Edward  III.  was  in  Carlisle,  off  and  on, 
for  nearly  the  whole  month  of  July,  from  which  base  he  entered 


2O2  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

174.  CARTA  ANCHETINI  FILII  DURANDI  DE  xij  DEN- 
ARIIS  DE  CLETERGH. 

SCIANT  tam  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego,  Anchetinus 
filius  Durandi,1  concessu  Ricardi  filii  mei  et  heredis,  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  animarum  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et 
omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse, 
concessisse,  et  hac  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  duodecim  denarios  de  censu  annuo  de  novem 
acris  terre  in  territorio  de  Cletergh  ex  orientali  parte 
Egrie  et  abutissam  super  concumunem  viam  versus 
orientem  et  super  Egre  versus  occidentem  et  jacent  inter 
duos  rivulos  qui  ex  utraque  parte  decendunt  a  monte 
Dinet2  usque  in  Egre.  Habendos  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  et  percipiendos  de  Echtred  uxore  mea  singulis 
annis  vite  sue  ad  duos  terminos,  scilicet  ad  Pentecosten, 
vjd.  et  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  vjd.  Et  post  decessum 
predicte  Echtredh,  percipiendos  de  illo  vel  ilia  et  hered- 
ibus  suis,  quern  constituere  voluerit  heredem  de  istis 

on  his  Scottish  expedition  on  the  I2th  (Chron.  de  Lanercost,  p.  281). 
The  sheriff  alluded  to  was  Ramilf  of  Dacre. 

174.  l  His  father  seems  to  have  been  Durand  the  knight  who 
was  present  at  Lamplugh  with  David  I.  when  that  King  granted 
a  charter  of  confirmation  to  St.  Bees  (No.  39).  The  name  of 
Anchetin  son  of  Durand  varies  much  in  this  Register  as  elsewhere. 
In  No.  175  we  have  Alketill,  and  in  other  deeds  Angetin,  Ascatin, 
Asketill,  Anketin,  Achetin,  and  in  Coram  Rege  Roll,  2  John,  No. 
41,  m.  g,  Anketell  and  Anketill.  The  names  of  Anchetin's  wife 
and  several  of  his  children  are  given  in  this  group  of  charters 
(Nos.  174-6).  Richard  his  heir  had  apparently  assumed  the 
territorial  name  of  Cleter  :  his  name  is  often  found  in  this  Register. 
He  was  at  one  time  forester  of  Cumberland  (Reg.  of  Wetherhal, 
p.  200).  Nicholas,  another  son,  was  parson  of  Cleter.  Thomas 
de  Cleter,  often  mentioned  in  this  Register,  was  described  in  1268 
as  one  of  the  belted  knights  (gladio  cinctos)  of  Cumberland  (Inq. 
p.  m.  51  Henry  III.,  No.  30).  The  date  of  the  deed  is  about  1200. 

-  The  hill  of  Dent  which  overlooks  the  vill  of  Cleter. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     203. 

tribus,  scilicet,  R[icardum]  filium  meum,  vel  Agnetem 
sive  Susannam  filias  meas.  Hiis  testibus  Radulfo  tune 
temporis  senescaldo,  Michaele  capellano  de  Egerm[ont], 
Simone  capellano,  Henrico  Matef[elun],  Ricardo  de  Cle- 
terche,  et  Nicholao  persona  fratre  ejus,  et  Ricardo  de 
Puncunby,  et  aliis.3 

175.  CARTA  ALKETELLI  FILII  DURANDI  DE  TOTA  TERRA 
SUA  IN  DOMINICO  IN  CLETERGH. 

SCIANT  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Alketillus 
filius  Duranti,  cum  consilio  et  consensu  Ricardi  heredis 
mei,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmavi 
Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  meam  de  dominico 
meo  in  territorio  de  Clet[er]  infra  di visas  subscriptas  sine 
aliquo  retinemento,  scilicet,  a  magna  via  de  sub1  Dinet 
descendendo  inter  duos  rivulos  versus  occidentem  usque 
proximum  brachium  de  Egre  et  abutissam  super  pre- 
dictam  viam  versus  orientem  et  super  Egre  versus  occi- 
dentem. Et  insuper  communem  pasturam,  in  boscis,  in 
planis,  in  pratis  et  pascuis,  in  moris  et  muscis,  et  in  omni- 
bus aliis  communibus  aisiamentis  prefate  ville  de  Cletergh 
adjacentibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam, 
quiet  am  et  absolutam  ab  omni  servicio  seculari.  Hanc 
terram  et  hanc  donacionem  ego  et  heredes  mei  warantiz- 
abimus  et  defendemus  contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum. 
Et  ut  hec  concessio  rata  sit  et  illibata  in  omnibus  inper- 
petuum, sigillo  meo  proprio  ipsam  corroboravi,  liberam 
et  quiet  am.  Hiis  testibus  Radulfo  tune  temporis  senes- 
callo,  Michaele  capellano  de  Egremunt,  Simone  capellano, 
Henrico  Matefelun,  Ricardo  de  Cletergh,  Nicholao  persona 
fratre  ejus,  Ricardo  filio  Johannis  de  Puncunby,  et 
multis  aliis. 

8  It  will  be  seen  that  this  deed  has  been  very  badly  copied  by 
the  compiler  of  the  Register. 

175.     x  Meant  perhaps  for  desuper. 


204         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

176.  DIMISSIO  ROBERT:  ABBATIS  DE  TERRA  IN  CLETER. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  litteras  has  quod  ego,  Robert- 
us  de  Longo  Campo,  abbas  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  cum  com- 
muni  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  dedi  et  concessi 
et  hac  present!  carta  nostra  confirmavi  Echtrede,  uxori 
Anketini  filii  Durandi  et  heredibus  suis,  vel  cui  assignare 
voluerit,  jure  hereditario  tenere  tot  am  terram  nostram 
in  territorio  de  Cleter,  illam,  scilicet,  quam  Anketinus 
films  Durandi  dedit  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in  elemosinam, 
sicut  carta  predicti  Anketini,  quam  inde  habemus,  tes- 
tatur.  Tenendam  et  habendam  de  nobis  inperpetuum, 
libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  servicio  et  exaccione  ad  nos 
pertinente.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  Deo  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duo- 
decim  denarios,  medietatem  ad  Pentecost  en  et  medietat- 
em  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Et  ut  hec  nostra  concessio 
et  donacio  inconcussa  permaneat  inperpetuum,  earn 
sigilli  nostri  munimine  corroboravimus.  Hoc  eis  con- 
cedimus  quamdiu  se  erga  nos  legaliter  habuerit  et  pre- 
dictum  censum  bene  reddiderit.  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  de 
Wiltfon]  senescallo  nostro,  Willelmo  Puyntel,  H.  de  Longo 
Campo,  Rigan'  de  Ely,  Rogero  persona  de  Kirkebirlet, 
Nicholao  persona  de  Kirkeby  Kendall,  Willelmo  persona 
de  Wirkinton,  magistro  Henrico  de  Wiketoft,  et  aliis.1 

177.  CARTA  MAURICII  DE  MAN'  DE  j  PLACEA  ET  j 
SALINA  IN  AYRYNGTHWAIT. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quorum  noticiam  hoc 
presens  scriptum  pervenerit,  Mauricius  de  Man,  salutem 
eternam  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  pro  salute  animarum  predecessorum 
et  successorum  meorum  dedisse,  concessisse  et  present! 
carta  confirmasse  Deo  et  abbacie  sancte  Marie  Eboraci 

176-  l  From  the  official  witnesses  the  date  may  be  assigned 
to  about  12 10-1220. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  2O5 

et  priori  et  monachis  de  Wedirhall1  imam  placeam  in 
territorio  de  Ayringthwait2  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam  ad  construendam  ibi  salinam  sicut  ibi  viderint 
melius  expedire  cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu,  per  illud 
iter  quod  dedi  priori  et  monachis  de  sancta  Bega.  Pre- 
dictus  autem  prior  et  monachi  et  homines  sui  capient 
omnia  estuveria3  sua  et  aisiamenta  tarn  in  terra  quam  in 
aqua  sicut  ibi  viderint  melius  expedire  ad  predictam 
salinam  tenendam  sine  contradiccione  mei  vel  heredum 
meorum.  Solvent  autem  michi  et  heredibus  meis  annuat- 
im  pro  predicta  salina  sex  denarios  ad  Natale  domini 
in  ecclesia  sancte  Bege  pro  omni  servicio,  consuetudine, 
et  exaccione.  Et  ego  et  heredes  mei  hanc  predictam 
elemosinam  predictis  monachis  contra  omnes  homines 
warantizabimus.  Set  et  hoc  sciendum  est  quod  si  prior 
et  monachi  processu  temporis  dictam  placeam  ad  opus 
suum  habere  voluerint  amplius,  sessabunt  a  solucione  sex 
denariorum.  Et  ego  et  heredes  mei  de  predicta  placea 
commodum  nostrum  faciemus.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Patricio  de  Wirkyngton,  domino  W.  decano, 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Ricardo  de 
Cleterne,  Roberto  de  Bramthoit,  Johanne  de  Boyvill, 
Willelmo  de  Kyrkeby,  David  de  Kyrkeby,  Radulfo  de 
Preston,  et  aliis.4 

177.  l  This  deed  properly  belongs  to  the  monks  of  Wetheral 
and  as  such  is  found  in  their  Register  (ed.  Prescott,  pp.  233-6). 
But  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  had  a  duplicate,  for  the  compiler  of 
their  Register  added  in  the  margin  "  carta  prima  :  habetur  sub- 
cera."  Maurice  of  Man,  the  donor,  only  occurs  here. 

'2  Arrowthwait  bordering  Whitehaven  on  the  south  and  partly- 
occupied  by  the  modern  portion  of  the  town  (O.  S.,  Ixvij.  N.W.). 
For  early  saltpans  and  the  manufacture  of  salt  here  and  else- 
where in  Cumberland,  see  my  article  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  341-2.. 
Saltom  Bay  lies  against  Arrowthwait. 

3  Estovers,  here  allowances  of  firewood. 

4  The  date  is  about  1230. 


206         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

178.  CARTA  CLEMENTIS  ABBATIS  DE  TERRA  IN  HAY- 
RINGTHWAIT. 

CLEMENS,1  Dei  gracia,  abbas  sancte  Marie  Eboraci, 
omnibus  litteras  has  visuris  vel  audituris,  salutem. 
Notum  facio  vobis  me  consilio  et  assensu  fratrum  nos- 
trorum  concessisse  et  dedisse  Reginaldo  filio  Dermot2 
et  heredibus  suis  tenere  de  nobis  quandam  terrain  in 
parochia  sancte  Bege  que  vocatur  Hayringthwait  cum 
istis  divisis,  scilicet,  de  Holgile  usque  ad  Pol,  de  Pol 
usque  ad  mare  :  item  de  Holegyll  usque  ad  Haigescoc  et 
de  Eikescoc  per  unam  siketam  usque  ad  mare.3  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  predictus  Reginaldus  reddet  annuatim 
priori  sancte  Bege  novem  solidos  pro  predicta  terra, 
medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  medietatem  ad  festum 
sancti  Martini.  Preterea  quocienscumque  dominus  abbas 
Eboraci  habuerit  auxilium  ab  hominibus  suis,  idem 
Reginaldus  dabit  quatuor  solidos  pro  predicta  terra. 
Idem  vero  Reginaldus  propriam  carucam  suam  liberam 
habebit  de  multura,  et  quando  parochiani  prioris  invenient 
carucas  suas  ad  precariam,  ipse  Reginaldus  propriam 
carucam  suam  habebit  liberam  de  precaria,  nee  dabit  ova 
neque  gallinas.  Preterea  idem  R.  de  herba  sua  volunt- 
atem  suam  per  omnia  faciet  et  licebit  ei  seminare  quo- 
cunque  voluerit  infra  predictas  divisas.  Testibus  hiis 
priore  sancte  Bege,  Ricardo  de  Craneford,  Rogero  capel- 
lano  abbatis,  Martino  monacho,  Roberto  filio  Torphen, 

178.     ]  Abbot  of  York,  1161-1184. 

3  See  his  deed  of  quit-claim  at  No.  180. 

3  The  bounds  of  the  poition  of  Arrowthwait,  demised  to 
Reynold  son  of  Dermot,  fix  the  parcel  in  the  angle  near  the  present 
harbour  of  Whitehaven.  Holgile  is  represented  on  the  map  (O.  S., 
Ixvij.  N.W.)  as  Howgill  :  Pol  as  Pow,  the  stream  which  runs  into 
the  harbour  and  gives  its  name  to  Pow  Street  :  and  Haigescoc  or 
Eikescoc  appears  to  be  repiesented  by  High  Staith  The  eleva- 
tion of  the  cliffs  at  this  point  had  much  to  do  with  the  formation 
of  the  place-names. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA  2QJ 

Petro  de  Alnebrig,  Henrico  filio  Alani,  Edwardo  filio 
Ernisii,  Gamello  filio  Sward,  Jordano  filio  Alef,  Ricardo 
preposito,  Gill  filio  Beny,  Michaele  et  Willelmo  filiis  Arkill, 
Ada  de  Surreis,  Roberto  filio  ejus,  Stephano  filio  Uctredi, 
Michaele  capellano,  Ulkill  carpentario,  et  multis  aliis. 

179.  CARTA  NICHOLAI  DE  LANGTON  PRIORIS  DE  TERRA 
IN  HAYRINGTHWAIT. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  f  rater  Nicholaus  de  Langton,1 
dictus  prior  sancte  Bege,  et  ejusdem  loci  monachi,  salut- 
em  in  domino.  Noveritis  nos  concessisse,  remisisse,  et 
quietum  clamasse  pro  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  in- 
perpetuum  Reginaldo  filio  Mauricii2  de  Ayringthwait  et 
heredibus  suis  boscum  et  omnia  vasta  infra  divisas  de 
Ayringthwait  contenta,  cum  omni  jure  et  clameo  que  in 
dictis  vastis  habuimus  vel  habere  poterimus.  Ita  quod 
licebit  dicto  R.  et  heredibus  suis  infra  dicta  vasta  et  de 
dictis  vastis  tarn  in  boscis  quam  in  planis  et  in  omnibus 
aliis  in  quibus  securius  et  commodius  eis  viderint  expedire 
pro  voluntate  eorum  appreciamenta3  et  commoda  sua  per 
omnia  facere  sine  aliqua  contradiccione  vel  impedimento 
nostri  vel  successorum  nostrorum,  salva  nobis  et  success- 
oribus nostris  via  ad  Salinam  nostram  et  carbones4  maris 
in  rupe  et  subtus  rupem  ad  sal  faciendum  ubi  carbones 
capere  consuevimus.  Et  salva  nobis  et  successoribus 
nostris  et  tenentibus  nostris  communa  temporibus  aperte.5 

179.  !  Prior  of  St.  Bees  from  1256  (No.  144)  to  1282  (No.  408). 
See  note  3  on  No.  96. 

2  Perhaps  the  Maurice  of  Man,  the  donor  of  No.  177  :    see  wit- 
nesses in  No.    141.      Reynold  son  of  Maurice  of   Arrowthwaite 
gives  No.  181 

3  Appreciamenta,   from,  appretiare,   to  appraise,   to  value.     Its 
meaning  here  is  almost  synonymous  with  commoda. 

4  For  early  coal-mining  here,  see  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  342. 
5Theie  must  be  a  scribal  blunder  here,  but  perhaps  in  aperte 

only.  It  would  be  bettei  to  read  'tempore  aperto  :  see  tempore 
aperto  and  tempore  clauso  in  No.  183. 


2O8  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Et  pro  hac  relaxacione  et  quieta  clamacione  dictus  R.  pro 
se  et  heredibus  suis  remisit  nobis  ac  successoribus  nostris 
et  quietam  clamavit  in  excambium  totam  terram  infra 
di visas  inferius  scriptas,  scilicet,  sicut  via  se  tendit  a 
follato6  ab  austro  ad  capud  crofti  Roberti  filii  Stephani 
usque  ad  mare  inter  domum  Alexandri  Hippli't"7  et  dom- 
um  Roberti  filii  Stephani  :  et  sic  versus  orientem  per  mare 
usque  ad  Wythosthavenpol  et  sursum  per  aquam  pre- 
dict am  usque  ad  viam  juxta  capud  predicti  follati  cum 
edificiis  super  eandem  constructis.  Preterea  remisit 
et  quietum  clamavit  inperpetuum  [totam  rupem]  ab  orto 
Reginald!  le  querure  usque  ad  locum  qui  vocatur  le 
Waterfal  in  longitudine  et  a  terra  culta  super  eandem 
rupem  usque  ad  mare  in  latitudine.  Et  non  licebit  dicto 
Reginaldo  licenciare  aliquem  ponere  minum8  in  loco 
quondam  edificato  in  villa  de  Ayringthwait.  Et  ad 
majorem  securitatem  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  muni- 
mine  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilbert o  de  Wir- 
kinton,  domino  Radulpho  de  Bethun,  domino  Ricardo  le 
Fleming,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de  Wilton, 
Roberto  de  Mari,  Ricardo  de  Birstede,  Roberto  medicor 
Roberto  de  Frisington,  et  aliis. 

180.    CARTA   REGINALDI    FILII    DERMAT   DE    VASTIS,. 

PLANIS,  ET  BOSCIS  DE  HAYRl[N]GTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Reginaldus  films  Dermat,1  salutem 
in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  concessisse 

6  This  is  an  obscure  word  :    meant  perhaps  lor  fallato.     From 
its  repetition  below  it  seems  to  be  a  foim  of  fallum,  a  land  measure, 
hence   fallatum,    a   close   of   recognised    dimensions.     The   word 
appears  as  fossatum  in  No.  181. 

7  Alexander  Hipplyng  in  No.  181. 

H  This  word  in  the  manuscript  consists  of  eight  down  strokes 
with  the  usual  terminal  curve  to  denote  the  omission  of  the  last 
letter.  No  other  form,  though  it  is  very  unsatisfactory,  can  be 
suggested. 

180.     1  See  No.  178. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  209 

....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  abbati  et  conventui  sancte 
Marie  Eboraci  et  monachis  apud  cellam  de  sancta  Bega 
servientibus  et  eorum  successoribus  inperpetuum  totum 
jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  quoquo  modo  habere 
potui  in  toto  vasto,  tarn  in  planis  quam  in  boscis  in  terri- 
torio  de  Ayringthwait,  salva  michi  et  heredibus  meis 
comuna,  scilicet,  quod  ego,  nee  heredes  mei  nee  alius  per 
nos  seu  nomine  nostro  in  toto  predicto  vasto  nee  in  ulla 
parte  illius  nullomodum  jus  vel  clameum  nee  communia 
habere,  exigere,  vel  vendicare  poterimus  inperpetuum , 
nee  licebit  ulterius  vel  longius  in  predicto  vasto  cum 
carucis  nostris  arare  quam  ante  donacionem  istius  script! 
solebamus,  et  ne  ego  vel  heredes  mei  vel  alius  nostro 
nomine  contra  hoc  factum  in  aliquo  possimus  imposterum 
e venire  incoandum,  in  perpetue  firmitatis  testimonium 
presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 
Ranulpho  senescallo  de  Egermund,  Alano  filio  Ketelli> 
Gerardo  de  Bramthwait,  et  aliis. 

181.  CARTA  REGINALD:  FILII  MAURICII  DE  AYRYNG- 
THWAIT  DE  TERRIS  IN  AYRINGTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Reginaldus  films  Mauricii  de 
Ayringthwait,  remisi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboraci 
et  abbati  et  conventui  ejusdem  loci,  ac  priori  et  monachis 
de  sancta  Bega  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  totam  terram 
infra  divisas  inferius  script  as,  scilicet,  sicut  via  s'e  tendit 
a  fossato  ad  capud  crofti  Roberti  filii  Stephani  versus 
austrum  usque  ad  mare  inter  domum  quondam  Alexandri 
Hipplyng  et  domum  Roberti  filii  Stephani  :  et  sic  versus 
orientem  per  mare  usque  ad  Wythesthavenpol :  et  sursum 
per  predictam  aquam  usque  viam  juxta  capud  predicti 
fossati  cum  edificiis  super  eandem  constitutis.  Preterea 
remisi  et  quietum  clamavi  dictis  abbati  et  conventui, 
priori  et  monachis  totam  rupem  ab  orto  Reginald!  le 
quareure  usque  ad  locum  qui  vocatur  le  Waterfal  in  longi- 

p 


2IO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA. 

tudine  et  a  terra  culta  super  eandem  rupem  usque  [ad] 
mare  in  latitudine.  Et  pro  hac  relaxacione  et  quieta 
clamacione  predict!  prior  et  monachi  sancte  Bege  michi 
et  hercdibus  meis  relaxaverunt  in  escambium  totum  jus 
quod  habucrunt  vel  habere  poterint  in  bosco  et  in  vasto 
de  Ayringthwait.  Except o  quod  predicti  prior  et  monachi 
habebunt  viam  ad  salinam  suam  et  carbones  maris  in 
rupe  et  subter  rupem  ad  sal  faciendum,  ubi  vero  carbones 
capere  consueverunt.  Et  salva  communa  dictis  priori  et 
monachis  et  eorum  tenentibus  tempore  aperto.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  si  averia  dictorum  prioris  et  monachor- 
um  inveniantur  tempore  clauso  infra  divisas  de  Ayring- 
thwait, rescaciabuntur  sine  dampno.  Et  si  inveniantur 
infra  bladum  vel  pratum  facient  emendacionem  secundum 
consuetudinem  patrie.  Item  prior  et  monachi  facient 
omnia  [ajpruamenta  et  commoda  sua  infra  predictas 
terras  et  rupes  sine  impedimento  mei  et  heredum  meorum 
vel  assignatorum  meorum,  et  ad  majorem  securitatem  hanc 
cartam  presentem  sigilli  mei  impressione  roboravi.  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton,  domino  Radulfo 
de  Bethon,  domino  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  militibus,  Hugone 
de  Moriceby,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Roberto  de  Mari,  Ricardo 
de  Bristed,  Roberto  medico,  Roberto  de  Frisington,  et 
aliis.1 

182.  CONVENCIO  FACTA  INTER  THOMAM  WYMUNDAM 
ET  RlCARDUM  GALWAY  DE  TENEMENTIS  ET  MESSUAGIIS 
IN  QWITHOFTHAVEN. 

AD  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme  anno  regni  regis 
Edwardi  filii  regis  Edwardi  nono1  facta  fuit  hec  convencio 
inter  Thomam  de  Wymundham  et  Margar[etam]  uxorem 


181.  l  As  this  deed  has  the  same  witnesses  as  No.  179,  the 
date  cannot  be  much  different. 

182.  Jn  November,  1315. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEG  A  211 

ejus,2  ex  una  parte,  et  Ricardum  de  Galwey3  et  Ysoldam 
uxorem  ejus  ex  altera.  It  a,  videlicet,  quod  predictus 
Thomas  et  Margar[eta]  concesserunt  et  ad  nrmam 
dimiserunt  eisdem  Ricardo  et  Ysold  in  tota  vita 
ipsorum  Ricardi  et  Ysold  omnia  tenementa  et  mes- 
suagia  que  predicti  Ricardus  et  Ysold  ante  confec- 
cionem  hujus  convencionis  de  predictis  Thoma  et  Margar- 
[eta]  tenuerunt  in  Qwithofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby, 
simul  cum  illo  gardino  quod  Willelmus  de  Kelton  quondam 
de  eisdem  tenuit,  et  totam  illam  terrain  jacfentem]  inter 
terram  Thome  Bolt  ex  parte  occidentali  et  le  Bradehyng 
ex  parte  orientali,  et  pasturam  in  eciam  tempore  clauso 
ad  unum  equum  et  unam  vaccam  sine  aliquid  dare. 
Tenenda  et  habenda  predictis  Ricardo  et  Ysold  in  tota 
vita  ipsorum  de  predictis  Thoma  et  Margarfeta],  quiete, 
bene  et  in  pace.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  predictis 
Thome  et  Margar[ete]  vel  heredibus  suis  et  assignatis 
sex  denarios  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  et  Pentecosten  per 
equales  porciones  pro  omnibus  serviciis,  consuetudinibus 
et  demandis.  Faciendo  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  servicia 
debita  et  consueta.  Et  predicti  Thoma  et  Margar[eta]  et 
heredes  ipsorum  omnia  predicta  tenementa,  messuagia, 
gardinum,  pasturam,  et  terram  cum  pertinenciis  suis  pre- 
dictis Ricardo  et  Ysold  in  tota  vita  ipsorum  Ricardi  et 
Ysold,  ut  predictum  est,  contra  omnes  homines  warantiz- 
abunt  et  defendent.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Rotington, 
Roberto  Hauris,  Henrico  de  Steynburn,  Ricardo  de 
Wisted,  Wilb[ert]o  Schynwald,4  Alano  le  Mau?ke,  Roberto 
clerico,  et  aliis. 

2  Margaret,  wife  of  Thomas  de  Wymundham,  was  the  daughter 
and  heir  of  Nigel  de  Ayringthwait.     Compare  Nos.  184  and  194. 
Margaret  gave  several  charters  to  the  monks. 

3  For  a  charter  of  Richard  de  Galwey,  see  No.  196. 

4  Wilbert  Schynwald  appears  as  William  Shynwald  in  No.  184. 
As  William  Schynwald  he  gives  a  charter  at  No.  191.     As  he  often 
appears  under  the  name  of  William  in  the  Register,  no  doubt 
Wilbert  in  this  deed  is  an  error. 


212         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

183.  CART  A  MARGARETE  UXORIS  EJUSDEM  THOME 
WYMONDAM  DE  j  TENEMENTO  ET  ORREO  IN  QWITTOFT- 
HAVEN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margaret  a  quondam  uxor 
Thome  de  Wymondham,  in  libera  viduitate  mea  dedi 

...  Ricardo  de  Gal  way  et  Ysolde  uxori  ejus  totum 
illud  tenementum  quod  predict!  Ricardus  et  Isold  de 
predicto  Thoma  quondam  marito  meo  et  me  prius  tenu- 
erunt  in  Whitotfhaven  in  villa  de  Kirkby,  simul  cum  uno 
orreo  quod  Robertus  Lowys  quondam  tenuit  in  eadem 
villa,  et  uno  gardino  quod  Willelmus  de  Kelton  tenuit 
in  eadem  villa  :  et  totam  terram  meam  jacentem  inter 
terram  Thome  Bolt  ex  parte  occidentali  et  le  Bradeheng  ex 
parte  orientale,  et  de  le  foulsike  ex  parte  australi  usque  ad 
croftum  quod  Randulphus  Bridmouth  quondam  tenuit  in 
eadem  villa  ex  parte  boreali,  et  pasturam  in  comuna  mea 
de  Ayringthwait  ad  unum  equum  et  unam  vaccam  tem- 
pore  clause  sine  aliquid  dare.1  Tenenda  et  habenda  pre- 
dictis  Ricardo  et  Ysold  in  tota  vita  eorum  et  unius  eorum, 
qui  diucius  vixerit,  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  libere,  quiete, 
bene  et  in  pace.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  michi  et  hered- 
ibus meis  vel  assignatis  sex  denarios  ad  festum  sancti  Mar- 
tini et  Pentecosten  per  equalem  porcionem  pro  omnibus 
serviciis,  consuetudinibus,  et  demandis,  faciendo  capital- 
ibus  dominis  feodi  servicia  debita  et  consueta.  Et  ego, 
predicta  Margareta,  et  heredes  mei  omnia  predicta  tene- 
mentum, messuagium,  et  gardinum,  pasturam,  et  terram 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  aisiamentis  ad  predictum 
tenementum  et  terram  quomodocunque  pertinentibus, 
predictis  Ricardo  et  Ysold  in  tota  vita  ipsorum  et  unius 
eorum,  qui  diucius  vixerit,  ut  predictum  est,  contra 
omnes  homines  warantizabimus  et  defendemus.  In  cujus 
rei  testimonium  huic  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum 
apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Johanne 

183.     1  The  same  sort  of  Latin  appears  in  No.  182. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  213 

de  Frisington,  Henrico  de  Stainburn,  Ricardo  de  Brested, 
Roberto  de  Celar',  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Whithof haven 
die  Martis  proximo  post  festum  Purificacionis  beate 
Marie,  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Edwardi  septimo 
decimo.2 

184.    CARTA  MARGARETE  UXORIS  THOME  WYMUNDHAM 

DE  TERRIS  ET  TENEMENTIS  IN  AYRINGTHWAYT  ET  WlT- 
HOFTHAVEN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margareta  quondam  uxor 
Thome  de  Wymundham,  in  propria  viduitate  mea,  dedi 
....  magistro  Rogero  de  Sutton1  in  Galtres  clerico 
omnes  terras  et  tenementa  mea  in  Ayringthwait  et  Whit- 
ofthaven  in  villa  de  Kyrkby  que  mihi  post  mortem  Nigelli 
patris  mei  jure  hereditario  descenderunt.  Exceptis  terris 
et  tenementis  quas  tenent  dominus  Hugo  de  Moreceby  et 
Robertus  Broun  in  eadem.  Preterea  concessi  eidem 
magistro  Rogero  reversiones  omnium  terrarum  et  tene- 
mentorum  cum  suis  pertinenciis  que  Symon  Croump  de 
Ybernia,  Robertus  de  Rotington,  Ricardus  de  Galway, 
Willelmus  Shynwald,  et  Ricardus  de  Swarthou  de  me 
tenent  ad  terminum  vite,  simul  cum  redditibus  et  serviciis 
eorumdem,  et  que  post  mortem  precjictorum  Symonis, 
Roberti,  Ricardi,  Willelmi,  et  Ricardi  mihi  reverti 
deberent.  Habenda  ...  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  milite,  Roberto  de  Cleter, 
Johanne  le  Flemyng,  Johanne  de  Kirkeby,  Rogero  filio 
Ranulfi,  Rogero  de  Croft,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Ricardo 
de  Birsted,  Roberto  Broun,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Wy toft- 
haven  die  Jo  vis  in  vigilia  apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli,  anno 
m°  ccc°  vicesimo  quarto  et  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii 
regis  Edwardi  septimo  decimo.2 

2  7  February,   1324. 

184-  *  For  charters  of  Roger  of  Sutton  in  Galtres,  see  Nos. 
206-211,  222,  and  for  those  of  Symon  Croump  of  Ireland,  see 
Nos.  186,  188-9. 

2  28  June,   1324. 


214         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

185.  CARTA    MARGARETE    DE    HAYRINGTHWAIT    DE 
TOTIS  TERRIS  ET  TENEMENTIS  IN  QWITHAVEN  ET  HARING- 

THWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margareta  de  Hayringthwait, 
in  propria  potestate  mea  et  in  propria  viduitate  mea  dedi 
....  Symoni  Croump  de  Ybernia  tota[m]  dimidiam  tene- 
mentorum  mea  (sic)  et  totam  dimidiam  terre  mee  in  villa 
de  Kirkeby  jacent[es]  in  Quithaven  et  Harinthwait. 
Tenenend[as]  ....  Et  ego,  predicta  Margareta,  totam 
dimidiam  ten[ementorum]  mea  (sic)  et  totam  dimidiam 
terre  mee  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in  villa  de 
Kirkeby  et  extra,  ut  predictum  est,  predict o  Symoni 
usque  ad  terminum  vite  sue  contra  omnes  gentes  warant- 
izabimus  et  in  perpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Cletern,  Johanne  le  Flemyng, 
Roberto  de  Rotington,  Henrico  de  Staynburne,  Ricardo 
de  Birested,  et  aliis.1  % 

186.  CARTA  SYMONIS  CROUMP  DE  TERRIS  ET  TENE- 
MENTIS CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  ERYNGTHWAIT  ET  WYTOF- 
HAVEN,  ETC. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego  Symon  Croump  de  Ybernia 
dedi  ....  magistro  Rogero  de  Sutton  in  Galtres, 
clerico,  omnes  terras  et  tenement  a  mea  cum  suis  pertin- 
enciis in  Eyringthwait  et  Wythofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirke- 
by que  habui  de  dono  Margarete  quondam  uxoris  Thome 
de  Wymundeham  ad  terminum  vite  mee.  Habenda  .... 
Reddendo  mihi  annuatim  ad  totam  vitam  meam  unam 
rosam  in  festo  Nativitatis  sancti  Johannis  Baptiste  pro 
omnibus  serviciis  et  demandis.  Et  ego,  predict  us  Symon, 
....  ad  totam  vitam  meam  defendam.  In  cujus  rei 

185.  1  From  the  donor  and  the  witnesses,  compared  with  the 
dates  of  the  preceding  and  following  charters,  it  may  be  concluded 
that  the  date  here  is  1324.  The  compiler  of  the  Register  was 
very  slovenly  in  copying  this  deed. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  215 

....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  milite, 
Roberto  de  Cleter,  Johanne  le  Flemyng,  Johanne  de 
Kyrkeby,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud 
Whitofthaven  die  veneris  in  festo  Apostolorum  Petri  et 
Pauli  anno  domini  m°  cccmo  vicesimo  quarto,  et  anno 
regni  regis  E.  filii  regis  E.  septimo  decimo.1 

187.    CARTA  MARGARETE   FILIE   NIGELLI   DE  ARING- 
THWAIT  DE  MANERIO  DE  AYRINTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Margareta,  filia  et  heres  Nigelli  de 
Ayringthwait,  uxor  quondam  Thome  de  Wymundham, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  [me]  in  legitima  potestate  et  viduitate  mea  con- 
cessisse  ....  magistro  Rogero  de  Sutton  in  Galtres, 
clerico,  heredibus  suis  et  assignatis,  totum  jus  et  clameum 
quod  habui,  habeo,  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in 
manerio  de  Ayringthwait  et  omnibus  aliis  terris  et  tene- 
mentis  cum  suis  pertinenciis  c[ue  habui  in  villa  de  Kirke- 
bybeghog  in  hameletta  de  Ayringthwait.  It  a  quod  nee 
ego,  predicta  Margareta,  nee  heredes  mei,  nee  aliquis 
nomine  nostro  in  predicto  manerio  nee  in  omnibus  aliis 
terris  et  tenementis  predictis  cum  suis  pertinenciis  de 
cetero  exigere  vel  vendicare  poterimus  in  futurum.  Et 
ego,  predicta  Margareta,  et  heredes  mei  predictum  man- 
erium  ....  contra  omnes  gentes  warantizabimus  et 
inperpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  test- 
ibus dominis  Ricardo  de  Hudilston,  Roberto  de  Havering- 
ton,  Johanne  Penyngton,  Johanne  Flemynge,  militibus, 
Roberto  de  Cleter  tune  ballivo  de  Egremond,  Radulfo  de 
Frisington,  Johanne  de  Kirkebythore,  Roberto  de  Rot- 
ington, Ricardo  de  Birsted,  Roberto  de  Linthwait,  et  aliis. 
Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  lune  proximo  post  fest- 
um  Purificacionis  beate  Marie,  anno  gracie  millesimo 
tricentesimo  tricesimo.1 

186.  1 29  June,  1324. 

187.  *4  February,  1331. 


2l6         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

188.  CARTA  SYMONIS  CRAMP  DE  TERRIS  IN  AYRING- 
THWAIT  ET  WlTHOFTHAVEN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Simon  Croump  de  Hibernia,  salutem 

in  domino.     Noveritis  me  relaxasse magistro 

Rogero  de  Sutton  in  Galtres,  clerico,  totum  jus  et  clamium 
et  etiam  omnem  accionem  annui  redditus  que  habui  in 
omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  illis  cum  pertinenciis  que 
idem  Rogerus  habet  de  dono  meo  ad  terminum  vite  mee 
in  Ayringthwait  et  Wythofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  et 
que  terras  et  tenementa  Margareta  de  Wymundham  michi 
ad  eundem  terminum  donavit,  sicut  carta1  ipsius  Margar- 
ete  mihi  inde  confecta  plenius  testatur.  Ita  quod  nee 
ego  nee  dictus  Simon  ...  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
Edmundo  de  Cumquintyn,  Johanne  de  Hardegill,  Ada 
filio  Rogeri  de  Wedirhale,  Roberto  de  Kirkeby,  Henrico 
de  Walton,  Willelmo  de  Birsted,  Roberto  de  Celere,  et 
multis  aliis.  Datum  apud  Wedirhale  in  presencia  fratris 
Ade  de  Dalton,2  tune  prioris  ejusdem  loci,  et  magistri  Ade 
de  Apilby,3  tune  officialifs]  Karlioli,  die  Martis  proximo 
post  festum  Annunciacionis  beate  Marie  virginis,  anno 
domini  millesimo  tricentesimo  tricesimo.4 

189.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EISDEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Simon  Croump  de  Hibernia,  salutem 
in  domino.  Cum  magister  Rogerus  de  Sutton  in  Galtres, 
clericus,  michi  teneatur  in  quodam  annuo  redditu  centum 
solidorum  ad  totam  vitam  meam  percipiendo  de  terris 
et  tenementis  suis  in  Ayringthwait  et  Wytofthaven  in 
villa  de  Kirkby  quern  idem  magister  Rogerus  habet  de 
dono  meo  ad  terminum  vite  mee,  volo  et  concedo  quod 

188.    1No.  185. 

2  Appointed  prior  of  Wetherhal  in  1318  (Carl.  Epis.  Reg. 
Hal  ton,  MS.  f.  214). 

8  Received  his  patent  in  1311    (Ibid.,  f.   142). 
4  27  March,   1330. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEG  A  217 

predictus  magister  Rogerus  habeat  et  teneat  omnes  terras 
et  tenementa  predicta  cum  suis  pertinenciis  libere  et 
quiete  absque  omni  onere  redditus  vel  servicii  ad  totam 
vitam  meam.  Ita  quod  nee  ego,  dictus  Simon,  nee 
aliquis  nomine  meo  aliquid  juris  vel  clamii  seu  aliquam 
accionem  redditus  vel  servicii  in  predictis  terris  et  tene- 
mentis  de  cetero  exigere  vel  vendicare  poterimus  inper- 
petuum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Edmundo  de 
Cumquintin,  Johanne  de  Hardgill,  Ada  filio  Rogeri  de 
Wedirhale,  Roberto  de  Kirkeby,  Henrico  de  Walton, 
Willelmo  de  Birstede,  Roberto  de  Celar,  et  multis  aliis. 
Datum  apud  Wedirhale  in  presencia  fratris  Ade  de  Dalton 
tune  prioris  ejusdem  loci,  et  magistri  Ade  de  Apilby  tune 
officialis  Carlioli,  die  Martis  proximo  post  festum  Annun- 
ciacionis  beate  Marie  virginis,  anno  domini  millesimo 
tricentesimo  tricesimo.1 

190.  CARTA  MARGARETE  FILIE  ET  HEREDIS  NIGELLI 
DE  AYRINGTHWAIT  DE  j  MESSUAGIO  ET  CURTILAGIO  ET 

IIJ  ACRIS  TERRE  CUM  TERCIA  PARTE  DEL  BRADEHENG,  ETC. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margareta  filia  et  heres 
Nigelli  de  Ayringthwait,  dedi  ....  Willelmo  Schinwald 
de  Whitythaven  unum  messuagium  cum  curtilagio  ad- 
jacente  et  cum  tribus  acris  terre  arabilis  et  terciam  partem 
del  Bradeheng  in  Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby,  quod 
quidem  messuagium  jacet  inter  messuagium  quondam 
Willelmi  de  Kelton  ex  parte  una  et  locum  qui  vocatur  le 
terne  ex  parte  altera,  et  due  acre  sunt  de  ten[emento] 
quondam  Willelmi  de  Kelton  et  una  acra  jacet  sub  le 
foulknot  et  abuttat  super  le  Bradeheng.  Preterea  dedi, 
concessi  eidem  Willelmo,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis, 
pasturam  ad  novem  averia  in  terris  et  tenementis  meis  in 
Whitofthaven  et  eciam  ad  capiendum  focale  ad  furnandum 
•et  brasiandum  in  tenementis  predictis  eidem  Willelmo 

189.     l  27  March,   1330. 


2l8  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

quantum  opus  fuerit.  Habenda  ....  Et  ego  vero  pre- 
dicta Margareta  et  heredes  mei  omnia  predicta  terras  et 
tenementa  unacum  pastura  et  focale  et  cum  omnibus  suis 
pertinenciis  predict o  Willelmo  et  heredibus  suis,  ut  pre- 
dictum  est,  contra  omnes  gentes  warantizabimus  et  in- 
perpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  test- 
ibus  Waltero  Redhud,  Radulfo  de  Frisington,  Michaele 
de  Wilton,  Ricardo  le  Taillour  de  Cokirmfouth],  Roberto 
Celar',  Ada  filio  Thome,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Cokirmouth 
die  lune  proximo  post  festum  Nativitatis  sancti  Johannis 
Baptiste,  anno  domini  m°  ccc°  vicesimo  nono.1 

191.    CARTA  WILLELMI  SCHYNWALD  DE  EISDEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Willelmus  Schinwald  de  Whit- 
hofthaven,  dedi  ....  magistro  Rogero  de  Sutton  in 
Galtres,  clerico,  unum  messuagium  cum  curtilagio  adja- 
cente  et  cum  tribus  acris  terre  arrabilis,  et  terciam  part  em 
del  Bradeheng  in  Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby,  quod 
quidem  messuagium  jacet  inter  messuagium  quondam 
Willelmi  de  Kelton  ex  parte  una  et  locum  qui  vocatur  le 
terne  ex  parte  alt  era,  et  due  acre  sunt  de  tenfemento] 
quondam  Willelmi  de  Kelton  et  una  acra  jacet  sub  le 
foulknot,  et  abuttat  super  le  Braheng.  Preterea  dedi  et 
concessi  eidem  magistro  Rogero,  heredibus  et  assignatis 
suis  pasturam  ad  novem  averia  in  terris  et  tenementis 
meis  in  Whitofthaven  et  eciam  ad  capiendum  focale  ad 
furnandum  et  brasiandum1  in  tenementis  predictis  eidem 
magistro  Rogero  quantum  opus  fuerit.  Habenda  et 
tenenda  predict  o  magistro,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis 
de  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  illius  per  servicia  inde  debita 
et  consueta  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  aisiamentis  ad 
predicta  tenementa  quoquomodo  pertinentibus.  Et  ego, 
predictus  Willelmus  et  heredes  mei  omnia  predicta  terras 

190.  *  26  June,  1329. 

191.  1  To  take  fuel  for  baking  and  brewing. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     2IO, 

....  contra  omnes  homines  ....  defendemus.  In  cujus 
rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
Johanne  de  Pennington,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto 
de  Cleter,  Radulfo  de  Frisington,  Roberto  de  Rotington, 
Ricardo  de  Birsted,  Ada  filio  Thome,  Roberto  de 
Celario,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  in  festo 
Assumpcionis  beate  Marie  virginis,  anno  gracie  millesimo 


192.  CARTA  MARGARETE  UXORIS  THOME  WYMUNDAM 
DE  OMNIBUS  TERRIS,  TENEMENTIS,  PRATIS  CUM  EDIFICIIS, 
CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  AYRINGTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Margareta  quondam  uxor  Thome  de 
Wymundham,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  me  in  legitima  potestate  et  in  viduitate 
mea  concessisse  ....  magistro  Rogero  de  Sutton  in 
Galtres  totum  jus  et  clamium  meum  que  habeo  vel  aliquo 
modo  habere  potero  in  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  cum 
pratis  et  edinciis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis  suis, 
que  habui  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  Bohghok  in  hameletto  de 
Ayringthwait.  Et  eciam  concessi  predicto  magistro 
Rogero  reversionem  omnium  terrarum  et  tenementorum 
que  dominus  Hugo  de  Moreceby,  Ricardus  de  palway, 
Willelmus  films  Roberti  de  Wythofthaven,  Thomas  del 
Hames,  Willelmus  Schinwald,  et  Ricardus  de  Swarthou 
tenent  ad  terminum  vite  sue  et  que  post  mortem  predict- 
orum  Hugonis,  Ricardi,  Willelmi,  Thome,  Willelmi,  et 
Ricardi  mihi  re  vert  i  deberent,  quod  remaneant  pre- 
dicto magistro  Rogero  et  heredibus  suis  inperpetuum. 
Tenenda  ....  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Et  quia  sigillum 
meum  est  incognitum,  sigillum  domini  Rogeri  de 
Somervyll  et  magistri  Willelmi  de  Walton  apponi  pro- 
curavi.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Roberto  de  Suarby,  domino 
Johanne  de  Has  thorp,  domino  Georgio  Sal  van,  militibus 

2 15  August,  1330. 


22O  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

in  comitatu  Eboracensi,  domino  Ricardo  de  Hudelston, 
domino  Roberto  de  Haverington,  domino  Johanne  de 
Penyton,  domino  Johanne  Flemyng,  militibus  in  comi- 
tatu Cumbrie,  Roberto  de  Cletern  tune  ballivo  de  Eger- 
mund,  Radulfo  de  Frisington,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  et 
aliis.  Datum  apud  Burton  Annas1  in  crastino  Animarum, 
anno  domini  millesimo  trescentesimo  tricesimo,2  et  anno 
regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii  post  Conquest um  quarto. 

193.      QUIETA    CLAMACIO    HUGONIS    DE    MoRICEBY    DE 
J  MESSUAGIO  ET  OMNIBUS  ALIIS  PERTINENCIIS  IN  WlTOFT- 

HAVEN  ET  AYRINGTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Hugo  de  Moreceby,1  salutem  in  dom- 
ino    sempiternam.       Noveritis     me     concessisse 

magistro  Rogero  de  Button  in  Galtres,  clerico,  jus  et  clam- 
ium  que  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in  uno 
messuagio  et  omnibus  aliis  terris  et  tenementis  cum  suis 
pertinenciis  que  habui  in  Whitofhaven  et  Ayringthwait 
in  villa  de  Kirkeby  Beghok.  Ita  quod  nee  ego,  predictus 
Hugo,  ...  In  cujus  rei .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino  Ricardo  de 

192.  Burton  Agnes  near  Bridlington  on  the  east  coast  of 
Yorkshire. 

2  3  November,   1330. 

193.  l  This  Hugh  de  Moriceby,  who  must  be  distinguished  from 
an  earlier  Hugh,  the  donor  of  No.  72,  was  one  of  the  knights  who 
assisted  in  the  capture  of  Andrew  de  Hercla,  earl  of  Carlisle,  in 
1323,  foi  which  he  was  rewarded  by  Edward  II.  with  part  of  the 
vill  of  Culgaythe  (Chron.  de  Lanercost,  pp.  250-51).     In  1337  he 
was  forbidden  to  take  men  out  of  Carlisle  garrison  (Close,  1 1  Edw. 
III.,  pt.  i,  m.  9)  and  in  the  same  year  had  a  grant  of  free  warren 
in  his  demesne  lands  of  Moresby  (Charter,  n  Edw.  III.,  m.  35). 
He  was  sheriff  of  the  county  and  escheator  for  Cumberland  and 
other  counties  in  1341-4.     Many  of  his  official  acts  are  recorded. 
He  died  on  the  Monday  after  the  Epiphany,  1348,  leaving  Chris- 
topher his  son  and  heir  of  full  age   (Inq.  p.  m.  22  Edw.  III.,  ist 
No.  32).     For  the  origin  of  the  family  of  Moresby,  see  note  on 
No.  71. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  221 

Hudelston,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Johanne  de  Penyng- 
ton,  Johanne  Flemyng,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Cleter  tune 
ballivo  de  Egermond,  Radulfo  de  Frisington,  Johanne  de 
Kirkebythore,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  de  Wal- 
ton, et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Moreceby  quint o  die  mensis 
Februarii,  anno  gracie  millesimo  trescentesimo  tricesimo. 

194.  CARTA  MARGARETE  FILIE  NIGELLI  DE  AYRING- 
THWAIT  DE  MESSUAGIIS,  TOFTIS,  TERRIS,  PRAXIS,  ETC.  IN 
AYRINGTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Margareta  filia  et  heres  Nigelli  de 
Ayringthwait,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  relaxasse 
.  .  .  magistro  Rogero  de  Sutton  in  Galtres,  clerico,  totum 
jus  et  clameum  que  habui  in  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis 
illis,  videlicet,  in  messuagiis,  toftis,  terris,  pratis,  boscis, 
pasturis,  moris,  et  mariscis,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  in  ham- 
ellettis  de  Ayringthwait  et  Whithofthaven  in  villa  de 
Kirkeby  sancte  Bege,  que  michi  jure  hereditario  post 
mortem  Nigelli  patris  mei  descenderunt,  et  que  idem 
magister  Rogerus  habet  de  dono  meo,  sicut  per  cartam 
feoffamenti  mei  eidem  magistro  Rogero  inde  factam 
plenius  testatur,  simul  cum  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis 
que  idem  magister  Rogerus  habet  ex  concessione  et 
reddicione  domini  Hugonis  de  Moreceby,  Willelmi  Schin- 
wald,  Roberti  Broun,  Ricardi  de  Gal  way,  Ricardi  de 
Swaethou,  et  Willelmi  filii  Roberti  de  Whitofthaven, 
quorum  reversionem  eidem  magistro  Rogero  prius  per 
cartam  meam  concessi  in  eadem.  Item  quod  nee  ego, 
dicta  Margareta,  nee  heredes  mei  ...  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Hudilston,  Roberto  de 
Haverington,  Johanne  de  Penyngton,  Johanne  Flemyng, 
militibus,  Roberto  de  Cleter  tune  ballivo  de  Egermund, 
Willelmo  Morthing,  Radulfo  de  Frisington,  Roberto  de 
Rotington,  Rogero  de  Irton,  Willelmo  de  Bromfeld, 
Willelmo  dc  Walton,  et  alii:;.  Datum  apud  sanctam 


222  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Begam  die  Jo  vis  in  septimana  Pasche,  anno  grade  mille- 
simo  ccc  tricesimo  primo1  et  regni  regis  Edwardii  tercii  a 
•Conquestu  quinto. 

195.    CARTA    MARGARETE    UXORIS   WYMUNDHAM    DE 

TENEMENTIS  ET  MULTIS  ALIIS  IN  AYRINGTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margaret  a  quondam  uxor 
Thome  de  Wymundham,  in  libera  viduitate  mea,  dedi 
....  Ricardo  de  Galway  et  Isolde  uxori  ejus  totum  illud 
tenementum  quod  predicti  Ricardus  et  Isolda  de  predicto 
Thoma  quondam  marito  meo  et  me  prius  tenuerunt  in 
Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby,  simul  cum  uno  orreo 
quod  Robertus  Lowis  quondam  tenuit  in  eadem  villa,  et 
uno  gardino  quod  Willelmus  de  Kelton  tenuit  in  eadem 
villa,  et  totam  terram  meam  jacentem  inter  terram  Thome 
Bolt  ex  parte  occidental!  et  le  Bradeheng  ex  parte  oriental! 
et  de  le  Foulesike  ex  parte  australi  usque  ad  croftum,  quod 
Randulphus  Bridmouth  quondam  tenuit  in  eadem  villa 
•ex  parte  boriali,  et  communam  in  pastura  mea  de  Ayring- 
thwait  ad  unum  equum  et  unam  vaccam  tempore  clause 
sine  aliquid  dare.  Tenenda  ....  Reddendo  inde  an- 
nuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  vel  assignatis  sex  denarios 
ad  festum  sancti  Martini  et  Pentecostes  per  equalem  por- 
cionem  pro  omnibus  serviciis,  consuetudinibus,  et  demand- 
is,  faciendo  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  illius  servicia  debita 
•et  consueta.  Et  ego,  predicta  Margareta  .  .  defendemus. 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Rotington, 
Johanne  de  Frisington,  Henrico  de  Stainburn,  Ricardo  de 
Byrstede,  Roberto  de  Celare,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud 
Wytofthaven  die  Martis  proximo  post  festum  Purifkacion- 
is  beate  Marie  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Edwardi 
sexto  decimo.1 

194.  *4  Apiil,  1331. 

195.  1  8  February,  1323.      The  deed  is  the  same  as  No.  183 
with  a  different  regnal  year. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         223 

196.  CARTA  RICARDI  DE  GALWAY  DE  TERRIS  ET  TENE- 
MENTIS  IN  WlTOFTHAVEN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  de  Galway,  salutem  in  dom- 
ino sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  .... 
Rogero  de  Suit  on  in  Galtres,  clerico,  totum  jus  et  clamium 
que  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potui  in  omnibus  terris 
et  tenementis,  cum  pratis  et  edificiis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis 
pertinenciis,  que  habui  in  Wy  toft  haven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby- 
beghok.  Ita  quod  nee  ego  nee  predictus  Ricardus  .... 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de 
Hudilston,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Johanne  de  Penyng- 
ton,  Johanne  Flemyng,  militibus.  Roberto  de  Cleter  tune 
ballivo  de  Egermond,  Rogero  de  Irton,  Roberto  de  Roting- 
ton,  Willelmo  de  Walton,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam 
Begam  die  dominica  in  octabis  sancti  Hillarii  anno  domini 
millesimo  cccmo  tricesimo.1 

197.  CARTA  MARGARETE  DE  ARINGTHWAIT  DE  j  TEN- 

EMENTO  IN  QWHITOFTHAVEN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margareta  de  Ayringthwait, 
in  viduitate  mea,  dedi,  concessi,  ....  Willelmo  filii 
Willelmi  filii  Roberti  de  Wytofthaven  unum  tenementum 
quod  jacet  juxta  tenementum  quod  Kelton  tenuit  usque 
ad  mare  et  tres  acras  terre  que  jacent  super  le  bane,  scilicet, 
unam  acram  et  dimidiam  et  residuum  que  jacet  super 
Holmigham,  cum  pertinenciis,  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  in  le 
hamet  (sic)  de  Wytofthaven.  Tenenda  ....  Reddendo 
inde  annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  vel  assignatis  duos 
denarios,  viz.,  ad  lestum  Annunciacionis  beate  Marie.  Et 
ego  vero,  predicta  Margareta,  et  heredes  vel  assignati 
predict  a  tenementum  et  terram,  cum  pertinenciis,  prefato 
Willelmo  usque  ad  terminum  vite  sue  contra  omnes  gentes 
warantizabimus  et  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .... 

196.     120  January,  1331. 


224  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Radulfo  de  Prising- 
ton,  Johanne  de  Gad,  Henrico  de  Walton,  Ricardo  de 
Byrsted,  Willelmo  de  eadem,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum 
apud  Ayringthwait  in  festo  Pasche  anno  regni  regis 
Edwardi  nlii  regis  Edwardi  sexto  decimo.1 


198.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  WILLELMI  FILII  ROBERTI 
DE  WlTOFTHAVEN  DE  J  MESSUAGIO  TERRE1  IN  WlTOFT- 
HAVEN  ET  ARINGTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Willelmus  filius  Willelmi  filii  Roberti 
de  Whitofthaven,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Nov- 

eritis     me     concessisse magistro     Rogero     de 

Sutton  in  Galtres,  clerico,  heredibus  suis  et  assignatis, 
totum  jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere 
potero  in  uno  messu[a]gio  et  omnibus  aliis  terris  et  tene- 
mentis,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  que  habui  ex  dono  et  con- 
cessione  Margarete  de  Ayringthwait  in  Whitofthaven  et 
Ayringthwait  in  villa  de  Kirkebybeghok.  It  a  quod  nee 

ego,  Willelmus  predictus In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis 

testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Hudleston,  Roberto  de  Hav- 
erington,  Johanne  de  Penyngton,  Johanne  Flemyng, 
militibus,  Roberto  de  Cleter  tune  ballivo  de  Egermond, 
Radulfo  de  Frisington,  Johanne  de  Kirkbythore,  Roberto 
de  Rotington,  Ada  filio  Thome  de  Hensingham,  Willelmo 
de  Birsted,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die 
dominica  proxime  ante  festum  sancti  Petri  in  cathedra, 
anno  domini  millesimo  triscentesimo  tricesimo.2 

197.  1  27  March,   1323. 

198.  xThe  compiler  of  the  Register  wrote  /  acra  terve  :   then 
he  deleted  /  acra  and  wrote  messuagio  over  it,  accidentally  leaving 
terre  undeleted.     In  the  rubrics  or  table  of  contents  at  the  begin- 
ning of  the  volume  the  title  of  this  deed  is  carta  Willelmi  filii 
Roberti  de  j  messuagio  Witofthaven  et  Airingthwait. 

2  13  January,   1331. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  225 

199.  CARTA  MARGARETE  UXORIS  THOME  WYMUNDHAM 

DE  J  TOFTO  ET  J  ACRA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  WlTOFTHAVEN 

ET  ARYNGTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margaret  a  quondam  uxor 
Thome  de  Wymondham,  dedi  ....  Ricardo  de  Swart- 
hou  et  Alicie  uxori  sue  unum  toftum  et  unam  acram  terre 
cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  in  hamell[eta]  de 
Whitofthaven  et  Ayringthwait,  quequidam  acra  terre 
jacet  inter  le  wastebank  ex  parte  una  et  altam  viam  de 
Whittofthaven  usque  ad  manerium  de  Aringthwait  ex 
parte  altera.  Tenenda  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
michi  et  heredibus  meis  post  terminum  decem  annorum 
unum  denarium,  viz.,  ad  festum  Nativitatis  sancti 
Johannis  Baptiste.  Et  ego  vero,  predicta  Margareta,  et 
heredes  mei  predicta  toftum  et  acram  terre,  cum  pertin- 
enciis, predictis  Ricardo  et  Alicie  usque  ad  terminum  vite 
sue  warantizabimus  et  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Bromfeld,  Roberto  de  Roting- 
ton,  Henrico  de  Staynburn,  Ricardo  de  Birsted,  Petro 
Taillur,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Whitofthaven  in  festo 
sancti  Mathei  apostoli,  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis 
Edwardi  sexto  decimo.1 

200.  CARTA  RICARDI   DE  SWARTHOU  DE  TERRIS  IN 

WlTOFTHAVEN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  de  Swarthou  de  Whitoft- 
haven, salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  uni- 
versitas  vestra  me  concessisse  ....  magistro  Rogero 
de  Suit  on  in  Galtres,  clerico,  totum  jus  et  clamium  que 
habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in  omnibus  terris  et 
tenementis,  cum  prat  is  et  edificiis,  et  omnibus  aliis  per- 
tinenciis, que  habui  in  Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kyrkeby 
Beghoc.  Ita  quod  nee  ego,  predictus  Ricardus,  nee 

199.     X2i  September,   1323. 

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226  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

heredes  mei  ....  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Ricardo  de  Hudelston,  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
Johanne  de  Penyngton,  Johanne  Flemyng,  militibus, 
Roberto  d3  Cleter  tune  ballivo  de  Egermond,  Rogero  de 
Irton,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  de  Walton,  et 
aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  dominica  in 
octabis  sancti  Hillarii  anno  domini  millesimo  cccmo 
tricesimo.1 

201.  CARTA  MARGARETS  FILIE  NIGELLI  ARINGTHWAIT 
DE  TERCIA  PARTE  MANERII  DE  ARINGTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margaret  a  filia  et  heres 
Nigelli  de'  Aringthwait,  in  mea  viduitate,  dedi  .... 
Roberto  Broun  de  Whitofthaven  terciam  partem  manerii 
mei  de  Aringthwait  cum-  pertinenciis,  exceptis  terris  et 
tenementis  omnium  tenencium  in  villa  de  Whitofthaven, 
que  nuper  in  manu  mea  esse  solebant.  Tenendam  .... 
Reddendo  inde  annuatim  michi,  heredibus  et  assignatis 
meis,  post  terminum  undecim  annorum  plenarie  com- 
pletorum  a  die  confeccionis  presencium,  quatuor  marcas 
sterlingorum,  viz.,  ad  Pentecost  en.  Et  ego  vero,  pre- 
dict a  Margaret  a,  heredes  ....  defendemus.  In  cujus 
rei  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
milite,  Roberto  de  Cleter,  Rogero  de  Croft,  Roberto 
Rotington,  Willelmo  Schinwald,  Ricardo  de  Birested,  et 
multis  aliis.  Datum  apud  Ayringthwait  die  sancti 
Martini  in  yeme1  anno  domini  m°  ccc°  xxiiij0. 

202.  CARTA    THOME    WYMUNDHAM    DE    nj    PARTE 

MANERII   DE  ARINGTHWAIT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  de  Wymundham, 
dedi  ....  Roberto  Broun  de  Whitofthaven  terciam 

200.  1  20  January,   1331. 

201.  ^i  November,   1324. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  227 

partem  manerii  de  Aryngthwait,  cum  pertinenciis,  exceptis 
terris  et  tenementis  omnium  tenencium  meorum  de 
Whitofthaven  que  nunc  in  manu  mea  consistunt  et  esse 
solebant.  Tenendam  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
michi,  heredibus  meis  et  assignatis  meis,  post  terminum 
quatuordecim  annorum  plene  completorum  a  die  confec- 
cionis  presencium,  quatuor  marcas  sterlingorum,  viz.,  ad 
Pentecosten.  Et  ego  vero.,  predictus  Thomas,  et  heredes 
mei  ....  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis  test- 
ibus  Rogero  de  Irton,  Johanne  de  Kirkebythore,  Henrico 
de  Walton,  Ricardo  de  Birested,  Willelmo  Schinwald, 
Roberto  de  Rotington,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  apud 
Aringthwait  in  festo  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  anno  domini 
millesimo  trescentesimo  vicesimo.1 

203.    CARTA  THOME  WYMUNDHAM  DE  TERRA  VOCATA 

LE  TERN  IN  QWITOFTHAVEN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Margareta  quondam  uxor 
Thome  de  Wymundham,  in  pura  viduitate  mea,  concessi 
et  confirmavi  Roberto  Broun  de  Whitofthaven  et  suis 
assignatis  tot  am  illam  terram,  que  vocatur  le  terne  in 
Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kyrkeby,  quamquidam  terram 
habuit  ex  dimissione  Thome  de  Wymundham,  mariti  mei, 
prout  in  quodam  scripto  inter  predictos  Thomam  et  Rob- 
ertum  inde  confecto  plenius  continetur.  Preterea  dedi 
et  concessi  predicto  Roberto  Broun,  in  propria  viduitate 
mea,  totam  predictam  terram  meam  del  terne  in  Whitoft- 
haven, cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis,  ad  terminum 
viginti  sex  annorum  subsequenter  completorum,  post- 
quam  perceperit  terminum  suum  quern  habet  ex  dimiss- 
ione Thome  de  Wymundham,  termino  mee  dimissionis 
incipiente  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  anno  domini 
millesimo  ccc°  tricesimo  octavo,  pro  quadam  summa 
pecunie  michi  pre  manibus  tradita.  Tenendam  .... 

202.     l  ii  November,   1320. 


228  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Et  ego,  predict  a  Margaret  a,  et  heredes  mei  ....  war- 
antizabimus  et  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  apposui: 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  milite,  Roberto 
de  Cleter,  Johanne  Flemyng,  Radulfo  de  Frisington, 
Ricardo  de  Birested,  Willelmo  de  Birested,  Petro  le  taillure, 
Willelmo  Schinwald,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Whitofthaven 
die  dominica  proxima  ante  festum  Natalis  domini  anno 
regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Edwardi  decimo  septimo.1 


204.  QUIETA  CLAMACIO  ROBERTI  BROWN  DE  TERRIS 
ET  TENEMENTIS  CUM  PRAXIS  ET  EDIFICIIS  IN  WlTOFTHAVEN.. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Robertus  Broun  de  Whitofthaven, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me 
concessisse  .  .  .  Rogero  de  Sutton  in  Galtres,  clerico, 
totum  jus  et  clameum  que  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere 
potero  in  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis,  cum  pratis  et  edi- 
ficiis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis,  que  habui  in 
Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  beghog.  It  a  quod  nee 
ego,  predictus  Robertus,  nee  heredes  mei,  nee  aliquis 
nomine  nostro  in  predictis  terris  et  tenementis,  cum  suis 
pertinenciis,  aliquid  juris  vel  clamei  de  cetero  exigere  vel 
vendicare  poterimus  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Hudelston,  Roberto  de 
Haverington,  Johanne  de  Penington,  Johanne  Flemyng, 
militibus,  Roberto  de  Cletergh  tune  ballivo  de  Egermond, 
Rogero  de  Irton,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  de  Wal- 
ton, et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  dominica 
in  octabis  sancti  Hillarii,1  anno  domini  m°  ccc°  xxx°. 


205.    CARTA  THOME  DEL  HAMES  DE  j  ACRA  TERRE  CUM 

PERTINENCIIS  IN  WlTOFTHAVEN. 

203.  1  18  December,   1323. 

204.  l  20  January,   1331. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  22Q 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  del  Hames1,  dedi 
....  magistro  Henrico  de  Kepas,  clerico,  unum  toftum 
et  unam  acram  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Whitofthaven 
in  villa  de  Kirkeby  beghok.  Tenenda  ....  In  cujus 
rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Culwen, 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de  Bampton,  militibus, 
Johanne  de  Hodelston,  Willelmo  de  Morthing,  Willelmo 
de  Corbet,  Radulpho  de  Lamplogh,  Ricardo  de  Cletergh, 
Hugone  Flemyng,  Willelmo  de  Walton,  et  aliis.  Datum 
apud  Kyrkebybechok,  die  lune  proxima  post  festum  sancti 
Jacobi  apostoli,  anno  domini  m°  triscentesimo  tricesimo 
primo.2 

206.  CARTA  ROGER:  SUTTON  DE  j  CAMERA  IN  WYTOFT- 
HAVEN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Rogerus  de  Sutton,  clericus,  salutem 
in  domino.  Noveritis  me  concessisse  et  ad  firmam 
dimisisse  Simoni  Croump  de  Ybernia  unam  cameram  in 
Whitofthaven  cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu  ad  eandem, 
unacum  proficuo  carbonum  et  lapidum  infra  solum  de 
Aringthwait  juxta  litus  maris.  Habendam  et  tenendam 
predicto  Simoni,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis  usque  ad 
finem  sex  annorum  proxime  sequencium  plenarie  com- 
pletorum,  termino  incipient e  die  dominica  proxim[a]  post 
festum  apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli,  anno  regni  Regis 

205.  1  Of  Hames  Hall  in  the  township  of  Papcastle  and  parish 
of  Bridekirk.  On  the  death  of  Adam  del  Hames  in  1316,  it  was 
found  that  he  held  a  messuage  and  land  in  le  Hames  in  the  vill 
of  Papcastle  of  the  King  as  of  his  barony  of  Allerdale.  John  del 
Hames,  aged  30,  was  his  son  and  heir  (Inq.  p.  m.  9  Edw.  II.,  No. 
15).  In  this  deed  we  have  Thomas  del  Hames.  The  place  was 
called  Hameshill  in  1578  when  Anthony  Barwise  held  it  (Survey 
of  the  Percy  Estates  in  1578,  MS.),  and  also  in  1687  when  Mr. 
Senhouse  and  Mr.  Hutton  had  two  good  freehold  estates  and  good 
seats  there  (T.  Denton,  Perambulation,  MS.  f.  46).  Hames  Hall 
is,  therefore,  of  late  introduction. 

2  29  July,   1331. 


230  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Edwardi  filii  Regis  E.  septimo  decimo.  Reddendo  inde 
annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  usque  ad  finem  termini 
predict!  imam  rosam  in  festo  Nativitatis  sancti  Johannis 
Baptist  e  pro  omnibus  serviciis.  Et  ego,  predict  us  Roger- 
us,  et  heredes  mei  ....  warantizabimus  et  defendemus. 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Hugone  de 
Moreceby,  milite,  Roberto  de  Cletergh,  Johanne  le  Flem- 
yng,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Radulfo  de  Frisington,  et 
aliis.  Datum  apud  Whitofthaven  die  et  anno  supradictis.1 

207.  CARTA  ROGER:  SUTTON  DE  OMNIBUS  TERRIS  IN 

WlTOFTHAVEN  ET  ARYNGTHWAIT. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Rogerus  de  Sutton  in  Galtres,  clericus, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  assignasse  et  loco  meo 
constituisse  dilectum  michi  in  Christo  magistrum  Roger- 
urn  de  Witington  attornatum  meum  ad  deliberandam 
seysinam  abbati  et  conventui  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et 
monachis  apud  [sanctam]  Begam  Deo  servientibus  de 
omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  meis  in  hamelettis  de  Haring- 
thwait  et  Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  beghoc. 
Habend[a].  .  .  .  Habens  ratum  ...  In  cujus  rei  ... 
Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  Jo  vis  proximfa]  post 
festum  Purificacionis  beate  Marie,  anno  domini  millesimo 
tricentesimo  quarto.1 

208.  CARTA  ROGERI  DE  SUTTON  DE  TERRIS  ET  TENE- 
MENTIS IN  ARINGTHWAIT  ET  WITOFTHAVEN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Rogerus  de  Sutton  in  Galtres,  clericus, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  assignasse  et  loco  meo 
attornasse  dilectos  michi  in  Christo  Robertum  de  Roting- 
ton et  Ricardum  de  Thornton  attornatos  meos  ad  terras 

206.  1 1  July,  1324. 

207.  *9  February,   1305.     The  date  is  very  early  for  Roger 
Sutton,  but  it  is  probable  that  some  word,  vicesimo  or  tricesimo, 
has  been  omitted. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  231 

et  tenementa  mea  in  Ayringthwait  et  Whitofthaven  in 
villa  de  Kirkeby  dimittendum  ad  firmam  et  gersumas1  et 
firmas  et  alia  proficua  de  eisdem  proveniencia  recipiendum. 
Et  etiam  terras  et  tenementa,  redditus  et  reversiones, 
nomine  meo  adquirendum  et  seisinam  de  eisdem  recipiend- 
um et  proficuum  meum  de  eisdem,  ut  supradictum  est, 
faciendum.  Habens  ratum  ....  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Datum  apud  Eboracum  die  Jo  vis  proxim[a]  post  festum 
Purificacionis  beate  Marie  virginis,  anno  regni  regis 
Edwardi  tercii  a  Conquestu  quarto.2 

209.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EISDEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Rogerus  de  Sotton  in  Galtres,  clericus, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  assignasse  et  loco  meo 
attornasse  ....  Ricardum  de  Thornton  attornatum 
meum  ad  terras  et  tenementa  mea  in  Ayringthwait  et 
Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby  dimittend[um]  ad  firm- 
am,  et  firmas  et  gersumas  et  alia  proficua  de  eisdem  pro- 
veniencia recipiendfum].  Et  etiam  terras  et  tenementa, 
redditus  et  reversiones  nomine  meo  perpetrand[um]  et 
seisinam  de  eisdem  recipiend[um]  et  proficuum  meum  de 
eisdem,  ut  supradictum  est,  faciend[um].  Habens  ratum 
....  Datum  apud  Eboracum  die  Jo  vis  proxim[a]  post 
festum  Purificacionis  beate  Marie  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi 
tercii  a  Conquestu  quarto.1 

210.  CARTA  ROBERTI  DE  ROTINGTON  DE  TERRIS  ET 

TENEMENTIS  IN  ARINGTHWAIT  ET  WlTOFTHAVEN. 

208.  1  Customary  fines  on  the  change  of  tenancy,  sometimes 
paid  on  the  change  of  lord  as  well  as  tenant.     The  payment  of 
"  gressoms  "  was  a  source  of  great  trouble  between  landlord  and 
tenant  in  Cumberland  and  Westmorland  in  the  sixteenth  century. 
M.  Paris  (Chron.  Majora,  vi.  418,  431)  quotes  deeds  where  "  ger- 
suma  "  appears  to  be  used  as  a  fine  or  earnest  on  the  purchase  of 
land. 

2  8  February,   1330. 

209.  :  8  February,   1330. 


232  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

OMNIBUS  ....  Robertus  de  Rotington  et  Ricardus  de 
Thornton,  attornati  magistri  Roger!  de  Sutton  in  Galtres, 
clerici,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  nos  concessisse  et 
ad  nrmam  dimisisse  venerabili  viro,  domino  abbati  beate 
Marie  Eboraci,  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  predict!  mag- 
istri Rogeri,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  in  Ayringthwait  et 
Whitofthaven  in  villa  de  Kirkeby,  que  idem  magister 
Rogerus  habuit  ex  dono  et  concessione  Margarete  filie  et 
heredis  Nigelli  de  Ayringthwait,  Simonis  Croump,  et  Will- 
elmi  Schinwald,  simul  cum  reversionibus  terrarum  et 
tenementorum  que  Thomas  del  Hames,  Willelmus  filius 
Robert!  de  Whitofthaven,  Ricardus  de  Galway,  et  Ricard- 
us de  Swarthou  de  predicto  magistro  Rogero  tenent  ad 
terminum  vite  sue,  simul  cum  redditibus  et  aliis  serviciis 
•eorundem  et  que  post  mortem  predict orum  Thome  et 
Willelmi,  Ricardi  et  Ricardi,  predicto  magistro  Rogero 
reverti  deberent,  remaneant  predicto  domino  abbati  in 
forma  qua  subsequitur.  Habenda  et  tenenda  predicto 
domino  abbati  et  successoribus  suis  usque  ad  finem  quat- 
raginta  annorum  proxime  sequencium  plenarie  complet- 
orum,  termino  incipiente  ad  festum  Pentecostes,  anno 
domini  millesimo  ccc°  tricesimo.1  Reddendo  inde  annu- 
atim  predicto  Magistro  Rogero,  heredibus  et  assignatis 
suis,  viginti  solidos  sterlingorum  ad  festa  sancti  Martini 
et  Pentecostes  per  porciones  equales.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Datum  apud  Kirkeby  die  dominica  proxim[a]  ante  festum 
beati  Petri  in  cathedra,  anno  domini  supradicto.2 

211.    CARTA  ROGERI  SUTTON'   DE  xmj   MESSUAGIIS, 

VJ  TOFTIS,  C  ET  XXIIIJ  ACRIS  TERRE,  VIIJ  [ACRIS]  PRATI, 
J  ACRA  BOSCI,  XL  ACRIS  VASTI,  ET  X  ACRIS  MORE,  IIIJ  ACRIS 
MARISCI,  ET  XIJ  DENARATIS  REDDITUS  IN  ARINGTHWAIT 
ET  WlTOFTHAVEN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Rogerus  de  Sutton  in  Galtres, 

210.     J27  May,  1330. 
2  13  January,   1331. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  233 

clericus,  concessi,  dedi,  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirm- 
avi  abbati  et  conventui  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  monachis 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  apud  sanctam  Begam 
servientibus  quatuordecim  messuagia,  sex  tofta,  centum 
et  viginti  quatuor  acras  terre,  octo  acras  prati,  unam 
acram  bosci,  quatraginta  acras  vasti,  decem  acras  more, 
quatuor  acras  marisci,  et  duodecim  denaratas  redditus, 
cum  pertinenciis,  in  Ayringthwait  et  Whitofthaven  in 
villa  de  Kirkeby  beghok.  Habenda  ....  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Bampton,  Hu- 
gone  de  Moreceby,  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  militibus,  Johanne 
de  Hudelston,  Willelmo  de  Morthing,  Willelmo  Corbet, 
Radulfo  de  Lamplogh,  Ricardo  de  Cletern,  Hugone 
Flemyng,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Kirkebybecok  die  Jo  vis 
proxima  post  festum  Purificacionis  beate  Marie  anno 
domini  millesimo  ccc°  tricesimo  quarto.1 


212.    CARTA  CHETELLI  FILII  ELDRED  DE  ECCLESIIS  ET 
PERTINENCIIS  DE  MORLUND,  BROUNFELD,  ET  WlRKING- 

TON. 

CHETELLUS  films  Eldred,1  omnibus  videntibus  vel  audi- 

211.  1 9  February,    1335. 

212.  1  Though   the   compiler   of   the    Register    states    in    the 
margin  that  this  charter  habetur  sub  cera,  it  belongs  to  a  class, 
associated  with  the  cells  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  which  raises  mis- 
givings about  its  integrity.     Another  of  the  same  sort  by  Gilbert 
son  of  Reinfred  and  Helewise  his  wife,  nearly  a  century  later, 
which  has  been  printed  by  Dugdale  (Mon.,  iii.  566),  exists  at  the 
British  Museum  with  tags  and  fragment  of  a  seal  (Add.  Chart. 
No.    17153).     In  both  grants   is   included   a   group  of  churches 
over  which  the  grantors  of  that  time  could  have  had  little  control. 
In  the  charter  of  Chetell  the  church  of  Brounefeld  is  grouped  with 
those    of    Morlund    and   Wirkynton.     It    is    difficult    to   explain 
Chetell's   interest   in    Brounefeld.     When   we   turn   to    the   con- 
firmation charters  given  to  St.  Mary's  by  Henry  II.   (Mon.,  iii. 
548-50)  and  Richard  I.  (Cat.  of  Chart.,  iii.  116)  we  find  the  monks 


234  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

entibus  litteras  has  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris,  salut- 
em.  Notum  sit  me  dedisse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea 
confirmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  consilio  et  assensu 
uxoris  mee,  Cristiane,  et  Willelmi  filii  mei  et  ceterorum 
amicorum  meorum,  ecclesiam  de  Morlund,  cum  duabus 
partibus  ejusdem  ville  et  cum  uno  molendino  in  eadem 
villa  et  cum  ceteris  pertinenciis  suis,  et  ecclesiam  de 
Brounefeld,  cum  corpore  ejusdem  manerii  et  cum  ceteris 
•  pertinenciis  suis,  et  ecclesiam  de  Wirkynton  et  duas 
carrucatas  terre  et  unum  molendinum  in  eadem  villa  et 
omnia  alia  que  ad  earn  pertinent,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno  servicio 
et  seculari  exaccione,  pro  anima  mea  et  pro  animabus 
omnium  parentum  meorum  et  pro  animabus  omnium 
fidelium  defunctorum.  Qua  propter  concedo  et  confirmo 
hec  omnia  prefata  usibus  predictorum  monachorum 
inperpetuum  profutura.  Hiis  testibus  Cristiana  uxore 
mea,  Willelmo  filio  meo,  Archil  senescaldo,  Yvone  filio 
Forni,  Roberto  capellano,  Rogero  filio  Waited,  et  multis 
aliis. 


offering  a  charter  for  each  church  separately  :  Retell  son  of 
Eltreth  gave  them  the  church  of  Morland  :  Walthef  son  of  Gos- 
patric,  the  church  of  Brunnefeld  :  and  Ketel  son  of  Eltred,  the 
church  of  Wirchintuna  (Illus.  Doc.,  No.  ix).  The  inspection 
of  the  separate  chaiters  connotes  true  history,  like  the  charters 
of  William  Meschin  in  the  earlier  portion  of  this  Register  which 
particularize  the  donors  and  the  grants.  Chetell  son  of  Eltred, 
according  to  Nos.  2-3,  was  the  donor  of  Preston  near  Whitehaven, 
not  of  Preston  Patrick  in  Westmorland,  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  : 
he  was  also  a  witness  of  the  grant  of  the  churches  of  Whicham 
and  Bootle  by  Godard  de  Boivill  when  the  church  of  the  priory 
was  dedicated  (No.  76).  That  he  was  a  benefactor  of  St.  Bees, 
as  distinct  from  the  mother  house,  shows  that  Chetell  was  alive 
for  some  years  after  1120.  From  other  sources  we  know  he  was 
a  large  landowner  in  Kendal  (Cal.  of  Chart.,  ii.  442)  as  well  as  in 
Coupland. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         235 

213.  CARTA  WILLELMI,  RECTORIS  DE  WIRKYNTON,  DE 
PENSIONE  EJUSDEM  ET  CETERIS  ONERIBUS. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  litteras  has 
quod  ego,  Willelmus,1  persona  de  Wirkinton,  films  Thome 
de  Wirkinton,  teneor  reddere  pro  ecclesia  ejusdem  ville 
abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  dimidiam 
partem  piscium  et  quatuor  marcas  argenti  quas  eis  annu- 
atim  persolvam  ad  duos  terminos,  dimidiam  ad  Pentecost- 
en  et  dimidiam  in  festo  sancti  Martini.  Preterea  sciendum 
est  quod  tarn  abbati  quam  omnibus  monachis  et  eorum 
diucius  servientibus,  venientibus  Wirkinton  hospitandi 
gracia,  hospicium  et  necessaria  honeste  exhibeo,  et  epis- 
copalia  jura  persolvam,  et  omnia  onera  sustinebo.  Test- 
ibus  hiis  Thoma  filio  Gospatricii,  Thoma  herede  suo, 
magistro  Michaele  de  Clavill,  Thoma  de  Melsa,  Waltero 
de  Bovington,  magistro  Rogero,  et  multis  aliis. 

214.  CARTA  ROGERI  DE  SELEBY,  RECTORIS  ECCLESIE 
DE  WIRKINTON,  DE  PENSIONS  ET  ALIIS  ONERIBUS. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  fidelibus  presens  scriptum  visuris 
vel  audituris,  Rogerus  de  Seleby,1  rector  ecclesie  de  Wir- 


213.  iThe  church  of  Wirkinton  had  been  bestowed  on  St. 
Mary's  by  Chetell  son  of  Eldred  and  was  associated  with  St.  Bees 
in  the  charter  of  confirmation  by  Ranulf  Meschin,   son  of  the 
founder  of  the  priory  (No.  4)  and  confirmed  by  Gospatric  son  of 
Orm,  the  grandson  of  the  grantor  of  the  church  (No.  32)-     But 
the  monks  of  the  mother  house  retained  an  arbitrary  pension 
from  it  which  they  exacted  of  the  incoming  parson  by  means  of 
a  bond.     It  is  an  interesting  provision  which  makes  it  appear 
that  the  incumbent  held  his  church  -by  a  species  of  feudal  tenure 
of  the  owners  of  the  advowson.     For  a  later  mode  of  dealing  with 
the  pension  see  Nos.    216-217.     As  Thomas  son  of    Gospatric, 
the  first  witness  and  father  of  the  parson,  died  in  1201  (Rot.  de 
Oblat.,  p.  157),  the  date  of  William's  institution  must  have  been 
previous  to  that  year. 

214.  *  It  will  be  observed  that  the  terms  of  Roger's  bond  differ 
somewhat  from  those  of  Parson  William  in  No.  213  :   half  part 


236  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

kinton,  salutem  eternam  domino.  Noverit  universitas 
vestra  quod  ego  teneor  solvere  abbati  et  conventui  sancte 
Marie  Eboraci  quatuor  marcas  argenti  annuatim  nomine 
pensionis  de  ecclesia  de  Wirkinton,  medietatem  ad  Pente- 
costen  et  medietatem  ad  festum  sancte  Martini  in  yeme. 
Sciendum  est  eciam  quod  tarn  abbati  quam  monachis 
et  eorum  servientibus,  venientibus  apud  Wirkinton  hos- 
pitandi  gracia,  hospicium  et  omnia  necessaria  honeste 
exhibebo.  Et  omnia  tarn  episcopalia  quam  archidiacon- 
alia  sustinebo.  Et  hoc  fideliter  observaturus,  tactis  sacro- 
sanct is  Ewangeliis,  juravi.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  pre- 
senti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Gil- 
berto  de  Kuketon,  magistro  Rogero  de  Laycestre,  Willel- 
mo  de  Longa  villa,  Herberto  de  Duff  eld,  Rogero  de  Wed- 
erg,  Roberto  de  Cwiton,  et  aliis.  Actum2  die  Martis  post 
diem  dominicam  qua  cantatur  "  Jubilate,"  anno  gracie 
millesimo  cc°  xl°  vij°. 

215.    CARTA  PATRICK  FILII  THOME  DE  DISTRICCIONE 

DE  SALMONIBUS  IN  WiRKINTON. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Patricius  filius  Thome,  eternam  in  domino 
salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  quod  ego  et  heredes 
mei  tenemur  solvere  annuatim  priori  et  monachis  de  sancta 
Bega  quatuordecim  salmones,  scilicet,  sex  salmones  in 
quatragesima  ante  dominicam  Palmarum,  et  octo  sal- 
mones ante  festum  sancti  Petri  ad  vincula  proxime 
sequens  ad  domum1  meam  in  Wirkinton.  Et  sciendum 

•of  the  fish,  it  may  be  presumed,  half  of  the  tithe  of  salmon,  for 
which  the  Derwent  was  famous  at  an  early  period  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb., 
ii.  332-6),  has  been  omitted.  Roger  was  still  parson  in  1258 
(Nos.  356-7). 

a  23  April,   1247. 

215.  l  This  deed  shows  that  Patrick  son  of  Thomas  was  living 
ad  domum  meam  in  Wirkinton  in  1250.  His  father  was  known  as 
Thomas  son  of  Gospatric  of  Wirkinton  (No.  35)  and  as  Thomas 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA  237 

est  quod  si  heredes  mei  vel  ego  in  aliquo  termino  a  soluci- 
one  dictorum  salmonum,  sicut  predictum  est,  defecerimus, 
concessi  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  predictis  priori  et  mon- 
achis  quod  distringant  racionabiliter  terrain  meam  quam 
Ricardus  films  Corni,  prepositus  meus,  tenet  de  me  in 
Wirkinton,  vel  alii  qui  dictam  terram  pro  tempore  tene- 
bunt,  sine  impedimento  vel  heredum  meorum.  In  cujus 
rei  testimonium  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  Ada  de  Haverington  tune  decano  de  Coup- 
land,  Elya,  clerico,  tune  senescallo  de  Coupland,  Johanne 
de  Camerton,  Alexandro  de  Punzunby,  Clemente  et  Mich- 
aele,  clericis,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  in  crastino  sancte 
Katerine  virginis2  apud  Wirkinton,  anno  gracie  millesimo 
cc°  quinquagesimo. 

216.     INSTRUMENTUM    DE    RECOGNICIONE    PENSIONIS 

ECCLESIE  DE  WlRKYNTON   ET  ALIIS   ONERIBUS. 

IN  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Per  presens  publicum  instru- 
mentum  constet  omnibus  manifeste  quod  anno  ab  Incarn- 
acione  domini,  secundum  cursum  et  computacionem 
ecclesie  Anglicane,  m°  ccc°  sexagesimo  quinto,  Indiccione 
quarta,  pontificatus  sanctissimi  in  Christo  patris  et  dom- 
ini nostri,  domini  Urbani,  divina  providencia,  pape, 
quinti,  anno  tercio,  mense  Octobris,  die  nonodecimo,  in 
quodam  herbario  juxta  refect orium  abbathie  beate  Marie 
Eboraci  in  me[i]  notarii  publici,  et  testium  infrascript- 
orum  ad  infrascripta  vocatorum  et  rogatorum  presencia, 

of  Wirkinton  (Nos.  166,  213).  These  designations  go  to  prove 
that  Workington  was  the  residential  seat  of  the  head  of  the  family 
in  the  latter  pait  of  the  twelfth  century.  J.  Denton  must  have 
been  guessing  when  he  stated  that  it  was  Patrick  who  "  pulled 
down  the  manner  house  of  Seaton  and  dwelt  thenceforth  at 
Workington  "  (Accompi,  p.  36).  There  is  no  evidence  at  present 
known  that  any  of  the  previous  members  of  the  family  dwelt  at 
Seaton.  For  Patrick  son  of  Thomas,  see  note  on  No.  38. 
2  26  November,  1250. 


238  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

personaliter  constitutis  discrete  viro,  domino  Ricardo  de 
Askeby,  capellano,  et  fratre  Thoma  de  Danby,  monasterii 
beate  Marie  Eboraci  predict!  commonacho,  ac  relig[ioso- 
rum]  virorum  dominorum  abbatis  et  conventus  ejusdem 
monasterii  procuratore.  Predictus  dominus  Ricardus  fate- 
batur  et  recognovit  atque  dixit  quod  ecclesia  parochialis 
de  Wirkington  fuit  et  est  pensionaria  in  quatuor  marcis1 
sterlingorum  et  capella  de  Clifton2  ab  eadem  ecclesia  de 
Wirkington  dependens  in  duobus  solidis  sterlingorum  an- 
nuatim  religiosis  viris,  abbati  et  conventui  dicti  monas- 
terii beate  Marie  Eboraci,  et  eorum  mon[achis],  ac  celle 
eorundem  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  priori  ejusdem  loci 
annuatim  solvendis.  Et  ipsos  religiosos  viros,  abbatem  et 
conventum  et  priorem  predictos  fuisse  et  esse  in  possess- 
ione  recipiendi,  percipiendi,  et  habendi  dictam  annuam 
pensionem  quatuor  marcarum  et  duorum  solidorum  de 
dictis  ecclesia  et  capella  et  rectore  ejusdem  ecclesie  qui  pro 
tempore  fuerit  a  tempore  et  per  tempus  cujus  inicii  memoria 
hominum  non  existit.  Quamquidem  annuam  pensionem 
quatuor  marcarum  et  duorum  solidorum  prefatus  dominus 
Ricardus  promisit  se,  si  contingat  eum  habere  et  tenere 
corporalem  possessionem  predicte  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton 
prefatis  religiosis  abbati  et  conventui  seu  celle  eorum 
sancte  Bege  priori  terminis  ad  hec  assignatis  se  annuatim 
fideliter  soluturum.  Et  quod  hec  faceret  absque  aliqua 
briga,3  lite,  seu  difficultate,  juramentum  ad  sancta  Dei 

216.  l  For  the  custom  of  exacting  a  bond  of  the  incumbent 
before  institution  to  the  church  of  Workington,  see  Nos.  213-4. 
In  the  present  bond  and  that  which  follows,  the  pension  was  shorn 
of  its  accessories,  the  moiety  of  the  fish  tithe  and  hospitality  to 
the  monks  of  York  when  on  a  visit  to  Workington.  In  1535  the 
yearly  pensions  payable  by  that  church  included  xls  to  St.  Mary's 
and  lvs  iiijd  to  St.  Bees  (Valor  Eccles.,  v.  8,  265). 

'2  For  the  chapel  of  Clifton,  see  Ncs.  98-100,  215.  By  No.  363 
a  similar  arrangement  was  made  with  the  chaplains  of  Clifton 
for  the  payment  of  a  yearly  pension. 

:J  This  word  is  referred  to  in  a  note  under  No.  97. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA  239 

Ewangelia  per  ipsum  corporaliter  tacta  prestitit,  ac  quod 
infra  annum  a  tempore  quo  contigerit  ipsum  habere 
institucionem  et  induccionem  ac  possessionem  ejusdem 
ecclesie  de  Wirkinton  quod  ipse  ad  dictos  dominos  abbat- 
em  et  conventum  red[d]ibit  et  coram  quocunque  judice 
suo  competenti  de  pensione  predicta  eis  consimilem 
securitatem  faciet.  Que  omnia  et  singula  dominus 
Ricardus  de  Askeby  supradictus  dicto  fratri  Thome  de 
Danby,  procuratori  super  hoc  nomine  monasterii  predicti 
solempniter  stipulanti  se  observaturum  promisit.  Act  a 
sunt  hec  anno,  Indiccione,  pontificatu,  die  et  loco  predic- 
tis,  presentibus  religiosis  viris  fratribus  Johanne  de 
Kelom  et  Ricardo  de  Tyuerington  predicti  monasterii 
•commonachis,  ac  discretis  viris  magistris  Johanne  Norton, 
curie  Eboraci  advocate,  et  Willelmo  de  Tanfeld  juris 
perito,  ac  Johanne  de  Redenese,  clerico,  et  Nicholao  Scot 
laico,  testibus  ad  premissa  vocatis  specialiter  et  rogatis. 
Et  ego,  Johannes  de  Difford,  clericus,  Eboracensis 
dioceseos,  publicus  auctoritate  apostolica  notarius,  .... 
personaliter  presens  interfui,  eaque  omnia  ....  manu 
mea  propria  scripsi. 

217.  INSTRUMENTUM  DE  RECOGNICIONE  PENSIONIS  ET 
ALIIS  ONERIBUS  ECCLESIE  DE  WlRKYNTON. 

IN  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Per  presens  publicum  instru- 
mentum  constet  omnibus  manifeste  quod  anno  ab  Incarn- 
acione  domini  secundum  cursum  et  computacionem 
ecclesie  Anglicane,  millesimo  ccc°  septuagesimo  quarto, 
indiccione  tercia-decima,  pontincatus  sanctissimi  in 
Christo  patris  et  domini  nostri,  domini  Gregorii,  divina 
providencia,  pape,  undecimi,  anno  quinto,  mense  Januarii, 
die  quarta,1  infra  claustrum  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci,  ordinis  sancti  Benedicti,  in  secreto  locutorio 
ejusdem  monasterii  in  mei,  notarii  publici,  et  testium 

217.     1  4   January,    1375. 


240  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

subscriptorum  presencia  constitutus  personaliter  discretus 
vir,  dominus  Johannes  Blaunchard,  presbiter  Eboracensis 
dioceseos,  dicens  se  rectorem  ecclesie  parochialis  de  Wirk- 
ington  in  Coupland,  archidiaconatus  Richemondie,  dicte 
Eboracensis  dioceseos,  sua  mera,  libera,  et  spontanea 
voluntate  dixit,  asseruit,  et  expresse  recognovit  quod 
prefata  ecclesia  sua  de  Wirkington  fuerat  et  esse  con- 
sueverat  ab  antique  censualis  sive  pensionaria  religiosis 
viris,  dominis  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii  beate  Marie 
Eboraci,  ipsius  ecclesie  patronis,  in  quatuor  marcis  et 
duobus  solidis  sterlingorum  per  rectorem  ipsius  ecclesie,. 
qui  pro  tempore  fuerit,  annuatim  nomine  dicte  ecclesie 
persolvendis  :  quodque  hujusmodi  census  sive  pensio 
per  rectores  ejusdem  ecclesie,  ipsius  domini  Johannis 
predecessores,  prefatis  religiosis  viris,  nomine  dicte  ecclesie 
sue,  solvi  et  prestari  consuevit ;  ac  quod  ipse  Johannes 
Blaunchard,  pro  tempore  suo  quo  recto  [r]  ecclesie  de 
Wirkington  extiterit,  eandem  pensionem  religiosis  viris 
predictis  solvere  voluit  et  prestare,  ipsamque  pensionem 
fideliter  eisdem  religiosis  solvere  promisit,  et  ad  solucion- 
em  tarn  ipsius  pensionis  quam  quorumcumque  arreragior- 
um  ejusdem  pensionis  pro  temporibus  tune  transactis 
dictis  religiosis  fideliter  faciendfam],  per  juramentum 
suum  corporale  ad  sancta  Dei  Ewangelia  per  eundem 
dominum  Johannem  Blaunchard  manu  sua  dextra  cor- 
poraliter  tacta  ibidem  prestitum  se  expresse  de  sua  certa 
sciencia  et  spontanea  voluntate  astrinxit  et  obligavit,  ac 
eandem  pensionem  et  arreragia  predicta,  sicut  predicitur, 
eisdem  religiosis  viris  solvere  et  liberare  ad  eadem  evan- 
gelia  per  ipsum  ut  prefertur  juravit.  Act  a  sunt  hec  ab 
anno,  indiccione,  pontificatu,  mense,  die,  et  loco  supra- 
dictis,  presentibus  reverendis  et  religiosis  viris,  domino 
Willelmo  Marrays,  abbate,  fratribus  Thoma  de  Danby,. 
priore,  Reginaldo  de  Lamburn,  sacre  pagine  professore, 
Johanne  de  Marton  et  Rogero  de  Castro,  monachis  dicti 
monasterii,  testibus  ad  premissa  vocatis  specialiter  et 
rogatis. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  241 

Et  ego,  Adam  de  Thornton,  presbiter  Eboracensis 
dioceseos,  apostolica  auctoritate  et  imperiali  notarius 
publicus,  .  .  .  personaliter  presens  interfui,  eaque  ...  in 
hanc  publicam  formam  redegi,  meisque  signo  et  nomine 
consuetis  signavi  rogatus  in  fidem  et  testimonium  premiss- 
orum. 

218.    CARTA  ALANI  FILII  THOME  PENYTON  DE  j  NATIVO 

CUM  SEQUELA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Alanus1  filius  Thome  de  Penyton, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  pro 
servicio  quod  michi  fecit,  dedisse,  concessisse,  et  present! 
carta  mea  confirmavi  Alano  de  Peninton,  avunculo  meo, 
et  heredibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis  Simonem  filium  Ade 
le  quite,  nativum  meum,2  cum  tota  sequela  sua  et  omni- 

218.  1  The  succession  of  the  Penningtons  at  the  close  of  the 
thirteenth  century  is  involved  in  some  obscurity  by  leason  of 
some  of  its  members  bearing  the  same  name.  We  have  in  this 
charter  and  the  next  Alan  son  of  Thomas  the  nephew,  and  Alan 
son  of  Alan  the  uncle,  the  former  being  in  the  direct  male  line. 
In  Foster's  pedigree,  a  careful  compilation,  there  is  a  gap  between 
Alan  son  of  Thomas  and  William  the  next  in  succession.  The 
link  may  be  supplied  by  the  evidence  of  an  Assize  suit  in  1278, 
when  an  intricate  marriage  settlement  was  in  dispute  touching 
the  manor  of  Muncaster.  From  this  it  would  appear  that  William 
son  of  Alan  de  Penintone  was  to  marry  Alice  daughter  of  Benedict 
de  Molecastre  (Bain,  Cal.  Doc.  Scot.,  ii.  pp.  29-30).  In  that  case 
William  would  succeed  on  the  death  of  Alan  son  of  Thomas. 
The  Fine  Rolls  and  Inquisitions  for  1293  record  the  death  of  an 
Alan  de  Pennington,  but  as  no  connexion  with  Muncaster  has 
been  observed  it  would  be  hazardous  to  identify  the  deceased 
with  Alan  son  of  Thomas.  William  de  Penyton  was  in  possession 
of  Muncaster  in  1301  when  he  had  a  grant  of  free  warren  in  his 
demesne  lands  there  (Charter  R.  29  Edw.  I.,  No.  94).  Alan  son 
of  Alan  de  Pennington  gave  his  villein,  Adam  son  of  Adam  the 
smith,  and  Alan  son  of  Thomas  de  Pennington  gave  another 
villein,  Alan  son  of  Waldev  of  Walthwayt,  to  the  monks  of 
Furness  (Dep.  Keep.  Rep.  xxxvi.,  App.  i.  178). 

zNativus,  a  neif,  villein  or  unfree  dependent,  a  serf.  On  this 
class,  see  Pollock  and  Maitland,  English  Law,  i.  412-32. 

R 


242  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

bus  catallis  suis.  Ita,  scilicet,  quod  de  cetero  ego,  Alanus 
films  Thome,  vel  heredes  mei  nullum  jus  nativitatis  in 
predicto  Simone  vel  catallis  suis  vel  sequela  sua  vendicare 
poterimus  vel  exigere.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Alano  de  Coupland,  Johanne  de  Hudelston, 
Willelmo  de  Morthing,  Ricardo  de  Cornay,  Waltero  de 
Asmunderlawe,  Ricardo  filio  Alani  de  Kirkeby  Irlit, 
Johanne  clerico,  et  aliis. 


219.    CARTA  ALANI  FILII  ALANI  DE  EODEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Alanus  films  Alani  de  Penyton,  salut- 
em  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  ....  priori  de 
sancta  Bega  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  Simon- 
em  nlium  Ade  le  White,  nativum  meum,  cum  tota  sequela 
sua,  et  omnibus  catallis  suis  ....  sicut  dominus  Alanus 
films  Thome  de  Peniton,  nepos  meus,  ilium  michi  dedit. 
Ita,  scilicet,  quod  nee  ego,  Alanus,  nee  aliquis  heredum 
meorum,  nee  aliquis  nomine  nostro,  nee  dicti  prior  seu 
monachi,  nee  eorum  successores,  aliquid  juris  vel  clamei 
in  servitute  predicti  Simonis  aut  ejus  sequele  vel  in  suis 
catallis  ulterius  vendicare  seu  exigere  poterimus  inperpet- 
uum,  set  ipsum,  cum  tota  sequela  sua  et  cum  omnimod[is] 
catallis  suis,  de  cetero  liberum  et  liberos  facio  et  present! 
script o  confirmo  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  .... 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Hodeleston,  domino 
Radulfo  de  Bethum,  domino  Thoma  de  Cletergh,  militibus, 
Radulfo  de  Landplogh,  Hugone  de  Moresceby,  Willelmo 
de  Poncunby,  Johanne  Nig'  de  Ranglas,  Radulfo  de  Pon- 
conby,  Roberto  clerico,  et  aliis. 


220.    INDENTURA  FACTA  INTER  ABBATEM  MONASTERII 
BEATE  MARIE  EBORACI  ET  RADULPHUM  DE  LAMPLOGH. 

HEC  indentura  inter  abbatem  et  conventum  mdnasterii 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  243 

beate  Marie  Eboraci,  ex  una  parte,  et  Radulphum1 
nlium  et  heredem  domini  Johannis  de  Langplogh,  ex 
altera  parte,  facta,  testatur,  quod  cum  contencio  mota 
fuisset  inter  predictum  abbatem  et  conventum,  querentem, 
per  breve  nove  disseisine,  versus  dictum  Radulphum, 
deforciantem,  de  comuna  pasture  predicti  abbatis  et  con- 
ventus  pertinente  ad  cellam  sancte  Bege  in  Brounrig  in 
villa  de  Moreton2  in  quadam  placea  pasture  quam  predict- 
us  Radulphus  fossato  includebat,  tandem  in  forma  que 
sequitur  amicabiliter  conquievit,  videlicet,  quod  pre- 
•dictus  abbas  et  conventus  pro  se  et  successoribus  suis 
concessit  quod  predicta  placea  pasture,  continens  circa 
quinque  acras  pasture,  sic  de  novo  inclusa,  stet  et  perman- 
eat  inclusa  usque  ad  finem  centum  annorum  a  dat[a] 
presencium  plene  completorum.  Pro  quaquidem  con- 
cessione  predictus  Radulphus  concedit  pro  se  et  heredibus 
suis  reddere  predicto  abbati  et  conventui  et  priori  celle 
sancte  Bege  annuatim  duodecim  denarios,  videlicet, 

220.  *  The  family  of  Lamplugh  occupies  a  prominent  place 
in  the  history  of  Cumberland.  As  soldiers,  knights  of  the  shire, 
sheriffs,  conservators  of  the  peace  and  local  commissioners  the 
name  is  often  found  in  local  records.  Sir  John  de  Landplou, 
father  of  the  donor,  joined  in  the  pursuit  of  Robert  de  Brus  in 
1307  (Bain,  Cal.  Doc.  Scot.,  ii.  512).  His  son  Ralf,  for  his  good 
service  in  Scotland,  was  excused  to  take  the  order  of  knighthood 
against  his  will  in  1342  and  exempted  from  service  on  assizes, 
juries  and  other  appointments  (Cal.  of  Pat.,  1340-43,  p.  358). 
Nicholas  fought  in  the  retinue  of  Sire  de  Harrington  at  Agincourt 
in  1415  (Roll  of  Agincourt,  p.  341).  See  another  charter  of  Ralf 
son  of  John  de  Lamplogh  at  No.  172. 

2  In  the  extent  of  knights'  fees  held  of  John  de  Multon  of 
Egremont  at  his  death  in  1334,  Ralf  de  Lamplogh  is  returned  as 
holding  Brounrigg  and  Moreton  (Inq.  p.  m.  8  Edw.  III.,  ist  No. 
73).  For  the  apportionment  of  the  Multon  estates  between  John's 
sisters,  when  Moreton  fell  to  Thomas  de  Lucy  and  Margaret  de 
Multon  his  wife,  see  Cal.  of  Close,  1337-9,  pp.  367,  488.  In  that 
year,  1338,  the  tenant  was  Ralf  de  Lamplogh.  For  another  char- 
charter  about  Moreton  and  the  identification  of  the  place,  see 
No.  89- 


244  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

inedietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  fest- 
um  sancti  Martini  in  hieme.  Et  ad  solucionem  predicti 
redditus  ad  terminos  antedictos  bene  et  fideliter  faciendam, 
predictus  Radulphus  obligat  se  et  heredes  suos,  terras  et 
tenementa  sua  in  Langplogh  districcioni  predicti  abbatis 
et  conventus,  si  contingat  predict um  redditum  ad  aliquem 
terminum  a  retro  fuisse,  quod  absit.  Et  si  contingat 
averia  predicti  prioris  infra  predictam  clausturam  pro 
defectu  clausture  intrare,  predictus  Radulfus  concedit, 
pro  se  et  heredibus  suis,  quod  averia  predicti  prioris  sine 
imparcamento  rechaciantur.  Preterea  si  contingat  quod 
predictus  Radulfus  vel  heredes  sui  predictam  placeam 
terre  sic  appruatam  tanquam  terram  appruatam  pro 
firma  predicta  usque  in  finem  termini  predicti  tenere 
voluerint,  quod  predictus  Radulfus  et  heredes  sui  fossatum 
circa  placeam  predictam  integre  prosternere,  et  sic  in 
pasturam  predicti  abbatis  et  conventus  et  celle  sancte 
Bege  ut  prius  redigere  teneantur.  Et  extunc  predictus 
Radulfus  et  heredes  sui  a  firma  predicta  omnino  sint 
quieti  et  exonerati,  cessante  appruamento  predicto.  In 
cujus  rei  testimonium  predictus  abbas  et  conventus  mon- 
asterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  sigillum  suum  commune  et 
dictus  Radulfus  sigillum  suum  huic  indenture  alternatim 
apposuerunt.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Bamp- 
ton,  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Hugone  de  Moriceby,  Johanne 
Flemyng,  militibus,  Johanne  de  Kirkebythore,  Thoma  de 
Fresyngton,  Hugone  Flemyng,  et  aliis.  Dat[um]  apud 
Egermount  die  lune  proxime  post  festum  Purificacionis 
beate  Marie,  anno  domini  m°  ccc°  tricesimo  septimo.3 

221.    CARTA  EDWARDI  REGIS  DE  TERRIS  IN  KYRKBY 

BEKOGH. 

EDWARDUS/  Dei  gracia,  rex  Anglie,  dominus  Hybernie, 

8  9  February,   1338. 

221.     1  This  deed  is  recorded  on  Pat.  Roll,  8  Edw.  III.,  pt.  ii. 
m.  7. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  245 

dux  Aquitanie,  omnibus  hominibus  ad  quos  presentes 
littere  pervenerint,  salutem.  Sciatis  quod  cum  dominus 
Edwardus  nuper  rex  Anglie,  pater  noster,  per  literas  suas 
patentes  concessisset  et  licenciam  dedisset  pro  se  et  hered- 
ibus  suis  quantum  in  ipso  fuit  dilectis  nobis  in  Christo 
abbati  et  conventui  beate  Marie  Eboraci  quod  ipsi  centum 
et  quaterviginti  et  quinque  libratas,  decem  solidatas  et 
xij  denaratas2  terre  cum  pertinenciis  per  annum  de  feodo 
suo  proprio  adquirere  possent,  habendas  et  tenendas  sibi 
et  successoribus  suis  inperpetuum,  statute  de  terris  et 
tenementis  ad  manum  mortuam  non  ponendis  edito  non 
obstante,  prout  in  literis  predictis  plenius  continetur. 
Nos,  concessionem  ipsius  patris  nostri  predictam  volentes 
effectui  debito  mancipari  (sic),  concessimus  et  licenciam 
dedimus  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris,  quantum  in  nobis 
est,  -Rogero  de  Sutton  de  Galtres'  clerico,  quod  ipse 
quatuordecim  messuagia,  sex  tofta,  centum  et  viginti  et 
iiijor  acras  terre,  octo  acras  prati,  unam  acram  bosci, 
xl  acras  vasti,  decem  acras  more,  iiijor  acras  marisci, 
et  duodecim  denaratas  redditus  cum  pertinenciis  in 
Kyrkebybeghok,  que  de  prefato  abbate  tenentur,  sicut 
per  inquisicionem  per  dilectum  in  nobis  Willelmum  de 
Clapham,  escaetorem  nostrum  in  comitatibus  Eboraci, 
Northumbrie,  Cumbrie,  et  Westmorlandie  de  mandate 
nostro  inde  captam  et  in  Cancellaria  nostra  retornatam 
est  compertum,  quod  dare  possit  et  assignare  prefatis 
abbati  et  conventui,  habendas  et  tenendas,  sibi  et  success- 
oribus suis  in  valorem  quadraginta  solidorum  in  parte 
satisfaccionis  centum  et  quaterviginti  et  quinque  librat- 
arum,  decem  solidatorum  et  decem  denaratarum  terre 
predict  arum.  Et  eisdem  abbati  et  conventui  quod  ipsi 
messuagia,  tofta,  terram,  pratum,  boscum,  vastum,  mor- 
am,  mariscum  et  redditum  predicta  cum  pertinenciis 
a  prefato  Rogero  recipere  possint  et  tenere  sibi  et  suc- 
cessoribus suis  inperpetuum,  sicut  predictum  est,  tenore 

'2  Should  be  "  x  denaratas  "  (Cal.  of  Pat.  1334-8,  p.  53). 


246  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

presencium  similiter  licenciam  dedimus  specialem,  statuto 
predicto  non  obstante,  nolentes  quod  predictus  Rogerus 
vel  heredes  sui  aut  prefati  abbas  et  conventus  sen  suc- 
cessores  sui,  racione  statuti  predict!,  per  nos  vel  heredes 
nostros  inde  occasionentur  in  aliquo  seu  graventur.  Sal- 
vis  tamen  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  illius  serviciis  inde 
debitis  et  consuetis.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  has  lit  eras 
nostras  fieri  fecimus  patentes.  Teste  meipso  apud  Rokes- 
borgh  quinto  decimo  die  Decembris  anno  regni  nostri 
octavo.3 

222.  INQUISICIO  DE  QWHYTOFTHAVEN  CAPTA  APUD 
EGREMONT. 

INQUIS[ICIO]  capta  apud  Egremont  coram  Willelmo 
de  Clapham,  escaetore  domini  regis  in  comitatibus  Eboraci, 
Northumbrie,  Cumbrie,  et  Westmorlandie,  die  lune  in 
vigilia  sancte  Nicholai  episcopi,  anno  regni  regis  Efdwardi] 
tercii  a  Conquestu  octavo,1  per  sacramentum  Ricardi 
Cleter,  Willelmi  Morring,  Willelmi  Corbet,  Willelmi  de 
Thwaytes,  Rogeri  de  Irton,  Johannis  de  Mydylton, 
Ricardi  de  Corneye,  Willelmi  de  Walton,  Johannis  de 
Way  bury  tthwayt,  Johannis  de  Milneholme,  Ricardi  de 
Byrsted  et  Roberti  de  Rodyngton,  juratorum,  qui  dicunt 
per  sacramentum  suum  quod  non  est  ad  dampnum  nee 
ad  prejudicium  domini  regis  nee  alterius  cujuscumque  si 
idem  rex  concedat  Rogero  de  Sutton  in  Galtres,  clerico, 
quod  ipse  xiiij  messuagia,  sex  tofta,  centum  et  viginti 
quatuor  acras  terre,  octo  acras  prati,  unam  acram  bosci, 
xl  acras  vasti,  x  acras  more,  iiijor  acras  marisci,  et  xij 
denaratas  redditus  cum  pertinenciis  in  Kyrkeby  beghoke 
dare  possit  et  assignare  abbati  et  conventui  beate  Marie 
Eboraci  et  monachis  apud  cellam  suam  de  sancta  Bega 
commorantibus  et  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  habenda  et 

3 15  December,   1334. 
222.     15  December,  1334. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  247 

tenenda  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  inperpetuum  in  partem 
satisfaccionis  ducentarum  librarum,  terrarum,  tenement- 
orum,  et  reddituum,  quas  dictus  E[dwardus]  quondam  rex 
Anglie,  avus  regis  nunc,  per  lit  eras  suas  patentes  eisdem 
abbati  et  conventui  de  feodo  suo  proprio  concessit  ad- 
quirend[o].  Et  dicunt  quod  messuagia,  tofta,  terra, 
pratum,  boscus,  vastum,  mora,  mariscus,  redditus  cum 
pertinenciis  tenentur  de  predictis  abbati  et  conventu  per 
fidelitatem  et  per  servicium  reddendi  eisdem  abbati  et 
conventui  et  eorum  successoribus  ix  solidos  per  annum 
ad  terminos  sancti  Martini  et  Pentecostes  pro  omni  ser- 
vicio,  et  idem  abbas  et  conventus  ea  tenent  de  domino 
rege  in  capite  in  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Item  dicunt 
quod  predicta  messuagia,  tofta,  terra,  pratum,  boscus, 
vastum,  mora,  et  mariscus,  cum  pertinenciis,  valent  per 
annum  in  omnibus  exitibus  ad  verum  valorem  eorundem 
xxvj8  et  viijd  et  non  plus  propter  debilitatem  terre  in 
partibus  illis.  Et  quod  non  sunt  alii  medii  inter  dominum 
regem  et  prefatum  Rogerum  de  omnibus  tenementis 
supradictis,  nisi  predicti  abbas  et  conventus,  ut  predict- 
um  est.  Item  dicunt  quod  non  remanent  eidem  Rogero 
terre  neque  tenementa  ultra  donacionem  et  assignacionem 
predict  as.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  predicti  jurati  huic 
inquisicioni  sigilla  sua  apposuerunt.2 

223.  CARTA  ROGER:  FILII  GILBERT:  DE  VILLA  DE 
HENSINGHAM  CUM  OMNIBUS  PERTINENCIIS  suis. 

ROGERUS  films  Gilberti  omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie 
filiis,  Francis  et  Anglis,  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris, 
salutem  in  Christ o.  Sciatis  me  dedisse  et  presenti  carta 
confirmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  villam  de  Helsingham,  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam, liberam  et  quiet  am  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  ad  me 

2  This  deed  is  also  recorded  on  Inq.  ad  quod  dampnum,  8  Edw. 
III,.  No.  5. 


248  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

pertinent e,  quam  villam  Alanus  tenuit  de  me  in  drengagio 
et  quam  antecessores  predicti  Alani  tenuerunt  in  drengagio 
de  meis  antecessoribus.  Hanc  donacionem  feci  pro  anima 
mea  et  pro  animabus  patris  et  matris  mee  et  pro  salute 
Willelmi  fratris  mei  et  nepotis  mei,  Willelmi,  et  omnium 
parentum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Willelmo  de  Sauilla, 
Will[elmo]  Leleu',  Archillo  de  Kirchaby  et  Willelmo  filio 
ejus,  Henrico  Helsi  fabro,  Gamello  Seldswan,  Nigello 
filio  Walteri,  Eudone  et  Rodberto  filpis]  ejus,  Siwardo 
filio  Ernis,  Jurdano  filio  Herni,  Rodberto  filio  Rogeri, 
Odone  filio  Jurdani,  Bernardo  filio  Rodberti,  Chetello 
filio  Vlf,  Benedicto  nepote  ejus,  Willelmo,  Altheuo  de 
Moresceby,  Simone  Belficz,  et  multis  aliis.1 

223.  CARTA  ROGERI  FILII  [GIIBERTI]  DE  EADEM  CUM 
PERTINENCIIS  IN  BOSCO,  PLANO  ET  IN  PASTURA. 

ROGERUS  filius  Gilberti,1  omnibus  sancte  ecclesie  filiis, 

223.  l  This  deed  is  so  like  that  which  follows  that  they  may 
be  regarded  as  one. 

223.  1  The  deeds  in  this  Register  throw  additional  light  on 
the  early  descendants  of  Chetell  son  of  Eldred,  lord  of  Workington 
(No.  212).  He  had  at  least  four  sons,  William  (No.  212)  who 
apparently  died  without  issue,  Gilbert  of  Lancaster,  father  of  the 
first  William  of  Lancaster  (No.  223),  Robert  (No.  232)  and  Orm 
father  of  Gospatric.  In  addition  to  Workington  and  Morland 
and  Kendal,  Chetell  owned  a  large  tract  to  the  south  and  south 
east  of  Whitehaven.  Chetell  gave  Preston  to  the  monks  of  St. 
Bees  (Nos.  2-9)  :  William  son  of  Gilbert  of  Lancaster  gave 
Suarthow  (No.  11)  :  and  Roger  son  of  Gilbert  gave  Hensingham 
and  Walton  (Nos.  223,  232).  As  Roger's  gift  was  confirmed  by 
Lancaster,  it  is  clear  that  William  was  the  elder  son  of  Gilbert. 
Roger  married  Sigerid,  widow  of  Waldeve  and  mother  of  Alan 
son  of  Waldeve,  lord  of  Allerdale  (Nos.  22,  232),  but  it  is  probable 
that  his  son  Robert  (No.  232)  was  the  issue  of  a  previous  wife. 
Evidence  to  make  Gilbert  the  brother  of  Chetell  and  not  his  son 
is  to  be  viewed  with  suspicion.  Though  Chetell  was  alive  after 
1 1 20  (No.  212),  his  son  Orm  was  old  enough  to  witness  a  charter 
in  1094  (Farrer,  Pipe  Rolls  of  Lanes.,  pp.  289-90).  Roger  son  of 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  249 

Francis  et  Anglis,  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutem 
in  Christo.  Sciatis  me  dedisse  et  presenti  carta  con- 
firmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  villam  de  Hunsingham,  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  bosco  et  piano  et  in  pastura, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam 
ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  quam  villam  Alanus  tenuit  de 
me  in  drengagio.2  Hanc  donacionem  feci  pro  anima  mea 
et  pro  animabus  patris  et  matris  mee  et  Willelmi  fratris 
mei  et  pro  salute  nepotis  mei,  Willelmi,  et  omnium  par- 
entum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Willelmo  de  Essauilla, 
Wille^o  Leleu',  Chetello  filio  Vlf,  Benedicto  nepote  ejus, 
Waltheuo  de  Moresceby,  Archillo  et  Willelmo  filiis  ejus, 
Henrico  Elsi  fabro,  Gamello  Seldswain,  Nigello,  Siwardo 
filio  Ernis,  Rodberto  filio  Rogeri,  Jurdano  filio  Herni,  et 
multis  aliis.3 

224.  CONFIRMACIO  WILLELMI  COMITIS  ALBEMARLIE 
DE  HENSYNGHAM  ET  WALTONA. 

WILLELMUS  comes  Albemarlie,1  omnibus  hominibus 
suis,  Francis  et  Anglis,  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris, 
salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  presenti  mea  carta 
confirmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  mon- 
achis ibidem  Deo  servientibus  villam  de  Helsingham  in 
bosco  et  piano,  cum  terra  de  Waltona  et  omnibus  pertin- 
enciis suis,  in  puram  et  liberam  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 

Gilbert  and  William  of  Lancaster  his  brother  were  contemporaries 
of  Gospatric  son  of  Orm.  To  regard  Gilbert  as  a  brother  of 
Chetell  would  put  him  a  generation  too  early.  The  descent  of 
Chetell's  fees  points  in  the  same  direction.  See  note  on  No.  32. 

2  For  an  account  of  tenure  in  drengage  in  Cumberland,  see  my 
article  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  332-3.     The  tenant  of  Hensingham 
seems  to  be  Alan  son  of  Ketel  (No.  226). 

3  The  witnesses  of  this  deed  should  be  compared  with  those  of 
the  foregoing,  of  which  it  is  almost  a  duplicate. 

224.     l  For  this  earl  of  Albemarle,  see  note  on  No.  17. 


25O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

quam  Rogerus  filius  Gilbert!  prefatis  monachis  ded.it  et 
carta  sua  confirmavit.  Testibus  hiis  magistro  Gilberto 
de  Simplingham,  magistro  Osberto  Arundell,  Cospatricio 
filio  Ormi  et  Ada  filio  ejus,  Thoma  filio  Rad[ulfi],  Leonio 
fratre  ejus,  Stephano  Murdac,  Willelmo  de  Bording, 
Willelmo  filio  Radulphi,  et  mult  is  aliis. 

225.  CARTA  CECILIE  COMITISSE  ALBEMARLIE  DE  HEN- 

SYNGHAM. 

CECILIA  comitissa  Albemarlie,1  omnibus  hominibus  tarn 
presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse 
et  dedisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  terram  de 
Hensingham  et  de  Waltona,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis 
suis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  Deo  et  sancte 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Dea 
servientibus,  liberam  et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno  servicio. 
Ita  plenarie  et  libere  sicut  predicti  monachi  memoratam 
terram  habuerunt  de  illo  quando  dominus  meus,  Will- 
elmus  comes  Albemarlie  fuit  vivus  et  mortuus  et  sicut 
idem  comes  eisdem  monachis  in  carta  sua  confirmavit 
prenominatam  terram.  Hiis  testibus  Galfrido  filio  com- 
itis  Albamarlie,  Willelmo  Corbett,  Willelmo  de  Boyvilla, 
Roberto  de  Bonchil,  Rad[ulfo]  de  Mora,  Johanne  filia 
Pu[n]cun,  Waltero  Camarario,  Petro  de  Alnburc,  Ricardo- 
clerico,  Willelmo  filio  Hugonis,  Gilberto  de  Boyvilla, 
Ricardo  de  Mora,  Willelmo  filio  Walteri,  Ricardo  Buche, 
Henrico  juvene,  et  aliis. 

226.  CARTA  ALANI  FILII  RETELL  DE  DIMIDIA  SKEP[PA] 
FRUMENTI  DE  MOLENDINO  DE  HENSYNGHAM. 

OMNIBUS  has  lit  eras  visuris  vel  audituris,  Alanus  filius 
Retell,1  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  concessisse  et 

225.  *  See  note  on  No.  27  for  Cicely  countess  of  Albemarle. 

226.  l  Alan  son  of  Ketell  is  a  name  that  often  occurs  in  this- 
Register,  but  this  is  the  only  charter  given  by  him  to  St.  Bees. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  251 

dedisse  et  hac  mea  carta  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  [Deo]  servientibus,  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam,  dimidiam  sceppam  frumenti  per- 
cipiendam  apud  Boutonam2  annuatim  et  dimidiam 
sceppam  farine  annuatim  percipiendam  de  molendino  de 
H[e]nsingham  viij  diebus  ante  festum  sancte  Bege.  Ut 
autem  hec  mea  concessio  rata  et  perpetua  permaneat 
sigilli  me[i]  apposicione  earn  corroboravi.  Hiis  testibus 
Waldevo  decano  de  Coupland,  Waltero  persona  de  Mul- 
castre,  Roberto  persona  de  Punzunby,  Thoma  capellano, 
Ada  clerico  de  Thornton,  Johanne  persona  de  Botell',. 
Ada  filio  Retell',  et  multis  aliis. 

227.  CARTA  ALANI  FILII  RICARDI  DE  COUPLAND  DE  j 
SKEP[PA]  FRUMENTI  PERCIPIENDA  APUD  BOTHILTON  ET 
DIMIDIA  SKEPPA  FARINE  DE  MOLENDINO  DE  HENSYNGHAM. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
script um  pervenerit,  Alanus  filius  Ricardi  de  Coupland, L 

He  may  be  identified  with  the  Alan  who  held  Hensingham  of 
Roger  son  of  Gilbert  in  No.  223.  High  Bolton,  a  township  of 
Gosforth,  which  contains  Bolton  Hall,  was  in  possession  of  Alan 
and  his  descendants  :  he  probably  also  held  a  portion  of  Bootle. 
In  1200  he  was  one  of  the  sureties  of  Richard  de  Luci,  his  lord, 
for  his  fine  on  succeeding  to  Coupland  and  Caldbeck  (Rot.  de 
Oblat.,  p.  45),  and  in  1209  he  owed  thirty  marks  and  one  palfrey 
that  inquiry  be  made  whether  the  said  Alan  removed  the 
Serjeants  (servientes)  who  had  charge  of  the  King's  Crown  in 
Coupland  and  in  1210  he  discharged  the  debt  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb., 
i.  405,  407).  His  father  was  known  as  Ketel  de  Cauplandia 
(Illus.  Doc.  No.  xx.),  a  name  adopted  by  his  descendants.  See 
next  charter.  From  several  deeds  in  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster 
(Nos.  546,  585)  it  is  known  that  Alan  son  of  Retell  was  a  con- 
temporary of  Ketel  son  of  Ulf  as  he  appears  in  No.  223.  This. 
Register  shows  that  Alan  had  several  brothers. 

2  High  Bolton  in  the  parish  of  Gosforth. 

227-  x  Following  Alan  son  of  Ketell,  we  have  a  charter  of 
Richard  son  of  Alan  in  No.  431  and  of  Richard  de  Coupland  in 
No.  271.  In  this  and  the  next  charter  we  have  Alan  son  of  Richard 
de  Coupland,  the  succession  covering  the  thirteenth  century. 


252  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  con- 
cessisse,  dedisse,  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse, 
pro  me  et  heredibus  meis,  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboraci 
et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  unam  sceppam  frumenti 
percipiendam  apud  Bothilton  annuatim  et  dimidiam 
sceppam  farine  annuatim  percipiendam  de  molendino  de 
Hensingham  octo  diebus  ante  festum  sancte  Bege2  vel 
post  quandocunque  voluerint  usque  ad  Purificacionem 
beate  Marie  virginis.  Volo  eciam  et  concede  quod  omnes 
heredes  mei  teneantur  in  dicta  solucione  dicti  frumenti 
et  farine  ad  dictum  terminum  eisdem  monachis  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  sicut  in  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
concessum  est  inperpetuum.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  et 
concessio  rata  et  perpetua  permaneant  presentem  paginam 
sigilli  mei  impressione  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Michaele  de  Fourneys,  Johanne  de  Kirkeby,  Radulfo  de 
Bethun,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Ricardo  de  Flamang, 
Thoma  de  Cletergh,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Willelmo 
de  Morthing,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de  Wilton, 
Johanne  de  Corbet,  et  aliis. 

228.  CONCORDIA  DOMINI  ALANI  DE  COUPLAND  DE  IJ 
ESKEPIS  FARINE  PERCIPIENDIS  DE  MOLENDINO  DE  SANTON. 

CUM  dudum  mota  erat  contencio  inter  dominum  abbat- 
em  et  conventum  sancte  Marie  Eboraci  ex  parte  una  et 

2  The  feast  of  St.  Bega  of  Cumberland  is  traditionally  associated 
with  6  September  :  the  Aberdeen  Breviary  places  it  on  31  October  : 
other  martyrologies  give  various  dates  from  6  September  to  17 
December.  The  date  of  the  feast  is  as  difficult  as  the  identity  of 
the  saint.  This  charter,  however,  makes  the  observance  of  the 
traditional  date  at  St.  Bees  very  unlikely.  So  long  a  grace  for 
the  payment  of  rent  from  6  September  to  2  February  is  scarcely 
conceivable  in  the  business  relations  of  the  thirteenth  century. 
If  the  monks  observed  17  December  as  the  day  of  Bega  the  abbess, 
the  term  would  suit  the  requirements  here.  See  No.  104. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  253 

dominum  Alanum  filium  Ricardi  de  Coupland  ex  parte 

altera  super  detencione  trium  eskeppfarum]  f rumen ti,  in 

quibus  idem  Alanus  per  feoffamentum  suum  dictis  abbati 

et  conventui  et  celle  sue  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  tene- 

batur,  tandem  in  hunc  modum  conquievit,  videlicet,  quod 

idem  abbas  pro  se  et  ecclesia  sua  dicta  arreragia  frumenti 

totaliter  relaxavit,  et  idem  Alanus,  pro  se,  heredibus  suis 

et   assignatis   suis,   dedit,   concessit,   et   presenti  script o 

confirmavit  dictis  abbati  et  conventui  et  celle  sue  sancte 

Bege  in  Coupland  duas  eskeppas  farrine  quolibet  anno 

recipiendas  de  multura  sua  in  molendino  de  Santon  in 

festo  apostolorum  Simonis  et  Jude  in  escambio  pro  una 

eskeppa  frumenti  in  qua  idem  Alanus  et  heredes  sui  tene- 

bantur  singulis  annis  dictis  religiosis,  sicut  carta  sua,  que 

penes  dictos  religiosos  remanet,  plenius  testatur,  que  carta, 

quantum  ad  dictum  frumentum,  de  cetero  nullum  habeat 

vigorem  nisi  racione  detencionis  dicte  farrine  quod  absit. 

Si  vero  dicta  farrina  in  dicto  festo,  ut  predictum  est,  in 

parte  vel  in  toto  non  fuerit  soluta,  vult  et  concedit  pro  se 

et   heredibus   suis   et   assignatis  suis   quod  liceat   dictis 

religiosis  ipsum,  heredes  suos,  vel  assignatos  suos  in  dicto 

molendino   distringere   per   qualemcunque   districcionem 

sibi  viderint  expedire,  quousque  de  dicta  farina  ad  plenum 

eis  fuerit  satisfactum.     Et  idem  Alanus,  heredes  sui,  vel 

sui  assignati  dictam  farrinam  una  cum  districcione,  ut 

predictum  est,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  contra 

omnes  homines  warantizabunt,  acquietabunt,  et  defend- 

ent  in  perpetuum.     In  cujus  rei  testimonium  tarn  idem 

abbas,  pro  se  et  ecclesia  sua  sigillum  capituli  sui,  quam 

idem  Alanus,   pro  se  et  heredibus  suis,   sigillum  suum 

presenti    scripto    cirographato    aternatim    apposuerunt. 

Hiis   testibus   dominis   Thoma  de   Culwen,   Johanne   de 

Hodelston,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  militibus,  Ricardo  de 

Cletergh,    Johanne   de    Morthing,    Roberto    de   Gosford, 

Johanne   Corbet,   Johanne   de   Pardishou,   Radulpho   de 

Punzunby,  et  aliis. 


254  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

229.  CONVENCIO  INTER  ROBERTUM,  ABBATEM,  ET 
RlCARDUM  DE  ALNEBURGH  DE  DIVISIS  DE  HENSINGHAM. 

ANNO  ab  Incarnacione  domini  m°  cc.  xxx°  quinto,  con- 
vencio  facta  est  inter  Robertum,  abbatem,1  et  conventum 
sancte  Marie  Eboraci,  ex  una  parte,  et  Ricardum  [de] 
Alneburgh,2  ex  altera.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod  bene  et  quiete 
licebit  dictis  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci, 
edificare,  collere,  frussare  et  appruare3  secundum  volunt- 
atem  suam  absque  omni  clameo  predictorum  Ricardi  vel 
heredum  suorum  infra  siketum  qui  extendit  se  de  divisa 
de  H[e]nsingham  usque  ad  di visas  de  Bigrig  et  Kirkbistal 
ubi  convenerit.  Preterea  licebit  bene  et  quiete  predictis 
Ricardo  et  heredibus  suis  eodem  modo  hec  omnia  facere, 
ut  predictum  est,  absque  omni  clameo  predictorum 
abbatis  et  conventus  infra  predictum  siketum  ex  altera 
parte  secundum  quod  extendit  se  deversus  Godrickeby.4 
Preterea  licebit  duobus  hominibus  dictorum  abbatis  et 
conventus  infra  divisas  predictorum  abbatis  et  conventus 
manentibus  ubique  infra  pasturam  predictorum  Ricardi 
et  heredum  suorum  communam  habere  cum  hominibus 
suis  de  Godrikeby  absque  omni  clameo  dictorum  Ricardi 
et  heredum  suorum  de  propriis  averiis  suis.  Si  vero  dicti 
Ricardus  et  heredes  sui  vel  homines  eorum  ceperint  averia 

229.  l  This  deed  shows  that  Robert,  perhaps  Robert  de  Longo 
Campo,  was  abbot  of  York  in  1235. 

2  Richard  of  Alneburgh  is  found  as  a  pledge  in  the  Pipe  Rolls 
(ed.  Parker,  pp.  60,  66)  of  1236-7.  Thomas  of  Alneburgh  enfeoffed 
Thomas  of  Cleter  of  the  hamlet  of  Goderikeby.  For  the  subse- 
quent descent  of  this  hamlet,  see  Inq.  p.  m.  33  Edw.  I.,  No.  31, 
and  18  Edw.  II.,  No.  42.  For  Richard,  see  note  3  on  No.  102. 

8  Collere,  to  cultivate  :  frussare,  to  break  up  :  appruare,  to 
improve,  to  use  for  profit. 

4  The  geographical  situation  can  be  traced  on  the  Ordnance 
Sheet  Ixvij.  S.E.  Bigrigg  is  now  a  considerable  village  on  the 
road  between  Hensingham  and  Egremont.  Godrickeby,  Guderby 
in  No.  370,  now  Gutterby,  lies  between  Bigrigg  and  Cleator  :  but 
Kirkbistal,  Kyrkebyskales  in  No.  370,  has  not  been  identified. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  255 

dictorum  hominum  infra  bladum  vel  pratum  suum  secund- 
um  racionabilem  parchum  custodientur  et  secundum 
visum  vicinorum  liberabuntur.  Cum  autem  vestura6 
removeatur  utentur  duo  predict!  homines  ubique  dicta 
pastura,  ut  predictum  est.  Item  vero  licebit  dictis 
Ricardo  et  heredibus  suis  et  hominibus  sui[s]  de  Godrikeby 
facere  ubique  infra  divisas  predictorum  abbatis  et  con- 
ventus,  secundum  quod  predictum  est,  eodem  vero  modo 
,quo  dictum  est  liberabunt  averia  dictorum  Ricardi  et 
heredum  suorum  et  hominum  suorum  si  infra  bladum 
et  pratum  predictorum  abbatis  et  conventus  capta  fuerint. 
Ad  istam  autem  convencionem  fideliter  observandam 
uterque  illorum  script o  alterius  signum  suum  apposuit. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Lamberto  de  Multon,  domino 
Patricio  de  Wirkenton,  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
domino  Roberto  de  Wiltona,  domino  Ricardo  de  Coup- 
land,  domino  Ricardo  de  Cletergh,  domino  Johanne  de 
Langliveregh,  Edwardo  de  Cornaye,  Ada  de  Haverington, 
.et  aliis. 

230.  CONVENCIO  INTER  ROBERTUM  DE  BRAINTHWAIT 
ET  JOHANNEM  PRIOREM  DE  MORA  DE  HENSINGHAM. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod,  anno 
regni  regis  Henrici  filii  Johannis  regis  tricesimo  octavo, 
die  lune  proxima  post  decollacionem  sancti  Johannis 
Baptiste,1  ita  convenit  inter  Robertum  de  Brainthwait,2 

5  Vestura,  corn  or  crop. 

230.     J3i  August,   1254. 

2  In  this  Register  (Nos.  29,  31,  490)  we  have  Gerard  de  Bran- 
thayte  as  a  witness  to  charters  of  Richard  de  Luci  and  Alice  de 
Romili  daughter  of  William  fitz  Duncan  who  fix  his  date  about 
the  beginning  of  the  thirteenth  century.  In  1200  he  was  one 
of  the  pledges  of  Richard  de  Luci  when  he  succeeded  to  the  lord- 
ship of  Coupland  and  Caldbeck  (Rot.  de  Oblat.,  pp.  45-6)  where 
his  name  has  been  misprinted  as  Gerard  de  Ratithwaut.  Robert 
de  Branthwayt  held  the  township  of .  Branthwayt  in  the  parish 
of  Dean  in  1230  when  his  homage  and  service  were  assigned  to 


256  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA. 

petentem,  ex  una  parte,  et  Johannem  de  Lestingham,3 
priorem  sancte  Bege,  ex  alt  era  [parte],  super  quodam 
brevi  nove  dissaysine  quod  dictus  R[obertus]  tulit  super 
predictum  priorem  et  homines  suos  contentos  in  brevi 
coram  domino  Johanne  de  Lexinton,  justiciario  domini 
regis  ad  illam  assisam  capiendam,  scilicet,  quod  dictus 
R[obertus]  venit  coram  dicto  J[ohanne]  et  retraxit  se  de 
brevi  suo.  Ita,  scilicet,  dictus  prior  seu  successores  sui 
et  homines  eorum  fodeant  turbas  una  cum  hominibus 
dicti  R[oberti]  super  moram  de  Hensingham  extra  quod- 
dam  vetus  fossatum  versus  aquilonem,  quod  incipit  a 
Sorachegil  et  se  extendit  ex  transverse  usque  ad  Witemire4 
versus  orientem,  et  quod  dictus  prior  seu  sui  successores 
vel  eorum  homines  infra  dictum  fossatum  versus  partes 
australes  de  Hensingham  decetero  nullas  turbas  fodeant, 
salva  communi  pastura  herbagii  priori  sancte  Bege,  qui 
pro  tempore  fuerit,  et  suis  hominibus  et  dicto  R[oberto] 
et  suis  hominibus,  sicut  esse  consuevit.  Ad  istam  con- 
vencionem  inter  dictum  priorem  et  predictum  R[obertum] 
in  omnibus  fideliter  observandam,  predictus  Rfobertus] 
presenti  script  o  cirographato  sigillum  suum  apposuit. 
Testibus  hiis  dominis  Johanne  de  Mora,  Johanne  de  Lang- 
liver,  Roberto  de  Lamplow,  militibus,  Michaele  de  Hav- 
erington,  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby, 
Benedict o  de  Rotington,  et  aliis. 

Alan  de  Multon  and  Alice  his  wife  as  the  purparty  of  Alice  in  the 
great  division  of  the  Lucy  estates  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  15  Hen.  III., 
No.  12).  According  to  the  testification  of  No.  333,  Robert  de 
Branthwait  had  a  son  also  called  Robert,  to  whom  Adam  de 
Moresby  conveyed  half  of  the  manor  of  Hensingham  in  1276  with 
reversion  to  Adam  and  his  heirs  in  tail  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  4 
Edw.  I.,  No.  4).  In  1338  Thomas  de  Braunthwayt  was  a  free 
tenant  in  the  adjoining  manor  of  Distyngton  (Cal.  of  Close,  1337-9, 
p.  486). 

8  Only  mentioned  here  in  the  Register  (31  Aug.  1254),  but  see 
note  on  No.  140. 

4  For  Sorachegil,  see  note  3  on  No.  102,  and  for  Witemire,  see 
note  3  on  No.  12. 


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231.  CONVENCIO  INTER  DOMINUM  JOHANNEM  DE 
LANGELIVERE  ET  WILLELMUM  PRIOREM  DE  MORA  DE 
HENSINGHAM. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod,  anno 
regni  regis  Henrici  filii  Johannis  regis  xl,  die  veneris 
proxima  post  Ascensionem  domini,1  ita  convenit  inter 
dominum  Johannem  de  Langliver,2  petentem,  ex  una 
parte,  et  Willelmum  de  Rothewel,3  priorem  sancte  Bege, 
ex  altera  [parte],  super  quodam  brevi  nove  dissaisine 
quod  dictus  J[ohannes]  tulit  super  predictum  priorem  et 
homines  suos  contentos  in  brevi  coram  domino  Rogero 
Thurkeby,  domino  Petro  de  Percy,  domini  Regis  justic- 
iariis  itinerantibus  ad  assisas  Karlioli,  scilicet,  quod 
dictus  J[ohannes]  venit  coram  dictis  R[ogero]  et  P[etro]  et 
retraxit  se  de  brevi  suo.  Ita,  scilicet,  quod  dictus  prior 
seu  successores  sui  et  homines  eorum  fodeant  turbas  una 
cum  hominibus  dicti  J[ohannis]  super  moram  de  H[e]n- 
singham  extra  quoddam  vetus  fossatum  versus  aquilonem 
quod  incipit  in  Scraithegil4  et  se  extendit  ex  transverso 
usque  ad  Whitemire  versus  orientem,  et  quod  dictus 
prior  seu  sui  successores  vel  eorum  homines  infra  dictum 
fossatum  versus  partes  australes  de  H[e]nsingham  de- 
cetero  nullas  turbas  fodeant,  salva  communi  pastura 

231,     x  26  May,  1256. 

3  For  two  of  his  charters,  see  Nos.  281-2.  On  the  same  date 
at  Carlisle,  when  a  division  was  made  of  the  forests  of  Airedale, 
Cokermue  and  Kaldebek  between  Alan  de  Multon  and  William 
de  Fortibus,  earl  of  Albemarle,  sufficient  common  of  pasture  and 
reasonable  estovers  were  reserved  to  John  Lanlaverd,  one  of 
Alan's  tenants  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.  40  Hen.  III.,  No.  69).  The 
territorial  name  is  now  represented  by  Langley,  a  considerable 
estate  in  the  parish  of  Corney,  belonging  to  the  family  of  Lord 
Muncaster  since  the  twelfth  century. 

3  The  name  of  this  prior  occurs  only  here  in  the  Register  (26 
May,  1256),  but  see  Nos.  266  and  425. 

4  Scraithegil  must  be  identical  with  Sorachegil  in  the  previous 
charter. 

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258  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

herbagii  priori  sancte  Bege,  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit,  et 
suis  hominibus  et  dicto  J[ohanni]  et  suis  hominibus  sicut 
esse  consuevit.  Ad  istam  convencionem  inter  dictum 
priorem  et  predictum  J[ohannem]  in  omnibus  fideliter 
observandam  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis,  predictus  J[ohannes] 
presenti  script o  cirographato  sigillum  suum  apposuit. 
Testibus  hiis  domino  Elya,  ballivo  de  Egremond,  domino 
Johanne  de  Mora,  Roberto  de  Brainthwait,  Michaele  de 
Haverington,  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby, 
Benedicto  de  Rotington,  et  multis  aliis. 

232.    CARTA  ROGERI  FILII  GILBERT:  DE  WALTONA. 

ROGERUS  films  Gilberti,  omnibus  suis  et  amicis  tam 
presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutem  in  Christ  o.  Sciatis 
me,  consilio  et  assensu  uxoris  mee,  Sigeride,1  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee,  patris  matrisque  mee,  fratrum 
filiorumque  meorum,  et  omnium  parentum,  dedisse  et 
presenti  carta  confirmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in 
pur  am  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  terram  de  Walton2  que 
fuit  in  manu  mea  cum  omnibus  que  ad  eandem  pertinent 
terram,  liberam  et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno  servicio 
preter  servicium  quod  ad  jus  domini  de  Egremont  pertinet. 
Testibus  hiis  Roberto  fratre  meo,  Uctredo  sacerdote, 
Roberto  filio  meo,  Johanne  filio  Punzun,  Edwardo  filio 
Ulfi,  Urdano  vicecomite,  Alano  preposito  de  Kirtheby, 
Orm  filio  Dolfun,  Hamone,  Gerardo,  Waltero  nepote 
Willelmi  Flamingi,  Rogero  sacerdote,  et  multis  aliis. 

232.  l  For  Roger  son  of  Gilbert  and  Sigerid  his  wife,  widow 
of  Waldeve  lord  of  Allerdale,  see  notes  on  Nos.  22  and  223. 
Roger  had  a  brother  and  a  son  named  Robert. 

2  A  portion  of  the  township  of  St.  Bees  overlooking  the  valley 
of  the  Pow,  now  represented  by  two  farms  called  High  Walton 
and  Low  Walton,  the  former  of  which  is  nearer  the  village  of 
St.  Bees. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         259 

233.  CARTA  WILLELMI  DE  LANCASTRE  DE  SWARTOFT 
ET  DE  HENSINGHAM  ET  WALTONA. 

WILLELMUS  filius  Willelmi  de  Lancastre,1  omnibus 
hominibus  suis,  Francis  et  Anglis,  tarn  futuris  quam  pre- 
sentibus,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  present! 
carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  terrain  de 
Swartof,  in  puram  et  perpetuum  elemosinam,  quam  pater 
meus2  ei[s]dem  monachis  dedit,  et  villam  de  Helsingharn 
cum  terra  de  Walton,  in  bosco  et  piano  et  pascuis  et 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam, liberam  et  quiet  am  ab  omni  terreno  servicio, 
quam  Rogerus  filius  Gilberti  prefatis  monachis  dedit  et 
carta  sua  confirmavit.  Hanc  donacionem  feci  pro  salute 
anime  me  et  pro  salute  uxoris  mee  anime,  et  heredum 
meorum,  et  pro  animabus  patris  et  matris  mee  et  om- 
nium parentum  meorum.  Testibus  hiis  Benedict o  filio 
Gamelli,  Girinbaldo,  Willelmo  filio  Rogeri  de  Kircheby, 
Rodberto  de  Cantuln,  Simone  filio  Helward,  Willelmo 
Brutwald,  Ricardo  filio  Alardi,  Roberto  de  Turs,  Alano 
filio  Benedicti,  Rainero  proposito,  Odone  fabro,  Uctredo 
de  Hirscalis,  et  multis  aliis. 

234.  CARTA  B[ENEDICTI]  ABB  AXIS  DE  j  ACRA  TERRE 

CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  TERRITORIO   DE  WALTONA. 

233.  l  For  the  ancestry  of  this  baron  of  Kendal,  see  note  on 
No.  223-  It  is  supposed  that  he  was  the  William  son  of  William 
who  owed  thirty  marks  in  1176  that  he  might  have  a  duel  with 
Gospatric  son  of  Orm  (Pipe  Rolls  of  Westmor.,  ed.  Hinde,  p.  162). 
Robert  de  Monte  states  that  he  died  in  1184  and  Benedictus 
Abbas  states  that  King  Richard  gave  his  daughter  (Helewise) 
to  Gilbert  son  of  Roger  son  of  Reinfrey  in  1189. 

2  For  William  Meschin's  confirmation  of  the  grant  of  Swartahof 
by  William  son  of  Gilbert  de  Lancastre,  father  of  the  above 
grantor,  see  No.  11,  and  for  the  identification  of  the  place,  see 
note  3  on  No.  3. 


260  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

OMNIBUS1  ....  Bfenedictus],  permissione  divina  ab- 
bas2 monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci 
conventus,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  nos  dedisse  ....  dilecto  clerico  nos- 
tro, magistro  Willelmo  de  Walton,  heredibus  et  assignatis 
suis,  unam  acram  terre,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  in  territorio 
de  Walton,  illam,  videlicet,  que  jacet  juxta  manerium 
predicti  magistri  Willelmi  ex  parte  occidentali,  quam 
habuimus  de  dono  cujusdam  antecessoris  sui,  et  quam 
Ricardus  dictus  Dikelin  tenuit  de  priore  nostro  de  sancta 
Bega.  Tenendam  ....  absque  omni  terreno  servicio 
....  preter  redditum  sex  denariorum  tantum  quos 
idem  Willelmus,  heredes  vel  assignati  sui  solvent  dicto 
priori  nostro  de  sancta  Bega  et  successoribus  suis  singulis 
annis  inperpetuum  in  festo  Pentecostes  apud  sanctam 
Begam  pro  dicta  acra  terre.  Salva  nobis  et  dicto  priori 
nostro,  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit,  communa  pasture  in  dicta 
acra  terre  in  tempore  aperto,  dumtamen  dicta  acra  non 
fuerit  inclusa  sepe  vel  fossato,  et  eciam  aliis  aisiamentis 
que  alibi  in  territorio  de  Walton  habere  consuevimus. 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de 
Louthir,  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Johanne  le  Flemyng,  militibus, 
Simone  de  Scecele,3  Willelmo  de  Rotington,  Roberto  de 
Harrais,  Nigello  de  Ayringthwait,  Henrico  de  Stainburn, 
Henrico  de  W'alton,  clerico,  et  multis  aliis. 

235.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  TERRA  IN  WALTON. 

CHRISTI  fidelibus  pateat  universis  quod  nos,  B[ene- 
dictus],  permissione  divina,  abbas  monasterii  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  ex  consensu  conventus  nostri,  ad  dandam  et 
et  finaleter  nomine  nostro  et  auctoritate  nostra  liberandam 

234.  l  The  compiler  of  the  Register  noted  in  the  margin  that 
this  deed  non  habetur  sub  cera  quia  corrumpitur. 

2  Benedict   de   Malton,   abbot  of   York,    1296-1303.     Compare 
the  date  of  next  charter. 

3  Meant  for  Seascale. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  26l 

plenam  et  perpetuam  seisinam  Willelmo  de  Walton, 
clerico,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis,  necnon  cuicunque 
attornato  suo  ad  hoc  specialiter  deputato,  de  una  acra 
terre  in  territorio  de  Walton,  que  jacet  juxta  manerium 
dicti  Willelmi  et  quam  habuimus  de  dono  cujusdam 
antecessoris  ejusdem  Willelmi,  dilectos  nobis  in  Christ o 
fratres  Hugonem  de  Cumpton,1  priorem  nostrum  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland,  et  Willelmum  de  Belton  commonachos 
nostros  procurators  et  attornatos  nostros,  conjunctim 
et  divisim  facimus  speciales.  Ratum  ....  habentes 
....  Salvo  nobis  et  locum  nostrum  apud  sanctam 
Begam  tenentibus  seu  tenenti,  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint 
vel  fuerit,  annuo  redditu  sex  denariorum  prout  in  cart  a 
nostra  dicto  Willelmo  de  predicta  acra  terre  concessa 
plenius  continetur.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Datum  Eborfaci] 
in  crastino  sancti  Edmundi  regis  et  martiris,  anno  domini 
m°  ccc°  primo.2 

236,    OBLIGACIO  WILLELMI  DE  WALTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Willelmus  de  Walton,  clericus,  salut- 
em  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me  teneri 
et  obligatum  esse  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  successoribus  suis  in  annuo  redditu  sex 
denariorum  pro  quadam  acra  terre  juxta  domum  meam 
in  Walton  jacente,  quam  dicti  abbas  et  conventus  sui 
gracia  michi,  heredibus  et  assignatis  meis  pro  dicto  red- 
ditu perpetuo  concesserunt,  solvendo  dictis  abbati  et  con- 
ventui vel  locum  ipsorum  apud  sanctam  Begam  qualiter- 
cunque  tenentibus  seu  tenenti  in  festo  Pentecostes  in- 
perpetuum.  Ad  quamquidem  solucionem  sex  denariorum 
singulis  annis  perpetuo  faciendam  absque  omni  alio 
terreno  servicio,  consuetudine,  exaccione,  seu  demanda, 

235.     1  This  prior,  under  the  name  of  Hugh,  occurs  as  a  witness 
to  No.  317. 
2  21  November,  1301. 


262  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

oblige  me,  heredes,  et  assignatos  meos  in  solid[is],  necnon 
bona  mea,  heredum  et  assignatorum  meorum  universa 
per  quemcunque  judicem  ecclesiasticum  seu  civilem  dis- 
tringenda  donee  de  predictis  sex  denariis  pro  omnibus 
serviciis  plenarie  fuerit  satisfactum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  Johanne  le  Flemyng,  Ricardo  de  Cleter, 
militibus,  Willelmo  de  Rotington,  Johanne  de  Perdishou, 
Roberto  de  Harrais,  Nigello  de  Ayringthwait,  Henrico  de 
Stainburn,  et  aliis. 

237.  CARTA  HUGONIS  FLEMYNG  DE  MEDIETATE  MAN- 
ERII  DE  WALTONA,  CUM  PRAXIS,  EDIFICIIS,  BOSCIS,  TURBAR- 
IIS  ET  CUM  OMNIBUS  PERTINENCIIS. 

SCIANT  .  .  .  quod  nos,  Hugo  Flemyng,  et  Cristiana,  uxor 
mea,  dedimus  .  .  .  domino  Johanni,  rectori  ecclesie  de 
Landeplogh1  et  domino  Ricardo  de  Whithaven,  capellano, 
medietatem  manerii  de  Walton,  cum  omnibus  pratis, 
edificiis,  boscis,  turbariis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis 
suis  in  villa  de  Kirkebibecok.  Tenendam  .  .  .  .  Et  nos 
vero,  predict!  Hugo  et  Christiana,  ....  warantizabimus 
et  inperpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis 
testibus  Christofero  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  de  Cleter, 
Roberto  de  Bampton,  Nicholao  de  Irton,  Johanne  de 
Distincton,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  die  veneris  in 
septimana  Pasche,  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii  post 
Conquest um  tricesimo  tercio.2 

237.  l  The  advowson  of  this  church  was  an  appurtenant  of 
the  manor  and  always  remained  rectorial.  One  of  the  earliest 
rectors  that  has  been  met  with  is  Randulf  who  was  a  member 
of  the  chapter  of  Coupland  at  the  beginning  of  the  thirteenth 
century  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  471).  In  1260  Robert  de  Ulflayt 
received  a  licence  to  hold  the  church  of  Kirkbampton  together 
with  the  rectory  of  Lamplugh  (Cal.  of  Papal  Lett.,  i.  373).  In 
addition  to  John  here  mentioned  in  1359  and  1365,  there  is  a 
Robert  who  appears  as  a  witness  in  No.  383. 

2  26  April,   1359. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         263 

238.  CARTA  JOHANNIS,  RECTORIS  DE  LAMPLOU  DE 
MEDIETATE  MANERII  DE  WALTONA  CUM  PRAXIS,  EDIFICIIS, 
BOSCIS,  PASTURIS,  TURBARIIS,  ETC. 

OMNIBUS  hoc  scriptum  cirographatum  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Johannes,  rector  ecclesie  de  Landplogh,  et 
Ricardus  de  Whithaven,  capellanus,  salutem  in  domino 
sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  nos  dedisse  ....  Hugoni 
Flemyng  et  Christiane,  uxori  ejus,  medietatem  manerii 
de  Walton,  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  in  villa  de 
Kirkebibeghok.  Tenendam  ....  predictis  Hugoni  [et] 
Christiane  ad  totam  vitam  utriusque  eorum  .  .  .  .  Et 
post  decessum  predictorum  Hugonis  et  Christiane  volumus 
et  concedimus  quod  dicta  medietas  manerii  predicti  cum 
omnibus  suis  pertinenciis,  ut  predictum  est,  remaneat 
Gilberto  Payntour  et  Matilde  filie  predictorum  Hugonis 
et  Christiane,  uxori  ejus,  et  heredibus  inter  ipsos  Gilbert- 
urn  et  Matildam  legitime  procreatis.  Tenenda  .... 
Et  si  contingat  quod  predicti  Gilbertus  et  Matilda  sine 
herede  inter  ipsos  legitime  procreate  obierunt,  tune  pre- 
dicta  medietas  manerii  de  Walton,  cum  omnibus  suis 
pertinenciis,  veris  et  rectis  heredibus  predictorum  Hugonis 
et  Christiane  integre  revertatur.  Et  nos  vero  predicti 
Johannes  et  Ricardus  dictam  medietatem  manerii  de 
Walton  ....  inperpetuum  defendemus  .  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  Christofero  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  de 
Cleter,  Roberto  de  Bampton,  Ricardo  de  Coupland, 
Nicholao  de  Irton,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  die 
dominica  proxim[a]  ante  festum  Nativitatis  beate  Marie 
anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii  post  Conquestum  tricesimo 


239.    INDENTURA  DE  MEDIETA[TE]  MANERII  DE  WAL- 
TON CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

HEC  indentura  facta  apud  sanctam   Begam  in  festo 
238.     17  September,   1365. 


264     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

sancti  Mathei  apostoli,  anno  domini  millesimo  ccc°  sep- 
tuagesimo,1  inter  dominum  Thomam  de  Brignal,2 
priorem  celle  sancte  Bege,  ex  parte  una,  [ac]  Hugonem 
Flemyng,  Willelmum  Wright,  et  Willelmum  del  Browe- 
house,  ex  alt  era,  testatur  quod  predictus  Thomas, 
prior,  concessit  et  ad  firmam  dimisit  predictis  Willelmo 
medietatem  manerii  de  Walton  cum  pertinenciis  in 
Kirkebybechok.  Tenendam  et  habendam  cum  pratis, 
edificiis,  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis  suis  usque  ad 
terminum  viginti  annorum  a  data  confeccionis  presencium 
plenarie  completorum,  reservando  tamen  predicto  priori 
et  successoribus  suis,  durante  termino  predicto,  totam 
turbariam  vel  Whitmosse,  et  predict!  Willelmus  et  Will- 
elmus  volunt  et  concedunt  quod  si  predictus  Hugo  velit 
commorari  cum  predicto  Willelmo  Wright  quod  ipse 
teneatur  sustinere  eum  in  victu  et  in  potu  eodem  modo 
quo  ipse  et  uxor  ejus  vitam  ducunt  in  cibarpis],  durante 
termino  predicto  viginti  annorum,  et  quolibet  anno  sibi 
dare  unam  tunicam  cum  capucio8  et  ij  paria  caligarum 
et  sotularium,4  durante  dicto  termino.  Et  si  contigerit 
quod  predictus  Hugo  non  velit  cum  predicto  Willelmo 
Wright  manere  nee  vitam  ducere  quod  extunc  predictus 
Willelmus  teneatur  solvere  predicto  Hugoni,  durante 
termino  predicto,  per  annum  viginti  unum  solidos  et  octo 
denarios  argent i  pro  omni  servicio.  Et  eciam  predictus 
Willelmus  Wright  vult  et  concedit  quod  ipse  teneatur 
solvere  fratribus  hospitalis  sancti  Johannis,  Jerusalem,8 
quolibet  anno  per  tempus  predictum,  sex  denarios  argenti 
et  predicto  domino  Thome,  priori,  et  successoribus  suis 

239.     I2i  September,  1370. 

2  Only  mentioned  here  and  in  the  next  charter. 

3  A  tunic  with  a  hood. 

4  Two  pairs  of  boots  and  shoes. 

6  The  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  had  various  small 
parcels  of  land  in  Cumberland,  many  of  which  are  mentioned  in 
this  Register,  for  which  see  the  index. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  265 

-quolibet  anno  duos  solidos  argenti  de  libera  firma  debitos 
.celle  sancte  Bege  de  dicta  medietate  manerii  de  Walton 
«t  cetera  servicia  debita  dicte  celle,  durante  dicto  termino 
ut  supra.  Et  dictus  dominus  Thomas,  prior,  remittit  et 
relaxat  predicto  Hugoni,  durante  termino  predicto,  duos 
solidos  et  sex  denarios  argenti  annuatim  debitos  dicte 
celle  de  libera  firma  dicte  medietatis  manerii  de  Walton. 
Et  predictus  Willelmus  Wright  vult  et  concedit  quod  ipse 
teneatur  invenire  dicto  Hugoni  herbam  et  fenum  pro  uno 
equo  faciendo  opera  dicti  Willelmi,  sicut  proprius  equus 
quolibet  anno,  durante  termino  predicto,  dumtamen  pre- 
dictus Hugo  maneat  et  vitam  ducat  cum  predicto  Will- 
elmo  in  forma  predicta.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Ricardo  Flemyng,  milite,  Willelmo  de  Cleter, 
Willelmo  Boyvill,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Nicholao  de  Seven- 
hous,  Ricardo  de  Braystans,  clerico,  Roberto  de  Punsunby, 
et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  et  anno  supra- 
diet  is. 

240.  CARTA  HUGONIS  DE  FLEMMYNG  DE  MEDIETATE 
MANERII  DE  WALTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Hugo  Flemyng,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  et  ad  firmam  dimisisse 
domino  Thome  de  Brignall,  priori  celle  sancte  Bege,  et 
successoribus  suis  medietatem  manerii  de  Walton  cum 
pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Kirkebibechok.  Tenend[am]  .  .  . 
ad  terminum  viginti  annorum  a  data  confeccionis  pre- 
sencium  plenarie  completorum.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
michi  unam  rosam  ad  festum  Nativitatis  sancti  Johannis 
Baptiste,  si  petatur,  pro  omni  servicio,  et  faciendo  et 
tenendo  Willelmo  Wright  et  Willelmo  de  Brewhouse 
certain  convencionem,  durante  termino  predicto,  veluti  in 
quadam  indentura  inter  predictos  dominum  Thomam, 
priorem,  et  me  et  Willelmum  Wright  et  Willelmum  del 
Brewhous  plenius  continetur.  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Ricardo  Fleming,  milite,  Willelmo  de 


266  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Cleter,  Willelmo  Boyville,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Johanne  de 
Frisington,  Nicholao  de  Sevenhouse,  Ricardo  de  Bray- 
stanes,  clerico,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die 
lime  proxima  post  festum  Purificacionis1  beate  Marie,, 
anno  domini  millesimo  ccc°  lxx°. 

241.  QUIETA    CLAMACIO    EMMOTE    FILIE    HUGONIS 
FLEMYNG  DE  MEDIETATE  MANERII  DE  WALTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Emmota,  filia  Hugonis  Flemyng, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse 
....  Willelmo  Wright  de  Hensingham  et  Willelmo  del 
Brewhous  de  sancta  Bega  totum  jus  et  clameum  que 
habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in  medietate  man- 
erii  de  Walton  cum  pertinenciis  in  Kirkebibechok.  Ita 
quod  nee  ego,  dicta  Emmota,  nee  heredes  mei,  vel  aliquis 
alius  nomine  nostro  in  predicta  medietate  manerii  cum 
pertinenciis  de  cetero  aliquid  juris  vel  clamei  exigere  vel 
vendicare  poterimus  in  futurum,  set  ab  omni  accione 
simus  preclusi  per  presentes.  Et  ego  vero  dicta  Emmota  et 
heredes  mei  ....  warantizabimus  et  inperpetuum  de- 
fendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Roberto  de  Bampton,  Ricardo  Flemyng,  militibus,  Alano 
de  Coupland,  Willelmo  Boyvill,  Nicholao  de  Sevenhous, 
et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  in  crastino  sancti  Benedict! 
in  quatragesima,  anno  domini  millesimo  ccc  septuagesimo.1 

242,  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EISDEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Emma  filia  Hugonis  Flemyng, 
spontanea  et  bona  voluntate  in  legali  viduitate  mea,  dedi, 
....  Willelmo  Wright  et  Willelmo  del  Brwhouse  de 
sancta  Bega  medietatem  manerii  de  Walton  in  Kirkebi- 
bechok cum  pertinenciis.  Habend[am]  .  .  .  Et  ego  vero 
predicta  Emma  et  heredes  mei  ....  warantizabimus  et 

240.  J3  February,   1371. 

241.  1  22  March,   1371. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  267 

inperpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  test- 
ibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Bampton,  Ricardo  Flemyng, 
militibus,  Nicholao  de  Stanelaw,  Willelmo  Boyvill,  Jo- 
hanne  de  Frisington,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  in 
crastino  sancti  Benedict!  in  quatragesima,  anno  domini 
m°  ccc°  septuagesimo.1 

243,  CARTA  EMMOTE   FILIE  HUGONIS  FLEMYNG  DE 
MEDIETATE  MANERII  DE  WALTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Emma  filia  Hugonis  Flemyng,  salut- 
em  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  remisisse  ....  mag- 
istro  Ade  de  Thornton,  rectori  ecclesie  de  Patrik  brunton,1 
Willelmo  del  Hyndeux,  Rogero  de  Wawton,  et  Thome 
Lilling,  capellanis,  totum  jus  et  clameum  que  habui,  habeo, 
vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in  medietate  manerii  de 
Walton,  cum  pertinenciis,  in  Kirkebibechok.  Ita  quod 
nee  ego,  dicta  Emma,  nee  heredes  mei  .  .  .  .  ab  omni 
accione  simus  preclusi  per  present es.  Et  ego  vero,  dicta 
Emma,  et  heredes  mei  predictam  medietatem  manerii 
....  contra  omnes  gentes  warantizabimus  et  inper- 
petuum defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Roberto  de  Bampton,  milit- 
ibus, Willelmo  de  Cleter,  Willelmo  Boyvill,  Nicholao  de 
Sevenhowes,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  quarto  die 
mensis  Marcii,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  a  Con- 
questu  primo.2 

244.  CARTA  WILLELMI  WRIGHT  DE  MEDIETATE  MAN- 
ERII DE  WALTONA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Willelmus  Wright  et  Will- 
elmus  del  Browhous  de  sancta  Bega  dedimus  ....  mag- 
istro  Ade  de  Thornton,  rectori  ecclesie  de  Patrikbrumpton, 

242.  l  22  March,  1371. 

243.  l  Patrick  Brompton,  near  Bedale,  in  the  diocese  of  Ripon, 
2  4  March,   1378. 


268  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Willelmo  del  Hyndeux,  Rogero  de  Wawton,  et  Thome 
Lillyng,  capellanis,  medietatem  manerii  de  Walton  in 
Kirkbybeghok  cum  pertinenciis.  Habendam  .  .  .  .  Et 
nos  vero,  predict!  ....  contra  omnes  gentes  warantiz- 
abimus  et  inperpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilbert o  de  Culwen,  Roberto  de 
Bampton,  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Cleter,  Willelmo  Boyvill, 
Thoma  Dykinson  de  Hensingham,  Thoma  de  Godrigby, 
et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  tercio  die  mensis  Marcii, 
anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  a  Conquestu  primo.1 

245.  LlTERA  ATTORNATORIA  DE  SEISINA  IN  MANERIO 
DE  WALTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  magister  Adam  de  Thornton,  rector 
ecclesie  de  Patrikbrunton,  Rogerus  de  Wawton  et  Thomas 
Lilling,  capellani,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  .... 
nos  ordinasse  et  in  loco  nostro  constituisse  dilectum  nobis 
in  Christo  Willelmum  de  Hindeux,  capellanum,  attorn- 
atum  nostrum,  ad  recipiendam  nomine  nostro  seisinam  in 
medietate  manerii  de  Walton  in  Kirkebyboghok  cum 
pertinenciis,  ratum  et  gratum  habituri  .  .  .  .  In  cujus 
rei  ....  Datum  apud  Rich[mondiam]  ultimo  die  Feb- 
ruarii,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  a  Conquestu 
primo.1 

246.  CARTA  MAGISTRI  ADE  DE  THORNTON  DE  MEDIET- 
ATE MANERII  DE  WALTONA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  magister  Adam  de  Thornton,  rector 
ecclesie  de  Patrikebrunton,  Willelmus  de  Hindeux,  Rog- 
-erus  de  Wawton  et  Thomas  Lilling,  capellani,  salutem  in 
domino.  Noverit  ....  nos  concessisse  et  ad  nrmam 

244.  l  3  March,  1378. 

245.  J28  February,  1378. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  269 

dimisisse  domino  Thome  de  Cotingham,1  priori  celle  sancte 
Bege  et  successoribus  suis  medietatem  manerii  de  Walton 
cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Kirkebiboghoc.  Habendam 
....  predicto  domino  Thome,  priori,  et  successoribus 
suis  usque  ad  terminum  duodecim  annorum  a  data  con- 
feccionis  presencium  plenarie  completorum  pro  quadam 
summa  pecunie  nobis  premanibus  soluta.  In  cujus  rei 
....  Datum  apud  Eboracum  die  mercurii  proximo 
ante  festum  Corporis  Christi,  anno  domini  m°  ccc°  sep- 
tuagesimo  nono.2 

247.    OBLIGACIO  GILBERTI  PAYNTOR  DE  XL  LIBRIS. 

PATE  AT  universis  per  present  es  quod  ego,  Gilbertus 
Payntour,  teneor  et  obligatus  sum  dominis  Johanni  de 
Bridekirke  et  Ricardo  de  Popilton,  capellanis,  in  quater- 
ginta  libris  bone  et  legalis  monete  Anglicane,  solvendis 
eisdem  dominis  Johanni  et  Ricardo  vel  eorum  certo 
attornato  apud  sanctam  Begam  in  festo  sancti  Martini 
in  yeme  proximo  future  post  datam  confeccionis 

246.  l  The  name  of  this  Prior  is  found  in  two  other  deeds 
(Nos.  258-9)  also  dated  in  1379.  The  grave-cover  of  Prior 
Cotingham  is  still  in  existence  at  St.  Bees,  though  much  mutilated. 
Canon  Knowles,  writing  in  1875,  said  that  the  "  stone  was  found 
broken  into  more  than  seventy  pieces,  but  has  been  very  cleverly 
restored  and  is  now  safe  within  the  College  building,"  that  is, 
within  the  building  of  the  Theological  College  now  defunct 
(Transactions  of  Cumb.  and  Westmor.  Archceol.  Soc.,  ii.  29).  It 
is  a  fair  example  of  a  fourteenth  century  incised  stone  bearing  in 
the  centre  a  full-length  figure  of  a  monk  tonsured  and  shaven. 
Around  the  edge  of  the  slab  runs  a  legend  which  may  be  thus 
extended  :— HIC  :  IACET  :  [BONE  :  MEMORIJE  :  FRATER  : 
THOMAS  :  DE  :  COTYNGHAM  :  QVONDAM  :  PRIOR  :  HVIVS  : 
ECCLESIE  :  QVI  :  OBIIT  :  ANNO  :  DOMINI  :  M°CCC  :  : 

CVIVS  :  ANIME  :  PROPICIETVR  :  DEVS.  The  latter  part  of 
the  date  was  unfinished,  a  space  being  left  for  that  purpose,  from 
which  it  would  appear  that  the  slab  was  prepared  during  the 
Prior's  lifetime  and  that  the  figure  is  a  genuine  portrait. 

2  8  June,   1379. 


270     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

presencium,  ad  quamquidem  solucionem  fideliter  facien- 
dam  ad  predict  a  locum  et  festum  oblige  me,  heredes  et 
•executores  meos  firmiter  per  presentes.  In  cujus  rei 
....  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  xxiij0  die  mensis 
Maii,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  a  Conquestu 
sexto.1 

248.  LITER  A  ATTORN  ATORI  A  DE  SEISIN  A  IN  WALTON. 

UNIVERSIS  pateat  per  presentes  quod  ego,  Johannes  de 
Bridkirke,  capellanus,  assignavi  et  in  loco  meo  constitui 
dilectum  michi  in  Christo  Ricardum  de  Braystans,  attorn- 
atum  meum,  ad  deliberandum  Thome  de  Lawswater, 
capellano,  plenam  et  pacificam  seisinam  de  omnibus  terris 
et  tenementis  meis  in  Walton  in  villa  de  Kirkeboghok. 
Ratum  et  gratum  habit urus  ....  In  cujus  rei  .... 
Datum  apud  Walton  die  lune  proximfa]  ante  festum 
apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi 
secundi  a  Conquestu  duodecimo.1 

249.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  DE  BRIDKIRKE  ET  ALIORUM  DE 
WALTON  A. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Johannes  de  Bridkirke  et 
Ricardus  de  Popilton,  capellani,  dedimus  ....  domino 
Thome  de  Lawswater,  capellano,  omnia  terras  et  tenementa 
nostra  cum  suis  pertinenciis  in  Walton  in  villa  de  Kirke- 
bibechok,  que  et  quas  habuimus  ex  dono  et  concessione 
Gilberti  Paintour  et  Matilde,  uxoris  ejus.  Habenda  et 
tenenda  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Culwen,  Roberto 
de  Bampton,  Thoma  de  Lamplogh,  militibus,  Nicholao  de 
Staynlawe,  Willelmo  de  Boyvill,  Nicholao  de  Sevenhous, 
Ricardo  de  Braystans,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton  die 
mercurii  proxim[a]  ante  festum  sancti  Jacoby  apostoli, 

247.  X23  May,  1383. 

248.  122  June,  1388. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA  271 

.anno    regni    regis    Ricardi    secundi    post    Conquestum 
duodecimo.1 

250.  CARTA  THOME  LAWSWATER   DE  WALTON   CUM 
PERTINENCIIS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  de  Lawswater,1  cap- 
ellanus,  dedi  ....  dominis  Willelmo  de  Flaxton,  Rob- 
erto de  Lemyng  et  Thome  de  Brunby,  capellanis,  omnia 
terras  et  tenementa  mea,  cum  pratis,  edificiis  et  cum 
-omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis  suis  in  Walton  in  villa  de  Kirke- 
biboghoc,  que  et  quas  habui  ex  dono  et  feoffamento 
dominorum  Johannis  de  Bridkirke  et  Ricardi  de  Popilton, 
.capellanorum.  Habenda  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Willelmo  de  Culwen,  Thoma  de  Lamplogh  militibus, 
Alano  de  Coupland,  Willelmo  Boyvill,  Ricardo  de  Bray- 
stanes,  Thoma  Dikunson,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Walton 
in  vigilia  sancte  Trinitatis,  anno  domini  m°  ecc°  octo- 
gesimo  nono.2 

251.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FLAXTONA  DE  WALTON  CUM 
PERTINENCIIS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Willelmus  de  Flaxton,  cap- 
ellanus,  dedi,  concessi  et  hac  presenti  cart  a  mea  confirmavi 
Nicholao  de  Steyngrefe,1  vicario  ecclesie  de  Kirkeby  in 

249.  122  July,   1388. 

250.  l  Thomas   of    Loweswater,    chaplain,    occuis   in   several 
deeds  in  this  Register.     At  Michaelmas,  1388,  John  Macthoryn 
and  Matilda  his  wife,  by  fine  of  iocs.,  conveyed  to  Thomas  de 
Lawswater,  chaplain,  and  his  heirs,  half  a  messuage,  80  acres  of 
land,  7  acres  of  meadow,  6  acres  of  wood,  6  acres  of  pasture  and 
12  acres  of  turbary  in  Kirkebybeghoc  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.  12  Ric. 
II.,  No.  9). 

2 12  June,   1389. 

251.  l  Nicholas  is  also  mentioned  as  vicar  of  Kirkby  Lonsdale 
in  Nos.  260-2,  321,  all  of  date  about  1392.     He  had  not  been  long 
vicar,  for  Richard  de  Wysebeche  or  Wesbech  held  that  office  in 
.1383  and  1385  (Dep.  Keep.  Reps.,  xxxii.  358,  xl.  522). 


272  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Lonsdale,  Thome  de  Brunby,2  vicario  ecclesie  sancti 
Laurencii  in  Apilby,  Willelmo  de  Gascoigne  et  Johanni 
Thornoure,  capellanis,  medietatem  unius  messuagii,  quat- 
erviginti  acras  terre,  sept  em  acras  prati,  sex  acras  bosci, 
decem  acras  turbarie  et  pasturam  in  Walton  infra 
villam  de  Kirkebiboghok.  Habenda  ....  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Willelmo  de  Culwen  et  Thoma  de  Lamplogh, 
militibus,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Nicholao  de  Stanlawe, 
Willelmo  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Frisington,  et  aliis.  Datum 
apud  Kirkebyboghoc  die  veneris  proximfa]  post  festum 
sancti  Mathei  apostoli,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi 
post  Conquestum  sextodecimo.8 

252.  OBLIGACIO  ADE  PAYNTOUR,  RECTORIS  DE  BRYD- 
KIRK,  ET  JOHANNIS  FRATRIS  EJUS  DE  C  LIBRIS. 

UNIVERSIS  pateat  per  presentes  quod  nos,  Adam  de 
Payntour,  rector  ecclesie  sancte  Brigide1  de  Man,  et  Johan- 
nis  Payntour,  f rater  ejusdem  Ade,  tenemur  et  per  presens 
scriptum  obligati  sumus  Thome  Pigot,2  abbati  monasterii 
beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  conventui  in  centum 

2  Thomas  de  Brunby  is  styled  chaplain  in  No.  250,  that  is,  in 
1389,  but  here  and  in  Nos.  260-2,  321,  he  is  vicar  of  St.  Laurence, 
Appleby,  in  1392.  For  later  notices  of  this  vicar,  see  Nicolson 
and  Burn,  i.  324. 

8  20  September,  1392.  On  27  September  following,  licence  was 
issued  to  the  convent  of  St.  Mary,  York,  for  alienation  in  mort- 
main by  the  same  parties  named  in  this  deed  of  3  messuages,  the 
moiety  of  one  messuage,  4  tofts,  114!  acres  and  i  rood  of  land, 
9  acres  of  meadow,  6  acres  of  pasture,  6  acres  of  turbary,  and  6 
acres  of  wood  in  Kirkeby  in  Lounesdale,  Kirkeby  Becoke,  Gosford, 
Bolton  and  Distington  in  addition  to  other  lands  in  Yorkshire 
(Cal.  of  Pat.,  1391-6,  p.  176). 

252.  l  The  church  of  Bride  in  the  north  of  the  island.  For 
an  early  vicar,  see  No.  44. 

2  Elected  and  confirmed  in  1398  (Cal.  of  Pat.  1396-9,  pp.  343, 
387)  and  died  in  1405  (Ibid.,  1405-8,  pp.  15,  17).  He  had  been 
previously  prior  of  Wetheral. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  273 

libris  bone  et  legalis  monete  Anglic.  Solvendis  eisdem 
abbati  et  conventui  vel  suo  certo  attornato  apud  Ebora- 
cum  in  monasterio  predict o  in  festo  Pasche  proxim[e] 
future  post  datam  confeccionis  presencium.  Ad  quam- 
quidem  solucionem  bene  et  fideliter  faciendam  ad  dictos 
diem  et  locum  obligamus  nos,  heredes,  et  executores 
nostros  et  unumquemque  in  solidis  firmiter  per  presentes. 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Datum  apud  Eboracum  die  Sabbati 
in  festo  Omnium  Sanctorum  anno  domini  m°  cccc°  quarto.3 

253.  QUIETA  CLAMACIO  EORUNDEM  DE  WALTON  CUM 
PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  Payntour,  rector  ecclesie  sancte 
Brigide  de  Man,  et  Johannes  Payntour,  f rater  ejusdem, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  nos 
remisisse  ....  Thome  Pigot,  abbati  et  conventui  mon- 
asterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  successoribus  suis  totum 
jus  et  clameum  que  habemus,  habuimus,  seu  aliquo  modo 
habere  poterimus,  in  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  cum 
pratis,  edificiis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  pertinenciis,  que  quon- 
dam fuerint  Hugonis  Flemyng1  et  Christiane,  uxoris  ejus, 
in  Walton  infra  villam  de  Kirkeby  in  Couplandia.  Ita 
quod  nee  nos  nee  heredes  nostri  ....  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de  Perdishow  tune  ballivo 
libertatis  de  Egermund,  Ricardo  de  Hudelston,  Willelmo 
Boyvill,  Thoma  de  Sevenhous,  Ricardo  de  Braystans, 
procuratore,2  et  aliis  multis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam 

3  i  November,   1404. 

253.  l  For  his  charters  touching  this  property,  see  Nos. 
237-40. 

2  On  26  June,  1408,  Richard  Braystanys,  proctor  of  St.  Bees, 
received  pardon  for  rising  against  the  king  in  the  company  of  the 
rebel  Henry,  late  earl  of  Northumberland,  at  his  last  advent 
into  the  realm  and  for  adhering  to  and  counselling  him  (Cal.  of 
Pat.  1405-1408,  p.  451). 

T 


274  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

die  Sabbati  in  festo  Omnium  Sanctorum,  anno  regni  regis 
Henrici  quarti  post  Conquestum  sexto.3 

254.  QUIETA  CLAMACIO  ADE  DE  PAYNTOUR  ET  JOHANN- 
IS  FRATRIS  EJUS  DE  OMNIBUS  QUERELIS  ET  ACCIONIBUS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  Payntor,  rector  ecclesie  sancte 
Brigide  de  Man,  et  Johannes  Payntour,  frater  ejus,  salut- 
em  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  nos  remisisse 
....  dominis  Johanni  de  Bridekirke,  Thome  de  Laws- 
water,  capellanis,  et  Johanni  Broun  de  Walton  omnimodas 
acciones,  querelas,  et  demandas,  tarn  reales  quam  cor- 
porales,  a  principio  mundi  usque  in  diem  confeccionis 
presencium.  Ita  quod  nee  nos  nee  heredes  nostri  .... 
Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de  Perdishow,  tune  ballivo  libertatis 
de  Egermound,  Ricardo  de  Hudelston,  Willelmo  de  Boy- 
vill,  Thoma  de  Sevenhous,  Ricardo  de  Braystans,  et  aliis 
multis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam,  die  Sabbati  in 
festo  Omnium  Sanctorum,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici 
quarti  post  Conquestum  sexto.1 

255.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  NICHOLAI  DE  MORICEBY 
DE  LE  KELDLAND.1 

256.  CARTA    ROBERTI    QWENBY    DE    TERRA    IN    LE 
KELDLAND  CUM  OMNIBUS  A[I]SIAMENTIS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Robertus  de  Qwenby,1  quon- 

8  i  November,   1404. 

254.  *  i  November,   1404. 

255.  l  Duplicate  of  No.  71. 

256.  l  By  No.  71   Nicholas  de  Moriceby  granted  in  1295  a11 
his  lands  and  tenements  in  Keldlandes  to  Robert  de  Queneby 
and  Joan  his  wife,  and  by  the  present  charter  Robert  settled  them 
on  Henry  his  son.     The  deed  is  witnessed  by  Alan  de  Nesse, 
prior  of  St.  Bees,  who  is  also  found  a  party  to  No.  318  with  J[ohn 
de  Gylling],  abbot  of  St.  Mary,   York,   1303-13.     In  July  1313 
Alan  de  Nesse,  then  prior  of  St.  Mary's,  was  elected  to  succeed 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  275 

dam  procurator  de  Distincton,  dedi  ....  Henrico  filio  meo 
et  heredibus  suis  totam  terram  meam  et  tenementa  mea 
in  le  Keldland  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis.  Habenda 
.  .  .  .  de  abbate  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  priore  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  ....  quodquidem  tenementum  tene- 
tur  in  libero  dominico,  et  predict i  abbas  et  prior  illud 
tenent  in  pura  et  perpetua  elemosina  predicto  Henrico  et 
heredibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis  sine  ullo  retenemento. 
Reddendo  inde  annuatim  predictis  abbati  et  priori  duos 
solidos  argenti,  videlicet  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et 
alteram  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme  pro 
omni  servicio  et  demanda.  Et  ego,  Robert  us,  et  heredes 
mei  ....  warantizabimus  et  defendemus  inperpetuum. 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dompno  Alano  de  Nesse, 
tune  priore  sancte  Bege,  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Ricardo  de 
Cleter,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Johanne  de  Lamploy, 
militibus,  Radulpho  de  Frisington,  Willelmo  de  Rotington, 
Roberto  de  Harrays,  et  multis  aliis.  Datum  apud  le 
KeldQand]. 

257.  CARTA  AGNETIS  FILIE  HENRICI  FILII  ROBERTI 
QWENBY  DE  TERRA  IN  KELDELAND. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Agnes  filia  Henrici  filii  Rob- 
erti  de  Qwenby,  quondam  procuratoris  de  Distincton,  in 
pura  viduitate  mea,  dedi  ....  domino  Henrico  de 
Graysothun,  capellano,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis, 
totam  terram  meam  et  tenementa  mea  in  le  Keldland 
cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis.  Tenenda  .  .  .  .  de  ab- 
bate sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  priore  sancte  Bege  in 
Couplandia  ....  quodquidem  tenementum  tenetur  in 
libero  dominico,  et  predicti  abbas  et  prior  illud  tenent  in 

John  de  Gylling  as  abbot  (Cal.  of  Pat.  1313-17,  pp.  2,  13).  As 
Hugh  de  Cumpton  was  prior  of  St.  Bees  in  1301  (Nos.  235,  317), 
the  date  of  this  deed  must  fall  in  the  first  decade  of  the  fourteenth 
century. 


276  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

pura  et  perpetua  elemosina  predicto  domino  Henrico, 
heredibus  vel  assignatis  suis.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
predictis  abbati  et  priori  duodecim  denarios  argenti, 
videlicet,  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  alteram  mediet- 
atem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme  pro  omni  servicio 
et  demanda.  Et  ego,  predict  a  Agnes,  et  heredes  mei 
predicta  tenementa  ....  warantizabimus  et  defend- 
emus  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Ricardo  Flemyng,  militibus, 
Willelmo  de  Cleter,  Thoma  de  Lamploz,  Johanne  de 
Perdishow,  Nicholao  de  Stanlow,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud 
Bastinthwait,  die  lune  proxim[a]  ante  mediam  quadra- 
gesimam,1  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii  post  Conquest- 
um 


258.    CARTA   HENRI  ci   CRASOTHEN,    CAPPELLANI,    ET 

ISABELLE    DE    QWENBY    DE    TERRIS    ET    LIBERTATIBUS    IN 

KELDELAND. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Henricus  de  Crasothen,  cap- 
ellanus,  et  Isabella  filia  Henrici  filii  Roberti  de  Qwenby, 
in  pura  viduitate  mea,  dedimus  ....  magistro  Willelmo 
de  Tanfeld,1  rectori  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton,  et  dominis 
Johanni  de  Bridekirke  et  Rogero  Bisschop,  capellanis, 
omnia  terras  et  tenementa  nostra  in  Keldland  cum 
omnibus  suis  pertinenciis.  Tenenda  ....  Hiis  test- 
ibus domino  Thoma  de  Cotingham,2  tune  priore  sancte 
Bege,  dominis  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Roberto  de  Bampton, 
militibus,  Willelmo  de  Cleter,  Thoma  de  Lamplow, 
Johanne  de  Frisington,  Thoma  Dykonson  de  Hensingham 
et  aliis.  Datum  apud  le  Keldland,  die  martis  proxima 
ante  festum  Pentecostes,  anno  domini  millesimo  triscent- 
esimo  septuagesimo  nono,  et  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi 
secundi  a  Conquestu  secundo.8 

257.  x  i  March,  1372. 

258.  l  See  his  charter  of  the  same  year  in  No.  259. 

2  For  Prior  Thomas  de  Cotingham,  refer  to  note  i  on  No.  246. 

3  24  May,   1379. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA        277 

259.  CARTA   MAGISTRI    WILLELMI    DE   TANFELD    DE 
TERRIS  ET  LIBERTATIBUS  IN  KELDELAND. 

OMNIBUS  ....  magister  Willelmus  de  Tanfeld,  rector 
ecclesie  de  Wirkinton,  Johannes  de  Bridekirk  et  Rogerus 
Bisschop,  capellani,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  .... 
nos  concessisse  et  ad  firmam  dimisisse  domino  Thome  de 
Cotingham,  priori  celle  sancte  Bege,  et  successoribus  suis, 
omnia  terras  et  tenementa  nostra  in  Keldland  cum  omni- 
bus suis  pertinenciis  ....  Habenda  ....  predicto 
domino  Thome,  priori,  et  successoribus  suis,  usque  ad 
terminum  decem  annorum  a  data  confeccionis  presencium 
plenarie  completorum.  Reddendo  nobis  et  heredibus 
nostris  per  annum,  durante  termino  predicto  decem  an- 
norum, unam  rosam  ad  festum  Nativitatis  sancti  Johannis 
Baptiste  pro  omni  servicio  si  petatur.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  die  proxim[a]  post  festum 
apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli,  anno  domini  millesimo  ccc 
septuagesimo  nono.1 

260.  CARTA   JOHANNIS   BRYDKIRK   ET  ALIORUM    DE 
DIVERSIS  TERRIS  IN  KELDHOWSE  ET  IN  DlSTINGTONA. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Johannes  de  Bridekirke  et 
Johannes  del  Bank,  capellani,  dedimus  ....  Nicholao 
de  Stayngrefe,  vicario  ecclesie  de  Kirkebi  in  Lonsdale, 
Thome  de  Brunby,  vicario  ecclesie  sancti  Laurencii  in 
Apilby,  Willelmo  de  Gascoyn,  capellano,  et  Johanni 
Thornour,  unum  toftum,  quatuordecim  acras  terre  et 
duas  acras  prati  cum  suis  pertinenciis  apud  le  Keldhows 
in  villa  de  Distington.  Habenda  .  .  .  .  Et  nos  vero, 
predicti  ....  warantizabimus  et  inperpetuum  defend- 
emus.  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Willelmo 
de  Culwen  et  Thoma  de  Lamplogh,  militibus,  Nicholao  de 
Stanlaw,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Thoma  de  Stanlaw,  Johanne 

259.     *  30  June,  1379. 


278  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

de  Frisington,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Kirkebiboghok,  die 
jovis  proxima  post  festum  sancti  Mathei  apostoli,  anno 
regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  post  Conquestum  sexto 
decimo.1 

261.  CARTA  NICHOLAI  STAYNGREFE  ET  ALIORUM  DE 
TERRIS  IN  COMITATU  CUMBRIE. 

PATEAT  universis  per  presentes  quod  nos,  Nicholaus  de 
Stayngrefe,  vicarius  ecclesie  de  Kirkeby  in  Lonsdale, 
Thomas  de  Brunby,1  vicarius  ecclesie  sancte  Laurencii  in 
Apilby,  Willelmus  Gascoigne,  capellanus,  et  Johannes 
Thornour,  capellanus,  assignavimus  et  loco  nostro  posuim- 
us  dilectos  nobis  in  Christo  Ricardum  Braystans,  Thomam 
Lawswater,  capellanum,  et  Hugonem  de  Wlston,  vel 
eorum  quemlibet  conjunctim  et  divisim  ad  deliberandam 
plenariam  seisinam  nomine  nostro  abbati  et  conventui 
beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  de  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis, 
pratis,  pasturis,  et  turbariis,  que  nos  habemus  in  comitatu 
Cumbrie  secundum  formam  et  effectum  cujusdem  carte 
per  nos  prefatis  abbati  et  conventui  inde  facte.  Ratum 
et  gratum  habituri  ....  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Datum 
apud  Kirkeby beghoc,  die  Sabbati  in  vigilia  sancti  Michaelis 
archangeli,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  post  Con- 
questum Anglie  sexto  decimo.2 

262.  CARTA  NICHOLAI   STAYNGREF  ET  ALIORUM   DE 

TERRIS  IN  DIVERSIS  LOCIS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Nicholaus  de  Staingrefe, 
vicarius  ecclesie  de  Kirkeby  in  Lonsdale,  Thomas  de 
Brunby,  vicarius  ecclesie  sancti  Laurencii  in  Apilby, 
Willelmus  Gascoigne,  capellanus,  et  Johannes  Thornour, 

260.  X23  September,  1392. 

261.  l  For  Nicholas  de  Stayngrefe  and  Thomas  de    Brunby, 
see  notes  on  No.  251. 

2  28  September,  1392. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  279 

capellanus,  dedimus  ....  abbati  et  conventui  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  quatuor  tofta,  quadraginta  et  decem  et 
septem  acras  terre,  novem  acras  prati,  sex  acras  pasture, 
sex  acras  turbarie,  et  sex  acras  bosci,  et  medietatem 
unius  messuagii  et  unius  acre  terre  nostre  cum  suis  per- 
tinenciis  in  Kirkebiboghoc,  Gosford,  Bolton,  et  Distington1 
in  comitatu  Cumbrie.  Habenda  ....  secundum  vim, 
formam  et  effect nm  carte  domini  regis  de  licencia  inde 
optenta  nobis  facte.  Et  nos  vero,  predicti  ....  war- 
antizabimus  et  inperpetuum  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Culwen,  Thoma  de 
Lamplogh,  militibus,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Johanne  de 
Perdishow,  Nicholao  de  Stanelawe,  Thoma  de  Whiterik, 
persona  ecclesie  de  Gosford,  Ricardo  de  Braystans,  Thoma 
de  Hensingham,  Thoma  de  Laws  water,  capellano,  Johanne 
Broun,  Johanne  Cady,  Ricardo  Tailliour  de  Kirkebybog- 
hoc,  Gilberto  Isacson,  et  aliis.  Datum  die  Sabbati  in 
vigilia  sancti  Michaelis  archangeli,  anno  regni  regis 
Ricardi  secundi  post  Conquestum  Anglie  sexto  decimo.2 

263.    CARTA  GUNILDE  DE  TERRA  IN  BOTIL. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Gunilda1  quondam  uxor  Willelmi  filii  Rogeri,  in  libera 

262.  1  For  the  contents  of  the  property  conveyed,  compare 
the  Patent  Roll  quoted  in  note  3  to  No.  251. 

2  28  September,   1392. 

263.  1  Gunnild,   widow  of  William  son  of  Roger  de   Setun, 
released  to  Richard  son  of  Alan  the  land  without  Stainbrigge 
between  Hytun  and  Botle,   called  Buttes,   which  Alan  son  of 
Retell,   her  father,   gave  her  in  marriage  :    together  with  con- 
firmation of  her  son  Alexander's  conveyance  to  him  of  two  acres 
in  Cordhou   (Anct.  D.,  A.  No.   7684),  now  perhaps  Cordamoss. 
This  Alexander  de  Seton  exchanged  with  Alan  de  Coupland  two 
acres  in  Hallebanck  in  Seton,  held  of  the  abbot  of  Caldra,  for  two 
acres  in  Cordhou  (Ibid.,  A.  9338).     Alan  de  Coupland  enfeoffed 
Walter  son  of  Adam  de  Seton  of  three  acres  abutting  Malpase, 
a  meadow  in  Seton  belonging  to  the  nunnery  there  (Dugdale, 


28O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

viduitate  mea  et  potestate,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  present! 
carta  mea  confirmavi  Henrico  filio  Thome  persone  de 
Botil,  totam  terram  meam  que  jacet  inter  terram  quam 
Benedictus  filius  meus  dedit  predicto  Henrico  et  acram 
quam  Willelmus,  maritus  meus,  dedit  abacie  de  Caldra, 
cum  prato  adjacenti  :  et  heredibus  suis  habendam  sive 
tenendam  de  me  et  heredibus  [meis]  cum  omnibus  com- 
munibus  aisiamentis  ville  de  Setun  in  feudo  et  hereditate, 
libere,  quiete,  et  solute.  Reddendo  inde  michi  et  hered- 
ibus meis  annuatim  quasdam  alias  carocatas  (sic)  ad 
Pentecosten  pro  omni  servicio,  consuetudine  et  demanda. 
Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  prefatam  terram  predicto  Hen- 
rico et  heredibus  suis  contra  omnes  gentes  warantizabimus, 
Hiis  testibus  Edwardo  de  Kornay,  Alexandra  de  Hitun, 
Ada  de  Hitun,  Henrico  filio  Johannis,  Johanne  de  Boy- 
villa,  Simone  de  Aynerset,  et  aliis.2 

264.    CARTA  HENRICI   FILII   THOME   DE   BOTILL    DE 

DIMIDIA  ACRA  TERRE  IN  BOTIL. 

Mon.,  iv.  228),  in  exchange  for  land  in  Skyrefathe  in  Hyton 
(Anct.  D.,  A.  9728).  William  del  Brotis  granted  to  his  brother 
John  one  acre  in  Seton  called  "  le  blackacre  "  in  "  le  Brotis  " 
next  Hycemoor,  rendering  therefor  to  Richard  de  Kellet  a  rose 
at  midsummer  and  to  Alan  de  Coupland  a  penny  on  St.  James' 
Day  (Ibid.,  A.  9161).  In  1391  "William  Hudleston  and  Mariota 
his  wife  were  enfeoffed  of  tenements  in  Hycemoor  in  the  vill  of 
Seton,  which  they  had  previously  demised  to  Thomas  Mount, 
chaplain,  with  remainder  after  their  decease  to  Robert  Lowther, 
perpetual  vicar  of  Wigton,  and  others  (Ibid.,  A.  9574). 

2  The  dates  of  these  three  deeds  (Nos.  263-5)  will  fall  between 
1230  and  1240.  On  2  May,  1236,  Alexander  de  Morthing  granted 
to  John,  the  prior,  and  the  convent  of  Kungesh'  (Conished)  two 
oxgangs  of  land  in  the  vill  of  Wytebech  to  which  grant  Eward  de 
Cornay,  Alexander  de  Hitun  and  John  de  Boivilla  were  witnesses 
(Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  568).  In  Conished  deeds  touching  Whitbeck 
about  the  same  date,  we  have  as  witnesses  Adam  de  Hyton, 
Simon  de  Ainresete,  John  de  Boyvilla,  Benedict  de  Ainersathe 
and  Henry  son  of  John,  all  of  whom  occur  in  these  three  charters 
(Ibid.,  No.  569-577). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA  281 

OMNIBUS  Christ!  fidelibus  literas  has  visuris  vel  audit- 
uris,  Henricus  filius  Thome  de  Botill,  eternam  in  domino 
salutem.  Noveritis  me,  ex  consensu  et  assensu  Christiane 
matris  mee,  concessisse,  dedisse,  et  hac  presenti  carta 
mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  dimidiam  acram  terre  in  villa  de  Botill  per 
has  divisas,  scilicet,  inter  magnum  iter  versus  Cornay  et 
Leuericpule,  libere,  quiete  et  pacifice  ab  omni  seculari 
servicio,  exaccione  et  demanda,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus 
et  aisiamentis  ad  totam  terram  in  villa  de  Botil  pertin- 
entibus,  et  cum  communi,  scilicet,  unius  equi,  sex  averi- 
orum,  decem  bidencium,  decem  caprarum,  unius  suis  cum 
sequela  eorum  unius  anni.  Ego  vero  Henricus  et  heredes 
mei  predictam  terram  predictis  monachis  contra  omnes 
homines  et  feminas  inperpetuum  warantizabimus.  Hiis 
testibus  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  Ada  de  Hitun,  Benedicto 
de  Eynesate,  Alexandro  de  Setun,  Ricardo  de  Ranglas, 
Johanne  filio  Thome,  Johanne  capellano,  et  aliis. 

265.  CARTA  HENRICI  FILII  THOME  BOTIL  DE  TOTA 
TERRA  SUA  IN  BOTIL. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  literas  has  visuris  vel  audit- 
uris,  Henricus  filius  Thome  de  Botill,  eternam  in  domino 
salutem.  Noveritis  me,  ex  consensu  et  assensu  Christiane 
matris  mee,  dedisse,  concessisse,  et  hac  presenti  carta 
mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte 
Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  totam  terram  meam 
quam  habui  in  villa  de  Bo  tell  per  has  divisas,  scilicet, 
sicut  via  extendit  se  versus  Bighusthwait  ex  parte  aquilon- 
[ali]  inter  dictam  viam  et  sigetum  versus  occidentem  et 
sic  descen[den]do  usque  ad  majorem  rivulum,  et  sic  de 
dicto  rivulo  descendendo  usque  ad  Blabec,  et  sic  de  dicto 
Blabec  ascendendo  usque  ad  predictam  viam,  libere  et 
quiete  ab  omni  seculari  servicio,  exaccione  et  demanda, 


282  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

cum  omnibus  libertatibus,  aisiamentis  ad  tantam  terram 
in  villa  de  Botell  pertinentibus,  et  cum  communi  unius 
equi  et  octo  averiorum,  xij  bidencium,  xij  caprarum, 
unius  suis  cum  sequela  eorum  unius  anni.  Ego  vero, 
Henricus,  et  heredes  mei  predictam  terram  predictis  mon- 
achis,  sicut  dictum  est,  contra  omnes  homines  et  feminas 
warantizabimus  et  defendemus  inperpetuum.  Et  quod 
hec  mea  donacio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat,  huic  scripto 
sigillum  meum  apponi  (sic).  Hiis  testibus  Benedicto  de 
Rotington,  Ada  de  Hiton,  Benedicto  de  Eynesete,  Alex- 
andro  de  Seton,  Ricardo  de  Ranglas,  Johanne  filio  Thome, 
Johanne  capellano,  et  aliis.1 

266.  DlMISSIO  WlLLELMI  PRIORIS  DE  DIMIDIA  ACRA 
TERRE  IN  BOTIL. 

OMNIBUS  has  literas  visuris  vel  audituris,  Willelmus,1 
prior  de  sancta  Bega,  et  conventus  ejusdem  loci,  eternam 
in  domino  salutem.  Noveritis  nos  concessisse  et  hac 
presenti  carta  nostra  confirmasse  Roberto  filio  Stephani 
et  heredibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis  dimidiam  acram  terre 
in  Botel,  cum  pertinenciis,  quam,  scilicet,  habuimus  de 
dono  Henrici  de  Botel.  Tenendam  et  habendam  ei  et 
heredibus  suis  vel  assignatis  de  nobis  vel  successoribus 
nostris  inperpetuum  cum  omnibus  liberatibus  et  aisia- 
mentis ad  diet  am  terram  spectantibus,  sicut  i  carta  dicti 
Henrici,  quam  inde  habemus,  plenius  testatur.  Reddendo 
inde  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris  annuatim  tres  denarios 
ad  Nat  ale  domini  pro  omni  servicio  et  demanda.  In 

265.  l  For  the  date  of  this  and  the  previous  deed,  see  note  2 
on  No.  263. 

266.  l  This  prior  must  be  William  de  Rothewel  as  in  Nos. 
231  and  425,  and  therefore  the  date  of  the  deed  will  fall  about 
1256.     He  must  be  distinguished  from  Prior  William  de  Dereby 
in  Nos.  71,  401  and  438,  who  falls  later,  about  1288-94.      The 
witnesses,  specially  Elyas,  bailiff  of  Egermond,  agree  with  the 
date  of  Prior  William  de  Rothewel.     See  No.  418. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  283 

cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  scripto  signum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Elya,  ballivo  de  Egermond,  domino 
Wydone  de  Boyvill,  Michaele  de  Haverington,  Willelmo 
de  Waymurthait,  Benedicto  de  Rotington,  Willelmo  de 
Kyrkebystephan,  Clemente  clerico,  et  aliis. 

267.    BREVE  REGIS  H[ENRICI]   DE  x  ACRIS  PASTURE 

CUM   PERTINENCIIS   IN   BOTIL. 

W[ILLELMUS]  de  Salcok,1  vicecomes  Cumbrie,  ballivo 
libertatis  de  Egermund,  salutem.  Mandatum  domini 
regis  in  hec  verba  suscepi  :  H[enricus],  Dei  gracia,  rex 
Anglie,  etc.  vicecomiti  Cumbrie,  salutem.  Precepe  Jo- 
hanni  de  Hale2  quod  juste  et  sine  dilacione  reddat  abbati 
sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  centum  et  decem  acras  pasture 
cum  pertinenciis  in  Botell,  in  quas  idem  Johannes  non 
habet  ingressum  nisi  per  Johannem  de  Hudelston3  qui 

267.  l  William  de  Salcok  was  not  sheriff,  but  under-sheriff  of 
Cumberland,  while  John  de  Bayllol  was  sheriff.  At  Easter, 
1251,  he  rendered  account  for  the  sheriff,  John  de  Bayllol  (Bain, 
Cal.  Doc.  Scot.,  i.  335),  and  at  the  following  Michaelmas,  Baillol 
was  ordered  to  have  William  Salecoc,  his  under-sheriff,  before  the 
justices  in  eyre  to  show  cause  why  he  delivered  certain  male- 
factors out  of  prison  (Cal.  of  Pat.,  1247-58,  p.  114).  He  is  found 
as  a  witness  to  No.  409. 

2  For  charters  of  John  de  Hale,  see  Nos.  303,  304,  307. 

8  The  lordship  of  Millom,  embracing  the  south-western  angle 
of  Cumberland  between  the  rivers  Esk  and  Dudden,  passed  to 
Joan  daughter  and  heir  of  Adam  son  of  Henry  de  Millum  who 
married  John  de  Hodleston.  To  this  John,  Henry  III.  granted 
a  weekly  market  and  a  yearly  fair  in  1251  at  his  manor  of  Millum 
(Chart.  R.,  35  Hen.  III.  m.  4).  About  the  same  date  with  the 
consent  of  his  wife  Joan,  he  confirmed  some  of  the  acts  of  his 
predecessors  in  that  lordship  (Reg.  of  Holmcultram,  MS.  ff.  62-3)- 
See  a  charter  of  his,  dated  1252,  at  No.  367-  On  the  death  of 
Joan  who  outlived  her  first  husband,  John  de  Hodleston,  their  son 
succeeded.  John  the  elder  was  dead  before  1256,  when  Joan 
was  the  husband  of  Robert  de  Lathom  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  40 
Hen.  III.,  No.  64). 


284  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

predictum  abbatem  inde  in  juste  et  sine  judicio  dissay- 
sivit  post  primam  transfretacionem  nostram  in  Brit- 
ollium4  ut  dicit.  Et  nisi  fecerit  et  predictus  abbas  fecerit 
te  securum  de  clameo  suo  prosecutor  tune  sumfmoneat], 
per  bonos  sum[monitores],  predictum  Johannem  quod 
coram  justiciariis  nostris  ad  primam  assisam,  cum  in 
partes  illas  venerint,  ostensurus  quare  non  fecerit.  Et 
habeas  illi  sumfmonitionem]  et  hoc  breve.  Teste,  etc. 
Quare  vobis  mando  quatinus  mandatum  istud  plenius 
exequamini.  Valet e. 

268.    RELAXACIO    FACTA    PRIORI    SANCTE    BEGE    DE 

OMNIMODIS  ACCIONIBUS. 

NOVERINT  universi  quod  nos,  Robertus  de  Bampton,1 
miles,  Robertus  films  ejusdem  Roberti,  Johannes  de  Perdi- 
show,  Thomas  Durbug,  Robertus  del  Heved,  Richardus  de 
Wodhall,  Willelmus  de  Mess',  Johannes  films  Willelmi, 
Johannes  filius  Willelmi  de  Wodhall,  Thomas  de  Wodhall, 
Willelmus  Ferom,  Thomas  Cacson  de  Cotun,  Rogerus  del 
Heved,  Johannes  del  Stiele,  Willelmus  Walase,  Thomas  de 
Bochardby,  Willelmus  de  Derwent,  Thomas  Dikonson  de 
Hensingham  et  Johannes  Huchonson  de  Craysothun, 
Adam  Pacok  et  Johannes  Isaacson  remisimus  .... 

4  Breteuil  in  the  department  of  Eure  in  Normandy.  The  date 
of  the  King's  journey  thither  must  be  in  1242  (M.  Paris,  Chron. 
Major  a,  iv.  192). 

268.  rThe  names  of  nearly  all  the  parties  to  this  deed  are 
only  found  here  in  the  Register,  and  those  that  occur  oftener  are 
uncertain  as  to  date  owing  to  the  succession  of  the  same  Christian 
name  in  the  family.  Robert  de  Bampton  is  met  with  in  this 
Register  in  dated  deeds  throughout  the  fourteenth  century.  On 
8  June  1383  he  was  named  as  a  knight  in  a  commission  to  inquire 
into  illegal  fishings  in  the  Eden  (Cal.  of  Pat.  Rolls,  1381-5,  p.  286). 
Similarly  a  John  de  Perdishow  occurs  in  dated  deeds  from  1372 
to  1404.  From  the  type  of  names  in  the  deed  and  seeing  that 
Robert  de  Bampton  is  accompanied  by  Robert  his  son,  the  date 
of  the  deed  will  fall  in  the  second  half  of  the  fourteenth  century. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  285 

Thome  Lambhyrd,  Johanni  de  Caldra,  Ricardo  de  Lokerig, 
Ingramo  de  Foresta,  Willelmo  Mageson,  Johanni  de  Man, 
Johanni  Forestario,  Johanni  de  Berningham,  Petro 
clerico,  Willelmo  del  Brewhouse  et  Petro  Plyn  omni- 
modas  accionum,  transgressionum  quorumcumque  nobis 
factarum  per  predictos  ....  occasione  quaruncumque 
contumeliarum  inter  nos  et  predictos  ....  a  vigilia 
sancti  Mathei  apostoli  ultra  preteritum  usque  diem  con- 
feccionis  presencium.  It  a  quod  nee  nos  nee  aliquis 
nostrum  aliquam  accionem  ....  erga  predictos  .... 
de  cetero  habere  poterimus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  Datum  etc. 

269.  CARTA  ROGERI  FILII  EDWARDI  DE  TERRA  VOCATA 
ELLERBANK. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Rogerus  films  Edwardi,1  salutem. 
Sciatis  me  dedisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  virgini  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam  de  dominio  meo  quandam  terram  que  vocatur 
Ellerbank,2  que  ]acet  inter  Wayburthwayt  et  Bretteby, 
sicut  rivulus  descendit  inter  illam  terram  et  Manrigthwayt 
et  ex  alia  parte  sicut  quidam  alius  rivulus  descendit  inter 
predict  am  terram  et  Setforn.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  firma 
et  inconcussa  permaneat,  sigilli  mei  earn  apposicione 
corroboravi.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Boyvill,  Roberto 
de  Wilton,  Gerardo  de  Brainthwayt,  Hugone  de  Moriceby, 
David  de  Kyrkby,  et  multis  aliis. 

269.  l  Roger  son  of  Edward  granted  a  charter  about  land  in 
Ravenglass  at  perhaps  a  later  date  (No.  481).  As  he  was  a  con- 
temporary of  Gerard  de  Branthwaite  (see  note  on  No.  230), 
William  de  Boyvill  and  Hugh  de  Moriceby,  the  date  must  be  in 
the  first  quarter  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

2  Now  Ellerbeck  a  farm  between  Waberthwaite  and  Birkby 
as  here  described,  nearly  opposite  Muncaster  Bridge,  south  of 
the  Esk  (O.  S.,  Ixxxij.  S.E.).  Manrigthwaite  and  Setforn  do  not 
appear  on  the  map. 


286  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

270.    CARTA  ROBERT:  DE  TATESHALE  DE  x  SOLIDIS 

RECEPTIS  DE  MOLENDINO  DE  WYTTON. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Robertas  de  Tateshale,1  salutem  in 
domino.  Sciat  universitas  vestra  me  dedisse,  concessisse, 
et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie 
'et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  libere  et 
quiete,  redditum  X  solidorum  in  molendino  meo  de 
Wyttun 2  ad  lumen  eidem  ecclesie  inveniendum,  pro  anima 
patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  pro  animabus  antecessorum 
meorum  et  pro  salute  mea  et  heredum  meorum.  Ego 
autem  et  heredes  mei  persolvemus  annuatim  prefatis 
monachis  predictos  x  solidos  ad  unum  terminum,  scilicet, 
in  festo  sancti  Michaelis.  Et  ut  hec  donacio  mea  firma 
et  stabilis  permaneat  inperpetuum  presens  scriptum 
munimine  corroboravi.  Hiis  testibus  Aufrai  de  Huereby, 
Gilbert o  de  Croft,  Roberto  de  Hagthorpe,  Gilbert o  filio 
Hervei,  Roberto  de  Spandone,  Ricardo  prepositi  (sic), 
Alexandro  dispensatore,  Thoma  filio  prepositi,  et  aliis 
mult  is. 


270.  l  There  is  much  about  Robert  de  Tateshale  in  the  public 
records  for  the  reigns  of  Richard  and  John  as  a  public  servant 
and  the  owner  of  several  knights'  fees  in  Lincolnshire  and  else- 
where. He  was  sheriff  of  Cumberland  in  1197  and  of  Lancashire 
in  1199,  but  he  died  in  1212  when  the  custody  of  his  land  and 
heirs,  who  were  under  age,  was  committed  to  William  earl  of 
Arundel,  the  marriage  of  Rose  his  widow  being  retained  in  the 
king's  hand  (Rot.  Chart.,  p.  n8b,  Rec.  Com.).  His  official  con- 
nexion with  Cumberland  and  Lancashire  will  account  for  his 
benefaction  to  St.  Bees. 

2  Spelman  gives  a  list  of  over  a  dozen  places  of  this  name  in 
various  counties,  but  the  exact  place  here  mentioned  has  not  been 
identified.  The  manor  of  Wyttun,  however,  was  in  Yorkshire 
or  Nottingham,  touching  which  a  subsequent  Robert  de  Tateshale 
had  pleas  in  1267  (Abbrev.  Placit.,  p.  162,  Rec.  Com.). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  287 

271.    CARTA  RICARDI  DE  COUPLAND  DE  j  ACRA  TERRE 

IN  MORTHWAYT. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  de  Coupland,1  con- 
cessione  heredum  meorum,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  om- 
nium antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  imam  acram 
terre  juxta  Morthweyt2  bee  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam.  Tenendam  et  habendam  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  servicio  seculari ;  et  pastur- 
am  viij  animalium  et  octo  ovium  cum  sequela  unius  anni, 
et  trium  equarum  cum  sequela  unius  anni,  et  octo  cap- 
rarum  cum  sequela  unius  anni,  et  trium  suum  unius  anni, 
in  communi  pastura  ville  de  Bolton.  Ego  vero,  predictus 
Ricardus,  et  heredes  mei  prefatam  terram  cum  tota 
pastura  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
prenominatis  warantizabimus  imperpetuum.  Et  ut  don- 
acio  ista  rata  permaneat  et  stabilis  presenti  script o  sig- 
illum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 


272.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  ALEXANDRI  DE  DIMIDIA 
ACRA  TERRE  ET  DIMIDIA  PERTICATA  IN  HOUTHUNHOU. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  filius 
Alexandri  de  Houthunhou,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
dimidiam  acram  et  dimidiam  perticatam  terre  mee  in 
Houthunhou,  dimidiam  acram  jacentem  inter  semitam  et 
duos  lapides  in  australi  parte  Semite  et  usque  mithekunre 

271.  l  The  grantor  is  witness  to  a  deed  of  1235  a-fc  No.  229 
and  must  be  distinguished  from  the  person  of  the  same  name 
who  witnessed  No.  238  in  1365.  He  may  probably  be  identified 
with  Richard  son  of  Alan,  the  grantor  of  No.  431. 

2  Now  Murthwaite  Moor  (O.  S.,  Ixxviij,  N.E.). 


288  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

et  dimidiam  perticatam  sub  Staynknoc1  proximum  terre 
ipsius  Johannis  et  juxta  magnum  lapidem.  Tenendas 
....  Ego  vero,  Johannes,  et  heredes  mei  warantizabimus 
hanc  terram  predictis  monachis  vel  eorum  assignatis 
inperpetuum.  Et  in  hujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus. 

273.    CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  ALEXANDRI  DE  HOUEN- 

OTH  DE  J  AGRA  TERRE  ARABILIS  IN  TERRITORIO  DE  BOUEL- 
TON. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Johannes  filius  Alexandri  de  Houen- 
oth,1  eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noveritis  me  dedisse, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  patris  mei  Alexandri  et  Alani 
filii  Ketelli  et  antecessorum  meorum  et  heredum,  Deo  et 
abbacie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  monachis  in  cella  de 
sancta  Bega,  Couplandie,  Deo  et  predicte  virgini  servient- 
ibus,  unarn  acram  terre  arabilis  in  territorio  de  Bouelton, 
scilicet,  illam  que  jacet  propinquior  Seteknoc  versus 
aquilonem  cum  communi  pasture  averiis  hominis  illius 
qui  terram  predictam  tenebit  pro  tempore  de  dicta  abacia 
beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  monachis  de  predicta  cella  cum 
omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis  ad  predictam  villam  de  Bouelton 
pertinentibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Ego 
vero  et  heredes  mei  warantizabimus  Deo  et  abacie  sancte 
Marie  Eboraci,  et  predictis  monachis  de  sancta 
Bega  in  Couplandia  dictam  terram  cum  pertinenciis 

272.  l  Very  few  of  the  place-names  mentioned  in  the  deeds 
relating  to  Bolton  in  Gosforth  appear  now  on  the  map  :  they  are 
for  the  most  part  names  of  fields  or  very  small  parcels.  Stayn- 
knoc is  probably  meant  for  Staynknot,  as  Seteknoc,  for  Seteknot 
in  No.  273.  Knot  is  a  common  name  in  Lakeland  for  a  crag. 
The  district  of  Bolton  abounds  in  hows  and  crags.  The  date  is 
probably  the  same  as  the  next  deed,  that  is,  about  1240. 

273-  x  John  son  of  Alexander  de  Houenoth  or  Houthenou 
was  apparently  a  nephew  of  Alan  son  of  Ketel  who  held  Bolton 
(No.  226),  his  father  Alexander  being  one  of  the  sons  of  Ketel 
(No.  471).  The  phrasing  of  John's  charter  favours  this  descent. 
The  witnesses  seem  to  agree  on  a  date  about  1240. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  289 

contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  Rio 
ardo  Brun,  tune  senescaldo  Couplandie,  Hugone  de  Mor- 
eceby,  Radulpho  de  Forseit,  Roberto  de  Braintwhait, 
Jordano  de  Dreg,  Johanne,  clerico,  fratre  sno,  et  aliis. 

274.  CARTA   JOHANNIS    FUJI    ALEXANDRI    DE   TOTA 
TERRA  SUA  IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  films  Alexandri  de  Houth- 
enhow,  salutem.  Universitati  vestre  certificetur  me, 
concessu  et  voluntate  heredum  meorum,  dedisse  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  mon- 
achis  ibidem  [Deo]  servientibus  totam  terram  meam  in 
Boulton  in  Houthenhou,  scilicet,  illam  que  jacet  inter 
Blindbec1  et  foveam  apud  austrum,  et  de  gtigat2  versus 
occidentem  sicuti  fovea  se  habet,  et  propriis  averiis  illius 
hominis  qui  predictam  terram  tenebit  de  predictis  mon- 
achis,  cum  communi  pastura  et  omnibus  aisiamentis  ad 
predictam  villam  de  Boulton  pertinentibus  .  .  .  .  et 
racionabilem  exitum  et  introitum,  pro  salute  anime  mee 
et  patris  mei,  Alexandri,  et  Alani  filii  Ketelli  et  omnium 
antecessorum  meorum  et  successorum  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam.  Ego  vero,  Johannes,  et  heredes 
mei  ....  contra  omnes  homines  warantizabimus  et 
defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo 
Brun,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Ada  de  Alrington,  Jordano  de 
Dreg,  Johanne,  clerico,  et  aliis.3 

275.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  HUGONIS  DE  WARTHE- 

BUTHEWAIT  DE  IIJ  ACRIS  IN  EADEM. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Willelmus  films  Hugonis  de  Warthe- 

274.     1  Now  the  river  Bleng. 

a  This  word,  when  extended,  appears  to  be  Gretigat  or  Great- 
gate.  Several  placenames  in  the  district  are  compounded  in  like 
manner,  such  as  Windgate,  Gaterighow,  Greengate,  Gatesgarth, 
and  Sneckgate. 

3  For  the  probable  date,  see  Nos.  272-3 

U 


2QO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

buthewait,1  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me,  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum 
et  successorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
tres  acras  terre  arabilis  cum  pertinenciis  in  territorio  de 
Bouelton,  scilicet,  unam  acram  juxta  Borthheuid  inter 
duos  siketos  et  unam  acram  in  Thornbanc2  que  extendit 
a  strata  versus  villam  de  Bouelton  usque  ad  mossam  et 
dimidiam  acram  juxta  Thornheued  ab  occidentali  parte 
que  extendit  a  marisco  usque  ad  Whitrais,  et  dimidiam 
acram  in  Lovetsche3  juxta  rivulum  ab  oriental!  parte, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  cum  communi 
pastura  et  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis,  in  bosco  et  piano, 
in  villa  et  extra  villam,  ad  predictam  villam  de  Bouelton 
pertinentibus,  et  precipue  averiis  hominum  illorum  qui 

275.  1  It  has  been  suggested  (Nos.  226-7)  that  the  family  of 
Coupland  derived  their  descent  from  Alan  son  of  Ketel.  From 
the  deeds  here  it  may  be  surmised  that  the  Waberthwaites  were 
descended  from  Edward  or  Efward  son  of  Ulf.  In  two  charters 
of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  (Dep.  Keep.  Rep.,  xxxvi.  190)  we  have 
as  witnesses  Efward  son  of  Ulf  and  Ketel  his  brother  with  Hugh 
son  of  Efward  and  Alan  son  of  Ketel.  In  the  same  collection,  as 
in  this  Register,  William  son  of  Hugh  often  occurs.  Here  too  we 
have  the  same  relationships  :  Edward  or  Efward  son  of  Ulf  in 
Nos.  33,  232  :  Chetell  or  Ketel  son  of  Ulf  in  Nos.  223,  382  :  and 
Chetell  and  Efward  son  of  Ulf  in  No.  384.  The  partition  of  Bolton 
between  these  two  families  predicates  a  common  ancestry,  which 
would  derive  from  Ulf  thus  : — 

Ulf 


Ketel  Efward 

I 
Alan  Hugh 

To  an  early  charter  of  Godard  de  Boi villa  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  131) 
Ketel  de  Cauplandia  and  Ewardus  de  Cauplandia  are  the  first 
witnesses. 

2Thornbank  near  Harecroft  (O.  S.,  Ixxviij.  s.w.). 

3  Lowkesk  in  Nos.  276-7  :    now  Losca  (O.  S.,  Ixxviij.  N.E.). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA  2QI 

prenominatam  terrain  tenebunt.  Ego  vero  et  heredes 
mei  warantizabimus  predictam  terrain  ....  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Ricardo  Brun,  tune  senescaldo,4  domino  Hugone 
de  Moreceby,  domino  Ada  de  Haverington,  Radulpho 
de  Forseit,  Jurdano  de  Dreg,  Johanne  fratre  suo,  Petro 
de  Sevenhouse,  Michaele  filio  Huberti,  et  aliis. 

276.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  HUGONIS  DE  WERBUTHE- 
THWAIT  DE  J  ACRA  TERRE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  BOLTON. : 

OMNIBUS  ....  Willelmus  films  Hugonis  de  Werbuthe- 
thwait,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  dedisse 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee 
et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum 
meorum,  unam  acram  terre  arabilis  cum  pertinenciis 
de  libero  tenemento  meo  in  Bolton,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  cum  communi  pastura  et  aliis  aisiamentis 
predicte  ville  pertinentibus,  videlicet,  in  Lowkesk  juxta 
mariscum  versus  Occident  em.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei 
predictam  acram,  cum  pertinenciis,  predictis  monachis 
warantizabimus  inperpetuum  contra  omnes  homines. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Ada  de  Hav- 
erington, Roberto  filio  Rogeri,  Jurdano  de  Dreg,  Michaele 
filio  Huberti,  Petro  de  Sevenhowes,  Willelmo  Skereman, 
et  multis  aliis. 

277.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  mj  ACRIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS 

IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Willelmus  films  Hugonis  de  Weibuth- 
thwait,  eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium  antecess- 
orum et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et 
abacie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  celle  sancte  Bege  in  Coup- 
land  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  quatuor  acras 

4  Steward  of  Coupland  (No.  273). 


20,2  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

terre  arabilis  de  libero  tenemento  meo  in  territorio  de 
Boleton,  cum  pertinenciis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam,  videlicet,  unam  acram  in  Lowkesk  juxta  maris- 
cum  versus  occidentem  et  dimidiam  acram  ibidem  juxta 
rivulum  ab  orientali  parte  :  item  unam  acram  juxta 
Bortheued  inter  duos  siketos  :  item,  unam  acram  in 
Thornbank  que  extendit  a  strata  versus  villam  de  Boulton 
usque  ad  mussam,  et  dimidiam  acram  juxta  Thornheued. 
ab  occidentali  parte  que  extendit  a  marisco  usque  ad 
Whiterais,  liberas  et  quietas  ab  omni  terreno  servicio  et 
exaccione  et  demanda,  sicut  aliqua  elemosina  liberius 
potest  dari,  cum  omnibus  aisiamentis  predicte  ville  de 
Boulton  pertinentibus  et  cum  communi  pastura  ubique 
infra  divisas  de  Boulton  omnimodis  animalibus  hominum 
illorum  qui  de  ipsis  predict  as  terras  tenebunt.  Ego  vero 
et  heredes  mei  predictas  quatuor  acras  terre  ....  warant- 
izabimus  ....  contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum.  Et 
in  hujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino  Alano  de  Peny- 
ton,  Radulfo  de  Forsett,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de 
Bramthwait,  Johanne  de  Dreg,  clerico,  Petro  de  Seven- 
howes,  Ricardo  de  Punsunby,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  David  de 
Kirkeby,  et  aliis. 

278,  CARTA  ADE  FILII  WILLELMI  DE  WAYBUTHE- 
THWAIT  DE  V  ACRIS  IN  BOLTON  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  films  Willelmi  de  Waybut  hern  wait, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me,  pro  salute  anime 
mee,  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in 
Coupland,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  quinque 
acras  terre  in  territorio  de  Bolton,  videlicet,  duas  acras 
juxta  viam  que  se  extendit  versus  Kerlingsik,  et  duas 
alias  acras  juxta  illas  inter  viam  et  mussam,  et  unam 
aliam  acram  in  Thornborhe.  Tenendas  ....  Ego  vero, 
Adam,  et  heredes  mei  predictam  terram  ....  contra 
omnes  gentes  warantizabimus,  hoc  excepto  quod  prefati 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  2Q3 

monachi  libertatem  et  immunitatem  pannagii  porcorum 
hominum  suomm  in  eadem  terra  manencium  defendent 
et  adquietabunt.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Alano 
de  Penyngton,  Galfrido  falconario,  Thoma  de  Irton, 
Alexandro  de  Punsunby,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  Willelmo  de 
Punsunby,  Ricardo  et  Alexandro  de  Renglas,  et  aliis.1 

279.  CARTA  ADE  FIL[II]  WILLELMI  FILII  HUGONIS  DE 
IJ  ACRIS  IN  BOLTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ad  [am]  fil[ius]  Willelmi  filii  Hugonis, 
salutem  in  domino.  Sciatis  me,  pro  salute  animarum 
patris  et  matris  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  success- 
orum  nostrorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus  duas  acras  terre  mee  de  Bolton  propinquius 
jacentes  culture  Ricardi  de  Couplandia  versus  austrum 
super  culturam  de  Strivland.  Habendas  .  .  .  .  et  cum 
communi  pastura  ubique  in  eadem  villa  omnimodis  ani- 
malibus  propriis  hominum  predictorum  monachorum  qui 
prefatam  terram  de  illis  tenebunt.  Preterea  ego,  Ada 
fil[ius]  Willelmi,  concessi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  predictis  monachis  illas 
quatuor  acras  terre  vicinas  predictis  duabus  acris,  quas 
Hugo  films  Effwardi,  avus  meus,1  dedit  Petro  de  Seven- 
how2  in  liberum  maritagium  cum  Gunnilda  filia  sua  cum 
omni  jure  et  servicio  meo  ....  sicuti  carte  predictorum 
Hugonis  et  Petri  in  omnibus  testa[n]tur.  Hanc  vero  meam 
donacionem  et  concessionem  atque  confirmacionem  ego, 
Ada,  et  heredes  mei  contra  omnes  inperpetuum  warantiz- 
abimus.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
Alano  de  Peniton,  G.  falconario  et  J.  filio  ejus,  Ricardo  de 

278.  l  In  comparing  the  witnesses  here  with  those  of  the  fore- 
going charters,  the  date  will  be  about  1250. 

279.  1  For  Hugh  son  of  Effward,  grandfather  of  Adam  and 
father  of  William,  see  note  on  No.  275. 

a  A  charter  of  Peter  de  Sevenhow  is  at  No.  284. 


294  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Punchunby  et  Alexandra  fratre  ejus,  Thoma  de  Urton, 
Rogero  fratre  Efwardi,  Alexandra  fratre  ejus,  Willelmo 
Haretaill,  Jurdano  et  Henrico  ffiliis]  Richer!,  Michaele 
de  Neuton  et  Roberto  fratre  ejus,  et  aliis. 

280.  CARTA  ALANI  FILII  RICARDI  DE  COUPLAND  DE 

XXX  FALLIS  TERRE  IN  BOLTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Alanus  films  Ricardi  de  Coupland,1 
salutem  eternam  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie, 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  triginta  fallas  terre 
mee  arabilis  in  villa  et  in  territorio  de  Bolton  que  jacent 
subtus  Setikonoc,2  scilicet,  inter  viam  et  terram  quam 
Alanus  de  Wesmerland  tenet  de  sancto  Johanne,  Jerlm. 
Tenendas  .  .  .  .  Et  ego,  predictus  Alanus,  et  heredes 
mei  totam  predictam  terram  ....  defendemus  inper- 
petuum.  In  cujus  rei  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Nich- 
olao  de  Moreceby,  Ricardo  Flandrenci,  Thoma  de  Cleterne, 
militibus,  Nicholao  de  Irton,  Willelmo  de  Puncunby, 
Waltero  de  Sevenhouse,  et  aliis. 

281.  CARTA    JOHANNIS    LANGLIVER    DE    MEDIETATE 
TOCIUS  TERRE  DE  BOTELL. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  de  Langliver,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  Johanni  de  Boyvill  et  her- 
edibus  ejus  vel  assignatis  medietatem  warde1  tocius  terre 

280.  :  For  Alan  son  of  Richard  de  Coupland,  see  notes  on 
Nos.  227-8. 

2  The  name  appears  as  Seteknoc  or  Seteknot  in  No.  273. 

281-  xThe  partition  of  the  wardship  of  the  land  in  Bootle 
belonging  to  Adam  of  Waberthwaite  deceased,  except  the  marriage 
of  his  heirs,  is  worthy  of  note.  The  date  is  about  1255.  Thomas 
son  of  Lambert  de  Multon  received  seisin  of  his  father's  lands  on 
10  January  1247  (Fine  Rolls,  ii.  5,  Rec.  Com.)  and  John  Lanlauerd 
was  one  of  his  tenants  in  1256  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  40  Hen.  III., 
No.  69).  Of  the  witnesses,  John  de  Musgrafe  and  John  Luveles 
only  occur  here,  and  John  Delamore,  here  and  in  No.  409. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  2Q5 

de  Botell  cum  pertinenciis,  que  fuit  domini  Ade  [de] 
Waithbuthwait  et  quam  habui  de  dono  domini  Thome  de 
Multon.  Tenendam  et  habendam  predict  am  medietatem 
warde  predicto  Johanni  de  Boyvill  et  heredibus  suis  vel 
assignatis,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis,  exitibus  et  escaetis 
ad  predictam  terram  pertinentibus  usque  ad  rectam 
etatem  heredum  predict i  Ade  de  Waithbutwait,  except o 
maritagio  predictorum  heredum.  Pro  hac  siquidem 
donacione  et  concessione  dedit  michi  pre  manibus  prefatus 
Johannes  de  Boyvill  quinque  marcas  argenti.  Ego 
siquidem  et  heredes  mei  ....  warantizabimus.  Et  si 
forte  ego  vel  heredes  [mei]  defectu  warancie  domini 
Thome  de  Multon  vel  heredum  suorum  simus  prepediti, 
predictus  Johannes  et  heredes  sui  vel  assignati  michi 
et  heredibus  meis  auxilium  et  consilium  quantum  ad 
medietatem  dicte  warde  pertinet  ad  jus  nostrum  impet- 
randum  et  defendendum  prestabunt.  Et  in  hujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Wydone  de  Boyvill,  domino 
Johanne  Delamore,  Roberto  de  Vallibus,  Johanne  de  Gos- 
forth,  Johanne  de  Musgrafe,  Johanne  Luveles,  et  multis 
aliis. 

282.    CARTA  JOHANNIS  LANGLIVER  DE  j  ACRA  QUE 

FUIT  RlCARDI  DE  MORA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  de  Langliver,  salutem.  Nov- 
erit  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  acram  terre 
mee  de  dominico  meo  in  terra  que  fuit  Ricardi  de  Mora, 
scilicet,  que  jacet  in  crofto  Odonis  versus  partem  aquil- 
onem,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et 
quiet  am  ab  omni  secular  i  servicio,  consuetudine  et  exac- 
cione,  cum  communi  pastura  et  cum  omnibus  aisiamentis 
predicte  terre  pertinentibus  octo  animalibus  et  triginta 
ovibus  et  duobus  equis.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  rat  a  et 
stabilis  permaneat  earn  sigilli  mei  apposicione  coroboravi. 
Hiis  testibus  Nicholao  tune  abbate  de  Caldra,  Willelmo 


296  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

decano  persona  de  Egremund,  Radulpho  de  Metheop', 
Gilberto  persona  de  Botel,  Ada  de  Yton,  Alexandra  de 
Yton,  et  multis  aliis.1 


283.    CARTA  WALTERI  SEVENHOWS  DE  j  ACRA  IN  EAD- 

EM  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  BOTELLTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Walterus  de  Sevenhows,1  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  vendi- 
disse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  Yvoni  filio 
Huberti  de  Hirton  unam  acram  terre  de  dominio  meo  in 
territorio  de  Botelltun  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  et 
aisiamentis  ad  unam  acram  terre  pertinentibus,  illam, 
videlicet,  que  jacet  in  sarcello  Roberti  et  extendens  se 
parte  australi  in  longitudine  a  terra  predicti  Walteri  usque 
rivulum  de  Morethait2  parte  orientali  et  parte  boriali : 
in  latitudine  a  terra  ejusdem  Walteri  usque  terram  Will- 
elmi  Denhi  parte  Occident ali.  Tenendam  ....  Redd- 
endo  inde  annuatim  Deo  et  beate  Bege  et  sanctis  monachis 
ibidem  servientibus  iiij  denarios  de  eadem  firma  quam 
exibet  pro  terra  in  qua  manet.  Et  ego,  Walterus,  et 
heredes  mei  vel  mei  assignati  warantizabimus  predictam 
acram  terre  predicto  Yvoni  et  heredibus  suis  vel  suis 
assignatis  contra  omnes  homines  et  feminas  inperpetuum. 
Et  in  hujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  de  Irton, 

282.  l  Of  the  witnesses  here,  Ralf  de  Midhop,  Adam  de  Hytun, 
Alexander  de  Hytun,  together  with  the  grantor  John  de  Lange- 
lyue  Erghe,  appear  as  parties  to  a  deed,  whereby  Cicely,  widow  of 
Edward  de  Cornay,  granted  to  her  son  John  de  Cornay  all  her 
lands  in  the  vill  of  Quitebec  given  to  the  said  Cicely  in  frank 
marriage  (D.  of  L.  Charters,  Box  A.,  No.  327).     Nicholas  abbot 
of  Calder  is  witness  to  a  deed  dated  January  1250  (D.  K.  Rep., 
xxxvi.  183). 

283.  l  For  another  charter  of  Walter  de  Sevenhows,  see  No. 
169.     This  member  (Ives  son  of  Hubert)  of  the  family  of  Irton 
only  occurs  here  in  this  Register. 

2  Now  Murthwait  (note  on  No.  271). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  2Q/ 

Johanne  falconario,  Thoma  de  Sevenhows,  Petro  de 
Sevenhows,  Benedicto  fal[conario],  Willelmo  filio  Dune,, 
et  mult  is  aliis.3 

284.  CARTA  PETRI  DE  SEVENHOWS  DE  QUATUOR  ACRIS 

IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Petrus  de  Sevenhou,  salutem  in  dom- 
ino. Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  de  consilio  et  con- 
sensu  Gunnilde  uxoris  mee,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  illas  quatuor  acras  terre  mee  in  territorio- 
de  Bolton  quas  Hugo  films  Efward,  pater  dicte  Gunnilde 
uxoris  mee,1  michi  dedit  cum  eadem  in  liberum  maritag- 
ium,  et  unam  schalingam  in  Butoft,  prout  carta  dicti 
Hugonis  testatur.  Habendas  ....  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam  cum  omnibus  communibus  et  aisia- 
mentis  et  pertinenciis  predicte  ville  de  Bolton  adjacent- 
ibus  et  cum  communi  pastura  ubique  in  eadem  villa 
omnimodis  animalibus  et  averiis  propriis  hominum 
illorum  qui  predictam  terram  et  schalingam  de  sepedictis 
monachis  tenebunt.  Hanc  vero  meam  donacionem  et 
concessionem  ego  et  heredes  mei  prenominate  virgini 
sancte  Bege  et  dictis  monachis  contra  omnes  inperpetuum 
warantizabimus.  Et  in  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Ricardo  le  Brun  tune  senescallo  Coupland  [ie] 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  G[alfrido]  falconario  et  Johanne 
f  rat  re  ejus,  Ricardo  de  Punchunby  et  Alexandro  fratre 
ejus,  Thoma  de  Irton,  Roberto  de  Bramthait,  Nicholao 
de  Moreceby,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Dreg 
clerico,  et  aliis.2 

285.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  SCHARP  DE  j  ACRA  IN  EADEM. 
SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  Scharp1  perpetuus 

3  Date  about  1270-80. 

284.  l  See  No.  279  and  note  on  No.  275. 

2  This  deed  is  much  earlier  than  the  last :    perhaps  about  1250. 

285.  l  Rector  of  Whicham  in  1371  (Nos.  319,  326-7). 


298  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

vicarius  de  Dalton,  dedi,  ....  dominis  Leonardo  de 
Malton,  Johanni  del  Bane,  et  Radulpho  Bell,  capellanis, 
unam  acram  terre  vocatam  le  Couperacre  in  Boltonheued,2 
quam  habui  ex  dono  Willelmi  Scharp,  jacentem  inter 
terram  Ricardi  de  Coupland  ex:  parte  boriali  et  terram 
vocatam  Fleteland  ex  parte  australi.  Habendam  .... 
Et  ego  vero,  predictus  Johannes  Scharp,  et  heredes  mei 
predictam  acram  ....  contra  omnes  gentes  warantiz- 
abimus  et  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Johanne  de  Hudelston,  Ricardo  Flemyng,  mil- 
itibus,  Nicholao  de  Stanlaw,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Willelmo 
Boyvill,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Egremond,  die  Sabbati 
proxim[a]  post  festum  sancte  Trinitatis,  anno  regni  regis 
Ricardi  secundi  a  Conquestu  quint o.8 

286.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  RICHERI  DE  TERRIS  INTER 
BARKERHALS  ET  HELHEPULE. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Ada  films  Richeri,1  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta 
mea  confirmavi  Willelmo  filio  meo  pro  homagio  et  ser- 
vicio  suo  terciam  part  em  tocius  terre  mee  quam  teneo 
de  fratribus  Hospitalis  de  Jerlfn  inter  Barkerhals  et 
Helhepul.2  Tenendam  et  habendam  ei  et  heredibus  suis  de 

2  Bolton  Head  (O.S.,  Ixxviij.  N.E.). 

3  7  June,  1382. 

286.  l  Adam  son  of  Richer  de  Caldra  :  see  the  charter  of  Wil- 
liam his  son,  mentioned  here,  at  No.  166. 

2  Places  in  Millom.  On  13  June  1300  a  fine  was  paid  by  the 
abbot  of  Kaldir  for  the  alienation  in  mortmain  to  that  abbot  and 
convent  by  John  de  Hudeleston  of  8|  acres  of  land  and  i  acre  of 
meadow  in  Botill  and  a  place  in  Milnum  called  Barkerhals,  con- 
taining 9|  acres  of  land  and  i£  acre  of  meadow  (Cal.  of  Pat., 
1292-1301,  p.  519).  William  de  Boivilla  granted  to  the  monks  of 
Furness  all  the  land  of  Melis  of  Kirksantan  with  the  moiety  of 
the  fisheries  of  the  water  of  Helupul,  with  estovers  in  his  wood  of 
Kirksanton  and  free  suit  to  his  mill  there  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  462). 
This  grant  was  afterwards  confirmed  by  Robert  his  son,  for 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     299 

me  et  heredibus  meis  in  feodo  et  hereditate,  libere,  quiete, 
in  boscis  et  planis  et  assartis  et  pasturis  et  omnibus  aliis 
aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  ad  predictam  terram  pertinen- 
tibus.  Reddendo  inde  michi  et  heredibus  meis  annuatim 
quatuor  denarios  ad  festum  beati  Bartholomei  pro  omni 
servicio,  consuetudine  et  demanda.  Hanc  vero  terram  ego 
et  heredes  mei  prefatis  Willelmo  et  heredibus  suis  contra 
omnes  homines  warantizabimus .  Et  in  hu j  us  rei  testimoni- 
um  huic  script o  signum  meum  apposui .  Hiis  test ibu  s  Thoma 
persona  de  Botill,  Edwardo  de  Cornay,  Alexandra  de 
Yton,  Ada  de  Yton,  Johanne  de  Morthing,  Thoma 
Corbet,  Willelmo  de  Osmunderlaw,  Johanne  de  Boyvilla, 
et  aliis.3 

287.    CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  WALDEU'  (sic)  DE  TERCIA 

PARTE  UNIUS  ACRE  IN  MORTHAITBEC. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris 
quod  ego,  Willelmus  films  Wald[evi],  dedi  et  concessi  et 
carta  mea  confirmavi  Alano  fratri  meo  terciam  partem 
acre  mee  quam  teneo  de  sancta  Bega,  jacentem  juxta 
Morthaitbec,  et  ex  una  parte  versus  mare  et  ex  alia  parte 
versus  montes.  Tenendam  et  habendam  liberam  ab 
omni  servicio,  except  is  duobus  denariis  quos  persolvet 
michi  vel  heredibus  meis  annuatim,  scilicet,  unum  denar- 
ium  ad  Pentecosten,  et  unum  denarium  ad  festum  sancti 
Martini.  Alanus,  quando  voluerit,  super  illam  partem 
terre  edificabit  mansionem  suam :  et  ego,  Willelmus 
films  Willelmi,1  vel  heredes  mei  warantizabimus  Alano 
fratri  meo  vel  heredibus  suis  illam  partem  terre  cum 

the  soul  of  his  father  and  the  soul  of  Ralf  de  Boivilla  his  brother, 
to  the  use  of  the  poor  in  the  secular  infirmary  at  Furness  (Ibid., 
No.  463),  both  grants  being  in  the  last  quarter  of  the  twelfth 
century. 

3  The  probable  date  is  about  1230-1240. 

287.  l  Probably  a  scribal  error  for  Waldevi.  William  son  of 
Waldeve  occurs  as  a  witness  in  No.  435 


3OO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

omnibus  aisiamentis  ad  terciam  partem  illius  acre  pertin- 
entibus  inperpetuum.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  rata  et 
perfecta  permaneat  earn  sigilli  mei  apposicione  corrob- 
oravi.  Hiis  testibus  Galfrido  fol[conario]  de  Gosford,, 
Thoma  de  Irton,  Alexandra  de  Punchunby,  Petro  de 
Sevenhow,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  Henrico  de  Aynthorn,  et 
multis  aliis. 

288.    CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  PUNCUNBY 

DE  TOTA  TERRA  IN  WlDEKELDFLAT  CUM  ALIIS  AISl[A]- 
MENTIS  MULTIS. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Ricardus  films 
Johannis  de  Puncunby,1  dedi,  concessi  et  hac  present! 
carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  de 

288.  1  This  Register  supplies  valuable  materials  for  the  earljr 
history  of  the  manor  of  Ponsonby.  The  names  of  John  son  of 
Puncon  or  Ponson  and  Richer  son  of  Punzun  appear  often  as 
witnesses  (Nos.  87,  232,  323)  :  in  other  places  as  John  son  of 
Ponce  (Pontii)  and  Richer  son  of  Ponce  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  546  : 
D.  of  L.,  Cart.  Misc.,  ii.  n).  In  1177  John  was  indebted  to  the 
Exchequer  for  a  fine  of  forty  marks  for  failing  to  produce  his  pledge 
before  the  justices,  a  circumstance  which  apparently  indicates 
the  date  of  his  succession  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  347)  :  he  gave  the 
church  of  Ponsonby  to  the  hospital  founded  at  Conishead,  which 
gift  was  afterwards  confirmed  by  Richard  his  son  (Dugdale,  Mon., 
vi.  556).  Richard  son  of  John  son  of  Punzun  endowed  the  same 
house  with  all  the  land  by  the  brook  of  Saithegile  near  the  stone- 
bridge  and  as  the  path  leads  from  the  bridge  to  the  church  and  as 
the  deep  trench  runs  by  the  highway  towards  the  west,  and  so 
beyond  the  meadow  to  the  boundary  which  passes  the  fence  of  the 
churchyard  towards  the  south,  and  then  to  the  land  of  the  church 
towards  the  west,  and  then  to  the  middle  of  Crocland,  as  the 
furrow  of  the  plough  is  marked  by  stones  as  it  passes  over  Mosou- 
flat  to  the  peatmoss  to  the  bounds  of  the  land  given  by  his  father  : 
thus  their  boundary  reaches  to  the  Calder,  and  so  back  to  Saithe- 
gile, the  file  of  the  Calder  being  the  boundary  of  the  whole  land. 
Permission  was  also  given  to  the  brethren  to  inclose  the  heath  of 
Haukesker  for  the  profit  of  the  house  (Ibid.,  vi.  558). 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     30! 

Widekeldeflat  usque  ad  terram  que  fuit  Pagani,  et  it  a  in 
ascensum  usque  ad  Ulvescrophe  descendit  ad  moram 
versus  ecclesiam  et  per  moram  sicut  descendit  usque  ad 
siketum,  et  de  siketo  usque  ad  fossatum  ultra  domum 
Willelmi  et  sicut  fossatum  ascendit  versus  grangiam 
Haymeri,  et  sicut  idem  fossatum  tendit  ad  predictam 
terram  Pagani,  in  liberam,  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosin- 
am,  cum  communi  pastura,  in  bosco  et  in  piano,  in  pratis 
et  pascuis  et  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis  eidem  ville  de 
Punchunby  pertinentibus,  scilicet,  quatraginta  averiis  et 
centum  ovibus  et  xij  porcis  et  sex  equis  cum  sequela 
omnium  eorum  unius  anni,  pro  anima  domini  Ricardi  de 
Lucy  et  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  animabus  patris  et 
matris  et  omnium  antecessorum  meorum.  Ita  libere  et 
quiete  et  honorifice  sicut  aliqua  elemosina  liberius  tenetur 
et  possidetur.  Et  hanc  vero  donacionem  ego  et  heredes 
mei  jam  dictis  monachis  contra  omnes  homines  warantiz- 
abimus  inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  G.  abbate  de  Caldra, 
Augustino  priore  de  Conneghehevede,  Willelmo  de  Millum, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  Angetino  filio  Duranti,  Galfrido 
falcon[ario],  Johanne  Flamengo,  Ada  filio  Richeri,  et  aliis.2 

289.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  nj  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Ricardus  films  Johannis  de  Puncunby 
salutem.  Noveritis  me  dedisse,  concessisse  et  hac  mea 
presenti  carta  confirmasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  tres 
acras  terre  de  dominio  meo,  unam,  scilicet,  acram  infra 
sartum  meum  juxta  domum  que  fuit  Hayuirig  et  duas 
acras  in  Qwhitekeldflat  propinquiores  juxta  eandem 
domum  versus  austrum,  et  totum  pratum  quod  jacet 

2  The  date  must  be  very  early  in  the  thirteenth  century,  perhaps 
about  1202.  G.  abbot  of  Caldra  and  Augustine  prior  of  Conneghe- 
hevede only  occur  here  in  the  Register. 


3O2  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

infra  predictas  acras  pro  anima  domini  mei  Ricardi  de 
Lucy  et  pro  animabus  omnium  fidelium  defunctorum,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  ab 
omni  servicio  seculari,  consuetudine  et  exaccione,  cum 
omnibus  communibus  aisiamentis  ville  de  Punchunby  et 
cum  communi  pastura  dicte  ville,  scilicet,  quatraginta 
averiis  cum  sequela  unius  anni  et  sexaginta  ovibus  cum 
sequela  unius  anni  et  decem  suibus  cum  sequela  unius 
anni  et  viginti  capris  cum  sequela  unius  anni  et  quatuor 
equabus  cum  sequela  unius  anni.  Hanc  donacionem  feci 
sepedictis  monachis  quando  corpus  domini  mei  Ricardi 
de  Lucy  translatum  fuit  in  ecclesiam  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  virginis.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  hanc 
terram  cum  supradictis  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  prefatis 
monachis  contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum  warantiz- 
abimus.  Hiis  testibus  Ascat[ino]  filio  Durandi,  Roberto 
de  Wilton,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  filio  Hugonis, 
Ricardo  de  Cletern,  Rogero  filio  Eward,  Ricardo  Collan, 
Johanne  Marscald,  Roberto  filio  Rogeri,  Gilberto  pre- 
posito,  David  de  Kirkeby,  Willelmo  et  Roberto  servienti- 
bus  prioris  sancte  Bege,  et  multis  aliis.1 


289.  ^his  deed  is  several  years  later  than  the  last,  though 
Anketin  son  of  Durand  is  a  witness  of  both.  The  date  is  almost 
certain  to  be  1212-3,  when  Richard  de  Lucy,  his  feudal  superior, 
was  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Bees  (Rot.  Lift.  Pat.,  p.  96^  :  Rot. 
de  Oblat.,  pp.  474-5,  Rec.  Com.).  It  was  probably  this  Richard 
son  of  John,  not  the  Richard  son  of  William  de  Punchunby  of 
No.  296,  who  may  be  identified  with  Richard  de  Puncunebi  of 
the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  charter  whereby  he  granted  to  Robert 
de  Bastuntwait  lands  in  the  vill  of  Ponsonby  in  frank  marriage 
with  Godyt  his  daughter  (Box  A.,  No.  322).  The  witnesses  of 
the  grant,  Lambert  de  Muleton,  Richard  de  Caupilland,  Ralf  de 
Feritate,  Richard  Brun,  Hugh  de  Moricebi,  Alan  de  Penitun, 
Gilbert  de  Feritate,  and  William  dean  of  Wirkingtun,  all  agree 
with  the  period  of  Richard  son  of  John.  These  dower  lands  were 
afterwards  bestowed  in  free  alms  on  the  canons  of  Conishead, 
comprising  one  ploughland  and  24  acres  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi. 
558). 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA        303 

290.  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  PUNCUNBY  DE 
IJ  BOVATIS  TERRE  IN  PUNCHUNBY. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Ricardus  filius  Johannis  de  Punchunby,  cum  consilio 
heredum  meorum,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta 
mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  duas  bovatas  terre  in  Punchunby  et  unum 
t  of  turn  in  Scart,1  et  insuper  de  augment  o  quinque  acras 
terre,  scilicet,  unam  acram  juxta  terram  que  fuit  Robert! 
Cuglepem  et  quatuor  acras  in  Ulvescroft  et  in  Ardekin, 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  bosco  et  in  piano,  in 
pratis  et  in  pastura,  in  aquis,  in  molendinis  et  in  omnibus 
aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  que  ad  eandem  villam  pertinent, 
liberas  et  quiet  as  ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  exaccione  et 
consuetudine.  Insuper  quidem  dedi  et  concessi  predict  is 
monachis  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  in  eadem 
villa  pasturam  ad  centum  oves  cum  sequela  unius  anni. 
Hanc  donacionem  ego,  Ricardus,  et  heredes  mei  warantiz- 
abimus  predict  is  monachis  contra  omnes  homines,  et  ad- 
quiet  abimus  omne  forinsecum  servicium2  in  omnibus. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Alano  de  Pennington,  domino 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  domino  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Roberto 
de  Brampthwait,  Willelmo  Haretaill,  Willelmo  de  Pun- 
chunby, Jurdano  de  Dreg,  David  de  Kirkeby,  et  multis 
aliis. 

291.  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  PUNCHUNBY 
DE  TERRIS  IN  EADEM. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 

290.  1Now  Scargreen.  In  the  fourteenth  century  Waldeve 
de  Scarth  released  to  John  son  of  his  brother  Adam  de  Scarth 
all  his  rights  in  Scarth  in  the  vill  of  Ponsonby  (Hist.  MSS.  Com. 
Rep.,  x.  App.  iv.  225). 

*  For  the  signification  of  this  term  in  Cumberland,  see  V.  C.  H. 
Cumb.,  i.  322-4. 


304  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

scriptum  pervenerit,  Ricardus  films  Johannis  de  Pun- 
chunby,  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  ad 
peticionem  domini  Radfulfi],1  prioris  sancte  Bege,  et 
ejusdem  loci  humilis  conventus,  quoddam  proprium 
excambium  cum  eis  fecisse  de  quadam  parte  terre  ele- 
mosine,  scilicet,  duarum  bovatarum  quas  eisdem  monachis 
antea  incartavi,  scilicet,  quod  eis  dedi  quinque  acras 
terre  et  dimidiam  de  dominico  meo  super  Langland,2 
videlicet,  pro  quibusdam  parcellis  predict  arum  bovatarum 
in  campo  separatim  jacentibus  in  hiis  locis  subscriptis, 
scilicet,  dimidiam  acram  in  Calderbank,  et  dimidiam  acram 
in  Moshouflat,  et  dimidiam  acram  [in]  Crocland,  et  dim- 
idiam acram  in  Kirkebergh,  et  dimidiam  acram  in  North- 
schoh,  et  dimidiam  [acram]  ad  Likrestinge,  et  unam  acram 
in  Aldegail,  et  dimidiam  acram  ad  Apiltrewaht,  et  unam 
percatam  ad  Lauerdeshou,  et  dimidiam  acram  juxta 
aulam,3  et  unam  percatam  ad  Whitekelde.  Ita,  scilicet, 
quod  ego,  Ricardus  filius  Johannis,  et  heredes  mei  prefat- 
um  excambium  de  predictis  quinque  acris  terre  mee  et 
dimidia  super  Langlandfes]  prenominatis  priori  et  mona- 
chis contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum  warantizabimus, 
scilicet,  secundum  omnes  easdem  libertates  unde  cart  a 
predictarum  bovatarum  loquetur.  Predicti  eciam  prior 
et  monachi  prefatas  parcellas  terre  sue  prenominatis 
Ricardo  et  heredibus  suis  inperpetuum  warantizabunt. 
Hiis  testibus  Asketillo  filio  Duranti,  Willelmo  de  Gurdune, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Thoma  de  Botell, 
Willelmo  persona  de  Wirkinton,  Benedicto  de  Rotington, 
Ricardo  de  deterge,  Johanne  clerico  de  Dreg,  Benedicto 
persona  de  Wathebunthwait,  et  multis  aliis.4 

291-     1  Prior  Ralf  only  occurs  here  in  this  Register. 

2  In  respect  of  these  lands  there  is  a  note  in  the  margin  in  the 
original  hand  :  Quere  confirmacionem  Nicholai  Staynlowe  de  eadem 
in  x°  folio  subsequente.  See  Nos.  328-9. 

8  This  refers  to  the  old  hall  of  Ponsonby  on  the  Gosforth  side  of 
the  parish. 

4  The  date  can  scarcely  be  later  than  1220. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA        305 

292.  CARTA  SYMONIS  ABBATIS  DE  TERRIS  IN  PUNCHUN- 
BY,  V.S.  CONVENTUI. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Simon  miseracione  divina  abbas  sancte 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  conventus,  salutem  etern- 
am  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  nos  concessisse  .... 
Johanni  filio  Roberti  le  Riche  de  Bouillon  in  Coupland  et 
heredibus  suis  totam  terram  quam  habemus  de  dono 
Ricardi  filii  Johannis  de  Punzunby  in  eadem  villa,  sicut 
carte  ejusdem  Ricardi  quas  de  dicta  terra  habemus  plenius 
testantur.  Tenendam  ....  que  in  cartis  dicti  Ricardi  de 
Punzunby  quas  de  predicta  terra,  sicut  predictum  est,  penes 
nos  habemus,  continentur.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  celle 
nostre  de  sancta  Bega  inperpetuum  quinque  solidos  et 
sex  denarios  ad  duos  terminos,  medietatem  ad  Pentecost  en 
et  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme.  Hoc 
eis  concedimus  quamdiu  se  erga  nos  legaliter  habuerint  et 
predictum  censum  bene  reddiderint.  Si  vero  contingat 
quod  predictus  Johannes  vel  heredes  sui  predictam  terram 
vi  vel  racione  amiserint  non  dabimus  eis  escambium.  In 
cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Johanne  de  Ray- 
gate  et  Gilbert o  de  Wirkington,  militibus,  Ricardo  de 
Multon,  tune  senescallo  domini  abbatis,  magistro  Johanne 
de  Aseby,  Roberto  de  Cuton,  Johanne  de  Thwaites,  et 
aliis.  Datum  apud  Eboracum1  die  mercurii  proximfa] 
post  festum  sancti  Valentini  marteris,  anno  gracie  m° 
cc°  lxx°. 

293.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  ROBERTI  LE  RICHE  DE 
BOUILTON  DE  EADEM. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  Johannes  films  Roberti  le  Riche  de  Bouilton 
in  Coupland,  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me 
habere  cartam  domini  abbatis  et  conventus  sancte  Marie, 
Eboraci  in  hec  verba  :  Omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  presens 

292.     i  18  February,  1271. 

X 


306  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris,  Simon1  miseracione  divina 
abbas  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  etc.,  as  in  No.  292. 

294.    CARTA  ALEXANDRI  FILII  RICARDI  DE  PUNCHUN- 

BY  DE  J   RODA  TERRE  ET  PRATO  ADJACENTE  CUM  MULTIS 
LIBERTATIBUS. 

SCIANT  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Alexander 
films  Ricardi1  de  Punchunby,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac 
presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus,  specialiter  vero  luminati  (sic)  illius  ecclesie, 
unam  rodam  terre  et  eo  amplius  cum  parvo  prato  adja- 
cente  versus  rivum,  scilicet,  tot  am  terram  illam  in  Linflat 
quam  Benedictus  Bercarius  tenuit  de  me  inter  terram 
prioris  sancte  Bege  et  terram  Willelmi  Haretaill,  cum 

293.  1  Simon  de  Warrewik,  abbot  of  York  1258-96  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  iii.  538). 

294.  l  In  1243  Jollan  abbot  of  Calder  had  a  plea  with  Alex- 
ander de  Punzuneby  touching  40  acres  of  pasture  in  Holegate  and 
the  suit  of  Alexander  and  his  men  of  Ponsonby  at  the  abbot's  mill 
in  Calder,  and  pasture  for  208  animals,  45  mares  and  510  sheep, 
1 70  goats  and  48  swine  in  Ponsonby.     The  40  acres  of  pasture  were 
situated  within  the  boundaries  from  Lower   (minori)   Staynpik 
eastward  by  the  brook  of  Scalderscogh  as  far  as  Frithebek  and 
thence  to  the  Calder,  and  so  downward  to  the  place  where  Hol- 
gatebek  falls  into  the  Calder,  and  thence  upward  to  Lower  Stayn- 
pik.    Alexander  admitted  the  abbot's  claim,  as  those  rights  and 
privileges  were  granted  by  Richard  de  Ponsonby,  father  of  Alex- 
ander, whose  heir  he  was  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  27  Hen.  III.,  No.  34). 
An  exchange  of  land  in  Ponsonby  took  place  in  1246  between  Prior 
John  of  Conishead  and  Abbot  Jollan  of  Calder.     Prior  John  quit- 
claimed the  whole  vill  of  Holegate  in  the  abbot's  wood  of  Calder- 
dale  and  all  claim  to  common  in  an  aldergrove  (alnetd)  in  Ponsonby 
opposite  the  said  abbey  towards  the  south,  with  liberty  to  inclose 
the  aldergrove  with  a  ditch  (fossato)  or  hedge  (hay a).     In  return 
Abbot  Jollan  granted  to  the  house  of  Conishead  20  acres  of  land 
in  Ponsonby,  to  wit,  1 7  acres  on  Calderbank  and  3  acres  in  Linflat 
(Ibid.,  31  Hen.  III.,  No.  54b). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  307 

pastura  decem  averiis,  viginti  ovibus,  decem  capris, 
quatuor  porcis,  uni  equo,  cum  tola  sequela  sua  unius  annL 
Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Rio 
ardo  de  Cletergh,  Johanne  clerico  de  Dreg,  domino  Will- 
elmo  de  Wirkinton,  tune  decano,  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton, 
clerico,  Willelmo  Haretaill,  et  aliis.2 

295.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  WILLELMI  DE  PUNCHUN- 
BY  DE  IIJ  ACRIS  IN  PUNCHUNBY. 

OMNIBUS  .  .  .  Johannes  films  Willelmi  de  Punchunby,1 
salutem.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  ....  Ricardo,  fratri 
meo,  et  heredibus  suis  de  corpore  suo  exeuntibus  pro 
humagio  et  servicio  suo,  tres  acras  terre  mee,  cum  pertin- 
enciis  suis  in  villa  et  in  territorio  de  Punchunby,  illas, 
scilicet,  tres  acras  que  jacent  super  Harthkyn  propinqui- 
ores  juxta  moram  cum  omnibus  edificiis  super  predict  as 
tres  acras  plantatis,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus,  communiis 
et  aisiamentis  ad  tantam  terram  pertinentibus  infra  villam 
et  extra  sine  ullo  retenemento.  Tenendas  ....  Red- 
dendo  inde  annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  duodecem 
denarios  argenti  pro  omni  servicio,  exaccione  et  demanda 
videlicet,  sex  denarios  ad  Pentecost  en  et  sex  denarios  ad 
festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme.  Et  sciendum  est  quod 
nee  predictus  Ricardus  nee  heredes  sui  predictas  tres  acras 

2  The  date  of  the  deed  will  fall  between  1230  and  1240. 

295.  l  John  son  of  Puncun  and  William  his  son,  Daniel  son  of 
Michael,  Hugh  son  of  Efward,  William  Chorbet,  Peter  de  Kyr- 
chesantun,  and  Agnes  wife  of  Benedict  de  Penintuna  are  among 
the  witnesses  of  a  grant  from  Robert  de  Boivilla  and  Margaret  his 
wife  and  their  son  William  with  his  brothers  to  the  monks  of 
Furness  of  a  moiety  of  Newby  which  Waldeve  son  of  Ethmund 
gave  to  the  said  Robert  in  free  marriage  with  his  daughter.  The 
grantor,  his  wife  and  children  had  therefor  the  right  of  sepulture 
in  the  cemetery  of  the  abbey.  When  the  monks  took  the  land  they 
gave  Margaret  six  marks  of  silver  and  a  gold  ring,  because  the  said 
land  was  her  marriage  portion  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  475).  This  deed 
shows  the  relationships  of  the  parties  here  and  in  the  next  charter. 


308  REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

vendent  et  alienabunt  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  dummodo 
nos  tantum  pro  eis  dare  voluerimus  quantum  voluerint 
alii.  Et  ego,  predictus  Johannes  et  heredes  mei  .... 
predict  as  tres  acras  ....  warantizabimus  inperpetuum. 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Cletergh,  Johanne  de 
Langliverg,  Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  militibus,  Ricardo 
Flandrensi,  Johanne  falconfer],  Willelmo  de  Punchunby, 
Johanne  filio  David,  et  aliis. 

296.  RlCARDUS  FILIUS  WlLLELMI  DE  PUNCHUNBY  DE 
IIJ  ACRIS  ET  EDIFICIIS  IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  films  Willelmi  de  Punchun- 
by, salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  dedisse  .... 
Johanni  filio  Roberti  filii  Ade1  tres  acras  terre  cum  per- 
tinenciis  in  Punsunby  et  cum  omnibus  edificiis  super 
eandem  constructis,  illas,  scilicet,  tres  acras  terre  quas 
habui  ex  dono  Johannis  de  Punsunby,  fratris  mei.  Ten- 
endas  ....  faciendo  dominis  feodi  servicia  debita  que 
de  ilia  terra  tenentur.  Pro  hac  autem  donacione  mea 
dedit  michi  predictus  Johannes  quatuor  marcas  argenti 
pre  manibus  in  mea  magna  necessitate.  Et  ego,  Ricardus, 
et  heredes  mei  dictas  tres  acras  terre  ....  contra  omnes 
inperpetuum  warantizabimus.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio 
robur  optineat  firmitatis  hoc  presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei 
impressione  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  le 
Flemyng,  Alano  de  Coupland,  domino  Willelmo  de  Clet- 
ergh, Willelmo  de  Wey bur ghth wait,  Willelmo  de  Morthing, 
Waltero  de  Seuenhous,  et  aliis.2 

297.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  TOTIS  TERRIS  ET  TENEMENTIS 
IN  PUNCHUNBY. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  films  Willelmi  de  Punzunby, 

296.  JThis  is  John  son  of  Robert  le  Riche  of  Bouilton  in 
Coupland  mentioned  in  Nos.  292-3,  298. 

2  The  dates  of  this  and  the  foregoing  deed  cannot  be  long  before 
1270.  See  date  of  next  deed. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA  309 

salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  .... 
Deo,  beate  Marie,  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  monachis  apud  cellam  de  sancta  Bega  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  et  eorum  successoribus  inperpetuum 
totum  jus  vel  clameum  quod  habui  vel  quoquomodo 
habere  potui  in  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis  in  predicta  Punzunby  in  Coupland.  Ita, 
scilicet,  quod  ego  nee  heredes  mei  nee  aliquis  alius  per  nos 
sive  nomine  nostro  in  predictis  terris  vel  tenementis  nee 
in  aliqua  eorum  parte  cum  suis  pertinenciis  nullomodo  jus 
vel  clameum  habere,  exigere  vel  vendicare  poterimus 
inperpetuum.  Et  ne  ego  vel  heredes  mei  vel  aliquis  alius 
nomine  nostro  contra  hoc  instrumentum  vel  factum  in 
aliquo  possimus  inposterum  evenire  in  contrarium  in 
perpetue  (sic)  concessions  remissionis  et  quiete  clamacion- 
is  et  perpetue  firmitatis  testimonium  presenti  scripto 
sigillum  meum  apposui.  Datum  sexto  Idus  Februarii, 
anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii  Regis  Johannis  1°  quinto. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton,  Thoma  de 
Cleter,  Ricardo  Flemyng,  militibus.  Roberto  de  Warwik, 
Simone  de  Hoton,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de 
Haverington,  Roberto  de  Brampthwait,  et  aliis.1 

298.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  ROBERTI  LE  RICHE  DE 
BOUILTON  DE  TOTIS  TERRIS  ET  EDIFICIIS  IN  PUNCHUNBY. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  films  Roberti  le  Riche  de 
Bouilton,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
....  me  reddidisse,  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Ebor- 
aci, et  beate  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus totam  terram  cum  edificiis  desuper  constructis 
et  totum  pratum  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  in  Pun- 
zunby, quamquidem  terram  et  quod  pratum  quondam 
tenui  de  eisdem  monachis  in  eadem  villa.  Tenenda  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton,  Roberto  de 

297.      l  8  February,  1271. 


3IO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Haverington,  Ricardo  le  Flammanc,  militibus,  Roberto 
de  Lamplogh,  Ricardo  de  Cletere,  Willelmo  de  Punzunby, 
Roberto  le  fauconer  de  Gosford,  Johanne  de  Gedneye, 
Alexandro  de  Hale,  et  aliis.1 

299.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  KETELLI  DE  j  ACRA  TERRE  IN 
HALE. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  present es  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Adam  films  Ketelli,1  cum  consilio  et  assensu  heredum 
meorum  et  amicorum  meorum,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac 
mea  present!  carta  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus  unam  acram  terre  in  Hale  cum  communi  pastura, 
scilicet,  decem  averiis  et  triginta  ovibus  et  duobus  equis, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio  et  consuetudine  liberam  et  quiet  am.  Ego  autem 
et  heredes  mei  warantizabimus  predictis  monachis  pre- 
dictam  elemosinam  contra  omnes  homines.  Hanc  don- 
acionem  feci  pro  salute  mea  et  heredum  meorum  et  om- 
nium parentum  meorum.  Hiis  testibus  Alano  filio 
Ketelli,  Willelmo  fratre  ejus,  Anketino  filio  Durandi, 
Alexandro  de  Caldra,  Gilberto  de  Haverington,  Michaele 
capellano,  Nicholao  filio  Anketfini],  et  multis  aliis. 

300.  CARTA    WILLELMI    CAPELLANI    FILII    HENRICI 

DISPENSATORIS  DE  DIMIDIA  RODA  ET  VIJ  VIRGATIS  IN  HALE.1 

298.  l  From  the   grantor  and  witnesses,   the   date  must  be 
about  the  same  as  the  foregoing. 

299.  l  No  evidence  has  been  discovered  in  this  Register  to 
confirm  the  assumption  that  Adam  son  of  Retell  was  a  brother 
of  the  more  famous  Alan  son  of  Ketel,  but  the  inference  is  probable. 
It  is  certain  that  Alan  had  three  brothers,  Benedict,  Michael  and 
William  (Nos.  29,  31).     Adam  son  of  Retell  appears  only  in  this 
charter  and  in  No.  226.     He  is  the  first  owner  of  Hale  that  has 
been  met  with,  but  see  Adam  son  of  Ywan  in  the  next  deed.     The 
date  here  is  about  1210. 

300.  l  This  is  a  shortened  form  of  the  deed  that  follows. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA         31 1 
301.    CARTA  WILLELMI  CAPELLANI  FILII  HENRICI  DE 

EISDEM. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  has  literas  visuri  vel  audituri 
quod  ego,  Willelmus  capellanus,  filius  Henrici  dispensat- 
oris  de  Hale,  dedi,  concessi  et  present!  cart  a  mea  confirm- 
avi  et  in  ligia  potestate  mea  assignavi  Petro  alumpno  et 
assignato  meo  et  heredibus  suis  de  corpore  suo  proveni- 
entibus  unam  acram  et  dimidiam  rodam  et  septem  vir- 
gatas  terre  in  Hale  quas  Adam  filius  Ywani1  michi  et 
assignatis  meis  dedit.  Tenendas  et  habendas  de  sancta 
Bega  et  de  priore  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
prenotato  Petro  et  heredibus  suis  de  corpore  suo  proveni- 
entibus,  libere,  quiete,  pacifice,  honorifice,  in  feodo  et 
hereditate  cum  omnibus  aisiamentis,  libertatibus  et  com- 
munibus  suis  dicte  terre  pertinentibus  que  continentur  in 
carta  Ade  filii  Ywani  quam  michi  dedit  de  predicta  terra 
cum  pertinenciis.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  quatuor 
denarios  in  die  sancte  Bege  pro  omni  servicio,  consuetu- 
dine  et  seculari  exaccione  et  demanda.  Si  vero  dictus 
Petrus  heredem  de  proprio  corpore  non  habuerit,  Adam 
frater  dicti  Petri  heres  ejus  erit.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod  dict- 
us Petrus  predictam  terram  nee  communia  nee  aisiamenta 
ad  dictam  terram  pertinencia  nunquam  alienabit  nee 
aliquo  modo  elongabit  a  predict o  Ada  fratre  suo.  Et 

301.  1  Adam  son  of  Ywan  cannot  be  identified  with  Adam  son 
of  Ketell  in  No.  299.  To  a  charter  of  Richard  de  Boisvilla,  by 
which  ten  acres  of  land  in  Culdretun  were  given  to  the  abbey  of 
Caldra,  the  two  last  witnesses  are  Adam  son  of  Ketell  and  yuuain 
de  Hale  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxxiv).  On  Monday  the  feast  of  St. 
Clement  the  Pope,  33  Edw.  I.  (23  November,  1304),  Quenilda, 
daughter  of  Adam  son  of  Huyan  de  Hale,  widow,  released  to 
Robert  son  of  Sir  Richard  de  Cletern  her  right  in  one  acre  of  land 
in  the  town  of  Botil,  which  she  had  by  the  gift  of  John  de  Hale, 
and  which  used  to  pay  to  the  true  heirs  of  Hale  a  pair  of  gloves 
yearly  (Anct.  D.,  A.  12023). 


312  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

ut  hec  mea  donacio,  concessio  et  presentis  carte  mee  con- 
firmacio  et  assignacio  robur  optineat  perpetue  firmitatis 
presens  scriptum  sigilli  mei  munimine  roboravi.  Hiis 
testibus  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Ricardo 
de  Cleterk,  David  de  Swaluehirst,  Alexandra  de  Puncunby, 
Ada  de  Wasebuchefthwait],  et  aliis. 

302.  CARTA  AGNETIS  ET  CECILIE  FIL[IARUM]  WILL- 
ELMI  CAPELLANI  DE  TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  VILLA  DE  HALE, 

OMNIBUS  ....  Agnes  et  Alicia,1  filie  Willelmi  capell- 
ani  de  Hale,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  nos  dedisse 
....  Johanni  capellano  de  Hale  et  assignatis  suis  totam 
terram  quam  habuimus  in  villa  de  Hale  ex  dono  Petri 
fratris2  nostri  et  quam  habuit  ex  dono  Willelmi  patris 
nostri.  Tenendam  ....  sicut  carta  Ade  filii  Iwani, 
donatoris  patris  nostri,  quam  idem  Johannes  inde  habet, 
plenius  testatur.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Testibus  Helya 
ballivo  Coupland,  dominis  Johanne  de  Langliver,  Ricardo 
de  Cletergh,  militibus,  Ricardo  Flandrensi,  Johanne  de 
Gosford,  Willelmo  de  Punchunby,  et  aliis.3 

303.  CONVENCIO  INTER  PRIOREM  ET  JOHANNEM  DE 
HALE  DE  LIBERTATIBUS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  de  Hale,  salutem  eternam  in 
domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  talem  convencionem 
esse  factam  inter  me  ex  una  parte  et  priorem  et  homines 
suos  de  sancta  Bega  ex  alia  parte,  videlicet,  si  averia 
dictorum  prioris  et  hominum  suorum  racionabiliter  capta 

302  l  Alicia  is  given  as  Cecilia  in  the  rubric  as  well  as  in  the 
table  of  contents. 

2  In  No.  301  William  the  chaplain  calls  Peter  his  alumpnus  et 
assignatus  and  names  Adam  as  his  frater  :  here  Agnes  and  Alice 
call  him  their  frater.  In  No.  305  Adam  speaks  of  William  as 
pater  meus.  Peter  was  probably  William's  step-son,  that  is, 
half-brother  of  Adam,  Agnes  and  Alice. 

8  The  date  appears  to  be  about  1260-70. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  313 

fuerint  in  pastura  mea  de  Hale  et  inparcata,  predict!  prior 
et  homines  sui  dabunt  in  escata1  pro  quinque  averiis 
unum  denarium  ;  et  in  yeme  pro  decem,  unum  denarium  ; 
et  pro  equis,  quod  justum  fuerit  secundum  visum  patrie. 
Si  vero  dicta  averia  capta  fuerint  in  blado  vel  prato, 
restituent  dampnum  secundum  visum  proborum  et 
legalium  vicinorum.  Si  vero  equi  capti  fuerint  in  blado 
vel  prato  et  non  possunt  capi,  et  probetur  per  testimonium 
legalium  virorum  quod  fecerint  dampnum,  adquietabunt 
dampnum  secundum  consuetudinem  patrie.  Ut  hec  con- 
vencio  rata  sit  et  stabilis  inperpetuum  presenti  scripto 
sigillum  meum  unacum  sigillo  dicti  prior  is  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Patricio  filio  Thome,  domino  Hugone  de 
Moreceby,  domino  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Johanne  de  Lang- 
liver,  domino  Wydo[ne]  de  Boyvill,  magistro  Ada  de 
Hale,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Thoma  de  Irton,  et  aliis.2 

304.    CARTA  JOHANNIS  DE  HALE  SIVE  OBLIGACIO  DE 
XLS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  de  Hale,1  salutem  in  domino. 

303.  l  Escata,  an  escheat,  seems  unusual  in  this  connexion  : 
it  is  probably  a  scribal  error  for  estate,  in  summer,  as  antithetical 
of  in  yeme. 

2  From  the  witnesses  the  date  cannot  be  made  later  than  the 
middle  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

304.  l  On  26  May,  1266,  a  commission  was  issued  reciting  that 
the  King  had  gi anted  the  lands  of  John  de  Hale  to  Ralf  de  Bethum 
by  reason  of  his  trespasses  and  that  the  said  John  had  afterwards 
many  times  offered  to  stand  his  trial  in  the  King's  courts  :    that 
Ralf  was  opposing  the  presentation  of  the  King  and  of  the  said 
John  to  the  church  of  Hale  which  belonged  to  the  said  lands  : 
the  King  now  orders  an  inquiry  by  jury  of  the  vicinage  of  Hale 
what  patron  (advocatus)  in  time  of  peace  presented  the  last  parson 
now  deceased  to  the  church,  whether  the  advowson  belongs  to  the 
said  lands  and  whether  Ralf  had  seisin  thereof  by   the    King's 
mandate  (Cal.  of  Pat.,  1258-66,  pp.  665-6).     Early  in  the  four- 
teenth century  the  manor  and  advowson  were  held  in  moiety  by 
Agnes  and  Constance   (Custancia),    daughters  of    Alexander    de 


314  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

Noverit  me  obligasse  priori  sancte  Bege  et  hominibus  suis 
de  sancta  Bega  in  solucione  quatraginta  solidorum  ad 
fabricam  beati  Petri2  quandocunque  et  quocienscunque 
aliquam  transgressionem  dicto  priori  vel  hominibus  suis, 
ego  vel  heredes  mei  vel  aliquis  ex  parte  nostra  fecerimus. 
It  a,  scilicet,  quod  si  dictus  prior  vel  monachi  ejusdem 
domus  per  se  vel  per  duos  homines  legales  suos  transgress- 
ionem aliquam  per  me  vel  per  aliquem  heredum  meorum 
vel  per  aliquem  de  hominibus  meis  eis  factam,  ut  prescript- 
urn  est,  probare  poterunt  omni  cavillacione,  excepcione 
postposita  seu  regia  prohibicione  jure  canonico  et  causa 
civili.  Et  ad  majorem  securitatem  hujus  obligacionis 
fideliter  observandam,  ego  vero,  predictus  Johannes,  pro 
me  et  heredibus  meis,  tactis  sacrosanctis  et  super  armillam 
sancte  Bege,3  corporali  me  prestiti  juramento.  In  cujus 
rei  testimonium  huic  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum 
apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Patrick)  filio  Thome, 
domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  domino  Ricardo  de  Cleter, 
domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino  Wydone  de  Boy- 
vill,  magistro  Ada  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Thoma 
de  Irton,  et  aliis.4 

305.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  WILLELMI  CAPELLANI  DE  HALE 
DE  TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  HALE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  films  Willelmi  capellani  de 
Hale,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse 

Hale,  the  former  being  the  wife  of  Robert  de  Cletergh,  and  the 
latter,  of  William  de  Punsunby.  By  a  series  of  fines  and  grants 
the  advowson  was  obtained  by  the  canons  of  Conishead,  to  whom 
it  was  appropriated  on  18  May  1345,  the  archdeacon  of  Richmond 
reserving  to  himself  a  yearly  pension  of  6s.  8d.  out  of  the  church 
(D.  of  L.  Charters,  Box  A.,  No.  417).  See  Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxxv., 
and  Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  14  Edw.  II.,  Nos.  13,  14. 

aYork  Minster. 

8  For  an  account  of  this  relic  and  its  uses,  see  my  narrative  in 
V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  li.  179-81. 

4  The  date  is  soon  after  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth  century. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  315 

....  Johanni  filio  Radulfi  de  Kirkebride,  capellano, 
to  turn  jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  aliquo  jure  habere 
potui  in  tota  terra  quam  Willelmus  pater  meus  tenuit  de 
domo  sancte  Bege  in  villa  de  Hale  cum  omnibus  pertin- 
enciis  suis  sine  aliquo  retenemento.  Tenendum  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  Ricardo  le 
Flemyng,  Johanne  le  Falconer,  Thoma  de  Cleter,  Willelmo 
de  Punzunby,  Waltero  de  Sevenhous,  Roberto  de  Wilton, 
et  aliis. 

306.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  RADULFI  DE  KIRKEBRYD 
DE  J  ACRA  ET  DIMIDIA  RODA  ET  VIJ  VIRGATIS  TERRE  IN 
HALE. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Johannes  filius  Radulfi  de  Kirkebride 
capellanus,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  concess- 
isse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  monachis 
apud  cellam  sancte  Bege  Deo  servientibus  inperpetuum 
totum  jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere 
potui  in  una  acra  terre  et  dimidia  roda  et  vij  virgatis  terre 
quam  habui  de  dono  Ade  filii  Willelmi  capellani  de  Hale 
in  eadem  cum  ....  libertatibus  contentis  in  carta  Ade 
filii  Iwin,  primi  donatoris.  Ita,  scilicet,  quod  ego  nee 
heredes  mei  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilbert o,  Thoma  de 
Cleter,  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Hav- 
erington,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  de  Punsunby, 
Thoma  de  Hale,  et  aliis. 

307.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  DE  HALE  DE  DIMIDIA  ACRA 
TERRE  IN  HALE. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  de  Hale,  salutem  eternam 
in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et 
sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  Michaeli  molenfdinario]  et 
heredibus  suis,  scilicet,  de  lumbis  suis  et  de  utero  femine 
sue  egressibus,  in  liberam,  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosin- 
am,  dimidiam  acram  terre  mee  de  dominico  meo  in  villa  et 


3l6  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

in  territorio  de  Hale,1  scilicet,  illam  dimidiam  acram  terre 
que  se  extendit  a  veteri  fossato  de  stagno  molendini  usque 
Suremire2  propinquior  more  de  terra  arabili.  Tenendam 
.  .  .  de  sancta  Bega  .  .  .  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  sancte 
Bege  ad  festum  sancte  Bege  tres  denarios  pro  omni  ser- 
vicio  cum  omnibus  communibus  aisiamentis  ad  predictam 
villam  pertinentibus  et  omnibus  et  ubicunque  vicini  sui 
communicabunt,  scilicet,  cum  omnibus  animalibus  pro- 
priis,  bobus,  vaccis  et  ovibus  et  uno  equo.  Ego  vero  et 
neredes  mei  predictam  dimidiam  acram  ....  predicte 
domui  sancte  Bege  contra  omnes  homines  warantizabimus 
inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  le  Flemayn,  Alex- 
andro  de  Punchunby,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  David  de 
Swaluhirst,  Johanne  de  Gosford,  Thoma  Matfelun,  et 
aliis. 

308.    CARTA  ALANI   FILII  WALDEUI   DE  ij   BOVATIS 
TERRE  IN  GOSFORD. 

ALAN  us1  films  Waldeui,  omnibus  hominibus  suis  tarn 

307.  l  The  last  we  hear  of  John  de  Hale  is  contained  in  an 
agreement,  dated  in  1301,  between  the  monks  of  Furness,  of  the 
one  part,  and  Adam,  Robert  and  John,  sons  of  John  de  Hale,  and 
their  sister  Cicely,  of  the  other  part,  witnessing  that  the  said- 
children  quitclaimed  all  right  of  action  against  the  convent  for 
the  death  of  their  father,  John  de  Hale,  and  that  the  convent 
granted  to  the  said  Adam  de  Hale  the  land  his  father  held  of  them 
at  farm  in  Arnolfby  for  the  remainder  of  the  term    (Anct.  D. 
L.  No.  453).     According  to  the  valuation  of  the  temporalities  of 
Furness  Abbey  in  1292,  the  yearly  rent  of  Arnolby  in  Coupland 
was  ten  shillings  (Furness  Coucher,  ed.  Atkinson,  p.  634).     It  is 
now  called  Arnaby,  a  hamlet  in  the  township  of  Millom  Above 
(O.  S.,  Ixxxviij.  N.E.). 

2  The  site  of  the  mill  near  Mill-bridge  is  there,  but  Sourmire 
has  not  been  identified. 

308.  1  For  Alan  son  of  Waldeve,  see  the  notes  on  Nos.  22  and 
49.     Emma  his  wife  is  only  mentioned  here.     The  witnesses  of 
Alan's  four  deeds  in  this  Register  (Nos.  22,  49,  308,  454)  should 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA  317 

presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  Deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Couplandia  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  pro  anima  mea  et 
pro  anima  uxoris  mee,  Emme,  concessisse  in  perpetuam 
elemosinam  duas  bovatas  terre  in  Goseford2  solutas  et 
quietas  ab  omni  terreno  servicio.  Preterea  sciendum  est 
quod  ego  et  heredes  mei  predictam  terrain  adquietabimus 
apud  omnes  advocatos  perpetuo.  Testibus  Waltero 
priore  Carlfeolensi],  Gospfatricio]  fratre  suo,  Gospatricio 
filio  Horm,  Radulfo  de  Lund,  Uctredo  filio  Uctfredi], 
•Chetello  filio  Ulfchil,  Phintor  dapifero,  Udardo  capellano, 
Adelwaldo  clerico. 

309.    CARTA  ROBERTI  DE  WALL'  DE  ij  BOVATIS  TERRE 
IN  GOSFORD. 

'be  compared  Illus.  Doc.  No.  xni,  when  we  get  this  pedigree  of 
Walter,  prior  of  Carlisle  : 

Ailward  Earl  Gospatric 


Do 

1 
lfin=Maud 

1 

Waldeve 

Walter,       < 
prior  of 
Carlisle 

Drm     Gospc 

1 
itric        Ailward       Waldeve          Alan 

In  No.  22  Walter  is  only  styled  presbyter,  being  the  earliest  grant 
by  Alan  in  the  Register.  It  is  open  to  debate  whether  this  person, 
being  of  local  parentage,  was  the  famous  Walter  the  priest  who 
endowed  the  priory  of  Carlisle  with  all  his  possessions  when  he 
took  the  religious  habit  in  that  house.  Phintor,  the  steward  of 
Cockermouth,  may  be  identified  with  the  Finthor  who  paid  five 
marks  to  the  Exchequer  in  1158  as  recorded  in  the  first  extant 
Pipe  Roll  of  Henry  II.  For  Adelwald  the  clerk,  see  Alan's 
charter  and  compare  it  with  that  of  his  father  Waldeve  in  Cart. 
Prior,  de  Gyseburne  (Surtees  Soc.),  ii.  318-19. 

2  The  compiler  of  the  Register  noted  in  the  margin  against  the 
two  oxgangs  of  land  :  Creditur  quod  iacent  apud  Fleminghall , 
Go  s  ford. 


3l8  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  et  fidelibus, 
Robertus1  de  Wall',  in  vero  salutari  salutem.  Sciatis 
me  dedisse  et  concessisse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  con- 
firmasse  Deo  et  domui  sancte  Bege  virginis  in  Couplandia 
monachisque  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  antecessorum  et  suc- 
cessorum  meorum  duas  bovatas  terre  in  Gosford,  in  lib- 
eram  et  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Tenendas  de 
me  et  de  heredibus  meis  liberam  et  quietam,  ab  omni 
seculari  exaccione  exemptam.  Hiis  testibus  Hugone  de 
Morevill,  Ada  de  Ireby,  magistro  Nigello,  Roberto  capell- 
ano,  Ricardo  filio  Ade,  Ricardo  de  Beauchamp,  Roberto 
clerico.2 

309.  *  This  Robert  de  Vallibus  will  be  the  Robert  who  suc- 
ceeded his  father  Hubert  as  second  lord  of  Gillesland  about  1165 
(Pipe  Roll,  ii  Hen.  II.),  and  who  died  without  issue  in  1195 
(Ibid.,  6  Ric.  I.)  when  his  brother  Ranulf  succeeded  him.  It 
can  scarcely  be  Robert  son  of  Ranulf,  the  fourth  lord  of  Gillesland, 
who  was  a  minor  and  in  Archbishop  Hubert's  ward  on  the  death 
of  Ranulf  in  1199  (Ibid.,  i  John).  Though  this  Robert  appears 
to  have  had  full  possession  in  1206  when  he  was  assessed  to  scutage, 
Hugh  de  Morevill,  one  of  the  witnesses  here,  will  not  admit  of  so 
late  a  date,  as  he  died  in  1202  (Ibid.,  4  John).  Adam  de  Ireby, 
another  of  the  witnesses,  who  witnessed  two  of  Hugh's  charters 
to  the  canons  of  Lanercost  (Reg.  MS.,  ii.  12,  17),  was  dead  before 
121 1  when  Juliana  his  widow  made  an  agreement  with  William  de 
Thoresby  touching  land  in  Eistapelith  and  Blenecarun  (Pedes 
Finium,  pp.  14-5,  Rec.  Com.).  Hugh  de  Morvill  and  Richard  de 
Bellocampo  are  witnesses  to  a  charter  of  Thomas  son  of  Gospatric 
in  this  Register  (No.  61),  and  Richard  son  of  Adam  is  associated 
with  transactions  in  Gillesland  (Reg.  of  Lanercost,  MS.,  ii.  12, 
v.  21). 

2  The  witnesses  favour  the  identification  of  the  grantor  with  the 
family  of  Gillesland,  but  the  identification  is  established  by  an 
agreement  made  by  Robert  de  Vallibus  II.,  with  the  consent  of 
Hubert  his  son  and  heir,  with  Bishop  Walter  of  Carlisle  in  1228, 
whereby  the  said  Robert  leased  to  the  Bishop  for  sixteen  years, 
beginning  at  Easter,  1228,  all  his  lands  in  Cumberland  together 
with  the  fee  of  Coupland  at  the  yearly  rent  of  80  marks  (Cal.  of 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA.  319 

310.  CARTA  ADE  DE  NEWTONA  DE  nj  ACRIS  TERRE  IN 
GOSFORD. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  tarn  presentibus 
quam  futuris,  Adam  de  Neuton,1  eternam  in  domino 
salutem.  Noveritis  me,  consilio  et  assensu  Godithe, 
uxoris  mee,  et  heredum  meorum,  dedisse  et  concessisse 
et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie 
et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  tres 
acras  terre  et  tres  per  [ti]  cat  as  cum  pertinenciis  et  aisia- 
mentis  ad  villam  de  Gosford  pertinentibus,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  scilicet,  terram  illam  que  jacet 
intra  terram  meam  et  terram  Galfridi  falconar[ii]  de 
Gosford  versus  aquilonem.  Preterea  dicti  monachi  habe- 
bunt  communem  pasturam  octo  bobus  et  duodecim 
vaccis  et  sequele  earum  duorum  annorum  et  sexaginta 
ovibus,  et  viginti  capris,  et  tribus  suibus  et  sequele  omni 
earum  duorum  annorum.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  me'i  .... 
Hiis  testibus  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de  Wilton, 
Radulfo  de  Forsete,  tune  senescaldo  domini  Thome  de 
Multon,  Johanne  clerico  de  Dreg,  Johanne  de  Boyvill, 
Ricardo  de  Punchunby,  et  Alexandro  filio  ejus,  et  multis 
aliis. 


311.    CARTA   GALFRIDI   FALCONARII    DE   j    ACRA   IN 
GOSFORD. 

UNIVERSIS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 


Chart.,  i.  76-7).  In  1295  "the  fee  of  Coupland"  consisted  of  free 
tenements  in  Gosforth,  Hale,  Bolton,  Santon  and  Irton,  held  in 
demesne  by  the  lord  of  Gillesland  of  the  lord  of  Coupland  (Inq. 
p.m.  33  Edw.  I.,  No.  62).  For  the  connexion  of  the  first  Hubert 
de  Vallibus  with  Gosforth,  see  No.  323- 

310.     l  See  note  on  No.  109.     Goditha,  wife  of  Adam  de  Neuton, 
is  found  only  here. 


320  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

scriptum  pervenerit,  Galfridus1  falconar  [ius]  salutem. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  quod  ego,  cum  consensu 
Grecfie],  uxoxris  mee,  et  Johannis  heredis  mei,  dedi 
concessi  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  acram  terre  de 
dominico  meo  supra  Gillibanc,  porrectam  ab  oriente 
versus  occidentem  a  strata  regia  usque  ad  Gillebec  juxta 
terram  Languse,  et  pasturam  decem  vaccis  cum  sequela 
sua  unius  anni,  et  triginta  ovibus  matricibus  cum  sequelis 
suis  unius  anni,  et  decem  capris  cum  sequelis  suis  unius 
anni,  et  duabus  equabus  cum  sequelis  suis  unius  anni,  et 
duabus  suibus  cum  sequelis  suis  unius  anni,  cum  com- 
muna  infra  divisas  de  Gosford,  in  bosco,  in  campo,  in 
mora,  cum  communibus  aisiamentis  ad  unam  acram 
pertinentibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Ego 
vero  et  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  de  Irton, 
Ricardo'  de  Punchunby,  Alexandra  de  Punchunby,  Petro 
de  Sevenhows,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  Waltero  de  Sevenhous, 
et  multis  aliis. 

311.  l  The  family  of  Falconer,  le  Faukenere,  or  Falconar,  has 
frequent  mention  in  this  Register.  Geoffrey,  the  grantor,  who 
flourished  in  the  first  half  of  the  thirteenth  century,  is  the  earliest 
and  called  Geoffrey  de  Gosford  the  falconer  in  No.  312  :  he  was 
succeeded  by  John  his  son,  John  falconar  de  Gosford,  as  named  in 
his  charter  (No.  315).  Benedict  falconar  is  a  witness  to  No.  283. 
John  the  falconer  is  best  known  in  this  Register  as  John  de 
Gosford.  In  No.  318  we  have  a  charter  of  Robert  son  of  William 
son  of  Roger  de  Gosford,  who  must  not  be  identified  with  the 
Robert  de  Goseford  who  is  returned  in  1295  as  holding  £10  of  land 
by  homage  in  Gosford  (Inq.  p.  m.  23  Edw.  I.,  No.  62).  The 
inquest  after  Robert's  death  was  taken  on  i  April  1316  when  the 
heirs  to  the  manor  of  Goseford  were  declared  as  John  son  of 
Agnes  de  Estholm,  a  minor  ;  Mariota,  the  wife  of  Alan  Bad  alias 
Badde,  aged  30  ;  Isabel,  the  wife  of  Henry  Hosecok  alias  Husecok, 
aged  26  :  Joan  the  wife  of  Adam  de  Garth,  aged  24  :  and  Ellen, 
late  the  wife  of  William  de  Kirkebi,  aged  25,  the  daughters  of  the 
deceased  (Inq.  p.m.  9  Edw.  II.,  No.  17). 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA        321 

312.  CARTA  GALFRIDI  DE  GOSFORDE  FALCONARII  DE 
IJ  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  GOSFORD  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Galfridus  de  Gosford  falconar[ius], 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  de 
consensu  Grecie,  uxoris  mee,  pro  salute  animarum  nostrar- 
um  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  nostrorum, 
dedisse  ....  Deo  et  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus, 
duas  acras  terre  arabilis  cum  pertinenciis  in  Gosford,  illas, 
scilicet,  que  jacent  exterius  super  culturam  de  Gillebanc, 
unde  una  extremitas  inde  extendit  versus  austrum,  reliqua 
versus  boriam,  cum  communi  pastura  propriis  averiis 
hominis  eorum  qui  de  eis  predictam  terram  pro  tempore 
tenebit,  cum  omnibus  aliis  communibus  aisiamentis  ville 
de  Gosford  pertinentibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Ricardo  le  Brun,  tune  senescallo  Coupland[ie], 
domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Radulfo  de  Forsett',  Ada 
de  Haverington,  Johanne  de  Dreg,  Jurdano  de  Dreg,  Ada 
de  Kirkeby,  Roberto  de  Broumthwit,  et  multis  aliis. 

313.  CARTA  GRECIE  DE  GOSFORD  DE  ij  ACRIS  TERRE 
IN  GOSFORD. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Grecia  de  Gosford,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noveritis  me,  in  viduitate  et  libera  potestate  mea,  dedisse 
....  Deo  et  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duas  acras  terre  mee 
in  villa  de  Gosford,  scilicet,  propinquiores  adjacentes 
terre  que  fuit  Ade  de  Neuton  in  eadem  villa  versus  aquil- 
onem,  et  unam  perticatam  terre  in  valle  sub  eadem  terra 
propinquius  adjacentem  terre  que  fuit  dicti  Ade  ultra 
viam.  Tenendam  .  .  .  .  et  cum  communi  pastura  duorum 
tenencium  suorum  predictam  terram  tenencium.  Salvo 
tamen  hoc  quod  licebit  michi  et  heredibus  meis  vastum 
meum  colere  et  appruare,  salu[a]  sufficienti  pastura  dictis 

Y 


322     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

tenentibus  suis  et  libero  introitu  et  exitu.  Ego  siquidem 
Grecia  et  heredes  mei  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne 
de  Langliver,  domino  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  domino 
Rogero  de  Lamploggh,  Roberto  de  Brampthwait,  Johanne 
de  Boyvill,  Alexandra  de  Punzunby,  David  de  Swalu- 
hirst,  Johanne  de  Hale. 

314,    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  L.  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  GOSFORD. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Grecia  de  Gosford,1  quondam  uxor 
Galfridi  falconarfii],  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me,  in 
viduitate  et  libera  potestate.mea  concessisse  ....  Deo 
et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et 
sancte  Bege  servientibus  totam  terram  que  Hubertus  de 
Val2  dedit  predictis  monachis  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  in  Gosford,  scilicet,  quinquaginta  acras  terre 
cum  racionabili  communa,  ut  carta  predicti  Huberti 
testatur,  infra  has  divisas,  scilicet,  a  secundo  vado  supra 
domum  Ade  filii  Richeri8  et  usque  ad  Crucem4  (scilicet, 

314,  1  That  Grecia  de  Gosford  should  confirm  in  her  widow- 
hood a  grant  of  Hubert  de  Val  suggests  either  that  she  was  the 
lady  of  whom  Hubert's  land  was  held  or  that  she  was  herself  a 
descendant  of  the  grantor.  The  former  assumption  cannot  be 
entertained  according  to  note  2  on  No.  309 :  and  the  latter  appears 
to  be  the  case  here.  Grace  of  Gosforth,  wife  of  Geoffrey  the  fal- 
coner, was  probably  Grecia  sister  of  Robert  de  Vallibus  the  Second. 
When  Robert  was  in  prison  in  1213,  Alice  de  Vallibus,  his  mother, 
Grace  his  sister,  Hubert  his  son  and  Roland  his  bastard  brother 
were  accepted  as  security  for  his  liberation  (Rot.  Lift.  Pat.,  p.  96, 
Rec.  Com.).  On  i  November,  1213,  Grace,  who  was  in  ward, 
was  delivered  to  Alice  de  Vallibus  her  mother  (Ibid.,  p.  105). 
Geoffrey  the  falconer  was  a  witness  to  a  grant  of  land  in  Hayton 
near  Brampton  to  the  canons  of  Lanercost  by  Robert  de  Vallibus, 
son  of  Ranulf  (Reg.  of  Lanercost,  MS.,  ii.  5)  :  if  the  above  sug- 
gestion is  well  founded  Geoffrey  was  Robert's  brother-in-law. 

2  For  Hubert  de  Val  or  Vallibus,  see  note  on  No.  323. 

8  For  Adam  son  of  Richer,  see  notes  on  Nos.  166  and  286. 

4  In  the  margin  opposite  ad  Crucem  the  scribe  has  added  :  Ista 
crux  dicte  Grecie(P)  quod  stetit  ad  finem  crofti  versus  occidentem. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  323 

versus  aquilonem)  quasi  linea  a  Cruce  ad  viam  (scilicet,  ex 
transverse)  et  per  viam  ascendentem  (scilicet,  per  divis- 
am)5  ad  Canchem  et  a  Canche6  usque  ad  sicum  propin- 
quiorem  domui  Ade  predicti  et  per  sicum  ascendentem 
usque  ad  viam  et  per  viam  descendentem  usque  ad  divis- 
am  que  est  inter  terram  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  de  Gosford 
et  terram  sancte  Bege  et  per  sicum  descendentem  ad 
di visas  de  Neuton  et  per  di visas  de  Neuton  descendenftes] 
usque  ad  rivum  qui  ducit  ad  Neuton  et  per  rivum  predict- 
um  ascendentem  usque  ad  predictum  vadum  supra 
domum  predict e  Ade.  Preterea  dedi  Deo  et  sancte 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  mondchis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
et  sancte  Bege,  intuitu  caritatis,  et  pro  anima  patris  mei 
et  matris  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  et  pro  anima 
Galfridi  mariti  mei,  totam  terram  que  est  infra  has  pre- 
scriptas  divisas,  que,  scilicet,  superhabundat  predictas 
quinquaginta  acras  et  communam,  quantum  pertinet  ad 
tantam  terram  in  villa  de  Gosford.  Ego  siquidem  et 
heredes  mei  inveniemus  predictis  monachis  et  hominibus 
suis  racionabilem  exitum  quando  exierent  de  predicta 
terra  sua  usque  ad  communam  predicte  ville  de  Gosford 
et  predictam  terram  cum  pertinenciis  predictis  monachis 
contra'  omnes  homines  inperpetuum  warantizabimus  et 
ab  omni  seculari  servicio  defendemus  et  adquietabimus. 
In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino  Patricio  filio 
Thome,  domino  Wydone  de  Boyvill,  domino  Roberto  de 
Lamplogh,  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino  Hugone 
de  Moreceby,  domino  Ada  de  Haverington,  domino  Ric- 
ardo  de  Cleter,  Roberto  de  Branwait,  Nicholao  de  Mor- 
eceby, Johanne  de  Boyvill,  et  multis  aliis.7 

315,    CARTA  JOHANNIS  FALCON  [ER]  DE  j  ACRA  TERRE 
IN  GOSFORD  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

5  The  portions  within  brackets  are  interlineations  by  a  later  hand. 

(!  For  this  word,  see  note  on  No.  117. 

7  The  witnesses  suggest  a  date  between  1240  and  1250. 


324  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  falconar[ius]  de 
Gosford,1  dedi  ....  Petro  filio  Henrici  de  Aynthorn 
et  heredibus  suis  vel  assignatis  unam  acram  terre  mee 
quam  Willelmus  films  Jordan!  quondam  tenuit  de  me, 
jacentem  propriorem  alte  More  ex  parte  aquilonari  et 
terre  mee  ex:  parte  australi,  cujus  unum  capud  extend!  t 
versus  turbariam  ex:  parte  oriental!  et  aliud  capud  ex:tendit 
versus  Grucocgile  ex  parte  occidental!,  cum  omni  com- 
muni  pastura  de  Gosford  xij  averiis,  duobus  jumentis, 
uno  equo,  quinquaginta  ovibus,  viginti  capris,  quatuor 
porcis,  cum  sequela  omni  predictorum  animalium  unius 
anni.  Et  sciendum  quod  dictus  Petrus  et  heredes  sui 
vel  assignati  pasturabunt  cum  hominibus  meis  et  hom- 
inibus  sancte  Bege  cum  omnibus  prenominatis  catellis  et 
racionabile  estoverium  habebunt  omni  communi  bosco 
predict e  ville  de  Gosford  pertinente.  Tenendam  .... 
Reddendo  inde  annuatim  priori  sancte  Bege  et  ejusdem 
loci  conventui  sex:  denarios,  scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten,  pro 
omni  servicio,  accione,  et  demanda.  Et  ego,  predictus 
Johannes,  et  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino  Elya  persona  de  Gosford, 
Willelmo  de  Punzunby,  Waltero  de  Sevenhous,  et  aliis.2 

316.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  RICARDI  DE  GILL'  DE  j  ACRA 
IN  GOSFORD. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Adam  filius  Ricardi1  de  Gill',  salut- 
em  in  domino  sempiternam.  Vestra  noverit  universitas 
me  dedisse  ....  Willelmo  filio  Ricardi  de  Caldra2  et 
heredibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis  unum  messuagium  et 
unam  acram  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Gosford 

315.  1  For  John  the  falconer  of  Gosforth,  see  note  on  No.  311. 
2  The  date  will  fall  about  1270-80. 

316.  1  The  grantor  is  probably  the  same  as  Adam  son  of  Richer 
in  No.  286. 

-  For  his  charter,  see  next  deed. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  325 

jacentem  inter  terrain  domini3  de  Gosford  et  terram  quam 
Robertus  carpenter  de  Santon4  quondam  tenuit,  cum 
omnibus  communibus  aisiamentis  ad  predictam  terram 
spectantibus.  Tenenda  .  .  .  .  de  priore  de  sancta  Bega 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  ....  Reddendo 
inde  annuatim  predicto  priori  et  monachis  sex  denarios 
argenti  ad  duos  anni  terminos,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad 
Pentecosten  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Mar- 
tini in  yeme  pro  omnibus  serviciis.  Ego  vero  dictus 
Adam  et  heredes  mei  ....  defendemus.  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Punchunby,  Nicholao 
de  Sevenhous,  Roberto  de  Gosford,  Johanne  de  Gednay, 
Ricardo  de  Northeburgh,  Nicholao  de  Irton,  Alexandro 
de  Sevenhous,  et  multis  aliis. 

317.    CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  RICARDI  DE  j  MESSUAGIO 

ET  J  AGRA  IN  GOSFORD. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Willelmus  films  Ricardi  de  Caldra, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me 
dedisse  ....  Roberto  filio  Willelmi  filii  Rogeri1  et  her- 
edibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis  unum  messuagium  et  unam 
acram  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Gosford  jacencia 
inter  terram  domini  de  Gosford  et  terram  quam  Robertus 

8  The  lord  of  Gosford  at  this  time  was  probably  John  the  fal- 
coner or  perhaps  Robert  de  Gosford  who  appears  as  one  of  the 
witnesses.  If  the  latter  supposition  be  right  the  date  of  the  deed 
will  be  late  in  the  thirteenth  century,  but  see  note  on  the  next 
deed. 

4  Santon  a  hamlet  of  Irton  near  Gosforth. 

317.  l  Though  styled  Robert  son  of  William  son  of  Roger  de 
Gosford  in  No.  318,  he  must  be  distinguished  from  Robert  de 
Gosford,  lord  of  the  manor  of  Gosforth,  who  is  a  witness  of  both 
deeds.  The  latter  was  dead  before  5  February,  1316,  when  his 
lands  were  taken  into  the  King's  hand  (Cal.  of  Fine  R.,  ii.  270). 
In  the  following  September  his  lands  were  divided  equally  among 
his  five  daughters  (Ibid.,  p.  302)  whose  names  are  given  in  note 
i  to  No.  311. 


326  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

carpenter  de  Santon  quondam  tenuit  cum  omnibus  com- 
munibus  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  ad  predictam  terram 
infra  villam  de  Gosford  vel  extra  quoquomodo  spectan- 
tibus.  Tenenda  .  .  .  .  de  priore  de  sancta  Bega  .  .  .  , 
Reddendo  inde  annuatim  predictis  priori  et  monachis 
sex  denarios  argenti  ad  duos  anni  terminos,  scilicet, 
medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  fest- 
um  sancti  Martini  in  yeme  pro  omnibus  serviciis  et  de- 
mandis  ....  Hiis  testibus  fratre  Hugone2  tune  priore 
de  sancta  Bega,  Roberto  de  Gosford,  Willelmo  de  Pun- 
zunby,  Laurencio  de  Kirkby,  Nicholao  de  Sevenhous, 
Ricardo  de  Warde,  et  aliis.3 

318.    CARTA  ROBERTI  FIL.  WILLELMI  FIL.  ROGERI  DE 

J  MESSUAGIO  ET  J  ACRA  IN  GOSFORD. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Robertus  films  Willelmi  filii  Roger! 
de  Gosford  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
....  me  dedisse  ....  quieta  clamasse  domino  J. 
abbati  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  fratri  Alano 
de  Nesse1  priori  sancte  Bege  et  celle  eiusdem  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Marie  servientibus  unum  messuagium 
et  unam  acram  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Gosford 
jacentfem]  inter  terram  domini  de  Gosford  et  terram 
quam  Robertus  Carpentarius  de  Santon  quondam  tenuit 
tanquam  jus  ecclesie  beate  Marie  Eboraci  et  Celle  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  cum  omnibus  communibus  aisiamentis 
et  libertatibus  ad  predictam  terram  infra  villam  de  Gosford 

2  Hugh  de  Cumpton,  prior  of  St.  Bees.     For  the  approximate 
date  of  his  priorate,    see   No.  235  where  his  name  occurs  under 
date  21  November,  1301. 

3  The  date  of  this  deed  will  be  about  the  end  of  the  thirteenth 
or  beginning  of  the  fourteenth  century. 

318.  1  For  the  date  of  Alan  de  Nesse,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  see  note 
on  No.  256.  As  John  de  Gylling  was  abbot  of  St.  Mary,  York, 
1303-1313,  the  date  of  this  deed  will  fall  between  these  years,  but 
perhaps  nearer  the  latter. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  327 

et  extra  quoquomodo  spectantibus.  Tenenda  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  le  Flemyng,  domino 
Ricardo  de  Cletern,  domino  Johanne  de  Lamplou,  milit- 
ibus,  Roberto  de  Gosford,  Roberto  de  Rotington,  Roberto 
de  Harrais,  Johanne  de  Perdishou,  Ricardo  Ward,  et  aliis. 

319.  CARTA  MICHAELIS  DE  BROKHOLEBANK  DE  OM- 
NIBUS TERRIS,  PRATIS  ET  EDIFICIIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN 

GROWCOCGILL  IN  GOSFORD. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Michael  de  Brokholebanc, 
dedi  ....  dominis  Johanne  Scharp,  rectori  ecclesie  de 
Whitingham,1  et  Thome  Lilling,  capellano,  omnia  tene- 
menta  mea  et  terras  cum  pratis,  edificiis  et  cum  omnibus 
aliis  pertinenciis  suis  que  et  quas  habui  in  Growcogill  in 
villa  de  Gosford.  Habenda  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Roberto  de  Bampton,  Ricardo  Flemyng,  militibus, 
Willelmo  de  Cleter,  Willelmo  Boyvill,  Alano  de  Coupland, 
Nicholao  de  Sevenhous,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Gosford 
in  crastino  sancti  Marti  evangeliste,  anno  regni  regis 
Edwardi  tercii  post  Conquestum  quatragesimo  quinto.2 

320.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  TERRIS  IN  EADEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Michael  de  Brocholbanc,  dedi 
....  Thome  de  Lawswater  [et]  Randulpho  Bell,  capell- 
anis,  unum  toftum  cum  duabus  acris  et  dimidia  terre 
arabilis  in  Growcogill  in  villa  de  Gosford.  Habendum 
....  Hiis  testibus  Alano  de  Coupland,  Nicholao  de 
Stanlawe,  Willelmo  Boyvill,  Nicholao  de  Sevenhous, 
Roberto  de  Punsonby,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Gosford, 
die  lune  proximo  post  festum  Conversionis  sancti  Pauli, 
anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  post  Conquestum 
tercio  decimo.1 

319.  l  Afterwards   vicar   of    Dal  ton    in    Furness    (Nos.    285, 
326-7). 

2  26  April,  1371. 

320.  l  3*  January,  1390. 


328        REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA. 

321.  CARTA  THOME  LAWSWATER  DE  TERRIS  IN  EADEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Thomas  de  Lawswater  et 
Radulphus  Bell,  capellani,  dedimus  ....  Nicholao  de 
Staingrefe,  vicario  ecclesie  de  Kirkeby  in  Lonsdale,  Thome 
de  Brunby,1  vicario  ecclesie  sancti  Laurencii  in  Apylby, 
Willelmo  de  Gascoigne,  capellano,  et  Johanni  Thonour 
duo  toft  a  et  duas  acras  dimidiam  terre  arabilis  cum 
omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Gosford.  Habenda 
....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Willelmo  de  Culwen  et  Thoma 
de  Lamplogh,  militibus,  Alano  de  Coupland,  Nicholao  de 
Stanlawe,  Willelmo  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Frisington,  et 
aliis.  Datum  apud  Gosford  in  festo  sancti  Mathei  apos- 
toli,  anno  regni  regis  Ricardi  secundi  post  Conquestum 
sexto  decimo.2 

322.  CARTA  MICHAELIS  DE  BROCHOBANK  DE  SEISINA 

DE  TERRIS  IN  GOSFORD. 

PATEAT  universis  per  presentes  quod  ego,  Michael  de 
Brocholbank,  assignavi  et  in  loco  meo  constitui  dilectum 
michi  in  Christo  Johannem  Cady,  attornatum  meum,  ad 
deliberandam  plenam  seisinam  Thome  de  Lawswater  et 
Radulpho  Bell,  capellanis,  de  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis 
meis  in  Gosford,  prout  in  quadam  carta  feoffamenti 
plenius  testatur,  ratum  at  gratum  habiturus  ....  In 
cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Datum  apud  Gosford,  die  lune  proximfa] 
ante  festum  Purificacionis  beate  Marie,  anno  regni  regis- 
Ricardi  secundi  post  Conquestum  tercio  decimo.1 

323.  CARTA  SAVARICI  DE  L.  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  GOSFORD. 
SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  literas  has 

321.     x  For  these  two  vicars,  see  Nos.  251,  260-62. 

2  21  September,  1392. 

322-  *  31  January,  1390.  This  is  the  same  date  as  No.  320, 
though  calculated  from  different  feasts. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  329 

quod  ego,  Savfaricus]1  abbas  ecclesie  sancte  Marie,  Ebor- 
aci,  cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri 
concessi  et  dedi  Richero  filio  Punzun2  et  heredibus  suis 
tenere  de  nobis  in  feudo  et  hereditate  1  acras  terre  in 
Gosford  quas  Hubertus  de  Vallibus8  Deo  et  sancte  Marie 
et  celle  sancte  Bege  in  elemosinam  dedit,  pro  qua  terra 
tarn  ipse  Richerus  quam  heredes  sui  reddent  monachis 
nostris  de  sancta  Bega  v  solidos  per  annum,  dimidium 
ad  Pentecosten  et  dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini. 
Hoc  autem  eis  concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos 
habuerint  et  predictum  censum  bene  reddiderint.  Si 
vero  forte  contigerit  eos  vi  vel  racione  prefatam  terram 
amittere  non  dabimus  eis  escambium. 

324,  CARTA  GRECIE  DE  GOSFORD  DE  QUINQUE  ACRIS 
TERRE  IN  VILLA  DE  GOSFORD. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Grecia  de  Gosford1,  salutem.     Noverit 

323-  ^avaric,  abbot  of  St.  Mary,  York,  1132-1161. 
2  For  Richer  son  of  Punzun,  see  note  6  on  No.  87. 

8  Hubert  de  Vallibus,  Vals,  Vaus  or  Vaux,  was  enfeoffed  of  the 
barony  of  Gillesland  by  Henry  II.  in  1158  and  died  in  1165  when 
his  son  Robert  de  Vallibus  succeeded  him.  See  the  facsimiles 
of  the  charters  of  enfeoffment  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  306,  320.  It 
is  not  known  how  Hubert  came  to  Gosforth,  but  it  is  possible 
that  his  fee  there  was  an  appurtenant  of  Gillesland  though  held 
of  Egremont  as  it  appears  at  a  subsequent  date  (No.  309,  note  2). 
In  that  case  the  grant  would  fall  between  1158  and  1161.  His 
charter  has  not  been  preserved.  Hubert  was  at  the  Court  of  the 
Empress  Maud  before  the  accession  of  Henry  II.  (Cal  of  Doc. 
France,  pp.  72,  208,  ed.  Round).  Robert  de  Vals  was  an  under- 
tenant at  the  time  of  Domesday  Survey  in  Norfolk  and  elsewhere 
(Ellis,  Introduction,  ii.  307,  398)  and  another  Robert  de  Vallibus 
was  paying  a  fine  in  1130  for  having  his  wife's  inheritance  in  that 
county  (Pipe  Roll,  p.  92,  Rec.  Com.).  The  name  is  probably 
derived  from  the  terram  et  feodum  de  Vallibus  in  Normandy  which 
King  John,  on  14  July,  1199,  confirmed  to  the  abbey  of  St.  Jean 
de  Falaise  (Rot.  Chart.,  p.  5,  Rec.  Com.). 

324-  1  For  Grecia  or  Grace  of  Gosforth,  wife  of  Geoffrey  the 
falconer,  see  note  i  on  No.  314. 


33°  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

universitas  vestra  me  in  propria  viduitate  mea  consessisse 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  [Deo]  servientibus  quinque  acras  terre  mee  in 
villa  de  Gosford  super  Helewynherge,2  scilicet,  duas 
acras  et  dimidiam  que  jacent  inter  terram  que  quondam 
fuit  Alexandri  filii  Godenild  et  terram  hospitalis 
Jerosolomitani  ex  parte  australi  et  unam  acram  et 
dimidiam  in  buttis  versus  moram  et  unam  acram  juxta 
predictam  terram  hospitalis  ex  parte  aquilonari,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinarn,  cum  communi  pastura 
....  Hiis  testibus 

325.    CARTA  THOME  FILII  HUBERTI  DE  NEUTON  DE 

IIIJ  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  GOSFORD. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  films  Huberti  de 
Neuton,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie,  Ebor- 
aci,  et  beate  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  apud  sanctam 
Begam  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  servientibus 
quatuor  acras  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Gosford,  illas, 
scilicet,  quas  habui  de  dono  Huberti  patris  mei  et  jacent 
in  Neuton  juxta  magnam  viam  que  ducit  de  Dreg  versus 
Groucokgile  ex  parte  orientali  et  abuttant  versus  Stell- 
erun  super  terram  quam  pater  meus  dedit  predicte  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  ex  parte  australi.  Tenendas  ....  cum 
communi  pastura  et  omnibus  aliis  aysiamentis  ad  tantam 
terram  in  predicta  villa  de  Gosford  pertinentibus,  ita 
quod  ego  vel  heredes  mei  ....  nichil  preter  preces  et 
oraciones  de  predicta  terra  exigere  valeamus.  Et  ego, 
Thomas,  et  heredes  mei  predictas  quatuor  acras  terre 
....  defendemus.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  perpetuam 

3  In  Nos.  110-11,  118,  we  have  the  fans  sancte  Helene  in  Gosforth. 
On  29  January,  1285,  Alan  de  Pouncounbi  demised  all  his  land  in 
Elwenecroftt  in  the  vill  of  Pouncounbi  to  Adam  le  younger  of 
Eskedale  and  his  heirs  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  LXX.).  Here  we  have 
Helewynherge.  All  these  places  cannot  have  been  far  from  each 
other. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  33! 

habeat  firmitatem  presentem  cartam  sigilli  mei  apposi- 
cione1  munivi.     Hiis  testibus.2 


326.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  SCHARPE  DE  TERRIS  IN  CRO- 

COKGILL  IN  [GOSFORD].1 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  Scharpe,2  vicarius 
de  Dalton,  quondam  rector  ecclesie  de  Whytyngham, 
dedi  ....  dominis  Leonardo  de  Malton,  Thome  de 
Lowswatyr  et  Radulpho  Belle,  capellanis,  omnes  terras  et 
tenementa  cum  pratis,  edificiis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis 
pertinenciis  suis  que  et  quas  habui  in  Corkekyll  in  villa 
de  Egremont  ex  dono  et  feofamento  Thome  de  Lyllyng, 
capellani,  et  Nicholai  Gybson  de  Kyrkebybeghoc. 
Habend[a]  ....  Hiis  testibus  Gylberto  de  Culwen, 
Roberto  de  Bampton,  militibus,  Alano  de  Cowpland, 
Willelmo  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Fresyngton,  Stephano 
filio  Johannis,  Henrico  de  Crakplace,  et  aliis. 

327.  CARTA  LEONARDI  DE  MALTON,  THOME  DE  LOWS- 
WATER  ET  RADULPHI  BELL,  CAPELLANORUM,  DE  TERRIS  IN 
CROKOKGILL. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  nos,  Leonardus  de  Malton,  Thomas 
de  Lowswater  et  Radulphus  Belle,  capellani,  dedimus 
....  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  cum  pratis,  edi- 
ficiis et  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  que  et  quas  habui- 
mus  in  Korkekyl  in  villa  de  Egremont  ex  dono  et  feofa- 

325.  1  Apponere  in  the  manuscript. 

2  This  deed  is  very  similar  to  Nos.  124,  125. 

326.  1  Supplied  from  the  table  of  contents,  but  in  the  body  of 
the  deed  it  stands  as  in  the  vill  of  Egremont.     There  is  evidently 
confusion  with  Grucocgil  in  Gosforth  as  in  previous  deed. 

2  John  Scharpe,  rector  of  Whicham  in  1371  (No.  319)  and  vicar 
of  Dalton  in  Furness  in  1382  (No.  285). 


332  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

mento  domini  Johannis  de  Scharpe,  vicarii  de  Dalton, 
quondam  rectoris  ecclesie  de  Whytyngham.  Tenendas 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Willelmo  Culwen,  domino 
Willelmo  de  Legh,  domino  Roberto  Bampton,  militibus, 
Willelmo  Hudylston,  Ricardo  Hyrton,  Ricardo  Braystons, 
Christofero  Cowpland,  et  multis  aliis.1 

328.  CONFIRMACIO  NlCHOLAI  DE  STAYNLOW  DE  VI 
ACRIS  TERRE  IN  PONZUNBY  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Nicholaus  Staynlowe,1  salutem  in 
domino.  Noveritis  me  remisisse  ....  inperpetuum  ab- 
bati  monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci 
conventui  ac  priori  celle  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  et  successoribus  suis 
totum  jus  meum  et  clameum  que  habui,  habeo  seu  aliquo 
modo  in  futurum  habere  potero  in  vj  acris  terre  cum  per- 

327.  l  This  deed  is  the  necessary  sequel  of  the  last  and  must 
be  dated  about  1390. 

328.  *  The  Stanleys  were  settled  at  Gieysouthen  in  the  lord- 
ship of  Cockermouth  as  early  as  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth 
century.     On  20  May  1354  Thomas  de  Auisthwait  demised  the 
manor  of  Auisthwait,  now  Dalegarth,  in  Eskdale,  to  Nicholas  son 
of  John  de  Stanlowe  and  Constance  his  wife,  daughter  of  Adam 
son  of  Thomas  de  Auisthwait  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  LXXV.),  a  manor 
which  had  been  granted  to  Benedict  son  of  Ketel,  ancestor  of 
the  said  Thomas,  by  Henry  son  of  Arthur,  lord  of  Millom  (Ibid., 
No.  xxii.).     In  1387  Nicholas  enfeoffed  trustees  of  the  manors  of 
Auisthwait  and  Ponsonby  and  about  the  same  date  settled  certain 
lands  in  Embleton  on  his  son  Thomas  de  Stanlawe  and  Margaret 
his  wife,  and  in  1425  Stanlawehall  in  Emmelton  and  the  manors 
of  Ponsonby  and  Auisthwait  passed  to  Nicholas  de  Stanlawe,  son 
and  heir  of  Thomas  de  Stanlawe,  who  is  the  grantor  of  the  two 
charters  in  this  Register.     Much  more  will  be  found  about  the 
succession  of  this  family  at  Dalegarth  and  Ponsonby  in  the 
Illustrative  Documents.     The  residential  seat  was  at  Dalegarth, 
and  Ponsonby  was  utilized  as  the  dower-house  for  the  widowed 
members  of  the  family. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  333 

tinenciis  in  Langakyrs2  in  Ponsunby,  prout  inter  [terram] 
prioris  de  Cuneshed  et  terram  dominicam  ibidem  et 
abuttant  super  Langrig  et  Scharthgate  que  nuper  habu- 
erunt  ex  dono  et  feofamento  antecessorum  meorum,  pro 
anima  mea  et  parentum  meorum  et  pro  animabus  omnium 
fidelium  defunctorum,  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Ita  vero 
quod  nee  ego,  predictus  Nicholaus,  nee  heredes  mei  nee 
aliquis  alius,  nomine  nostro,  aliquid  jus  sen  clameum  in 
predictis  sex:  acris  terre  cum  pertinenciis  nee  in  aliqua 
parcella  earundum  de  cetero  exigere  seu  vendicare  pot- 
erimus  in  futurum,  sed  ab  omni  accione  juris  seu  clamei 
simus  exclusi  inperpetuum  ....  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo 
Staynlowe,  Willelmo  Ponsunby,  Thoma  Moghton,  Thoma 
Panal,  Willelmo  Moghton,  et  aliis  multis.  Datum  infra 
cellam  sancte  Bege  predicte  quinto  decimo  die  mensis 
Junii,  anno  domini  millesimo  cccc°  xl°  iiijto.3 

329.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  NICHOLAI  DE  TERRIS  IN  PUN- 
ZUNBY. 

SCIANT  .  .  .  .quod  ego,  Nicholaus  Staynlowe,  ob  salut- 
em  anime  mee,  desiderans  implere  voluntatem  antecessor- 
um meorum  penes  terras  et  libertates  concessas  abbati 
et  conventui  de  Caldra  et  priori  de  sancta  Bega  ac  priori 
de  Cuneshed,1  ne  a  summo  judice  in  penis  purgatorii 
injuria  vindicetur  facta  abbati  predicto  et  prioribus 
predictis,  confirmo  omnes  terras  et  libertates  quas  predict! 
abbas  et  priores  habent  in  dominio  de  Ponsunby  et,  in 
quantum  possum,  ratifico  libenterque  dono  secundum  quod 
continetur  in  cartis  vel  indenturis  predictorum  abbatis 

2  For  an  interesting  deed  in  English,  touching  Langakyrs, 
between  the  priories  of  St.  Bees  and  Conishead,  see  Illus.  Doc. 
No.  LXXXVJ. 

:!  15  June,  1444. 

329.  l  For  gifts  lo  Conishead  by  the  family  of  Ponsonby, 
"  ancestors  "  of  Nicholas  Staynlowe,  see  Dugdale,  Mon.,  vj.  558. 


334  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

ac  priorum.  In  cujuS  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  de 
Gosford,  rectore  ecclesie  de  Egremont,  Christ  of  ero  Flem- 
yng,  Willelmo  Ponsunby,  Ricardo  de  Staynlowe,  Roberto 
de  Staynlowe,  Johanne  Gwhytsyd,  Jacobo  Gybson,  et 
aliis.  Datum  apud  Ponsunby  secundo  die  mensis  Octo- 
bris,  anno  domini  millesimo  cccc°  xF  primo.2 

330.  CARTA  MICHAELIS  FILII  ALANI  DE  STAYNBURN 
DE  V  PERTICATIS  TERRE  ET  J  TOFTO  CUM  ALIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Michael  films  Alani  de  Staynburn, 
salutem.  Universitati  vestre  notificetur  me  concessisse 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  de  Couplandia 
et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus 
et  clameum  quod  ego  vel  heredes  mei  unquam  habuimus 
vel  habere  poterimus  in  quinque  perticatis  terre  in  tofto 
Willelmi  de  porta  in  Staynburn1  atque  in  domo  Alani 
molend[inarii]  sit  a  in  vico  infra  predictam  port  am  versus 
austrum  et  eciam  in  domo  quam  Gillus  Mariner2  tenuit  et 
similiter  in  communa  quam  petebamus  infra  parcum 

2  2  October,  1441. 

330.  1  Stainburn,  a  township  in  the  parish  of  Workington 
(O.  S.,  liii.  S.E.),  came  to  the  monks  by  gift  of  Waldeve,  lord  of 
the  neighbouring  fee  of  Allerdale.  The  charter  is  not  extant, 
but  the  gift  was  confirmed  by  William  Meschin,  lord  of  Coupland 
(No.  2),  in  whose  fee  it  was  situated,  at  the  foundation  of  the 
priory.  This  series  of  deeds  (Nos.  330-349)  introduces  the  names 
of  the  earliest  tenants  of  the  township,  among  whom  the  family 
of  Stainburn  was  predominant.  In  the  early  part  of  the  thir- 
teenth century  the  township  was  a  fully  organised  territorial 
unit,  with  a  park  or  demesne  lands  in  the  hands  of  the  monks,  a 
mill,  town-fields,  meadow,  country  (territorium),  common,  and 
other  adjuncts.  The  vill  consisted  of  a  street  inclosed  on  either 
side  with  a  gate,  the  usual  form  of  villages  in  Cumberland,  of 
which  the  towngate  is  a  common  feature  in  local  folk  speech. 
The  gates  served  the  twofold  purpose  of  restraining  cattle 
and  protecting  the  inhabitants.  The  manor  of  Stainburn  was 
burnt  by  Robert  Bruce  in  1315  (Leland,  Collectanea,  i.  24). 

2  May  be  read  as  Marmer. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  335 

dicti  prioris  in  eadem  villa.  Ita  vero  quod  sine  omni 
contradiccione  mei  vel  heredum  meorum  licebit  priori  et 
dictis  monachis  facere  nova  frusseta  et  omnia  alia  com- 
oda  sua  ubicunque  et  quandocunque  voluerint  infra 

territorium  de  Staynburn  ad  voluntatem  eorum 

Hiis  testibus  domino  Willelmo  persona  de  Wirkinton, 
tune  decano  Couplandie,  domino  Patricio  filio  Thome, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  Henrico  de  Dene,  Roberto  de  Bram- 
thait,  Willelmo  de  Cray cout hen,  Waltero  filio  Aylm[eri], 
Ada  de  Kirkeby,  Johanne  de  Dreg,  clerico,  et  aliis.3 

331.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  MICHAELIS  DE  STAYN- 
BURN DE  TOTIS  TERRIS  SUIS  IN  OwiRTHGAT. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Willelmus  filius  Michaelis  de  Steyn- 
bourne,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me 
concessisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  [Bege]  in  Coupland  ac 
priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 
meam  quam  habui  in  loco  qui  vocatur  ultra  vicum 
Anglice  Owirthgate,  que,  scilicet,  terra  jacet  inter  terram 
que  vocatur  Gilmoreboug  ex  parte  una  et  terram  que 
vocatur  Priorhouue1  ex  parte  altera.  Item  pratum 
subtus  Bigbere  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Staynbourn 
et  unum  denarium  annui  redditus  que  ego  recepi  de 
tenemento  quod  Robertus  filius  Roberti  de  me  tenuit  in 
eadem  villa  de  Staynburn.  Habenda  ....  Hiis  test- 
ibus domino  Johanne  de  Camerton,  Thoma  de  Ribton, 
Benedicto  de  Clifton,  Adam  Wyntscales,  Willelmo  de 
Neuton,  et  multis  aliis. 

332.  CARTA  PERQUISITA  PER  N[ICHOLAUM]  PRIOREM 
DE  STAYNBURN.1 

3  William,  parson  of  Workington,  and  Patrick  son  of  Thomas, 
lord  of  Workington,  identify  the  date  of  this  deed  as  about  1220. 

331.  JNow  Prior  How  (O.  S.,  liii.  N.E.). 

332.  1  The  title  of  this  deed  is  singular  as  giving  no  indication 
of  its  contents.     Nicholas  de  Langeton  was  prior  of  St.  Bees  about 
1258-1282.     It  is  noted  in  the  margin  that  carta  perquisita  est 
per  dominum  priorem  de  Staynburn. 


336  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Michael  filius  Alani,  consensu 
et  assensu  heredum  meorum,  dedi  ....  Thome,  filio 
meo,  unam  acram  et  dimidiam  terre  mee  in  villa  de 
Staynburn,  scilicet,  iij  rodas  que  sunt  in  Avena'croftes 
et  dimidiam  acram  infra  gilam  sub  Cruce  que  est  inter 
Staynburn  et  Wirkington  et  unam  rodam  ultra  Brakan- 
berscahe.  Tenendam  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
michi  et  heredibus  meis  j  denarium  ad  Natale  domini  pro 
omni  servicio  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Henrico  de  Haverington, 
Thoma  de  Stubscales,  Thoma  filio  Dolfyn,  Willelmo  filio 
meo  primogenito,  Roberto  cementario,  Thoma  filio 
Michaelis,  Ada  fratre  ejus,  Thoma  filio  Ricardi,  Ada 
f  rat  re  ejus,  Michaele  de  Haverington,  clerico,  et  aliis. 

333.  GARTA  THOME  FILII  MICHAELIS  FILII  ALANI  DE 
STAYNBURN  DE  j  ACRA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  EADEM.1 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  filius  Michaelis  filii 
Alani  de  Staynborn,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  meam  quam  pater  meus 
michi  dedit  in  predicta  villa  de  Staynborn  sine  aliquo 
retenemento,  scilicet,  unam  acram  et  dimidiam  terre  cum 
pertinenciis  in  predicta  villa  de  Staynborn,  videlicet,  tres 
rodas  jacentes  in  Avena'croft[es]  et  dimidiam  acram  infra 
gilam  sub  Cruce  que  est  inter  Staynborn  et  Wirkinton  et 
unam  rodam  terre  jacentem  ultra  Brakanbergscahe. 
Tenendam  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  michi  et  hered- 
ibus meis  unum  denarium  ad  Natale  domini  pro  omni 
servicio,  exaccione  et  demanda.  Ego  vero,  predictus 
Thomas,  et  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis 
Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Johanne  de  Camberton,  Michaele 
de  Haverington,  militibus,  Henrico  de  Dene,  Roberto  de 

333-  l  The  folios  of  the  Register,  on  which  this  deed  is  written, 
have  been  misplaced  in  binding  :  fol.  141  should  follow  fol.  138 
and  precede  fols.  139-140,  and  then  the  right  sequence  continues. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  337 

Bramthwait,  Roberto  filio  suo,  Johanne  de  Hale, 
Johanne  de  Gosford,  Willelmo  de  Punzunby,  Roberto 
de  Wilton,  Henrico  de  Bollethor,  Alexandra  Matfelun, 
et  aliis. 

334.      LlCENCIA  REGIS  EDWARDI  DE  TERRIS. 

EDWARDUS,  Dei  gracia,  rex  Anglie,  dominus  Hibernie 
et  dux  Aquitanie,  omnibus  ad  quos  presentes  litere 
pervenerint,  salutem.  Licet  de  communi  consilio  regni 
nostri  statutum  sit  quod  non  liceat  viris  religiosis  seu 
aliis  ingredi  feodum  alicujus  ita  quod  ad  manum  mortuam 
deveniat  sine  licencia  nostra  et  capitalis  domini,  de  quo 
res  ilia  imediate  tenetur.  Volentes  tamen  dilectis  nobis 
in  Christo,  abbati  et  conventui  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
graciam  facere  specialem,  concessimus  et  licenciam  dedi- 
mus  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris,  quantum  in  nobis  est, 
Johanni  filio  Ade  de  Whitgyft  quod  ipse  quinque  tofta  et 
quatuor  bovatas  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Staynburn, 
que  sunt  de  feodo  dictorum  abbatis  et  conventus  et  que 
triginta  et  octo  solidos  valent  per  annum,  sicut  per 
inquisicionem  quam  per  dilectum  et  fidelem  nostrum 
Gerardum  Salveyn,  escaetorem  nostrum  ultra  Trentam, 
fieri  fecimus,  est  compertum  dare  posset  et  assignare 
eisdem  abbati  et  conventui.  Habenda  et  tenenda  sibi 
et  successoribus  suis  inperpetuum  in  parte  satisfaccionis 
ducentarum  libratarum  terre  per  annum  quam  Celebris 
memorie  dominus  E[dwardus],  quondam  rex  Anglie, 
pater  noster,  in  parliamento  suo  apud  Lincoln  [iam] 
eisdem  abbati  et  conventui  per  peticionem  ipsorum  coram 
ipso  patre  nostro  et  consilio  suo  ibidem  exhibitam  et  in 
Cancellaria  nostra  retornatam  et  ad  inquisicionem  Mar- 
garete,  regine  Anglie,  tune  consortis  sue,  concessit  de 
feodo  eorundem  abbatis  et  conventus  sibi  et  domui  sue 
in  feodo  adquirendas  sicut  per  indorsamentum  peticionis 
predicte  constat  evidenter,  et  eisdem  abbati  et  conventui 
quod  ipsi  predicta  tofta  et  terram  cum  pertinenciis  a 

z 


338  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

prefato  Johanne  recipere  possint  et  tenere  sibi  et  success- 
oribus  suis  inperpetuum,  sicut  predictum  est,  tenore 
presencium  similiter  licenciam  dedimus  specialem.  Nol- 
lentes  quod  predictus  Johannes  vel  heredes  sui  seu  pre- 
fatus  abbas  et  conventus  aut  successores,  racione  statuti 
predict!,  per  nos  vel  heredes  nostros  inde  occasionetur 
in  aliquo  vel  gravetur.  Salvis  tamen  capitalibus  dom- 
inis  feodi  illius  serviciis  inde  debitis  et  consuetis.  In 
cujus  rei  testimonium  has  literas  nostras  fieri  fecimus 
patentes.  Teste  meipso  apud  Langelpam]  octavo  die 
Decembris,  anno  regni  nostri  secundo.1 

335.    CARTA  MICHAELIS  DE  STAYNBURN  DE  v  ACRIS 

ET  MESSUAGIIS  IN  STAYNBURN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Michael  de  Staynburn,  con- 
cessi  et  ad  firmam  dimisi  Patricio  filio  Gilberti  et  heredibus 
suis  vel  assignatis  quinque  acras  terre  in  villa  de  Stayn- 
burn cum  messuagiis  quas  Alanus  films  Thome  quondam 
de  me  tenuit  in  eadem  villa  usque  ad  terminum  viginti 
annorum  completorum.  Tenendas  ....  Reddendo  inde 
annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  triginta  denarios  ar- 
genti,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  medie- 
tatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  et  inveniendo  tamen  michi 
et  heredibus  meis  in  quolibet  autumpno  unum  hominem 
tribus  diebus  in  opere  nostro  pro  omni  servicio,  consuetu- 
dine,  exaccione  et  demanda  michi  et  heredibus  meis 
pertinentibus.  Salvo  tamen  forinseco  domini  regis  et 
abbatis  Eboraci,  quantum  pertinet  ad  tantas  terras  in 
eadem  villa.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  si  predictus  Patricius 
vel  aliquis  suorum  in  dicta  terra  manens  in  misericordia 


334.  ^his  grant,  dated  8  Dec.  1308,  has  been  entered 
on  Pat.  Roll,  2  Edw.  ii.  pt.  ii.  m.  16.  The  previous  licence  of 
Edw.  I.,  dated  at  Lincoln  on  22  Feb.  1301,  is  enrolled  on  Pat. 
Roll,  29  Edw.  I.  m.  27.  See  the  deeds  of  John  son  of  Adam  de 
Whitgyft  in  Nos.  345-7. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA.  339 

mea  cessiderint,  dabunt  nisi  sex:  denarios,  et  si  pro  san- 
guinis  effusione  cessiderint,  dabunt  duodecim  denarios. 
Ego  vero,  Michael,  et  heredes  mei  ....  Ad  finem  vero 
predict!  termini  prefate  terre  cum  messuagiis  et  pertin- 
enciis,  sicut  dictum  est,  michi  et  heredibus  meis  ab  ipso 
Patricio  et  heredibus  suis  vel  assignatis  remanebunt 
quiete.  Actum  in  anno  gracie  m°  cc°  xl°  septimo  ad 
festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme.1  In  hujus  rei  testimonium 
hoc  presens  scrip  turn  sigilli  mei  apposicione  roboravi. 
Testibus  Patricio  filio  T[home],2  Ada  de  Haverington, 
Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Thoma  filio  Dolfin,  Thoma  de 
Stubescal,  Ada  de  Clifton,  M.  clerico,  et  aliis. 

336.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  MICHAELIS  DE  TERRIS  ET 
LIBERTATIBUS  IN  KlRKECROSSAN  ET  WYNDSCALfE].1 

OMNIBUS  visuris  vel  audituris  has  literas,  Adam  films 
Michaelis,  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  con- 
cessisse  et  dedisse  et  hac  mea  present!  carta  confirmasse 
Deo  et  domui  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  totam 
terram  illam  in  Kirkecrossan2  que  jacet  inter  terram 

335.  l  ii  Nov.,  1247. 

2  Patrick  son  of  Thomas,  lord  of  Workington,  See  his  charters, 
touching  Stainburn,  Nos.  343-4. 

336.  1  Winscales,  a  township  adjoining  Stainburn  on  the  south, 
is  not  mentioned  in  the  deed  or  table  of  contents. 

2  Kirkecrossan,  Kirkbycrossan  in  No.  38,  and  Kyrcros  in  No. 
74,  does  not  appear  on  the  map,  but  the  site  must  have  been  near 
Stainburn  or  Winscales,  as  appears  by  the  name  of  the  grantor, 
a  member  of  the  family  of  Stainburn,  who  settled  at  and  took  the 
name  of  Winscales.  Kirkecrossan  has  an  ecclesiastical  flavour 
as  if  the  claim  that  there  was  once  a  free  chapel  in  that  district 
had  some  justification.  Early  in  the  fifteenth  century,  however, 
it  was  accepted  that  the  chapel  of  Stainburn  was  only  an  oratory 
built  by  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  for  their  own  convenience  (Illus. 
Doc.  No.  LXXXIV.).  Crossbarrow  (O.  S.,  liv.  s.w.)  is  not  far  off. 


340  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

hospitalis  sancti  Johannis3  et  croftum4  Matilde,  que 
quondam  fuit  uxor  patris  mei,  cum  tofto  et  edificio  ad 
capud  ejusdem  terre  adversus  austrum,  et  cum  communi 
pastura  ejusdem  ville,  scilicet,  xij  averiis  cum  sequela 
unius  anni,  et  xxxta  ovibus  cum  sequela  unius  anni,  et 
iiijor  suibus  cum  sequela  unius  anni,  et  duabus  equabus 
cum  sequela  unius  anni,  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  communibus 
aisiamentis  ejusdem  ville.  Et  si  it  a  contingat  quod 
prefati  monachi  aliquando  non  habeant  numerum  plenum 
in  aliquo  genere  predictorum  animalium,  licitum  erit  eis 
perficere  numerum  de  quibuscunque  animalibus.  Ego 
siquidem  et  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis  testibus  Hugone  de 
Moreceby,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Willelmo  de  Hothweit, 
Willelmo  persona  de  Wirkinton,5  Alano  de  Steynburn, 
Michaele  et  Roberto  filiis  ejus,  Hugone  de  Brensti, 
Gilbert  o  filio  Ailmeri,  et  mult  is  aliis. 

337.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  WA[L]DEF  DE  YUEBANK 
DE  V  ACRIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  WYNNEBANC. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Willelmus  films  Waldef  de  Yuebanc, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  et  pro  heredibus 
meis  vel  meis  assignatis  quietas  clamasse  Deo  et  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam,  quinque  acras  terre  in  Wynnebanc  cum  omnibus 
aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  in  pascuis  et  planis  dictam 
terram  spectantibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  parentum 
meorum  ab  omni  seculari  servicio,  quiet  [a  clamacione]  et 
demanda.  Et  ut  dicta  quieta  clamacio  rata  sit  .... 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Elya,  ballivo  de  Egremond,1  domino 

3  The  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  had  land  in  other  places 
in  Coupland  (No.  324). 

*Crofton  in  the  MS. 

6  This  witness  identifies  the  deed  as  early  in  the  thirteenth  century. 

337.  ^he  floruit  of  Elyas,  bailiff  of  Egremont,  was  about 
1258.  See  No.  418. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  34! 

Roberto  de  Lamplow,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Nicholao 
de  Moreceby,  Henrico  de  Dene,  Michaele  de  Haverington, 
Willelmo  de  Kirkebistephan,  Clemente,  clerico,  et  aliis. 

338.      CONVENCIO  DE  PASTURA  IN  STAYNBURN. 

ANNO  Incarnacionis  Domini  millesimo  ducentesimo 
vicesimo  septimo,  in  octabis  Pasche  facta  est  hec  conven- 
cio  inter  dominum  Robertum,1  abbatem,  et  conventum 
sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  monachos  dictorum  abbatis  et 
conventus  apud  sanctam  Begam  commorantes,  ex  parte 
una,  et  dominum  Patricium  filium  Thome  de  Wirkinton, 
ex  altera,  videlicet,  quod  dictus  Patricius,  pro  salute 
anime  sue  et  uxoris  sue  et  omnium  parentum  suorum, 
remisit  et  quietum  clamavit,  a  se  et  heredibus  suis 
inperpetuum  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  dictis 
abbati  et  conventui  et  priori  et  monachis  eorundem  apud 
sanctam  Begam  Deo  servientibus,  totum  jus  et  clameum 
quod  habuit  vel  habere  potuit  in  turbara  et  pastura,  de 
quibus  convencio  fuit  inter  ipsos,  quas  dicti  abbas  et 
monachi  asserebant  spectare  ad  liberum  tenementum  suum 
de  Staynburn  infra  subscriptas  divisas  ;  scilicet,  a  Gylder- 
stainflatt  sicut  divisa  inter  terram  de  Wirkinton  et  Gilder- 
stainflat  extendit  se  liniariter  ultra  Ellerbec,  ascendendo 
usque  magnum  lapidem  et  grisium  versus  Wyndscales, 
et  sic  a  magno  lapide  liniriter  ultra  Hungerig  usque  ad 
locum  in  Occident ali  capite  de  Traneberimos,  et  a  salceto 
occidentalis  capitis  ejusdem  Traneberimos  per  profundius 
descendendo  in  Kaulegile,  et  inde  per  rivulum  de 
Kaulegill  descendendo  in  Lostric  per  eundem  rivulum  de 
Kaulegile  usque  ad  Armategill,  et  it  a  descend  [en]  do 
usque  in  Ellerbec,  et  per  Ellerbec  descendendo  usque 
ad  prenominatas  divisas  de  Gilderstanflat  inter  terram  de 

338.  xThe  date  of  the  agreement,  18  April,  1227,  identifies 
this  abbot  as  Robert  de  Longo  Campo  (Dugdale,  Monasticon, 
iii.  538). 


342  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Wirkinton  et  de  Stainburn  versus  Occident  em.2  Ita 
quidem  quod  licebit  dictis  abbati  et  monachis  et  eorum 
hominibus  de  Staynburn  de  predictis  turbera  et  pastura 
infra  prenominatas  divisas  omnia  commoda  sua  in  omni- 
bus ad  libitum  suum  facere  inperpetuum  sine  qualibet 
contradiccione  et  impedimento  dicti  Patricii  et  heredum 
suorum,  hoc  tamen  excepto  quod  ipsi  eandem  terram  de 
qua  contencio  inter  ipsos  mota  fuit  aratro  ad  culturam 
non  reducent  nee  in  eadem  aliquid  edificium  struent.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  averia  de  Wirkinton  tantummodo 
pasturare  poterunt  inperpetuum  infra  jam  dictas  divisas 
sine  impedimento  prefatorum  abbatis  et  monachorum  et 
hominum  suorum  de  Stainburn.  Et  sciendum  est  quod 
homines  de  Wirkinton  infra  prenominatas  divisas  nullum 
opus  manuale  facient.  Ut  autem  omnia  hec  supradicta 
firma  et  inconcussa  inperpetuum  permaneant  et  fideliter 
hinc  inde  observentur  pro  dictis  abbate  et  monachis 
presenti  pagine  appositum  est  signum  capituli  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci.  In  testimonium  et  alteri  pagine  secund- 
um  eandem  formam  script [ur  ?]e  appositum  est  signum 
dicti  Patricii  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis  in  testimonium. 
Hiis  testibus  Willelmo,  persona  de  WTirkinton,  Roberto 
de  Wilton,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Forset, 
Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Henrico  de  Dene,  Roberto  de  Bramth- 
wait,  Michaele  de  Clifton,  Walthevo  de  Clifton,  et  aliis.8 

339.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  MICHAELIS  DE  TERRA  IN 
STAYNBURN.1 

2  Several  of  the  place-names  mentioned  in  these  bounds  can 
still  be  traced  on  the  ordnance  map,  e.g.  Ellerbeck,  the  great 
graystone  or  the  Cut  Stone,  Hungerig  or  Hunday  Cottage,  Kaule 
or  Gale,  and  Lostric  or  Lostrigg  Beck. 

8  The  witnesses  to  this  deed  have  been  supplied  from  a  sub- 
sequent folio  of  the  Register,  as  the  folios  have  been  misplaced 
by  the  binder.  See  note  on  No.  333. 

339.  iThis  deed  was  intended  to  follow  No.  333,  but  was 
misplaced  in  the  binding  of  the  Register. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  343 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Willelmus  filius  Michaelis  de  Stayn- 
burn,2  salutem.  Noveritis  me  concessisse  ....  Deo  et 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  ac  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  totam  terram  quam  Michael,  pater  meus,  de 
Staynborn  vendidit  Roberto  filio  Roberti  de  Staynburn 
infra  campum  de  Steynburn.  Preterea  concessi  .... 
predictis  priori  et  monachis  unum  denarium  de  annuo 
redditu,  quern  predicti  prior  et  monachi  pro  eodem  tene- 
mento  michi  annuatim  solverunt.  Habend[am]  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de 
Haverington,  Johanne  de  Ireby,  Roberto  de  Bramthait, 
Rogero,3  rectore  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton,  Roberto  de 
Ufflait,  Radulfo  de  Lamplogh,  Ada  de  Clifton,  Thoma  de 
Cleter,  Thoma  de  Brigham. 

340.  CARTA  AGNETIS  FILIE  SYMONIS  FILII  GILBERTI 
DE  WIRKINTON  DE  TERRA  IN  EADEM  STAYNBURN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Agnes  filia  Simonis  filii  Gil- 
berti  de  Wirkynton,1  quondam  uxor  Roberti  filii  Roberti 
de  Staynborn,  in  viduitate  mea  et  libera  potestate,  dedi 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie, 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  meam 
in  Sitbrandan2  in  territorio  de  Staynburn  et  totum  jus 
quod  unquam  habui  vel  unquam  habere  potui  in  dicta 
terra,  nomine  dotis,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in 

2  At  Martinmas,  1279,  William  son  of  Michael  de  Staneburn 
acquired  four  oxgangs  of  land  in  Staneburn  for  life  from  Adam 
son  of  Gilbert  de  Staneburn,  with  reversion  to  Adam  and  his 
heirs  and  with  warranty  against  the  heirs  of  William  (Feet  of 
Fines,  7  Edw.  I.  No.  14). 

8  Roger  de  Seleby,  rector  of  Workington,  1247-1258  (Nos. 
214.  356-7). 

340.  l  Simon  son  of  Gilbert  supplies  a  new  link  in  the  pedigree 
of  Curwen  of  Workington.  The  marriage  of  his  daughter  with 
a  Stainburn  is  interesting. 

2  This  place  does  not  now  appear  on  the  ordnance  sheet. 


344  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

eadem  villa,  pro  quadam  summa  pecunie  quam  Nicholaus,3 
tune  prior  sancte  Bege,  in  mea  maxima  necessitate  michi 
dedit  premanibus.  Tenenda  ....  Hiis  testibus  dom- 
ino Ricardo  de  Cleter,  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver, 
domino  Elya,  tune  ballivo  de  Egremond,  domino  Michaele 
de  Haverington,  domino  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo 
filio  Michaelis  de  Steinburn,  Alexandro  Matfelun,  et  aliis. 

341.  CARTA  GILBERT:  FILII  GILBERTI  DE  ij  BOVATIS 
TERRE  IN  STUBSCALIS  ET  v  ACRIS  IN  QWYNNEBANK. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Gilbertus1  filius  Gilberti,  per 
assensum  Gilberti,  heredis  mei,  et  amicorum  meorum, 
dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  duas  bovatas  terre  in  Stubscales,2  libere, 
quiete  ab  omni  terre  servicio,  pro  anime  mee  salute  et 
omnium  antecessorum  meorum,  illas,  scilicet,  bovatas 
quas  pater  meus  dedit  illis  pro  salute  anime  sue,  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  ....  Volo  autem  et  precipio  ut 
homines  sui  qui  manent  in  eadem  terra  habeant  porcos 
suos  proprios  in  bosco  meo  sine  pannagio.  Item  dedi 
predictis  monachis  quinque  acras  terre  in  Winnebanc8 

3  Nicholas  de  Langeton,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  taken  with  Elyas, 
bailiff  of  Egremont,  gives  the  date  of  the  deed  about  1260. 

341.  l  Lord  of  Distington  and  Dundraw,  whose  family  were 
benefactors  of  local  monastic  institutions.  Gilbert  son  of  Serlo 
paid  a  fine  to  the  sheriff  of  Cumberland  in  1178  (Pipe  R.,  24 
Hen.  II.)  and  about  the  same  time  gave  the  advowson  of  the 
church  of  Distington  to  the  Canons  of  Lanercost  (Reg.  of  Laner- 
cost,  MS.  viii.  17,  18).  The  donor  of  the  above  benefaction  to 
St.  Bees,  better  known  as  Gilbert  son  of  Gilbert  of  Dundraw, 
gave  land  in  Distington  to  the  monks  of  Holmcultram  (Reg.  of 
Holmcultram,  MS.  ff.  64-6).  The  descendants  of  Gilbert  son  of 
Serlo  in  the  male  line  came  to  an  end  before  1230,  when  his  possess- 
ions were  divided  among  his  four  daughters  (Feet  of  Fines,  15 
Hen.  III.  No.  12). 

2Stubsgill  in  Distington  (O.  S.,  Ixi.  N.E.). 

8  Now  perhaps  represented  by  Whins.     See  No.  337. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  345 

et  communam  pasture  mecum  et  cum  hominibus  meis  ad 
XXX.  vaccas  et  ad  sexaginta  oves  cum  sequela  duorum 
annorum  cum  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis.  Et  sciendum 
est  quod  ego,  Gilbertus,  et  heredes  mei  warantizabimus 
....  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Michaele 
filio  Hac,  Alano  de  Stainburn,  Michaele  presbitero, 
Willelmo  et  Roberto  filiis  suis,  Waldelfo  de  Moreceby, 
Ricardo  preposito,  Gilberto  serviente,  Willelmo  de  Hoth- 
wait,  et  aliis.4 

342.  CARTA  THOME  DE  NEWTON  DE  PASTURA  IK 
STAYNBURN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Thomas  de  Neuton,1  eternam  in  dom- 
ino salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  ex  concensu 
et  assensu  Johanne,  sponse  mee,  concessisse  ....  Deo 
et  sancte  Marie  et  abbati  et  conventui  de  Eboraco  et 
priori  et  monachis  sancte  Bege  totam  pasturam  et  turbar- 
[am]  que  fuit  in  contencione  inter  eos,  ex  una  parte,  et 
dominum  Patricium  filium  Thome,2  ex  alt  era,  scilicet , 
inter  villam  de  Wirkinton  et  villam  de  Stainburne. 
Habendas  et  tenendas  predictas  pasturam  et  turbaram 
predictis  abbati  et  conventui  et  priori  et  monachis  de 
sancta  Bega  et  hominibus  suis  de  Stainburn,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  scilicet  infra  subscriptas  divisas  ;a 
scilicet,  a  Gilderstainflat  sicut  divisa  inter  terram  de 
Wirkinton  et  Gilderstainflat  se  extendit  linialiter  ultra 
Ellerbec  usque  magnum  lapidem  et  grisum  versus  Wynd- 
scales,  et  sic  a  magno  lapide  linialiter  ultra  Hungerig 
usque  ad  salsetum  in  occidentali  parte  de  Tranbermose, 

4  The  date  of  the  deed  is  about  1210. 

342.  xThe  donor  held  Kirkbycrossan  (No.  38)  and  Rutgart 
(No.  74)  probably  in  right  of  his  wife,  as  appears  by  the  terms 
of  the  three  deeds. 

2  Lord  of  Workington. 

3  The   identification  of  these   bounds  has  been   discussed  in 
No.  338,  note  2. 


346  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

et  a  salceto  occidentalis  capitis  ejusdem  Tranbermosse 
per  profundius  descendendo  in  Cauegile,  et  inde  per 
rivulum  de  Cauegill  descendendo  in  Lostrick,  et  ita 
ascendendo  de  Lostrich  per  eundem  rivulum  de  Caluegille 
usque  ad  Armetgile,  et  ita  descendendo  usque  in  Ellerbec 
et  per  Ellerbec  descendendo  usque  ad  prenominatas 
divisas  de  Gilderstainflat  inter  terram  de  Wirkinton  et  de 
Stainburn  versus  occidentem  et  in  omnibus  libertatibus 
et  aisiamentis  et  commodis  infra  prescriptas  divisas,  sicut 
cart  a  domini  Patricii  filii  Thome,  quam  inde  habuit, 
plenius  testatur.  Ego  siquidem  Thomas  et  Johanna, 
sponsa  mea,  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris,  tactis  sacro- 
sanctis  sancte  Bege,  vnanimus4quod  nos  vel  heredes  nostri 
querelam  vel  impedimentum  de  dicta  pastura  et  turbara 
contra  dictos  abbatem  et  conventum  et  priorem  et  mona- 
chos  et  homines  eorum  de  Stainburn  inperpetuum  non 
movebimus.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Patricio  filio  Thome,  domino  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
domino  Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  domino  Johanne  de  Lang- 
liver,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby, 
Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Hale,  David  de  Swalu- 
hirst,  Willelmo  coco,  et  aliis.5 

343.  CARTA  PATRICII  FILII  THOME  DE  WIRKINTON  DE 
PASTURA  INTER  WlRKINTON  ET  STAYNBURN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Patricius  films  Thome  de  Wirkinton, 
eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me,  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  liberorum  meorum  et 
omnium  parentum  meorum,  remisisse  ....  Deo  et 
beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  abbati  et  conventui  sancte 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  priori  et  monachis  dictorum  abbatis  et 
conventus  in  cella  sancte  Bege  Deo  servientibus  totum 
jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  turbera  et 

4  Perhaps  meant  for  unanimamus. 

5  The  date  of  this  deed  is  about  1227.  " 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  347 

pastura  de  quibus  contencio  fuit  inter  me  et  ipsos,  quas 
turberam  et  pasturam  dicti  abbas  et  monachi  asserebant 
esse  liberum  tenementum  suum  de  Stainburn  infra  sub- 
scriptas  divisas,  scilicet,  a  Gilderstainflat  sicut  divisa 
inter  terram  de  Wirkintona  et  Gilderstainflat  extendit  se 
linialiter  usque  Ellerbec  ascendendo  usque  magnum 
lapidem  et  grisium  versus  Wyndscales,  et  sic  a  magno 
lapide  liniariter  ultra  Hungerig  usque  ad  salcetum  in 
occidentali  capite  de  Tranberimos,  et  a  salceto  occidentalis 
capitis  ejusdem  Tranberimos  per  profundius  descendendo 
in  Kavelegile,  et  inde  per  rivulum  de  Cavelegile  descend- 
endo in  Lostric,  et  ita  ascendendo  de  Lostric  per  eundem 
rivulum  de  Cavelgile  usque  ad  Armetgile,  et  ita  descend- 
endo usque  in  Ellerbec  et  per  Ellerbec  descendendo  usque 
ad  prenominatas  divisas  de  Gilderstainflat  inter  terram 
de  Wirkinton  et  de  Stainburn  versus  Occident  em.  Ita 
quidem  quod  licebit  dictis  abbati  et  monachis  et  eorum 
hominibus  de  Stainburn  de  predictis  turbera  et  pastura 
infra  prenominatas  divisas  omnia  commoda  sua  in  om- 
nibus ad  libitum  suum  facere  inperpetuum  sine  qualibet 
contradiccione  et  impedimento  mei  et  heredum  meorum  ; 
hoc  tamen  excepto  quod  ipsi  eandem  terram  de  qua 
contencio  inter  nos  mota  fuit  aratro  ad  culturam  non 
reducent,  nee  in  eadem  aliquod  edificium  struent.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  averia  hominum  meorum  de  Wirkinton 
tantummodo  pasturare  inperpetuum  poterunt  infra  jam 
dictas  divisas  sine  impedimento  prefatorum  abbatis  et 
monachorum  et  hominum  suorum  de  Stainburne.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  homines  mei  de  Wirkinton  infra  pre- 
dict as  divisas  nullum  opus  manuale  facient.  Ut  autem 
omnia  predicta  firma  et  inconcussa  permanearit  inper- 
petuum et  fideliter  observentur,  ego,  Patricius,  pro  me  et 
heredibus  meis  presenti  pagine  sigillum  meum  apposui 
in  testimonium.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  decano  Coupland, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Thoma  de 
Haverington,  Radulpho  de  Forseit,  tune  senescaldo 


348  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Coupland,  Johanne  de  Dreg,  clerico,  Ricardo  de  Alenburgh, 
Thoma  de  Stubscales,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Roberto 
de  Welp,  Michaele  de  Clifton,  et  aliis.1 

344.  CARTA  PATRICII  FILII  THOME  DE  WYNDESCALE 
ET  STAYNBURN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Patricius  films  Thome,  salutem.  Nov- 
eritis  me,  caritatis  intuitu  et  pro  salute  anime  mee  et 
omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege, 
Coupland,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam 
terram  meam,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  sine  aliquo^ 
retenemento,  quam  habui  de  dono  Thome  filii  Willelmi 
de  Alneburgh  et  quam  idem  Thomas  habuit  de  dono  Ade 
filii  Michaelis  de  Wynscales1  in  territorio  de  Wyndscales, 
scilicet,  per  has  di visas  de  quodam  fossato  quod  se  ex- 
tendit  in  siketum  quod  descendit  in  Hothekeld  usque 
Gilderschoh,  ad  unam  fossam  que  ibi  ad  certitudinem 
divisarum  predicte  terre  fact  a  est,  et  de  predicta  fossa  ex 
transverse  per  alias  fossas  usque  ad  unam  viam  que 
vocatur  Holgate,  et  sic  descendendo  per  eandem  viam  usque 
Ellerbec,  et  ita  de  Ellerbec  ascendendo  usque  ad  divisas 
de  Stainburn,  et  ab  illis  divisis  indirectum  usque  ad  quan- 
dam  petram  que  vocatur  Graistane,  et  ab  eadem  petra 
ex  transverse  usque  ad  prenominatum  siketum,  et  ab  illo 
siketo  ascendendo  usque  ad  predictam  fossam,  et  quatuor 
acras  prati  que  jacent  subtus  quendam  font  em  qui 

vocatur    Hothekeld,2  ....  cum    communa    pasture    et 

• 

343.  *  Note  in  lower  margin  :    Memorandum  de  carta  Patricii 
fil.  Thome  de  tola  terra  sua  in  territorio  de  Wynskal  ut  patet.     The 
date  of  the  above  deed  synchronises  with  that  of  No.  342. 

344.  1  For   the   identification   of   Adam,    son   of   Michael    de 
Wynscales,  see  No.  336.  note  2. 

2  The  nomenclature  of  this  deed  is  very  interesting.  In  Hoth- 
keld  we  have  the  name  of  a  keld,  spring  or  well  :  in  Holgate,  the 
via,  way  or  street  :  fossatum,  the  dug  ditch,  is  distinguished  from 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  349 

cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  communibus  aisiamentis, 
quantum  pertinet  ad  predictam  terram  in  dicto  territorio 
de  Wyndscales  ....  Salva  michi  et  heredibus  meis  et 
hominibus  nostris  de  Wirkinton  communi  pastura  infra 
predictas  divisas  post  blada  et  prata  asportata  sine  dolo 
quamdiu  campi  ejusdem  provincie  indefensum  ponantur. 
Concessi  eciam  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  quod  possint 
claudere  et  tensare3  boscum  suum  infra  predictas  divisas 
pro  voluntate  sua,  salvo  jure  aliorum.  Ita  tamen  quod 
si  predicti  monachi  blada  yemalia  infra  predictas  divisas 
seminaverint,  bene  licebit  eis  ipsa  blada  tensare  cum 
sufficient  e  claustura  circa  predict  a  blada.  Preterea  si 
contingat  aliquem  de  hominibus  meis  vel  heredum 
meorum  infra  predictas  divisas  transgressionem 
aliquam  facere  sive  in  blado  sive  in  prato  sive  in  bosco, 
ego  et  heredes  mei  vel  ballivi  nostri  de  Wirkinton  sine 
placito  illam  transgressionem  emendare  faciemus  per 
visum  legalium  hominum  vicinorum,  et  si  ille  cui  inpon- 
itur  transgressio  inde  racionabiliter  adquietare  non 
poterit.  Et  si  contingat  quod  homines  mei  vel  heredum 
meorum  transgressionem  sibi  inpositam  emendare  infra 
dictas  divisas  vel  inde  se  adquietare  noluerint,  bene  lice- 
bit  dictis  monachis  emendacionem  ab  eis  querere  ubi 
voluerint  sine  contradiccione  mei-  vel  heredum  meorum. 

siketum,  a  natural  watercourse,  and  from  fossa,  a  dyke  or  bank 
of  earth  formed  from  the  upcast  of  the  ditch.  In  the  fossa  we 
have  an  early  instance  of  inclosure  for  the  purpose  of  marking 
the  boundaries  of  adjacent  estates.  The  place-names  betoken 
an  early  Norse  settlemant.  The  termination  of  Gilderschoh  is 
now  represented  by  High  and  Low  Scaw  and  Schoose  (O.  S., 
liii.  S.E.),  the  latter  of  which  was  associated  with  the  agricultural 
experiments  of  John  Christian  Curwen,  M.P. 

8  Tensare  is  an  uncommon  word  with  the  meaning  of  protegere, 
to  defend,  protect.  Note  the  previous  word  indefensum  used 
adverbially  of  the  fields  of  the  district.  For  its  meaning  as 
exacting  a  tax  for  protection,  see  Annales  Monastici  (R.  S.), 
iii.  241. 


35°  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Ricardo  de  Cletern,  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  dom- 
ino Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  domino  Johanne  de  Camberton, 
domino  Elya,  tune  ballivo  de  Egremond,  domino  Rogero, 
persona  de  Wirkinton,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Nicholao 
de  Moreceby.  Michaele  de  Haverington,  Michaele  de 
eadem,  clerico  de  Clifton,  Ada  filio  Dene,  et  aliis.4 

345.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  ADE  DE  WHITGIFT  DE 
TERRIS  IN  STAYNBURN. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  films  Ade  de  Whit- 
gift,1  dedi  ....  religiosis  viris,  dominis  meis,  Johanni 
de  Gilling,2  abbati  monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
ejusdem  loci  conventui  quinque  tofta  et  quatuor  bovatas 
terre  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  in  villa  de  Stainburn 
que  fuit  de  feodo  dictorum  abbatis  et  conventus,  domin- 
orum  meorum,  sine  ullo  retenemento  michi  et  heredibus 
meis.  Habenda  ....  cum  communi  pastura  et  cum 
omnibus  libertatibus  ....  ad  predicta  tofta  et  quatuor 
bovatas  terre  infra  villam  de  Staynburn  et  extra  qualiter- 
cumque  pertinentibus  ....  Faciendo  inde  capitalibus 
dominis  feodi  servicia  inde  debita  et  consueta.  Et  ego 
vero,  Johannes  films  Ade  predict  us,  et  heredes  mei  .... 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Johanne  de 
Haverington,  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  militibus,  Roberto  de 
Bampton,  Johanne  de  Eglesfeld,  Roberto  de  Harrays, 
Waltero  de  Plumland,  Thoma  de  Louthir,  et  aliis. 

4  Roger  de  Seleby,  parson  of  Workington,  taken  with  Elyas, 
bailiff  of  Egremont,  give  the  date  of  the  deed  about  1258,  or  a 
little  earlier. 

345.  l  Adam  de  Whitgift  had  been  a  landowner  in  Stainburn 
(No.  108). 

2  John  de  Gilling,  sometime  prior  of  Wetheral,  was  abbot  of 
St.  Mary,  York,  from  1303  to  1313  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  538,  581). 
This  deed  is  about  the  same  date  as  the  two  which  follow,  viz., 
2  January,  1308-9. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  351 

346.  LlTERA  J[OHANNIS]  DE  WlTTEGIFT  DE  ATTORN ATO 
DE  SEISINA  DE  TERRIS  IN  STAYNBURN. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  filius  Ade  de 
Whitgift,  facio  et  constituo  dilectos  michi  in  Christ o 
magistrum  Willelmum  de  Bampton  vel  Ranulphum  de 
Osmunderlaw,  attornatos  meos  et  eorum  alterum  per 
se  et  pono  loco  meo  ad  tradendam  ....  seisinam 
plenam  religiosis  viris,  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii 
beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  vel  eorum  procuratori  seu  attornato, 
eorum  nomine,  de  quinque  toftis  et  quatuor  bovatis 
terre  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in  villa  de  Stain- 
burn.  Habenda  ....  Datum  Eboraci  ij  Januarii  anno 
domini  m°  ccc°  octavo. 

347.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  ADE  DE  QWITGIFT  DE 
IIIJ°r  BOVATIS  TERRE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  STAYNBURN. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  filius  Ade  de  Whitgift, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  .... 
religiosis  viris,  domino  Johanni  de  Gilling,  abbati  mon- 
asterii beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  conventui 
et  eorum  successoribus  totum  jus  et  clameum  quod  habeo, 
habui  seu  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in  quinque  toftis  et 
iiijor  bovatis  terre  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  in  villa 
de  Stainburne,  que  et  quas  dicti  religiosi  habuerunt  et 
tenuerunt  ex:  concessione  et  dimissione  mea  ad  terminum 
annorum.  Ita  quod  nee  ego  nee  heredes  mei  .  .  .  .  Et 
ego  vero,  Johannes  filius  Ade  predictus,  et  heredes  mei 
....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  Johanne 
de  Haverington,  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  militibus,  Thoma 
de  Louthir,  Roberto  de  Harrays,  Roberto  de  Bampton, 
Waltero  de  Plumland,  et  aliis. 

348.  CARTA  C[LEMENTIS]  ABBATIS  CONTRA  STENULFUM 

FILIUM  VCTHE  DE  VILLA  DE  STAYNBURNE. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierpnt]  literas  has 


352  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

quod  ego,  Clemens,1  abbas  ecclesie  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi 
et  dedi  Steinulfo  filio  Vcthe  in  vita  sua  tenere  de  nobis 
medietatem  ville  nostre  de  Steinburn,  sicut  pater  suus 
ante  eum  tenuit,  cum  eadem  consuetudine  et  servicio  quo 
ille  earn  tenuit.  Reddet  autem  prefatus  Steinulfus  ecclesie 
nostre  unoquoque  anno  pro  eadem  tenura  xj  solidos, 
dimidium  in  festo  beati  Martini  et  dimidium  ad  Pente- 
costen.  Hoc  ei  concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga 
nos  habuerit  et  prescriptum  censum  bene  reddiderit.  Si 
vero  contigerit  eum  supranominatam  tenuram  vi  vel 
judicio  amittere,  non  dabimus  ei  excambium.  Testibus 
hiis  Goscelino  capellano,  Galfrido  portario,  Willelmo  con- 
st abulario. 

349.  CARTA  C[LEMENTIS]  ABBATIS  CONTRA  ALANUM 
DE  STAYNBURN. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  legentibus  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  quod  ego,  C[lemens],  abbas  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi, 
dedi  Alano  filio  Willelmi  de  Stainburn  tenere  de  nobis  in 
vita  sua  tantum  medietatem1  ejusdem  ville  sicut  pater 
suus  tenuit.  Reddet  autem  nobis  idem  Alanus  pro  supra- 
dicta  medietate  annuatim  xj  solidos,  dimidium  ad  Pente- 

348.  l  This  and  the  next  deed  are  the  earliest  documents  in 
the  collection  respecting  Stainburn,  except  the  abstract  of  the 
grant  to  the  monks  by  Waldeve  son  of  Gospatric  (No.  2).     The 
date  of  both  deeds  must  be  before  18  Aug.   1184,  when  Abbot 
Clement  died  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  Hi.  538).     In  the  margin  :    Contra 
Steinnulfum  ftlium  Vche  super  villa  de  Staynburn. 

349.  *  According  to  the  confirmation  of  Waldeve's  grant  by 
King  Stephen,  as  recited  on  the  Patent  Roll  (8  Henry  IV.  pt.  ii. 
m.  21)  of  1407  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  LXXXIV.),  the  whole  vill  of  Stain- 
burn  comprised  only  three  ploughlands.     It  would  appear  that 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  twelfth  century  the  vill  was  held  by  two 
tenants  in  equal  portions,  one  of  whom  had  adopted  the  terri- 
torial name. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA.  353 

cost  en  et  dimidium  in  festo  sancti  Martini.  Hoc  eis 
concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos  habueri[n]t 
et  prescriptum  censum  bene  reddiderint.  Si  vero  con- 
tigerit  eum  predictam  terram  vi  vel  racione  amittere  non 
dabimus  ei  escambium.  Testibus  hiis  Thoma,2  sacerdote 
de  Wirkinton,  Ricardo  capellano,  Thoma  de  Holceby, 
Radulfo  de  Kirkeby,  Willelmo  de  Santon,  et  aliis  multis.3 

350.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  SUANI  DE  AYNERSET.1 

351.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  DUNECANI  DE  EADEM 

CUM  PERTINENCIIS.1 

352.  CARTA  DAVID  [REGIS]  SCOTT[ORUM]   DE  ENRE- 

SETE.1 

353.  CARTA   LAMBERTI  SKARLET  DE  vj   D[ENARIIS] 
IN  ANAND[IA.] 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Lambertus  Scarlet  de  Anand[ia], 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  dedisse 
et  concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo 
et  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  domui  sancte  Bege  in  Coup- 
land[ia]  et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus, 

3  Thomas,  parson  of  Workington,  is  a  witness  to  No.  165,  and 
as  presbiter  of  Workington,  to  a  deed  of  Grace,  wife  of  Thomas 
son  of  Gospatric,  to  the  monks  of  Holmcultram,  as  recorded  in 
the  Register  of  that  house. 

3  For  the  date,  see  the  note  to  previous  deed.  In  the  margin 
we  have  Contra  Alanum  de  Stainburn. 

350.  J  Duplicate  of  No.   41,  with  slight  textual   variations, 
Suuani  for  Suwani,  Enrescenset  for  Enereseiset,  and  Dunedag  for 
Dunadag. 

351.  1  Duplicate  of  No.  40  with  the  variation   of   Aynerset 
for  Ainreseta. 

352.  1  Duplicate  of  No.  39.     There  is  little  textual  variation 
in  the  two  deeds,  except  the  omission  of  Testibus  before  Waltero 
and  the  order  of  the  witnesses. 

2A 


354  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  sex  denarios  annu- 
atim de  quodam  tofto,  quod  emi  de  Rogero  Pacok  in 
predict  a  villa,  jacente  juxta  domum  meam  quam  teneo 
de  hospitali  de  Anandia.  Reddendo  annuatim  in  die 
sancte  Bege1  virginis  dictum  redditum  super  magnum 
altare  sue  ecclesie,  omni  occasione  postposita.  Et  si  ita 
contingat,  quod  absit,  quod  ego  vel  heredes  mei  in  solu- 
cione  dicti  redditus  defecerimus,  liceat  eis  in  partibus 
suis  super  me  vel  heredes  meos  namiare.  Ego  vero  et 
heredes  mei  dictum  redditum,  sicut  prenominatum  est, 
predicto  domui  et  monachis  prenominatis  contra  omnes 
homines  warantizabimus,  adquietabimus  et  defendemus. 
Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  et  concessio  rata  et  stabilis  in- 
perpetuum  permaneat,  huic  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui 
in  testimonium.  Hiis  testibus  Waltero  Longg,  Johanne, 
persona  de  Castellomilch,  Hugone  Thramel,  Johanne 
Ruffo,  magistro  Roberto,  Bernardo  filio  Roberti,  Roberto 
decano,  Reginaldo  de  Crofell,  et  aliis. 

354.    DIMISSIO  C[LEMENTIS]  ABBATIS  DE  ANDIRSETE. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  literas  has 
quod  ego,  Clemens,  abbas  ecclesie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi 
et  dedi  Simoni  de  Boyvilla  et  heredibus  suis  tenere  de 
nobis  in  feudo  et  hereditate  terram  nostram,  que  vocatur 
Andersetta.  Reddendo  ecclesie  nostre  annuatim  dimid- 
iam  marcam  argent  i,  dimidiam  ad  Pentecost  en  et  dimid- 
iam  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Hoc  autem  eis  concedimus 
quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos  habueri(~n]t  et  predictum 
censum  bene  reddiderint.  Si  vero  forte  contigerit  eos 
prefatam  terram  vi  vel  racione  amittere,  non  dabimus  eis 
escambium.1 

353.  l  For  the  day  of  St.  Bega  the  virgin,  see  note  on  No.  227- 

354.  1  This  lease  of  "  Andersetta  "  is  probably  the  first  after 
its  conveyance  to  St.  Bees  as  recorded  in  Nos.  39-41.     Simon  de 
Boyvilla  only  occurs  here  in  the  Register,  but  it  was  probably  he 


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355.  CARTA  MICHAELIS  DE  CLIFTON  DE  TERRIS  IN 
CLIFTONA,  WYNSATH,  ROCHELAND,  ET  ALIIS. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Michael  films  Gamaliel[is]  de  Clifton,1  dedi  et  concessi  et 
hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee 
et  omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  quinque  acras  de  dom- 
inico  meo  in  villa  de  Clifton,2  scilicet,  duas  acras  super 
parva  Wynsath,  et  unam  acram  super  Rocheland,  et  in 
capite  de  parva  Wynsath  unam  acram,  et  super  Seglandes 

who  witnessed  a  charter  of  Adam  de  Montebegon  in  the  Reg.  of 
Wetherhal,  p.  368.  Adam  married  a  daughter  of  Adam  son  of 
Suan  who  confirmed  "  Enereseiset  "  to  the  monks  as  in  No.  41- 
Simon  de  Aynnerset,  Ainresete  or  Ainerset  is  often  found  as  a 
witness  in  the  Coupland  deeds  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  early 
in  the  thirteenth  century.  Clement  abbot  of  York,  the  grantor, 
is  dated  1161-84. 

355.  l  Gamel  de  Clifton  witnessed  the  recognicio  of  the  chapel 
of  Clifton  (No.  99)  in  the  early  part  of  the  thirteenth  century.  A 
person  of  this  name  appears,  with  John  de  Dene,  a  witness  to 
Alice  de  Romili's  charter  at  No.  490.  and  in  a  transaction  touching 
a  ploughland  in  Helton  (Flecket)  in  the  parish  of  Askham,  West- 
morland, against  Nicholas  de  Morevill  in  1197-1202  (Pipe  Rolls  of 
Westmorland,  pp.  177,  189).  Though  called  Gamaliel  in  this 
charter,  there  is  little  doubt  that  Gamel  is  meant.  This  is  the 
only  deed  in  the  Register  by  Michael,  but  his  name  as  Michael  de 
Clifton  is  found  among  the  witnesses  at  Nos.  338,  343- 

2  The  township  of  Clifton,  though  in  the  parish  of  Workington 
and  subject  to  the  parish  church,  was  not  parcel  of  the  manor 
of  Workington.  It  was  one  of  the  Five  Towns,  given  by  William 
Meschin  to  Waldeve  son  of  Earl  Gospatric  (No.  498),  which 
formed  the  Honor  of  Cockermouth.  The  manor  of  Clifton  was 
a  dependent  of  Lorton,  parcel  of  the  Honor.  In  a  survey  of  1578 
the  manor  of  Great  Clifton  with  its  members,  Stainburn  and 
Little  Clifton,  is  set  out  in  numerical  order  as  the  third  of  the 
Quinque  Ville.  The  township  had  two  vills,  known  as  Great 
Clifton,  High  Clifton  or  Kirkclifton,  and  Clifton,  Low  Clifton  or 
Little  Clifton. 


356  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

tres  rodas,  et  super  Witebuttes  unam  rodam.  Tenendas 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  P[atricio]  filio  Thome  de 
Wirkinton,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait, 
Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Thoma  de  Stubscales,  Thoma  filio 
Dolfin,  Willelmo  Graicsuthen,  Michaele  clerico,  et  aliis.a 

356.  CARTA  ADE  DE  CLIFTON  DE  TERRIS  IN  EADEM 
CLIFTON. 

NOVERINT  universi  quod  ego,  Adam  de  Clifton,1  con- 
cessi  et  dimisi,  anno  domini  m°  cc°  1°  septimo,2  in  crastino 
Purificacionis  apud  sanctam  Begam,  priori  dicti  loci  pro 
quadam  summa  pecunie,  quam  michi  solvit  premanibus, 
duas  acras  prati  in  territorio  meo  de  Clifton,  scilicet, 
in  prato  quod  vocatur  Braithemire,  qua  parte  in  dicta 
Braithemire  voluerit  eligere  usque  ad  terminum  tresdecim 
annorum  plene  completorum.  Et  ad  hanc  convencionem 
fideliter  observandam  meam  fidem  astrinxi  et  sigillum 
meum  apposui.  Et  dictus  prior  consimili  scripture 
signum  suum  apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Rogero,a 
rectore  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton,  Willelmo  dispensatore, 
Willelmo  filio  Michaelis  de  Stainburn,  Willelmo  de  sancta 
Bega,  clerico,  Thoma  filio  Syeric,  et  aliis. 

357.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EADEM. 

NOVERINT  universi  quod  ego,  Adam  de  Clifton,  con- 
cessi  et  dimisi,  anno  domini  m°  cc°  1°  septimo,  in  crastino 

3  The  witnesses  suggest  the  date  1235-45. 

356.  l  Adam  de  Clifton  appears  as  Adam  son  of  Michael  de 
Clifton  in  Nos.  358-9,  362,  but  No.  360  is  given  by  Adam  son  of 
Ranulf  de  Clifton.  At  the  latter  place  Ranulf  is  probably  an 
error  for  Michael.  Compare  the  witnesses  of  the  deeds  and  the 
property  involved  in  this  group  of  charters.  Adam  son  of 
Ranulf  does  not  occur  again  in  the  Register. 

2  3  February,   1258. 

8  For  Roger  de  Seleby,  rector  of  Workington,  see  note  on 
No.  214. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  357 

Purificacionis  apud  sanctam  Begam,  priori  dicti  loci  pro 
quadam  summa  pecunie  quam  michi  solvit  premanibus, 
duas  acras  prati  in  territorio  meo  de  Clifton,  scilicet, 
in  prato  quod  vocatur  Brayzemyre,  quacunque  parte  in 
dicta  Braizemire  voluerit  eligere,  usque  ad  terminum 
decem  annorum  plene  completorum  ....  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Rogero,  rectore  ecclesie  de  Wirkinton,  Willelmo 
dispensatore,  Willelmo  de  sancta  Bega,  clerico,  Thoma 
filio  Siric,  et  aliis.1 

358.    CARTA  ADE  FILII  MICHAELIS  DE  CLIFTON  DE  v 

ACRIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  CLIFTON  ET  PARVA  WYND- 
SCALIS  ET  ALIIS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Adam  films  Michaelis  de 
Clifton1,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium 
antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  in  puram  et  per- 
petuam  elemosinam,  quinque  acras  terre  de  dominico  meo 
in  villa  de  Clifton,  scilicet,  duas  acras  super  parva  Wynd- 
scal[es],  et  unam  acram  super  Rocheland,  et  in  capite 
de  parva  Wynscales  unam  acram,  et  super  Seglandes  tres 
rodas,  et  super  Witebuttes  unam  rodam.  Tenendas  .... 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Pfatricio]  filio  Thome  de  Wirkinton, 
Ada  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Nicholao 

357.  l  This  deed  is  a  duplicate  of  the  last,  except  in  the  matter 
of  the  term  of  the  lease  and  a  slight  variation  of  the  witnesses. 

358.  *  Adam  son  of  Michael  de  Clifton  conveyed  to  Hugh  son 
of  Michael  de  Hothwait  19^  acres  of  his  demesne  (de  dominio  meo) 
and  J  acre  of  meadow  in  the  vill  of  Clifton  for  his  free  service, 
viz.,  i6J  acres  in  Scaleberg  and  3  acres  in  Meleberg  and  £  acre 
of  meadow  in  Briggethorfin,  by  the  render  of  a  pound  of  cumin 
or  3d.  at  the  Assumption.  "  Hiis  testibus  Patrico  filio  Thome  de 
Wirkinton,  Thoma  de  Camberton,  Nicholao  de  Moricebi,  Michaele 
de  Haverington,  Roberto  de  Vluet,  Henrico  de  Dene,  Alexandra  de 
Ribeton,  Roberto  de  Bramthwet,  Rogero  de  Satmirthat,  Patrico 
de  Clifton,  Rogero  de  Dene,  Roberto  filio  Ade  de  Bramthwet  et 
multis  aliis."  (Original  deed  at  Hesleyside). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

de  Moreceby,  Thoma  de  Stubescales,  Thoma  filio  Dolfyn, 
Willelmo  de  Craicsuthen,  Michaele  clerico,  et  aliis. 

359.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  MICHAELIS  DE  DIVERSIS  TERRIS 
IN  LOCIS  DIVERSIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  filius  Michaelis  de  Clifton, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me,  divine  caritatis 
intuitu  et  pro  salute  animarum  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et 
antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo 
et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  tria  messuagia  in  quibus  homines  mane- 
bunt  et  croftum  in  terra  de  Clifton  quod  Waldeuus  de  Bank 
de  me  quandoque  tenuit,  et  unam  rodam  et  octo  virgatas 
terre  que  jacent  inter  croftum  Thome  filii  Walteri  et 
terram  sancti  Johannis,1  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Patricio  filio  Thome,  domino  Rogero,  rectore  ecclesie  de 
Wyrkinton,  domino  Johanne  de  Camberton,  Alexandra 
de  Ribton,  Ricardo  capellano  de  Wirkinton,  et  multis 
aliis. 

360.  QUIETA  CLAMACIO  ADE  FILII   RANULFI   DE  CLIF- 
TONA  DE  TERRIS  ET  TENEMENTIS  IN  CLIFTONA. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Adam  filius  Ranulfi1  de 
Clifton,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et 
successorum  meorum,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  sex  acras  et  dimidiam 
acram  terre  mee  cum  una  roda  et  dimidia  prati  in  villa 
de  Clifton,  quas  Adam  Bogas  quondam  tenuit  in  eadem 
villa,  scilicet,  in  crofto  et  tofto  quondam  dicti  Ade  quinque 
rodas,  et  duas  acras  et  dimidiam  terre  que  jacent  super 
Segland  de  Hothaches,  et  tres  rodas  et  dimidiam  super 
parva  Wynsath,  et  in  capite  australi  prefati  crofti  unam 

359.  :  Perhaps  the  land  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jeru- 
salem which  often  appears  in  this  Register. 

360.  1  See  note  on  No.  356. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA  359 

rodam,  et  in  Withebuthes  dimidiam  acram,  et  super 
Rotheland  unam  rodam,  et  in  buttes  juxta  Morp[lat]h 
unam  rodam,  cum  una  roda  et  dimidia  prati  in  parte 
orient ali  de  Braithemire.  Preterea  dedi  eisdem  unam 
rodam  super  Withebutes  et  unam  rodam  terre  super 
Rothelandes.  Tenendas  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Pat- 
ricio  filio  Thome  de  Wirkinton,2  domino  Ada  de  Haver- 
ington,  tune  decano  de  Coupland,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait, 
Johanne  de  Camberton,  Willelmo  de  Craicsuthen,  Thoma 
de  Clifton,  Ada  fabro,  Benedicto  fratre  suo,  Michaele 
clerico,  et  aliis. 

361.  CARTA  ROBERTI  FILII  THOME  DREGHAILITILL  DE 
TERRIS  IN  CLIFTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Robertus  films  Thome  Dreg- 
hailitill,  dedi,  concessi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Bege  et  mon- 
achis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus  vel  clameum 
quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  sex  acris  terre  et  dimidia 
cum  una  roda  et  dimidia  prati  in  villa  de  Clifton,, 
quas  Adam  Bogays  quondam  tenuit  in  eadem  villa, 
scilicet,  in  tofto  et  crofto  quondam  dicti  Ade  quinque 
rodas,  et  in  duabus  acris  et  dimidia  que  jacent  super 
Seglandes  de  Hotaches,  et  in  tribus  rodis  et  dimidia 
super  parva  Wynsath,  et  una  roda  in  capite  australi 
prefati  crofti,  et  dimidia  acra  in  Witebutes,  et  in  una 
roda  super  Rotheland  et  in  una  roda  in  buttes  juxta 
Morplath,  cum  una  roda  prati  et  dimidia  in  parte  orientali 
in  Brathemire.  Ita,  scilicet,  quod  nee  ego  nee  aliqui 
hered[um]  ....  Testibus  domino  Pat  ricio  filio  Thome 
de  Wirkington,  domino  Ada  de  Haverington,  Roberto  de 
Bramthwait,  Johanne  de  Camberton,  Willelmo  de  Craic- 
suthen, Ada  fabro,  Benedicto  fratre  suo,  Mfichaele] 
clerico,  et  aliis. 

2  For  the  date  of  Patrick  son  of  Thomas,  1212-1250,  see  note 
on  No.  38. 


360  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

362.      QUIETA  CLAMACIO  ADE  FILII  DEHE  DE  DIVERSIS 

TERRIS  IN  CLIFTON,  ETC. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Adam  filius  Dehe,  salutem  in  dom- 
ino. Noveritis  me  resignasse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Bege  servientibus  totum 
jus  et  clameum  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in 
xj  acris  terre  et  dimidia  et  una  roda  prati  et 
dimidia  cum  pertinenciis  in  Clifton,  quasquidem 
predicti  monachi  habuerunt  de  dono  Ade  filii  Michaelis1 
et  Roberti  filii  Thome,2  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosin- 
am,  prout  eorum  carte  testantur  plenius  et  proportant, 
et  quas  ego,  Adam  filius  Dehe,  aliquando  tenui  de  pre- 
dictis  monachis  per  annuum  servicium  sex  denariorum 
pro  omni  servicio  .....  Et  ad  majorem  hujus  rei  stab- 
ilitatem  et  securitatem,  Cecilia,  sponsa  mea,  inspectis  et 
tactis  sacrosanctis  reliquiis  beate  Bege,  juravit  se  nunquam 
in  predictis  terra  et  prato  aliquod  jus  futuris  temporibus 
petit  uram.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilbert  o  de  Wirkinton, 
domino  Johanne  de  Camerton,  Ada  filio  Michaelis  de 
Clifton,  Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Roberto  de  Havering- 
ton.  H.  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  de  Steynburn,  et  aliis.8 


363.  CARTA  C[LEMENTIS]  ABBATIS  CONTRA  THOMAM 
DE  DENE  DE  CAPELLA  DE  CLIFTON. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderunt  vel  audierunt  literas  has 
quod  ego,  Clemens,  abbas  ecclesie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi 
T[~home],  clerico  de  Dene,  tenere  de  nobis  in  vita  sua 

362.  1Adam  son  of  Michael  de  Clifton  whose  charter  is  at 
No.  358. 

2  Robert  son  of  Thomas  de  Dreghailitill,  whose  charter  is  at 
No.  361. 

8  This  deed  is  later  than  the  others  of  this  group,  perhaps 
between  1265  and  1275. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA.  361 

capellam  de  Clifton1  in  elemosinam  cum  omnibus  pertin- 
enciis  suis.  Reddet  autem  nobis  idem  Thomas  pro  pre- 
dicta  capella.  annuatim  Xvj  nummos  ad  festum  sancti 
Martini.  Hoc  ei  concedimus  quamdiu  se  fidelem  nobis 
exiguerit  et  predictum  censum  bene  reddiderit.  Test- 
ibus  hiis  Gamello  decano,  Rogero  presbitero,  Roberto 
presbitero,  Alano  preposito. 

364.  CARTA  BENEDICT:  ROTINGTONA  DE  STOKBRIK- 
HOLMES. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,1  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me,  caritatis  intuitu, 
dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  de 

363.  l  In  the  margin  there  is  a  note  that  the  deed  hdbetur  sub 
cera.     Contra   Thomam  clericum   de   Dene   de   capella  de   Clifton. 
Of  the  early  history  of  this  chapel  there  is  much  in  the  Register 
(Nos.  98-100.  107,  216).     In  addition  it  may  be  noted  that  in 
1263  Bishop  Robert  of  Carlisle  had  a  plea  in  the  King's  Court 
against  James,  parson  of  Dene,  "  wherefore  "  he  held  a  plea  in 
the  Court  Christian  of  the  advowson  of  the  church  of  Clifton 
against  the  prohibition  (Curia  Regis  R.  No.  173,  m.  5d.).     It  is 
known  from  a   deed  at   Cockermouth  Castle   that   James   was 
presented  to  the  church  of  Dean  by  William  de  Fortibus,  earl  of 
Albemarle,  before  this  date,  but  the  position  of  Bishop  Robert 
is  not  so  certain.     The  dispute  can  scarcely  refer  to  the  Clifton  in 
Westmorland,  over  which  the  Bishop  had  jurisdiction,  for  that 
church  belonged  to  the  canons  of  Wartre,  having  been  given  to 
them  by  Ralf  Engaine  (Abbrev.  Placit.,  p.  22,  Rec.  Com.).      The 
pension  due  to  the  monks  out  of  the  chapel  of  Clifton  was  exacted 
so  late  as  1396  (Cal.  of  Papal  Lett.,  v.  4). 

364.  l  Benedict  de  Rotington  was  the  grantor  of  several  deeds 
in  this  Register  ;    among  them,  Nos.  414-24.     He  was  lord  of 
Rottington,   a  township  near  the  village  of  St.   Bees  held  by 
Reiner    when    the    priory    was    founded    (No.    2).      Charters    of 
Benedict  son  of  Benedict  de  Rotington  are  at  Nos.  425-6  :    of 
Ranulf  de  Rotington,  who  was  a  contemporary  of  Priors  John 
and  Daniel  at  the  beginning  of  the  thirteenth  century,  at  Nos. 
430,  437. 


362  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

Stokbrigiholm2  in  Fors,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis,  et 
servicium  Johannis  de  Boyvill  quid  michi  facere  debuit 
pro  predicta  terra.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testibus  dom- 
ino Wydone  de  Boyvill,  Radulfo  de  Bethun,  Roberto  de 
Bramthwait,  Ada  de  Hitun,  Hugone  Corbet,  Willelmo  de 
Kirkebystephan,  Benedicto  Corbet,  et  aliis.3 

365.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  STOKBRIGHOLM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me,  divine  caritatis  in- 
tuitu,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  de 
Stocbrigholm  in  Fors,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis,  et 
servicium  Johannis  de  Boyvill  quod  mihi  facere  debuit 
pro  predicta  terra.  Dedi  sequidem  eisdem  ad  increment- 
um  quandam  partem  terre  mee  in  Fors  infra  has  divisas, 
scilicet,  a  vado  desursum  pontem  de  Stocbrigholm  versus 
austrum  lineariter  per  sulcum  factum  per  carucam  ex 
transverse  usque  ad  altam  viam  versus  occidentem,  et  sic 
per  altam  viam  usque  ad  rivulum  qui  est  divisa  inter  Fors 
et  Botle,  et  sic  ascendendo  per  ilium  rivulum  usque  ad 
divisas  de  Stocbrigholm.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis  test- 
ibus domino  Wydone  de  Boyvill,  Radulfo  de  Bethun, 
Roberto  de  Bramthwait,  Roberto  de  Hothwait,  Willelmo 
de  Kirkbistephan,  Ada  de  Hitun,  et  aliis. 

366.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  HUDILSTON  DE  EADEM  TERRA. 
SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  films  Johannis  de 

2  Not  Stockbridge  near  Eskmeals  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
parish  of  Bootle,  but  a  place  now  represented  on  the  map  by 
Holegill  Bridge  near  the  boundary  between  Bootle  and  Whitbeck. 
See  the  additional  particulars  in  the  next  charter.     Fors  here  is 
not  Monk  Foss  which  belonged  to  the  monks  of  Furness  of  the 
gift  of  Godard  de  Boivilla  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xx.),  but  Hall  Foss 
further  north  near  to  the  boundary  of  Bootle. 

3  The  witnesses  here  agree  with  those  in  No.   420,  which  is 
dated  in  1247. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  363 

Hodilston,1  concessi  ....  abbati  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci, 
et  suis  successoribus  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  servientibus  in- 
perpetuum  sex  denarios  argenti  ad  festum  sancti  Michaelis 
annuatim  percipiendos  de  toto  illo  tenemento  de  Stoc- 
brigholm,  una  cum  terra  et  prato  de  Welmire  in  Fors, 
quequidem  Agnes  filia  Michaelis  clerici  de  Cornay  quon- 
dam tenuit  de  eisdem  monachis.  Tenendos  .  .  .  .  Et 
si  contingat  tenentes  dictum  tenementum  in  solucione 
dicti  annui  redditus  sex  denariorum  ad  terminum  pre- 
scriptum  cessare,  licitum  erit  predictis  monachis  et  eorum 
hominibus  absque  ullo  impedimento  mei  vel  heredum 
meorum  tenementum  illud  ingredi  et  tenentes  predictos 
distringere  per  omnia  bona  mobilia  et  immobilia  infra 
tenementum  illud  inventa,  donee  sibi  plenarie  fuerit 

satisfactum  de  dicto  redditu  sex  denariorum Hiis 

testibus  dominis  Gilbert o  de  Wirkinton,  tune  vicecomite 


366.  1  John  son  of  John  de  Hodilston,  lord  of  Millom,  was 
summoned  to  do  military  service  in  person  against  the  Welsh  in 
1276  (Close,  5  Edw.  I.  m.  i2d.)  ;  in  1287  granted  pasturage  in 
Millom  to  the  monks  of  Calder  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  LVIIJ)  :  in  1292 
freed  the  monks  of  Furness  of  suit  at  his  court  of  Millom,  of 
pannage  and  puture,  of  Bode  and  Wyttenesman,  services  formerly 
claimed  in  respect  of  their  land  of  Botherulkill  in  Coupland,  with 
free  passage  over  all  his  land  except  Anneys  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No. 
458)  :  in  1300  gave  to  the  abbey  of  Calder  land  in  Bootle  and  a 
place  in  Millom  called  Barkerhals  (Pat.  28  Edw.  I.  m.  13  :  Inq. 
p.m.  20  Edw.  I.  No.  172).  Sir  John  was  at  the  siege  of  Caer- 
laverock  in  1300  in  the  division  of  the  earl  of  Lincoln  (Roll  of 
Caerlaverock,  pp.  3-4,  ed.  Wright),  when  for  arms  rouge  portoit 
frettez  de  argent,  and  joined  in  1301  in  the  famous  letter  of  the 
barons  to  the  Pope  to  which  his  seal  bearing  a  fret  is  attached 
(Palgrave,  Parl.  Writs,  i.  103-4  :  ReP-  on  the  Dignity  of  a  Peer, 
iii.  App.  126  :  The  Ancestor,  viii.  105).  In  1303  he  was  commis- 
sioned as  one  of  the  arrayers  of  horse  and  foot  in  Cumb.  and  West- 
mor.  for  the  defence  of  the  march  while  the  King  was  engaged 
beyond  the  Forth  (Pat.  31  Edw.  I.  m.  20).  For  his  father, 
see  note  on  next  charter. 


364  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

Cumbrie,2  Alano  de  Coupland,  Alano  de  Penyton,  Roberto 
de  Haverington,  Ricardo  le  Flemanc,  Johanne  de  Kirkeby- 
relithe,  Ricardo  de  Brocton,  militibus,  Willelmo  de 
Twetys,  Willelmo  de  Way burth wait,  Johanne  de  Mor th- 
ing, et  aliis. 

367.  CONVENCIO  INTER  JOHANNEM  HODILSTON  ET 
ABBATEM  DE  GRESHOLMES. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  de  Hodelston1,  et 
Johanna,  uxor  mea,  nosmetipsos  present!  scripto  oblig- 
amus  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  quod 
convencioni  inite  inter  priorem  sancte  Bege  et  nos  super 
Gressholmes  inter  Hesk  et  Audene2  in  Coupland  firmiter 
sine  dolo  et  fraude  stabimus,  ut  quam  cito  in  Coupland 


2  Gilbert  de  Wirkinton  or  Corwen  was  sheriff  from  1278  to 
Easter  1283,  though  ordered  to  be  removed  from  office  on  6  Dec. 
1282  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  314).  The  date  of  the  deed  belongs  to 
this  period. 

367.  l  Adam  de  Millum,  the  last  of  the  heirs  male  of  Godard 
de  Boivilla  in  possession  of  the  lordship,  released  all  his  right  in 
the  advowson  of  the  church  of  Millom  to  the  monks  of  Furness 
by  deed,  dated  at  Millum  on  23  Dec.  1230  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  459). 
He  must  have  succeeded  his  brother  William  son  of  Henry  son  of 
Arthur  some  years  before,  for  in  1229  he  was  party  to  a  suit  in 
company  with  John  and  Richard  de  Morthing  about  a  tenement 
in  Whitbeck  (Pat.  13  Hen.  III.  m.  5d.).  On  Adam's  death,  the 
lordship  passed  to  Joan  his  daughter  and  heir  who  married  John 
•de  Hodleston,  to  whom  Henry  III.  granted  a  weekly  market  and 
yearly  fair  at  his  manor  of  Millom  in  1251  (Chart.  R.  35  Hen.  III. 
m.  4).  With  the  consent  of  Joan  his  wife,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Adam  de  Milnum,  he  confirmed  certain  charters  of  his  prede- 
cessors to  the  monks  of  Holmcultram  (Reg.  MS.  ff.  62-3).  John 
cannot  have  lived  long  after  this,  for  Joan,  then  the  wife  of 
Robert  de  Lathum,  had  a  suit  with  the  lord  of  Egremont  in  1256 
about  the  liberties  of  Millom  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.  40  Hen.  III. 
No.  64). 

2  Scribal  error  for  Dudene,  now  Duddon. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  365 

venerimus  predictam  terram,  scilicet,  Gresholmes,3  dictis 
abbati  et  conventui  faciemus  secundum  formam  conven- 
cionis  facte  inter  dictum  priorem  et  nos  restitui,  ne  dilacio 
sub  spe  pacis  reformande  per  consilium  nostrum  a  Ricardo 
Campyn,  procuratore  nostro,  coram  judicibus  in  causa 
inter  dictos  abbatem  et  conventum  ventilata  petita  et 
homines  nostros  eisdem  abbati  et  conventui  delusoria 
videatur.  Preterea  si  contingat  me,  Johannem  de 
Hudelston,  presenti  scripto  obligatum,  eandem  terram  de 
Gressholmes  dictis  abbati  et  conventui,  casu  interveniente, 
non  posse  restituere,  aliam  terram  tanti  valoris  sibi  in 
Coupland  vel  valorem  tocius  terre,  scilicet,  Gressholme, 
eis  faciam  restitui.  Item  si  contingat  me  viam  universe 
carnis  ingressurum  ante  istius  obligacionis  inplecionem, 
uxor  mea,  scilicet,  Johanna,  secundum  formam  istius 
obligacionis  unacum  me  obligata  sine  fraude  et  dolo 
eidem  obligacioni  fidem  adhibebit,  ut  quod  a  me  adim- 
pleri  non  potuit  ab  ea  compleatur,  omni  renunciando 
privilegio,  si  quid  sit  per  quod  mulieribus  subvenitur.  Et 
ego,  Johannes,  similiter,  renuncio  cujuslibet  auxilii 
remedio  ad  quod  quoad  inpungnacionem  istius  obliga- 
cionis recursus  poterit  haberi.  Et  ad  majorem  securit- 
atem  ut  omnis  dolus  vel  fraus  conquiescat,  ego,  Johannes 
de  Hudelston,  et  Johanna,  uxor  mea,  presenti  obligacioni 
sigilla  nostra  apposuimus.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Roberto 
de  Alneto,  monacho  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  Gilberto  de 
Leirton,  monacho  ejusdem  domus,  Rogero  de  Scaitheburg, 
clerico,  Ricardo  Campion  de  Fenton,  et  aliis.  Ista  con- 
vencio  facta  fuit  in  vigilia  Conversionis  sancti  Pauli 
apostoli  apud  Eboracum,  anno  gracie  m°  cc°  1°  primo.4 

3  Now  Grassoms  on  the  uplands  above  Bootle  where  there  are 
cairns,  near  to  which  is  a  quadrangular  area  200  paces  by  100, 
surrounded  by  an  earthen  dyke  about  4  feet  high  faced  with 
stones,  having  a  ditch  on  the  outside.     It  is  probably  the  "  curia  " 
or    inclosure    of    a    medieval    farmstead.     The    place    is    called 
Grassoms  on  the  Inclosure  Map  of  1857. 

4  24  January,   1252. 


366         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

368.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  HUDILSTON 
DE  J  PLACEA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  MlLLUM.1 

369.  CONCORDIA  INTER  ROBERTUM  ABBATEM  ET  MlCH- 
AELEM  DE  STAYNBURN  DE  XVJ  BOVATIS  TERRE. 

HEC  est  finalis  concordia1  facta  in  curia  domini  regis 
apud  Karliolum  in  crastino  Nativitatis  beate  Marie 
virginis,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii  regis  Johannis 
undecimo,2  coram  Symone  de  Hale  et  Willelmo  de  Ebor- 
aco,  justiciariis  itinerantibus,  et  aliis  domini  regis  fidelibus, 
tune  ibidem  presentibus,  inter  Robertum  abbatem  mon- 
asterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  Michaelem  de  Staynburn8 
de  xvj  bovatis  terre  cum  pertinenciis  de  Staynburn,  unde 
placitum  fuit  in  eadem  curia,  scilicet,  quod  predict  us 
Michael  recognovit  totam  predictam  terram  cum  per- 
tinenciis esse  jus  ipsius  abbatis  et  ecclesie  sue  de  Eboraco. 
Et  pro  hac  recognicione,  fine  et  concordia  idem  abbas 
eidem  Michaeli  iiij  bovatas  terre  cum  pertinenciis  de 
eadem  terra,  illas,  scilicet,  quas  Alanus  de  Staynburn, 
pater  ipsius  Michaelis,  tenuit  in  dominico  de  eodem 
abbate  in  eadem  villa.  Habendas  et  tenendas  eidem 
Michaeli  et  heredibus  et  successoribus  suis  de  eodem 
abbate  et  ecclesia  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco  inperpetuum. 
Reddendo  inde  annuatim  eidem  abbati  et  successoribus 
suis  et  ecclesie  predicte  ij  solidos  ad  duos  anni  terminos, 
scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten  xij  d.  et  ad  festum  sancti  Martini 
xij  d.  pro  omni  servicio  et  exaccione.  Et  pro  hac  con- 
cessione  idem  Michael  remisit  et  quietum  clamavit  de  se 
et  heredibus  suis  eidem  abbati  et  successoribus  suis  et 

368.  l  Duplicate  of  No.  59. 

369.  l  This  is  a  copy  of  Feet  of  Fines,  Cumberland,  n  Hen. 
III.  No.  10. 

2  9  September,   1227. 

3  For  charters  of  Michael  son  of  Alan  de  Stainburn,  see  Nos. 
330,  332,  335.     This  charter  should  follow  No.  349.     For  the 
dislocation  of  the  order,  see  the  table  of  contents. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  367 

ecclesie  predict e  totum  jus  et  clameum  quod  habuit  in 
supplusfagio]  tocius  ville  de  Staynburn  cum  pertinenciis 
inperpetuum.  Et  idem  Michael  et  ejus  heredes  molent 
totum  bladum  suum  ad  molendinum  abbatis  ipsius  in 
Staynburn  ad  vicessimum  primum  tolfatum4  sine  contra- 
diccione  vel  impedimento  ipsius  abbatis  vel  successorum 
suorum  inperpetuum. 

370.    BUNDE  FRANCHISIE  SANCTE  BEGE.1 

IN  primis  incipiendo  a  litore  maris  juxta  Culderton,2  in 
assendendo  per  murum  lapideum  in  quo  crux  franchisie 
setuatur  usque  le  Ellergyll,8  et  sic  per  dictam  Ellergyll 
usque  Craikhowe  et  Snelehow  whynnys,4  et  sic  versus 
orient  em  usque  Wynewell,  et  deinde  usque  ubi  Ellerbec 
crosse  setuatur  juxta  viam  tendentem  ad  Egremonde,  et 

4  At  the  same  session  of  the  justices  in  Carlisle  an  agreement 
was  made  between  Robert  son  of  Thomas  and  Patrick  de  Uluesby 
touching  land  in  Uluesby,  whereby  Robert  and  his  heirs  were 
obliged  to  grind  all  their  corn  of  the  said  land  at  Patrick's  mill 
in  the  said  town  to  the  twentieth  tolfatum  :  in  another  agreement 
with  William  son  of  Richard,  touching  land  in  the  same  town, 
Robert  undertook  to  grind  his  demesne  corn  of  Uluesby  at 
William's  mill  of  Uluesby  to  the  twentieth  tolfatum  (Feet  of  F. 
Cumb.  ii  Hen.  III.,  Nos.  na,  nb).  In  the  Chartulary  of  Ramsey 
(R.  S.  iii.  280-81),  we  have  mention  of  "  unum  tolfat  de  frumento 
et  unam  ringam  a  venae."  The  word  denotes  a  small  measure 
of  some  sort. 

370.  iThis  bounder  of  the  franchise  of  St.  Bees  has  been 
inserted  in  the  Register  between  books  viij.  and  ix.,  but  it  is  not 
indexed  in  the  table  of  contents.  It  is  a  late  transcript  by  a 
scribe  imperfectly  acquainted  with  Latin  :  in  one  place  at  least 
he  got  muddled  and  apparently  did  not  follow  his  copy  with 
accuracy.  The  most  interesting  feature  is  the  record  of  the 
method  used  by  the  monks  in  marking  the  bounds  with  sculp- 
tured crosses.  By  diligent  search  some  of  these  might  be 
recovered.  Several  of  the  place-names  are  easily  identified. 

2Coulderton  (O.  S.,  Ixxij.  s.w.). 

8Ellergill  Beck. 

4  Snellings. 


368  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

deinde  usque  stangnum  vocatum  Goseterne,5  et  a  Gose- 
terne  lenialiter  per  magnos  lapides  positos  in  vasto  usque 
signum  sancte  Bege  insculptum  in  lapide  positum  in  via 
tendentem  versus  Cleter6  et  saltern  extra  bundas  de  Egre- 
munde,  et  a  dicta  lapide  sic  insculpto  usque  crucem 
vocatam  Coltman  crosse,  quondam  Jordani  crosse,  et 
deinde  versus  orient  em  usque  lapidem  insculptum  ut 
supra  jacentem  juxta  Coltman  kylne  et  juxta  di visas  de 
Walton7  et  per  dictas  divisas  usque  quoddam  siketum 
qui  dissendit  in  Bigryggyll8  et  per  dictum  gyll  ad  Lynth- 
waitc9  et  tune  assendendo  per  eundem  ad  quoddam  sike- 
tum quod  ....  Bigryggyll  ad  Brasewykegyll  et  per 
eundem  ad  Skalegyll10  et  per  eundem  ad  quoddam  sike- 
tum quod  dividit  Guderby11  et  terram  prioris  sancte  Bege, 
vocatam  Kyrkebyskales,  modo  in  tenura  Roberti  .... 
Et  per  dictum  siketum  versus  Northest  ad  divisas  de 
Hensynghame  et  tune  assendendo  et  dissendendo  semper 
per  easdem  divisas  ad  Kekyll,  et  per  Kelyll12  ad  Prestgyll, 
et  per  Prestgyll  ex  transverse  per  mediam  more  vocatam 
Wythmore  ad  le  bee  stanez  modo  inclusum  in  clausura 
vocata  Arras  parke,  et  per  dictos  le  bee  stanez  ad  siketum 
extra  dictam  inclaus[?  uram]  quod  dissendit  in  quoddam 
magnum  lez  ultra  et  juxta  Howthwaitt,13  modo  vocatum 
Brakenthwaitt,  et  sic  per  dictum  lez  gyll  in  mare  juxta 
Whithawyn. 

5  This  must  be  Ravelsaye  Tarn  (O.  S.,  Ixxij.  N.E.). 

6  A  guide  stone  still  marks  the  situation  at  the  Cleator  road  end. 

7  High  Walton,  where  there  is  a  guide  stone. 

8  This  appears  now  at  Parkhouse  Gill  (O.  S.,  Ixvij.  S.E.). 

9  Linethwaite. 

10  Still  on  the  map. 

11  Gutterby  (O.  S.,  Ixvij.  S.E.) 

12  An  error  for  Kekyll,  the  river  Keekle  :   Prestgyll  is  Priestgill : 
Wythmore  is  Whillimoor  :    Arras  Parke  is  Harras  Park. 

13  By  this  document  Hothwaite  is  identified  as  Brackenthwaite, 
the  site  of  which  is  now  occupied  by  the  streets  of  Whitehaven 
opposite  Bransty  Railway  Station.     See  note  on  No.  12. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  369 

371.  WiLLELMUS,1  permissione  divina,  abbas  mon- 
asterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  conventus, 
rectores  ac  proprietarii  ecclesie  parochialis  beate  Bege  in 
Cowplandia,  archidiaconatus  Richmundie,  Eboracensisque 
dioceseos,  universis  et  singulis  presentes  literas  inspecturis 
vel  audituris,  salutem.  Cum  sicut  certa  relacione  accep- 
imus  villa  sive  hameletta  de  Enerdale2,  parochia  sancte 
Bege  predicte,  per  sex  miliaria  plus  minusve  ab  eadem 
matrici  ecclesia  parochiali  notoria  distat,  adeo  quod 

371.  1  William  Thornton,  the  last  abbot  of  St.  Mary,  York, 
1 5  30-39  •  previously  prior  of  Wetheral  :  retired  on  a  pension  at 
the  dissolution. 

-  By  No.  9  Ranulf  Meschin,  son  of  the  founder  of  St.  Bees, 
enfeoffed  the  monks  of  the  manor  of  Avenderdale  :  they  had 
already  the  tithes  of  the  whole  chase  of  Coupland  Fells.  But 
no  chapel  of  Ennerdale  is  mentioned  in  the  charter  of  Archbishop 
Roger  (1154-81)  at  No.  107.  By  the  charter  of  Abbot  William 
the  chapel  was  raised  to  the  rank  of  a  parochial  chapelry,  the 
right  of  burial  having  been  conceded.  Taken  with  No.  389  we 
have  two  singularly  interesting  instances  of  the  growth  of  depend- 
ent chapels  to  the  status  of  parish  churches.  At  an  earlier  date 
the  chapel  of  Eskdale  was  treated  in  a  similar  way.  In  1445  the 
inhabitants  of  the  valley  of  Eschdale  stated  that  the  houses  or 
farms  (domus  sive  mansiones)  which  they  inhabited  were  ten 
miles  or  more  distant  from  the  parish  church  of  St.  Bees  (sancte 
Bigie]  in  the  deanery  of  Coupland,  and  that  there  intervened  two 
broad  (grossis)  waters  and  three  streams  (riuulis]  which  swelled 
in  rainy  and  winter  weather,  so  that  they  could  not  conveniently 
go  thither  for  christenings,  burials,  divine  offices,  sacraments 
and  sacramentals  :  adding  that  the  rector  of  the  said  church  had 
sufficient  for  his  support,  and  that  if  the  chapel  of  St.  Catherine 
the  Virgin,  situate  in  the  said  valley,  were  erected  into  a  parish 
church,  and  if  they  were  allowed  to  have  burials  therein  and  in 
its  cemetery,  and  a  baptismal  font,  it  would  be  a  great  benefit. 
The  abbot  of  Caldyr,  to  whom  the  petition  was  referred,  was 
instructed  that  if  the  facts  were  as  stated  and  if  the  priest  of  the 
chapel  was  willing,  he  was  to  erect  the  said  chapel  into  a  parish 
church,  with  cemetery,  font,  bell-tower  and  bells  and  other 
parochial  insignia,  after  due  compensation  had  been  made  to 
the  mother  church  (Cal.  of  Papal  Lett.,  ix.  480-81). 

2  B 


370  REGI STRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

incole  sive  inhabitantes  villam  sive  hamelettam  hujus- 
modi  mortuorum  corpora  ibidem  decedencia  ad  ecclesiam 
parochialem  predictam  pro  congrua  sepultura  eorundem 
turn  propter  longa  viarum  itenera,  turn  propter  alios 
inopinatos  et  fortuitos  casus  qui  frequencius  in 
vectura  cadaverum  hujusmodi  contingunt  :  dicti  in- 
habitantes enormiter  gravantur  et  molestantur  ac 
laboribus  et  expensis  indebitis  afficiuntur  et  cruciantur. 
Nos  eorum  desideriis  in  hac  parte  inclinati  ac  laboribus 
€t  expensis  hujusmodi  quam  intime  compacientes  incolis 
et  inhabitantibus  predictis  quatenus  citra  nostrum 
dampnum  aut  ecclesie  parochialis  sancte  Bege  predicte 
aliquali  prejudicio  jus  sepulture  infra  capellam  predictam 
ac  cimiterium  eidem  contingimus  pro  futuris  temporibus 
obtinere  libere  et  licete  valeantur  consensum  nostrum 
pariter  et  assensum  impartimur  per  presentes.  Proviso 
semper  quod  capelle  hujusmodi  per  curatum  idoneum 
amovibilem  ad  nominacionem  nostram  sive  prioris  celle 
nostre  sancte  Bege  predicte  deputandum  et  assignandum 
et  nostro  arbitrio  prout  libet  removendum  ac  dictorum 
inhabitancium  ville  sive  hamelette  predicte  sumptibus 
sustentandum  perpetuo  deserviatur.  Insuper  dicti  in- 
habitantes ipsam  capellam  plene  et  integre  tam  in  navi 
quam  in  cancello  reparabunt  ac  omnia  et  singula  orna- 
ment a  sacerdotalia,  calces,  et  libros  ac  quecunque  alia 
dicte  capelle  seu  altari  ejusdem  congruencia  ac  cemiterii 
ejusdem  indaginem  sumptibus  suis  propriis  sustentabunt 
ac  manutenebunt  :  ac  eciam  omnia  onera  tam  in  decimis, 
oblacionibus,  ac  singulis  obvencionibus  quam  matricis 
ecclesie  reparacionibus  et  ornamentis  necessariis  ac  sus- 
tentacionibus  quibuscunque,  sicut  alii  parochiani  absque 
ulla  diminucione  seu  subtraccione  sive  detencione,  more 
solito  et  prius  consueto,  bene  et  fideliter  persolvant.  In 
cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum  nostrum  commune  pre- 
sentibus  apposuimus.  Datum  in  domo  nostra  capitulari 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  37! 

octavo  die  mensis   Septembris,   anno   domini   millesimo 
quingentesimo  trigesimo  quarto.3 

372.  CARTA  RICARDI  LUCY  DE  WYNDERGH  ET  WITT- 
OFTHAVEN  ET  CETERIS  LIBERTATIBUS. 

SCIANT  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Richardus 
de  Lucy,1  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro  salute  Ade,  uxoris 
mee,  et  pro  animabus  antecessorum  et  successorum 
meorum,  concessi  et  hac  present!  cart  a  mea  confirmavi,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  Deo  et  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  servientibus 
totam  terram  que  vocatur  Salter2  et  terram  que  vocatur 
Wyndergh3  et  totam  terram  de  Whithothavene,  sicut 
continetur  infra  di visas4  suas,  videlicet,  incipiendo  ubi 
rivulus,  qui  est  divisa  inter  Hothayte  et  Bransty,  cadit 
in  mare,  ascendendo  rivulum  ilium  usque  ad  di  visas  de 
Hothaite,  sequendo  divisas  de  Hothate  usque  ad  gilam  que 
est  divisa  inter  Corkekyll  et  Hothate,  sequendo  gilam 
illam  usque  in  rivulum  qui  est  divisa  inter  Preston  et 
Hensyngham,  sequendo  rivulum  ilium  in  mare,  cum  omni- 
bus pertinenciis  suis,  et  totum  forinsecum  servicium 

:!  8  September,  1534.  The  deed  is  not  mentioned  in  the  table 
of  contents  :  it  is  inserted  in  the  Register  without  title  between 
books  viii.  and  ix.  like  the  previous  deed. 

372.  lOn  Richard  de  Lucy,  lord  of  Coupland,  and  Ada  de 
Morvill  his  wife,  see  note  on  No.  29. 

2  Given  to  the  monks  by  Gospatric  son  of  Orm  (No.  33). 

3  For  Winder  which  is  contiguous  to  Salter  (O.  S.,  Ixviii.  N.W.) 
see  note  on  No.  30.     Richard  de  Lucy  appears  to  have  been  the 
first  donor  of  Winder,  unless  it  had  been  included  in  Gospatric's 
charter  under  Salter. 

1  The  vill  of  Whitehaven  was  a  very  early  territorial  unit, 
whereof  the  bounds  are  here  given.  For  its  existence  as  a  port 
in  the  early  part  of  the  twelfth  century,  see  Nos.  12-3.  All  the 
bounds  are  still  on  the  map  except  Hothwaite,  afterwards  called 
Brackenthwaite,  the  situation  of  which  has  been  identified 
(No.  12). 


372  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

quietum  clamavi  de  me  et  heredibus  meis,  in  puram  et 
pcrpetuam  elemosinam.  Ita  quod  dictas  terras  teneant 
solutas  et  quietas  ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  sicuti  aliqua 
elemosina  liberius  potest  teneri  et  confirmari.  Et  volo 
quod  si  averia  monachorum  sancte  Bege  in  forestam  meam 
prohibit  am  venerint  vel  intraverint  sine  escapio,  et  sine 
causa  mei  vel  heredum  meorum  quieta  redibunt.  Pre- 
terea  hec  omnia  prenominata  et  omnes  elemosinas  et 
beneficia  et  omnes  donaciones  ab  antecessoribus  meis  et 
a  probis  hominibus  meis,  prefatis  monachis  collatas  et 
inperpetuum  conserandas  (sic),  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  confirmavi  secundum  tenorem  cartarum 
suarum.  Hiis  testibus  Henrico  filio  Arthuri,  Willelmo 
filio  ejus,  Willelmo  filio  Ketelli,  Johanne,  persona  de 
Botyll,  Willelmo  de  Boyvill,  Radulfo  Cobed,5  Roberto  de 
Wiltona,  Ada  de  Lamploghe,  Willelmo  de  Plumlunde, 
Rogero  filio  Ranardi,6  Raginaldo  Malet,  et  multis  aliis.7 

373.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EISDEM. 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Ricardus  de  Lucy, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro  salute  Ade,  uxoris  mee,  et 
pro  animabus  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  con- 
cessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  beate  Bege  servientibus  terram  que 

5  Though  written  as  Gobett  in  the  next  charter,  both  are  meant 
for  Corbet.     This  Ralf  was  lord  of  Whicham  in  1187  (No.  78). 

6  An  error  for  Eward  or  Edward  :    see  next  charter.     Roger 
son  of  Eward  witnessed  the  charters  of  Ansellus  de  Furnesia  and 
Alexander  de  Hytona  touching  land  in  Dreg  which  was  ultimately 
given  to  the  chapel  of  St.  Peter  there  (Illus.  Doc.  Nos.  xvi.-xviii.), 
All  the  witnesses  are  well-known  men  except  perhaps  the  last. 

7  The  date  of  the  deed  falls  between  1200  and  1213  while  Richard 
de  Lucy  was  lord  of  the  district,  but  from  Henry  son  of  Arthur, 
lord  of  Mi  Horn,  nearer  the  earlier  date. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  373 

vocatur  Salt  ere,  et  terram  que  vocatur  Wynderge,  et 
totam  terram  de  Whithothavene,  et  terram  que  vocatur 
Flatth,1  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  et  totum  forin- 
secum  servicium  quietum  clamavi  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  et  quod  hom- 
ines sui  de  Couplandia  inperpetuum  sint  quieti  de  pann- 
agio  omnium  porcorum  suorum  in  omnibus  boscis  et 
terris  meis  in  Couplandia,  ubi  pannagium  ad  me  pertinet, 
sine  omni  redditu  et  servicio  michi  vel  heredibus  meis 
inde  faciendo.  It  a  quod  dictas  terras  teneant  solutas  et 
quiet  as  ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  sicuti  aliqua  elemosina 
liberius  potest  teneri  et  confirmari.  Et  volo  quod  si 
averia  monachorum  sancte  Bege  in  forestam  meam  pro- 
hibitam  venerint  vel  intraverint  sine  escapis  et  sine 
causa  mei  vel  heredum  meorum  quiet  a  redibunt.  Preterea 
hec  omnia  prenominata  et  omnes  elemosinas  et  beneficia 
et  omnes  donaciones  ab  antecessoribus  meis  et  a  probis 
hominibus  meis  monachis  prefatis  collatas  et  inperpetuum 
conferendas,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  con- 
firmavi  secundum  tenorem  cart  arum  suarum.  Hiis  test- 
ibus  Henrico  filio  Artur,  Willelmo  filio  ejus,  Willelmo 
filio  Ketelli,  Johanne,  persona  de  Botyll,  Willelmo  de 
Boyvilla,  Radulfo  Gobett,2  Roberto  de  Milton,3  Ada  de 
Lamplo,  Willelmo  de  Plumlund,  Rogero  filio  Eward, 
Reginaldo  Malet,  et  mult  is  aliis. 

373.  1  For  the  place  del  Flat  in  Whitehaven,  see  note  on  No. 
162.  Thomas  Denton,  writing  in  1688,  says  of  "  ye  Flat  "  that 
"at  ye  south  east  end  of  this  town  stands  a  stately  new  pile  of 
building,  lately  erected  by  ye  said  Sir  John  Lowther,  called  the 
Flatt,  which  is  the  new  manor  house  or  capital  messuage,  the 
former  capital  messuage  standing  at  the  west  end  of  ye  town 
at  ye  foot  ol  ye  rock  "  (Perambulation  of  Cumberland,  MS. 
f.  29). 

2  Meant  for  Corbet,  see  note  on  previous  charter. 

3  An  error  for  Wilton  :    see  previous  charter.     Robert  took  his 
name  from  Wilton,  a  township  in  the  parish  of  Hale. 


374  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

374.      CONCORDIA  DE  WYNDERGH  [EX]  SALTERGH. 

CUM  contencio  mota  esset  inter  dominum  Symonem, 
abbatem  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  ex  una  parte,  et  dominum 
Thomam  filium  Lamberti  de  Moleton,1  dominum  de  Coup- 
land,  ex  altera,  de  hoc  quod  idem  Thomas  clamabat  facere 
districciones  in  terris  ipsius  abbatis  in  Saltergh  et  Wyn- 
dergh  in  comitatu  Cumberl  [andie]  pro  tribus  solidatis  et 
sex  denariis  annui  redditus  de  Cornagio  et  pastu  servi- 
encium  et  pro  witnesman  et  pro  summonitoribusa  inveni- 
endis  ad  faciendum  districciones,  summoniciones  et 

374.  l  On  Thomas  son  of  Lambert  de  Multon,  see  note  on 
No.  51. 

2  The  baronial  customs  or  services  of  cornage,  noutgeld  or 
horngeld,  Serjeants'  food,  witnessman  and  summoner  secundum 
usum  Caupeland  are  native  customs  of  great  interest  too  lengthy 
to  be  discussed  here.  For  cornage,  see  my  argument  in  V.  C.  H. 
Cumb.,  i.  312-331  :  for  Serjeants'  food,  which  survived  in  Cumber- 
land till  a  recent  date,  and  for  witnessman,  compare  this  deed 
with  Richard  de  Lucy's  charter  to  Adam  de  Moserthe  about  the 
customs  of  Mosser  and  his  pleas  with  Adam  son  John,  Adam  de 
Moserg  and  Adam  de  Lamplo  about  the  customs  of  their  res- 
pective tenements  in  Breseko,  Moserg,  and  Morton  (Illus.  Doc. 
Nos.  xxvu j.,  xxix.).  Mr.  Farrer  has  printed  abstracts  from  a 
charter  at  Hornby  from  Richard  de  Lucy  to  Reginald  son  of 
Adam  touching  Braithestaines  of  a  similar  nature  as  that  to  Adam 
de  Moserthe  (Transactions  of  C.  <S»  W.  Archceol.  Soc.,  N.S.,  ii. 
331-2).  In  1292  John  de  Hodeleston  granted  to  the  monks  of 
Furness  quittance  of  suit  at  his  court  of  Millum,  and  of  pannage 
for  their  hogs  and  puture  of  the  foresters  and  of  Bode  and  Wyttenes- 
man,  which  services  were  formerly  claimed  from  the  monks  in 
respect  of  their  land  of  Botherulkill  in  Coupland  (Anct.  D.,  L. 
No.  458).  The  services  of  bode  and  wytnesman  are  mentioned 
in  the  famous  English  letter  of  Gospatrik  in  the  eleventh  century 
(Illus  Doc.  No.  iv.).  For  the  customs  of  the  liberty  of  Coplande, 
see  Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxx.  Alan  son  of  Waldeve  gave  to  Uctred 
a  ploughland  in  Aspatrike  that  he  might  be  summonitor  in  Aller- 
dale  (No.  498).  One  of  Uctred's  successors,  called  John  le 
Servand,  held  that  land  in  1224  by  service  of  making  summonses 
(Coram  Rege  R.,  9  Hen,  III.  No.  19,  m.  33a.). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  375 

attachiamenta  infra  libertatem  ipsius  Thome  in  Coup- 
landia,  predicta  contencio  in  hunc  modum  conquievit  : 
videlicet,  quod  predictus  Thomas  concessit  et  hoc  pre- 
senti  scripto  confirmavit,  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis,  pre- 
dicto  abbati  et  successoribus  suis  et  predicte  ecclesie  sue 
sancte  Marie  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  servientibus  inperpet- 
uum  omnia  predicta  tenementa  de  Salter  et  Wyndergh 
cum  pertinenciis  suis  inperpetuum.  Et  quod  predict! 
Thomas  et  heredes  sui  et  eorum  ballivi  de  cetero  non 
faciant  aliquas  districciones  in  predictis  terris  racione 
Cornagii,  pastus  serviencium,  wittnesman,  seu  pro  pre- 
dictis summonitoribus  inveniendis,  nee  racione  alicujus 
alterius  servicii  inperpetuum.  Set  quod  predictus  abbas 
et  omnes  successores  sui  et  monachi  de  sancta  Bega  et 
eorum  tenentes  habeant  et  teneant  omnes  predictas  terras 
et  tenementa  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in  liberam, 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  ab 
omni  seculari  servicio  et  exaccione  inperpetuum.  Et 
adeo  pure  et  libere  sicut  aliqua  elemosina  liberius  con- 
cedi  poterit  et  connrmari.  Et  pro  hac  autem  concessione 
et  confirmacione  predictus  abbas,  cum  assensu  capituli 
sui,  dedit,  concessit  et  presenti  scripto  confirmavit  pre- 
dicto  Thome  filio  Lamberti  de  Moleton  totum  servicium 
de  toto  tenemento  quod  Willelmus  de  Haygate  et  Alicia, 
uxor  ejus,  Johannes  de  Stanes,  Adam  de  Catgyll,  et  Cris- 
tiana,  uxor  ejus,  prius  tenuerunt  de  predict o  abbate  et 
conventu  in  villa  de  Egyrmunde  sine  ullo  retinemento. 
Habendum  et  tenendum  predicto  Thome  et  heredibus 
suis,  bene  et  in  pace  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  testi- 
monium  parti  hujus  scripti  cirographati  penes  predict- 
um  Thomam  resident!,  predictus  abbas  sigillum  cap- 
ituli sui  apposuit.  Et  alteri  parti  hujus  penes  predictum 
abbatem  residenti,  predictus  Thomas  sigillum  suum  pro 
se  et  heredibus  suis  apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de 
Vallibus,  Willelmo  de  Seham,  Johanne  de  Metyngham, 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

magistro  Thoma  de  Nudyngton,  tune  justiciariis  domini 
regis  itinerantibus  apud  Karliolum,  dominis  Gilberto  de 
Wyrkyngton,  tune  vicecomite  Cumbfrie],  Roberto  de 
Molecastre,  Ranulfo  de  Dakyr,  Alano  de  Orreton,  Thoma 
de  Cletergh,  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Ricardo  de  Flem- 
myng,  Johanne  de  Hodelston,  Alano  de  Penygton,  mil- 
itibus,  Radulfo  de  Lamplogh,  Hugone  de  Moresceby, 
Roberto,  clerico,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Carliolum,  anno 
domini  millesimo  cc°  septuagesimo  octavo,  et  anno  regni 
regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Henrici  septimo. 

375.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  HELYE  DE  STIVETON  DE 
WYNDERGH,  ETC. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  films  Helie  de  Stiveton,1 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  .... 
Deo,  beate  Marie,  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  monachis  apud  cellam  de  sancta  Bega  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  et  eorum  successoribus  inperpetuum 
totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  quoquomodo  habere 
potui  in  omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  cum  omnibus  per- 
tinenciis  suis  in  quodam  hameletto  quod  dicitur  Wyn- 
dergh  in  Coupland.  Ita,  scilicet,  quod  ego  nee  heredes 
mei  ....  Et  si  forsan  aliquod  scriptum  vel  instrument- 
urn  aliquo  tempore  inveniatur  vel  in  aliquo  loco  profer- 
atur  per  me  vel  heredes  meos  vel  aliquem  alium  nomine 
nostro  de  predictis  terris  vel  tenementis  vel  aliqua  eorum 

375.  l  It  is  not  known  how  this  Yorkshire  landowner  became 
interested  in  the  hamlet  of  Winder  in  Coupland.  He  was  lord 
•of  the  manor  of  Stiveton  or  Steeton  of  the  parish  of  Kildwick 
in  Craven  and  appears  to  have  been  the  last  of  his  family  there. 
Whitaker  gives  the  succession  as  Elias,  William,  Elias,  Sir  Rich- 
ard and  John  (Hist,  of  Craven,  pp.  214-5).  For  the  connexion 
of  the  second  Elias  with  Lancashire,  see  Mr.  Farrer's  note  in  the 
Chartulary  of  Cockersand  (Chetham  Soc),  i.  167-8.  All  the 
witnesses  to  the  deed  are  well  known  Cumberland  men,  omitting 
of  course  the  escheator. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  377 

parte,  volo  et  per  presens  scriptum  concede  pro  me  et 
heredibus  meis  quod  omnino  adnichilentur  et  nullius 
si[n]t  valoris  inperpetuum  ....  Datum  decimo  kal- 
endas  Februarii,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii  regis  Johan- 
nis  1°  quint o.2  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Johanne  de  Raygate, 
tune  exchatore  domini  regis  ultra  Trentam,  Ranulfo  de 
Dakere,  Roberto  de  Molecastre,  Alano  de  Orton,  Gylberto 
de  Wyrkyngton,  Thoma  de  Cletere,  Ricardo  Flemyng, 
militibus,  Roberto  de  Warwyke,  Roberto  Tillolf,  Symone 
de  Hoton,  Thoma  de  la  Chapell,  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Roberto  de  Bramptwait, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  Roberto  de  Frisyngton,  et  aliis. 

376.  CARTA  ADE  FILII  WALTERI  FILII  TROTAN  DE 
EGLESFELD  DE  nj  ACRIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  EGLESFELD. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  films  Walteri  filii  Trotan  de 
Eglesfeld,1  salutern  in  vero  salutari.  Noverit  ....  me, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium  antecess- 
orum  meorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  abbacie  sancte 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  celle  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetu- 
am  elemosinam,  tres  acras  terre  arabilis  cum  pertinenciis 
de  dominico  meo  in  territorio  de  Eglesfeld,  scilicet, 
toftum  ilium  qui  jacet  inter  toftum  meum  et  inter  toftum 
Helie  filii  Thorfyn2  et  totum  croftum  meum  de  Lastrik- 
houhe8  et  totam  terram  meam  que  jacet  juxta  Kyrketoft 

2 23  January,  1271. 

376.  l  This  little  pedigree  will  throw  the  floruit  of  Trotan  de 
Eglesfeld  well  into  the  twelfth  century.  There  is  much  about 
the  family  in  this  group  of  charters,  and  from  other  sources  we 
know  that  they  possessed  much  land  in  that  district  on  both  sides 
of  the  Marron. 

2  There  is  little   doubt  that  Thorfyn  here  gave  his  name  to 
Briggethorfin,  the  bridge  over  the  Marron,  now  called  Bridgefoot. 
See  note  on  No.  358. 

3  Some  hill  perhaps  near  Lostrigg  beck  which  joins  the  Marron 
at  Bridgefoot. 


37$  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

versus  partem  orientalem,  et  totam  terrain  meam  in 
Capherou,4  et  totam  terram  spectantem  ad  dimidiam 
carucatam  terre  mee  sub  Ulfel.  Has  vero  particulas  terre 
assignavi  predictis  monachis  pro  predictis  tribus  acris 
cum  communi  pastura  omnimodis  animalibus  hominis 
illius  qui  predictam  terram  de  eis  pro  tempore  tenebit  et 
omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis  predicte  ville  de  Eglesfeld5  perti- 
nentibus  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Hugone  de  Moresce- 
by,  domino  Roberto  de  Viltoun,  domino  Willelmo  de 
Wirkyngton,  tune  decano  Couplandie,  et  Ada  fratre  ejus, 
Roberto  de  Bramthwitt,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  David  de 
Kyrkeby,  et  aliis.6 

377.    CARTA  ROBERTI  FILII  WALTERI  DE  EGLESFELD 

DE  TERRIS  ET  LIBERTATIBUS  IN  EGLESFELD. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Robertus  films  Walteri  de 
Eglesfeld,1  dedi  ....  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 

4  It  is  difficult  to  say  whether  Capherou  is  now  represented  by 
Calva  Hill  (O.  S.,  liv.  s.w.)  or  Calfhull  (O.  S.,  liv.  S.E.). 

5  One  of  the  Five  Towns  given  by  William  Meschin  to  Waldeve 
son  of  Gospatric  (No.  498). 

6  The  witnesses  suggest  1225  as  the  approximate  date. 

377.  l  Brother  of  Adam,  the  grantor  of  the  previous  charter. 
Robert  son  of  Walter  son  of  Trothan  granted  to  Elias  son  of 
Thorsun  de  Bland'  and  his  heirs  "  omnem  terram  wanabilem  in 
Westwra  "  belonging  to  half  a  ploughland  he  had  in  Eglesfeld  as 
the  way  (via)  comes  from  Rauthethuait  to  Berkelund  :  also  part 
of  his  two  oxgangs  "  in  certis  perticulis  del  Gail  "  lying  nearer 
the  land  of  Stefan  the  clerk  towards  the  east :  "  et  preter  hanc 
unam  acram,"  viz.,  part  of  his  half  ploughland  in  del  Welangside 
and  part  of  his  half  ploughland  in  Sautheberch.  If  these  parts 
do  not  make  an  acre,  he  will  make  it  for  him  in  the  west  part  of 
Bracanslate.  The  yearly  render  on  Michaelmas  Day  was  one 
penny.  "  Hiis  testibus  Alano  de  Kamerton,  Hugone  de  Moricebi, 
Roberto  de  Eclesfeld,  Johanne  de  Brigham,  Henrico  de  Dey 
[Dene],  Benedicto  de  Clifton,  Toma  persona  de  Brigham  et 
multis  aliis  "  (Original  deed  at  Hesleyside). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  379 

meam  in  Loisura  et  in  Rulandes  et  partem  meam  que 
jacet  juxta  terram  Johannis  de  Brigham  in  occidental! 
parte  et  tendit  usque  ad  Milnbek,  cum  pastura  octo  ani- 
malium  cum  sequela  trium  annorum  et  triginta  ovium 
cum  eadem  sequela  et  quinque  suum  cum  sequela  unius 
anni,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  ....  Hiis 
testibus  Willelmo  de  Trifeld,2  senescallo  de  Cokyrmfouth], 
Ricardo  de  Haleburt,  Hugone  de  Moreseby,  H'ere*  de 
Dene,  Thoma  de  Loreton,  et  multis  aliis. 


378.  CARTA  ROBERTI  FILII  ROBERTI  DE  EGLESFELD 
DE  TERRIS  IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Robertus  films  Roberti  de  Eglesfeld,1 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  dedisse 
....  Deo  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  monachis  ibid- 
em Deo  servientibus  quandam  rodam  terre  in  Eglesfeld, 
scilicet,  partem  meam  in  curtis  particulis  del  Gail.  Ha- 
bendam  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Roberto  de  Hau- 
tona,  tune  ballivo  de  Cokyrm[outh],  domino  Ricardo  le 
Brun,  tune  ballivo  de  Egyrmund,  Thoma,  persona  de 
Brigham,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Thoma  de  Watmyrthac,2 
Johanne  de  Eglesfelde,  Michaele  de  Eglesfeld,  et  aliis.8 


2  The  steward  of   Cockermouth  witnessed  No.  21  as  Driffeld  : 
see  also  No.  92. 

3  The  omission  of  the  letter  n,  which  the  sign  in  the  MS.  suggests, 
would  favour  Henry  who  occurs  as  a  witness  to  four  charters  in 
this  Register.     See  the  witnesses  to  another  of  Robert's  charters 
in  the  above  note. 

378.  l  The  grantor  is  probably  the  son  of  Robert  son  of  Walter 
de  Eglesfeld  of  the  previous  charter.  The  short  parcels  del  Gail 
mentioned  here  belonged  to  the  elder  Robert.  See  note  on  NCL 
377. 

2  An  error  for  Satmyrthac,  Setmurthy  near  Cockermouth. 

3  Thomas  rector  of  Brigham  is  party  to  No.  105,  which  is  dated 
in  1220,  but  the  deed  here  is  later,  perhaps  about  1230. 


380         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

379.  CARTA  THOME  FILII  HENRICI  DE  EGLESFELD  DE 
XD.  CUM  C[ETERIS.] 

SCIANT  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Thomas  films 
Henrici  de  Eglesfeld,  teneor  in  decem  denariis  argenti 
priori  et  monachis  de  sancta  Bega  ibidem  Deo  servient- 
ibus  ad  duos  terminos  cujuslibet  anni  solvendis,  vide- 
licet, medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  aliam  medietatem 
ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  pro  quadam  terra  quam 
de  predictis  priore  et  monachis  in  territorio  de  Eglesfeld 
teneo,  scilicet,  in  Kyrkecroft,  jacente  propinquius  juxta 
croftum  [quod]  est  Asmi  versus  orient  ale,  et  unam  rodam 
[in]  Scortgayle.  Et  non  licebit  michi  nee  heredibus  meis 
diet  am  terram  dare,  vendere,  vel  aliquo  modo  alienare 
nisi  per  consensum  et  voluntatem  dictorum  prioris  et 
monachorum.  Et  si  contingat,  quod  absit,  me  vel  heredes 
meos  predictam  terram  dare,  vendere,  vel  aliquo  modo 
alienare  absque  consensu  et  voluntate  predictorum  prioris 
et  monachorum,  licebit  dictis  monachis  et  priori  totam 
predictam  terram  intrare  et  possidere  absque  contradic- 
cione  alicujus  et  impedimento  mei  et  heredum  meorum. 
Et  ad  majorem  securitatem  hanc  cartam  sigilli  mei 
impressione  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gylberto  de 
Wyrkyngton1,  magistro  Roberto  de  Brauntheuth,  Thoma 
de  Brigham,  Ed[ward]o  de  Wilton,  Colle  de  Wirkyngton, 
Willelmo  de  Stey[n] borne,  Willelmo  de  Dene,  et  multis 
aliis. 

380.  CARTA  MICHAELIS  FILII  ADE  DE  EGLESFELD  DE 
TERRIS  IN  EGLESFELD. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Michael  films  Ade  de  Eglesfeld,  etern- 

379.  1  Among  the  witnesses  of  the  next  charter  we  have  Henry 
de  Eglesfeld  and  Robert  his  brother,  which  seems  to  connect  the 
grantor  with  the  previous  charters.  The  dates  also  agree.  The 
present  charter  is  much  later  than  Nos.  376-8,  380.  From 
Gilbert  de  Wyrkyngton,  the  first  witness,  the  deed  cannot  be 
much  earlier  than  1265. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  381 

am  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me  dedisse  .... 
Deo  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  quandam  rodam  terre  in  Eglesfeld,  scilicet, 
partem  meam  in  curtis  particulis  del  Gail.  Tenendam 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Roberto  de  Hautona,  tune 
ballivo  de  Cokyrm[outh],  domino  Ricardo  le  Brun,  tune 
ballivo  de  Egyrmund,  Thoma,  ^persona  de  Brigham, 
Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Thoma  de  Watmirthac,1  Henrico  de 
Eglesfeld,  Roberto  fratre  ejus,  et  multis  aliis. 

381.  CARTA  GODITHE  FILIE  MICHAELIS  DE  FURNESIA 
DE  J  BOVATA  IN  EADEM  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

NOTUM  sit  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  quod  ego, 
Goditha1  filia  Michaelis  de  Furnessia,  dedi  et  hac 
presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  pro  salute  anime 
mee,  unam  bovatam  terre  in  Eglesfeld  de  dominio  meo  in 
vita  mea,  liberam  et  quietam  ab  omni  servicio  preter 
elemosinas  et  oraciones  ad  dominum.  Et  cum  Deus 
omnipotens  vocaverit  de  hoc  mortali  seculo  me,  famulam 
suam,  concede  predictis  monachis  in  memorata  villa  tres 
carrucatas  terre,  unam,  videlicet,  de  meo  dominio  liberam 
et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  et  alias  duas  carru- 
catas terre  quas  tenet  de  me  Walterus,2  homo  meus, 

380.  *  An  error  for  Satmirthac.     For  the  date,  see.  note  on 
No.  378,  where  the  witnesses  are  about  the  same,  of  whom  Michael 
de  Eglesfeld,  the  grantor  of  the  present  deed,  is  one. 

381.  l  For  the  grantor's  family,  see  note  on  No.  68.     Goditha 
was  the  second  wife  of  William  de  Esseby.     See  note  on  William 
at  No.  52.     Her  brother  Marsilius  witnesses  the  grant  here  and 
Ansellus  or  Anselm  de  Furneis,  another  brother,  is  the  grantor  of 
No.  466.     Daniel  son  of  Daniel,  the  grantor  of  No.  68,  was  her 
nephew.     Much  about   Goditha's   family   will   be   found  in  the 
abstracts  of  the  charters  in  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  (Dep.  Keeper, 
Rep.  xxxvi.  App.  i.  161-205). 

a  Probably  Walter  son  of  Trothan  as  mentioned  in  Nos.  376-7. 


382  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

liberas  et  quietas  ab  omni  terrene  servicio  preter  forense 
servicium  quod  idem  monachi  exinde  facturi  sunt.  Has 
autem  tres  carucatas  terre  tenebunt  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis  inperpetuum,  ut  Willelmus  de  Eseby,  jamdudum 
dominus  et  sponsus  meus,  et  ego  et  heredes  mei  et  ante- 
cessores  mei  sumus  participes  omnium  bonorum  que 
fiunt  in  domo  sancte  Bege  et  in  abbathia  sancte  Marie, 
Eboraci,  eternaliter.  Hiis  testibus  Marsilio,  fratre  meo, 
Alberto  filio  Jurdadi,3  Symone  de  Mundegayne,  Rogero 
presbitero,  Roberto  diacono,  Willelmo  filio  Waited,  et 
multis  aliis.4 

382.  CARTA  WILLELMI  COMITIS  ALBEM[ARLIE]  DE 
DENE  ET  EGLISFELD. 

WiLLELMUS,1  comes  Albfemarlie],  omnibus  hominibus 
suis  de  Coupland,  Francis  et  Anglicis,  has  literas  audi- 
entibus  vel  audituris,  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris, 
salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  presenti  carta  con- 
firmasse  Willelmo  de  Eseby2  convencionem  inter  Roger- 
urn  filium  Gileberti3  et  Hodardum  filium  Rpberti4  et 
ipsum  Willelmum  factam  de  terra  de  Dene  et  de  Egles- 
feld,  quam  de  eis  tenet,  sicfut]  carta  illorum  testatur  et 
ex  mea  parte  ei  dono  et  confirmo  et  heredibus  suis. 
Tenendam  et  habendam  de  me  et  de  heredibus  meis, 

8  This  word  is  not  certain  :  it  cannot  be  Godardi  or  Odardi,  but 
it  might  be  uirdadi.  The  name  does  not  appear  again  in  the 
Register. 

4  As  iamdudum  is  taken  in  the  sense  of  the  present,  William  de 
Esseby  will  fix  the  date  about  1170.  If  William  was  deceased, 
the  deed  will  be  later. 

382.  JThis  earl  will  be  William  le  Gros,  earl  of  Albemarle, 
who  married  Cicely,  daughter  of  William  fitz  Duncan,  and  died 
in  1179.  For  two  of  his  charters  touching  quittance  of  Noute- 
geld,  see  Nos.  17-8  and  note  to  the  former  charter. 

a  For  William  de  Eseby,  see  Nos.  52-4,  75. 

:1  For  Roger  son  of  Gilbert,  see  note  on  No.  223. 

4  Hodard  son  of  Robert  has  not  been  identified. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     383 

liberam  et  quiet  am  de  pannagio  et  de  Noutegeld.  Test- 
ibus  Radulfo  de  Hamund,  Willelmo  de  Hotergham, 
Ketello  filio  Hulf,  Herturgo5  filio  Godardi,  magistro 
Rogero,  Nicholao  clerico,  Waltero  camerario,  Willelmo 
lepore,6  Philippe  de  Petyngton,  Anketino  filio  Rogeri. 

383.  QUIETA    CLAMACIO    ROGERI    FILII    GERARDI     DE 

MORTON  A  DE  S  ALTER. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Roger  filius  Gerardi  de  Mortona,1  salut- 
em  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  ....  Deo 
et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  et  monachis  ibid- 
em Deo  servientibus,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  successorum 
meorum,  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  aliquo 
modo  habere  potui  in  toto  manerio  de  Saltergh  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  ad  dictum  manerium  infra  et  extra 
pertinent ibus.  Tenendum  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Gilberto  de  Wirkyngton,  domino  Nicholao  de  Moresceby, 
domino  Radulpho  de  Bethun,  domino  Michaele  de  Her- 
yngton,  domino  Thoma  de  Cletere,  domino  Roberto, 
persona  de  Lamplou,  Radulpho  de  Lamplou,  Benedicto 
de  Rotyngtona,  Willelmo  de  Morthyng,  Johanne  de 
Moserie,  Roberto  de  Wiltona,  et  aliis. 

384.  GOSPATRICIUS  FILIUS  HORM  DE  OMNIBUS  TERRIS 

suis  IN  SALTER  CUM  PARTINENCIIS. 

6  Perhaps  another  form  of,  or  an  error  for,  Arturo.  The  witness 
must  be  Arthur  son  of  Godard,  lord  of  Millom. 

6  For  the  story  about  Beatrice,  "  sponsam  cujusdam  Willelmi 
cognomento  leporis,"  see  the  Miracles  of  St.  Bega  in  Illus.  Doc. 
No.  i.  William  the  hare  does  not  appear  again  in  the  Register, 
but  we  have  William  Haietail  in  Nos.  279.  290,  294,  but  too  late 
for  identification  with  him. 

383.  1  The  nature  of  this  deed  is  explained  by  a  note  in  the 
margin  :  reddicio  Rogeri  de  Mortona  de  manerio  de  Salter  :  quinta 
de  Salterhg  :  habetur  sub  cera  :  vide  aliam  cartam  fo.  2  prece- 
dentem.  Roger  de  Morton  does  not  occur  again  in  the  Register, 
except  as  a  witness  to  No.  171  which  is  dated  21  Sept.  1248. 
The  deed  here  is  perhaps  a  few  years  later. 


384  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  legentibus  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  quod  ego,  Gospatricius  filius  Horm,1  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  omnium  liberorum  et  parentum 
meorum  et  pro  anima  patris  et  matris  mee  et  omnium 
predecessorum  meorum,  dedi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  beate 
Bege  virgini  advocatrici  mee  totam  terram  que  vocatur 
Salterghe,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  et  proprie  ministerium  altaris  ejusdem  vir- 
ginis,  liberam,  quiet  am  et  solutam  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio.  Et  volo  quod  heredes  mei  warantizent  et 
acquietent  hanc  donacionem  meam  inperpetuum.  Hanc 
vero  oblacionem  supradicte,  scilicet,  terre  feci  in  prefata 
ecclesia  super  altare  ejusdem  virginis  in  die  Assump- 
cionis  sancte  Dei  genitricis  Marie.  Hiis  testibus  Egeliva, 
uxore  mea,  et  T[homa]  filio  et  herede  meo,  Michaele  fratre 
meo,  Gilberto  filio  Serl',  Alano  filio  meo,  Reginaldo  de 
Belcamp,  R[icardo]  filio  Truite,  Frumbaldo  et  Radulpho 
militibus  Comitibus,2  Cetello  et  Efwardo  filfiis]  Ulf,  et 
multis  aliis. 

385.  CARTA  WILLELMI  DE  BOYVILLA  DE  TERRIS  CUM 
MOLENDINO  EJUSDEM. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  has  literas  visuris  vel  audit- 

384.     l  For  the  grantor,  see  note  on  No.  32. 

'2  This  deed  is  a  shortened  form  of  No.  33  and  has  the  same 
witnesses.  The  text  at  militibus  Comitibus  is  undoubtedly  wrong 
though  written  out.  It  should  be,  as  suggested  in  No.  33, 
militibus  Comitisse,  knights  of  Cicely,  countess  of  Albemarle. 
Frumbald  the  knight  appears  without  Ralf  as  a  witness  to  No. 
53.  It  is  suggested  that  Frumbald  is  the  same  as  Girinbald  who 
witnessed  No.  233.  Ralf  de  Cailly  or  Chailli  and  William  son 
of  Clerenbaud  or  Clerenbald  were  knights  of  the  Honor  of  Skipton 
in  1166  (Liber  Rubeus,  R.  S.t  p.  431)  which  would  account  for  their 
presence  in  Coupland.  On  the  other  hand,  see  Pipe  Rolls  of  Lanes., 
pp.  409-10,  where  Grimbald  appears  as  a  witness  to  a  charter 
about  this  date,  identified  by  Mr.  Fairer  as  a  Lancashire  land- 
owner, but  why  not  in  Skipton  as  well  ? 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  385 

uris,  Willelmus  de  Boyvilla,1  salutem.  Sciatis  quod  ego, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  parentum  meorum 
remisi  et  quietum  clamavi  de  me  et  de  heredibus  meis 
inperpetuum  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  medietatem  tocius  terre  quam  de  eis 
tenui  ad  terminum  vite  mee  in  Salterra  cum  molendino 
ejusdem  ville  et  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  cum 
omnibus  aisiamentis  infra  villam  et  extra  ad  eandem 
terram  pertinentibus  sine  ullo  retenemento.  Tenendam 
et  habendam  inperpetuum  libere,  integre  et  quiete  sicut 
liberam  elemosinam  suam,  scilicet,  illam  medietatem 
versus  austrum  sicut  extenditur  per  regiam  stratam  de 
Frisintona  usque  ad  Keltonam.  Et  ne  aliquis  heredum 
meorum  de  predicta  terra  cum  pertinenciis  et  de  molendino 
predicto  predictis  monachis  molestiam  vel  impedimentum 
facere  possit  inposterum.  Hanc  cart  am  meam  sigilli 
mei  impressione  coroboravi.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo 
Pointal,  Rogero  filio  Edwardi,  Roberto  de  Wiltoun,  Gal- 
frido  falconario,  Radulpho  Corbett,  Willelmo  filio  Ketelli, 
Hugone  de  Moresceby,  Ada  de  Lamplou,  Ricardo  de 
Alneburgh,  Henrico  de  Frisington,  Ada  de  Haverington, 
Willelmo  de  Hotwhait,  Hugone  de  Brandsty,  David 
serviente.2 

386.    CARTA   EJUSDEM   DE   TOTIS   TERRIS   suis    CUM 

BOSCO  ET  MOLENDINO  EJUSDEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Willelmus  de  Boyvilla,  salutem.  Sci- 
atis quod  ego,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  omnium  parentum 
meorum,  remisi  et  quiet  am  clamavi  ....  Deo  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 

385.  l  It  would  be  hazardous,  without  more  particulars,  to 
identify  the  grantor  with  William  de  Boivilla,  lord  of  Kirksanton. 
The  family  name  was  very  common  in  Coupland  and  Furness  at 
the  beginning  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

aThe  witnesses  here  fix  the  charter  in  the  first  decade  of  the 
thirteenth  century  or  about  that  date. 

2C 


386  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA. 

quam  de  eis  tenui  in  Salterra  cum  bosco  et  molendino 
ejusdem  ville  cum  omnibus  melioracionibus  et  edificiis  et 
omnibus  aisiamentis  et  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  ad 
eandem  terrain  pertinentibus  sine  ullo  retenemento. 
Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testibus  Anchetino  filio  Durandi,1 
Ricardo  filio  ejus,  Adam  de  Lamplou,2  Ada  de  Havering- 
ton,3  Hugone  de  Moreseby,4  Henrico  de  Frisington, 
magistro  Alano  de  Wytingham,6  Thoma  de  Botel,7  Hen- 
rico de  Hale,8  Willelmo  filio  Ketelli,9  Galfrido  falconario,10 
Willelmo  filio  Hugonis,11  Ricardo  de  Puncunby,12  Ada  de 
Neuton,13  Roberto  de  Wilton,14  Michaele  capellano  de 
sancta  Bega,  Ricardo  capellano  de  Becchermer,  Rogero 
diacono,  Roberto  de  Ketelby,  et  aliis. 

387.  CARTA  NICHOLAI  [DE]  MORICEBY  DE  TURBARIA 

IN   WlTEMYRE.1 

388.  CARTA  NICHOLAI  DE  MORICEBY  DE  TURBARIA  IN 

WlTTEMYRE.1 

UNIVERSIS  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit,  Nicho- 
laus  de  Moreceby,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  inspexisse  [cartas  meorum] 
antecessorum  de  Hensingham  in  quibus  continetur  quod 
abbas  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  successores  sui  et  homines 
sui  in  Kirkeby,  Rotyngton,  Sandwath,  Preston,  Witot- 

386.  The  witnesses  to  this  deed  often  occur  in  the  Register  : 
(i)  lord  of  Cleter  ;    (2)  lord  of  Lamplugh  ;    (3)  lord  of  Harrington  ; 
(4)  lord  of  Moresby  ;    (5)  lord  of  Frizington  ;    (6)  parson  of  Which- 
am  ;     (7)  parson  of  Bootle  ;     (8)  probably  parson  of  Hale  ;    (9) 
brother  of  Alan,  Michael  and  Benedict,  sons  of  Ketel  of  Hen- 
singham and  Bolton  in  Gosforth  ;    (10)  lord  of  Gosford  ;    (n)  lord 
of  Kelton  ;   (12)  son  of  Punzun  of  Ponsonby  ;   (13)  lord  of  Neuton 
in  Gosforth  ;    (14)  lord  of  Wilton  in  Hale.     The  date,  like  that  of 
the  previous  deed,  is  early  in  the  thirteenth  century. 

387.  l  Duplicate  of  No.  73. 

388.  l  This  deed  much  resembles  No.  73  and  has  the  same 
witnesses. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA   BEGA  387 

haven  et  Hothwait  possint  fodere  turbas  in  mussa  que 
vocatur  Withemyr  inperpetuum.  Quamquidem  conces- 
sionem  et  donacionem  ratam  et  gratam  habeo  et  pro  me 
et  heredibus  meis  inperpetuum  confirmo.  Volo  eciam 
et  concede,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis,  dictis  abbati  et 
successoribus  suis  et  hominibus  suis  predictis  quod  possint 
fodere  turbas  per  totam  mussam  predictam  ubi  melius 
sibi  viderint  expedire,  et  tarn  in  mussa  quam  super 
moram  meam  sictam  illas  turbas  sictare  et  eas  sine  im- 
pedimento  inde  cariare  singulis  annis  inperpetuum. 
Salvo  as  in  No.  73. 

389.  NOVERINT  universi  ad  quos  presentes  litere 
tripartite  pervenerint  quod  cum  capella  de  Lowswater1,  a 
tempore  cujus  contrarii  memoria  hominis  non  existit, 
fuerit  et  fit  de  presenti  capella  dependens  a  matrice  ecclesia 
sancte  Bege  in  Cowplandia  et  infra  fines  et  limites  dicte 
paroch[ialis]  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  notorie  situata :  In 
quaquidem  capella  prior  celle  sancte  Bege  predicte  pro 
tempore  existens  consuevit  incolis  et  inhabitatoribus  de 
Lowsewater  diebus  duntaxat  dominicis  in  dicta  capella 
capellanum  missam  celebrantem  suis  sumptibus  invenire : 2 
Dicte  capelle  construccione,  librorum,  vestimentorum  et 
ornamentorum  quorumcumque  ecclesiasticorum  inven- 
cione,  emendacione  et  quociens  opus  fuerit  reparacione, 

389.  l  For  the  early  history  of  this  chapel,  see  Nos.  28-9,  75, 
107. 

2  When  Archbishop  Wick  wane  was  at  St.  Bees  on  10  May,  1281, 
he  issued  his  licence  to  the  Bishop  of  Whithern  or  other  Bishop 
in  communion  wjth  York  that  "  possit,  ad  instanciam  unanimem 
prioris  presidentis  de  Sancta  Bega  et  parochianorum  ejusdem  loci, 
capellam  de  Louswater  in  eadem  parochia,  propter  vehementem 
sui  distanciam,  unacum  cimiterio,  ad  plenum  usum  sacramentor- 
um  et  sepulture  ecclesiastice,  auctoritate  nostra,  quam  cicius 
placuerit,  dedicare  :  indempnitate  matricis  ecclesie  et  dignitate 
Eboracensis  sedis  in  singulis  semper  salvis  "  (Abp.  Wickwane's 
Register,  p.  120,  Surtees  Soc.).  It  apparently  did  not  please  the 
monks  to  do  so  for  a  very  long  time. 


388  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

ac  ceteris  omnimodis  oneribus  dicte  capelle  quomodolibet 
incumbenti  bus  per  hujusmodi  incolas  et  inhabit atores 
hactenus  perpetuo  supportatis ;  dicti  incole  et  inhabit- 
atores  de  Lowsewater,  quociens  ab  hac  luce  decesserunt, 
ad  dictam  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  matricem  pro  sepultura 
ecclesiastica  optinenda  solebant  deferri  ac  solummodo 
ibidem  hactenus  suam  optineant  sepulturam.  Consider- 
antes  tamen  abbas  et  conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  qui  pro  tempore  fuerint,  fecunde,  gracioseque 
dileccionis  sinceritatem  quam  Celebris  memorie  magnifi- 
cus  et  nobilis  dominus,  dominus  Henricus  Percy,  tune 
comes  Northumbrie  et  constabularius  Anglie3  ad  dictum 
monasterium  cellamque  suam  sancte  Bege  predicte 
habuit  ;  Ipsius  domini  contemplacione  aliisque  causis 
racionabilibus  et  legitimis  ;  voluerunt  et  concesserunt  et 
quantum  in  eis  fuerit  consenserunt  quod  dicta  capella  de 
Lowsewater  cum  cimiterio  ejusdem,  postquam  auctoritate 
pontificali  consecrata  fuerit,  dicti  incole  et  inhabitatores 
congruam  habeant  sepulturam  in  eisdem,  decimis  major- 
ibus  et  minoribus,  mortuariis  vivis  et  mortuis,  porcionibus, 
oblacionibus  et  ceteris  obvencionibus  quibuscunque  ad 
dictam  cellam  qualitercumque  prevenientibus,  ceterisque 
juribus  de  jure  et  consuetudine  hactenus  debitis  et  con- 
suetis  dicte  matrici  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  aliis  in  omnibus 

3  Only  two  earls  of  Northumberland  ot  this  name  are  known 
to  have  been  constables  of  England.  Henry  Percy,  the  first 
reputed  earl,  was  made  constable  for  life  on  30  September,  1399 
(Gal.  of  Pat.,  1399-1401,  p.  12),  was  attainted  in  1405  (Ibid., 
1405-8,  p.  24)  and  was  slain  at  the  battle  of  Bramham  Moor  three 
years  afterwards.'  He  was  lord  of  Cockermouth  in  right  of  his 
wife  Maud  de  Lucy  who  died  in  1398.  His  grandson,  Henry 
Percy,  the  only  son  of  Hotspur,  was  restored  to  the  forfeited  earl- 
dom and  afterwards  created  constable  of  England  on  25  May, 
1450  (Ibid.,  1446-52,  p.  326)  and  was  slain  at  St.  Albans  in  1455. 
The  fourth  earl  of  this  name,  under  the  style  only  of  lord  of  the 
Honor  of  Cokermouthe,  when  at  St.  Bees  on  n  September,  1473, 
confirmed  certain  possessions  of  the  monks  (Illus.  Doc.  No, 
LXXXV.). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  389 

semper  salvis  :  Ac  omnibus  oneribus  dicte  capelle  repara- 
cione,  calicum,  librorum,  vestimentorum  et  ornamentor- 
um  quorumcumque  ecclesiasticorum  invencione  et  quo- 
ciens  opus  fuerit  emendacione  integraliter  per  hujusmodi 
incolas  et  inhabitores  perpetuo  supportandis.  Et  in  casu 
quo  ipsi  incole  et  inhabitatores  capellanum  conducticium 
suis  sumptibus  et  expensis  singulis  diebus  missam  et 
alia  divina  officia  celebraturum  ibidem  ceteraque  sacra- 
menta  et  sacramentalia  eis  cum  licencia  et  consensu  dicti 
prioris  ministrare  valeat,  habere  voluerint,  jurabit  qui- 
libet  capellanus  hujusmodi  in  suo  primo  ingressu  coram 
dicto  priore  ad  sancta  Dei  evangelia  per  ipsum  coporaliter 
tacta  quod  dictos  incolas  et  inhabitatores  de  Loweswater, 
parochianos  veros  dicte  matricis  ecclesie  sancte  Bege 
salubriter  monebit,  hortabitur  pro  suo  posse  et  inducet 
tarn  publice  quam  privatim  quod  nihil  subtrahent  occas- 
ione  hujusmodi  capelle  dedicacionis  aut  consecracionis  a 
dicta  sua  parochiali  ecclesia  sancte  Bege  de  decimis, 
porcionibus,  oblacionibus,  obvencionibus,  proficuis  vel 
proventibus  quibuscunque  dicte  ecclesie  sancte  Bege 
debitis  et  ante  ista  tempora  solvi  consuetis,  et  quam  bene, 
fideliter  et  integre  porciones,  oblaciones,  obvenciones, 
proventus  et  emolumenta  quecunque  per  dictos  incolas 
et  inhabitatores  seu  alios  quoscunque  in  dicta  capella 
oblat[a]  sepedicto  priori,  procuratori  ejusdem  vel  dicti 
prioris  locum  tenenti,  sine  diminucione  aliqua  reddet 
integraliter  et  persolvet,  prout  in  quadam  composicione 
indentata  inde  confecta  plenius  continetur.  Nichilo- 
minus  tarn  abbas  monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
prior  dicte  celle  sancte  Bege,4  sencientes  se  et  dictam 
cellam  per  dictos  incolas  et  habitatores  gravatos,  occasione, 
vidilicet,  detencionis  cujusdam  pensionis  annue  sex  solid- 
orum  et  octo  denariorum,  racione  indempnitatis  dicte 
celle  per  prefatos  incolas  et  habitatores  singulis  [annis] 
persolvend[e]  :  ac  non  solucionum  vigiliarum  mortuorum 

4  In  the  margin  here  :    Querela  abbatis  et  prioris. 


3QO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

decedencium  apud  Lowsewater  dicte  matrici  ecclesie  per 
eosdem  incolas  et  inhabitatores  per  certos  annos  jam 
effluxos  subtractarum  ;  ac  occasione  aliarum  injuriarum 
dicte  celle  per  eosdem,  ut  asseruit,  illatarum,  illustri  et 
prepotent!  domino,  domino  Henrico  Percy,  comiti  North- 
umbrie,  domino  honoris  de  Cokermouth,  ac  in  eisdem 
incolis  et  habitat oribus  jurisdiccionem  temporalem  notorie 
exercenti,  pro  remedio  congruo  in  premissis  sibi  exhiberi 
contra  dictos  incolas  [et]  inhabitatores  suas  supplicaciones 
direxerunt  et  optulerunt  speciales.  Prefati  quoque  incole5 
et  habitatores  dicto  priori  in  presencia  dicti  illustris 
domini  aliqua  eis  gravamina,  ut  asseruerunt,  per  illata 
objecerunt.  Idemque  illustris  dominus  inter  dictum 
abbatem,  priorem  et  prefatos  incolas  et  inhabitatores, 
volens  caritatis6  vinculum  conservare,  et  cum  concilio  et 
assensu  Willelmi7  nunc  abbatis  dicti  monasterii  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  in  premissis  finem  facere  congruum  juxta 
discrecionem  ei  a  Deo  datam  per  sua  bona  media  tractavit, 
communicavit  et  de  communi  consensu  dicti  Willelmi 
abbatis,  pro  se  et  conventu  suo  ac  priore  dicte  celle  et 
eorum  successoribus  et  predictorum  incolarum  et  inhabit- 
atorum  de  Lousewater  et  eorum  successoribus  in  hac 

5  Likewise  here  :    Querele  incolarum,. 

6  Marginal  note  :    sententia  lata  et  concordia  partium. 

1  Abbot  William  creates  a  chronological  difficulty  and  it  so 
appeared  to  the  compiler  of  the  Register,  who  wrote  in  the 
margin  at  the  commencement  of  the  deed  :  Habetur  non  Registro 
domini  Willelmi  Wellys  abbatis,  who  was  abbot  of  St.  Mary,  York, 
from  3  March,  1423  (Cal.  of  Pat.,  1422-9,  p.  55)  till  his  consecration 
as  Bishop  of  Rochester  in  1436.  No  abbot  of  York,  called 
William,  has  been  found,  while  either  of  the  earls  of  Northumber- 
land, mentioned  in  note  3,  held  the  constableship  of  England. 
It  is  possible  that  the  transaction  belongs  to  the  period  of  the 
similar  deed  touching  the  chapel  of  Ennerdale  (No.  371).  William 
Thornton  was  then  abbot  (1530-39)  and  a  contemporary  of  Henry 
Percy,  sixth  earl  of  Northumberland  (1527-37).  The  antithesis 
between  Henry  Percy  tune  earl  and  William  nunc  abbot  in  the 
body  of  the  deed  is  noteworthy. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  39 1 

parte  adhibitis  subsequencia  inperpetuum  servanda  et 
inviolabiliter  stabilienda  decrevit,  ordinavit  ac  statuit  sub 
hac  forma  :  videlicet,  quod  prior  dicte  celle  sancte  Bege 
pro  tempore  existens  unum  capellanum8  missam  cele- 
brantem  in  dicta  capella,  diebus  duntaxat  dominicis, 
prefatis  incolis  et  habitat  or  ibus  sumptibus  ipsius  prioris, 
prout  fieri  consueverit,  inveniet.  Et  prefati  incole  et 
habitatores  et  eorum  successores  singulis  annis  futuris 
predicto  priori  celleque  sancte  Bege  et  successoribus  suis 
dictam  pensionem  annuam  sex  solidorum  octo  denari- 
orum,9  ratione  indempnitatis  dicte  celle  per  predictos 
incolas  et  habitatores  debitam  ad  duos  anni  terminos, 
videlicet,  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme 
et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  Pentecostes  singulis  annis 
futuris,  vel  infra  quadraginta  dies  post  quemlibet  term- 
inum  dicte  solucionis  sine  aliqua  dilacione  ulteriori  per- 
solvent.  Et  insuper  predicte  (sic)  incole  et  habitatores 
de  Lousewater  et  eorum  successores  unum  capellanum 
honestum  et  ydoneum  missam  et  alia  divina  officia  in 
dicta  capella  singulis  annis  futuris  ipsorum  incolarum  et 
habitatorum  et  successorum  suorum  sumptibus  et  expensis 
invenient.  Quiquidem  capellanus,  postquam  admissus 
fuerit  per  priorem  dicte  celle  pro  tempore  existentem  et 
quamdiu  tarn  ipse  capellanus  quam  predicti  incole  et  habi- 
tatores et  eorum  successores  omnes  et  singulas  ordinaciones 
in  presenti  composicione,  fine,  ordinacione  notatas  serva- 
verint,  eisdem  incolis  et  habitatoribus  de  Lousewater  et 
successoribus  suis  omnia  sacramenta  et  sacramentalia, 
quociens  necessitas  fuerit,  libere,  pure  et  sine  contradic- 
cione  dicti  prioris  aut  successorum  priorum  dicte  celle 
sancte  Bege  ministrare  valeat  et  ministrabit.  Idemque 
capellanus  per  dictos  incolas  et  habitatores,  quociens 
fuerit  sic  conductus  in  proprio  suo  ingressu  ad  servi- 
endum  dicte  capelle  in  divinis  coram  priore  dicte  celle 

R  In  margin  :    Capellanus  Prioris. 
9  In  margin  :    solucio  vjs  zm/d. 


3Q2  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

sancte  Bege  ad  sancta  Dei  ewangelia  per  ipsum  corporal- 
iter  tacta  jurabit  quod  dictos  incolas  et  inhabitatores  de 
Lousewater,  parochianos  veros  dicte  matricis  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege,  salubriter  monebit,  hortabitur  et  pro  posse 
suo  inducet  tarn  publice  quam  privatim  quod  nihil  sub- 
trahent  a  dicta  sua  parochiali  ecclesia  sancte  Bege  de 
decimis,  porcionibus,  vigiliis  mortuorum,  oblacionibus, 
obvencionibus,  proficuis  vel  proventibus  quibuscumque 
dicte  celle  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  debitis  et  ante  ista  temp- 
ora  solvi  consuetis.  Et  quod  idem  capellanus  bene  et 
fideliter  ac  integre  porciones,  oblaciones,  mortuorum 
vigilias,  obvenciones,  pro  vent  us  et  emolument  a  que- 
cunque  per  dictos  incolas  seu  alios  quoscunque  in  dicta 
capella  oblatas  sepedicto  priori  procuratorive  ejusdem 
vel  dicti  prioris  locum  tenenti  sine  diminucione  aliqua 
reddet  integraliter  et  persolvet.  Et  in  casu  quo  idem 
capellanus  sic  admissus  postea  reperiatur  inhabilis  vel 
infidelis  ad  regimen  cure  ibidem  exercende  vel  premissas 
ordinaciones  et  earum  quamlibet  non  custodiverit  vel 
inpleverit  quod  tune  bene  licebit  dicto  priori  pro  tempore 
exist enti  vel  alicui  alio  ad  hoc  ejus  nomine  assignato 
dictis  incolis  in  facie  dicte  capelle  una  die  dominica  vel 
solempni  intra  missarum  solempnia  notificare  et  inti- 
mare  quod  ipsi  incole  et  habitatores  infra  dimidium  annum 
ab  ilia  die  notificacionis  computandum  de  alio  capellano 
ydoneo  ad  deserviendum  in  dicta  capella  eis  provideant. 
Et  si  sepedicti  incole  et  habitatores  provisionem  huius- 
modi  capellani10  infra  dictum  dimidium  annum  non 
fecerint  et  cum  dicto  priore  recipiend[um]  dictum  suum 
juramentum  ab  eodem  infra  prefatum  dimidium  annum 
non  optulerint  ac  dictam  pensionem  annuam  sex  solid- 
orum  octo  denariorum  prefato  priori  aut  ejus  deputato 
terminis  ad  hoc  assignatis  non  persolverint,  quod  tune 
non  licebit  ulterius  dictis  incolis  seu  eorum  alicui  aliquam 
in  dictis  capella  vel  cimitario  eligere  vel  habere  sepulturam 

10  In  margin  :    Penam  ordinatam. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  393 

vel  aliqua  alia  sacramenta  seu  sacramentalia  ibidem 
recipere,  quousque  per  dictum  priorem  et  de  ejus  assensu 
capellanus  ydoneus  ad  huiusmodi  onera  facienda  congrue 
admittatur.  Et  dicte  pensionis  solucio  a  retro  existentis 
ultra  quatuordecim  dies  post  aliquem  terminum  hu jus- 
modi  solucionis  assignatum  dicto  priori  debite  persolvatur. 
Sed  ad  dictam  matricem  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  pro  sepul- 
tura  et  aliis  sacramentis  ecclesiasticis  ibidem  recipiendis 
ut  veri  parochiani  dicte  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  per  censuras 
ecclesiasticas  et  alia  juris  remedia  licite  compelli  valeant 
presenti  composicione  seu  aliis  precedentibus  in  hac  parte 
ordinacionibus  in  contrarium  editis  non  obstantibus  qui- 
buscunque.  Volunt  insuper  et  concedunt  dicti  Wyllel- 
mus,  abbas,  et  conventus  ac  prior  dicte  celle  pro  se  et 
successoribus  suis  prefatis  incolis  et  habitatoribus  et 
eorum  successoribus  quod  ipsi  in  dictis  capella  et  cimiterio 
congruam  sumptibus  ipsorum  incolarum  et  habitatorum 
et  successorum  suorum  habeant  sepulturam,  et  quod 
capellanus  ibidem  deserviens  pro  tempore  in  divinis  post- 
quam  admissus  fuerit  per  dictum  priorem 'ad  regimen 
dicte  cure,  ut  premissum  est,  licite,  libere  et  rite  omnia 
alia  sacramenta  et  sacerdotalia  dictis  incolis  et  inhabit- 
atoribus  ministrare  valeat.  Quamdiu  idem  capellanus 
erga  dictum  priorem  legaliter  se  habuerit  et  premissas 
ordinaciones  perimpleverit  et  predicti  incole  et  habitatores 
onus  in  presenti  composicione  quoquomodo  eis  injunctum 
humiliter  et  devote  prefate  sue  matrici  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  et  ejusdem  loci  priori,  ut  premissum  est,  persolverint, 
dictique  incole  et  habitatores  de  Lousewater  et  eorum 
successores,  quociens  opus  fuerit,  chorum11  et  navem  dicte 
capelle  tarn  in  muris  quam  in  tectura  et  in  omnibus  aliis 
ad  hoc  requisitis  suis  propriis  sumptibus  et  expensis 
singulis  annis  futuris  reparabunt  et  omnia  alia  dictam 
capellam  tangencia  tarn  in  reparacionibus,  calicum, 
librorum,  vestimentorum  ac  aliorum  ornamentorum  hon- 

11  In  margin  :    tarn  pro  vepavacione  chori  etc. 


394  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

estorum  ecclesiasticorum  quorumcunque  quam  invencione 
panis12  immolaticii,  vini  et  cere  prefati  incole  support- 
abunt.  Et  cum  emendacione  indiguerit  suis  propriis 
sumptibus  emendabunt.  Prefati  insuper  incole  et  habit- 
atores  de  Lousewater  et  successores  sui  omnia  et  singula 
onera  dicte  ecclesie  matrici  sancte  Bege  nichilominus  pro- 
tempore  ingruencia  ut  veri  filii  ejusdem  pro  porcione  sua 
sustinebunt  et  contribuent  juxta  majores  et  saniores 
partes  parochianorum  dicte  parochialis  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  approbatam  discrecionem.13 

390,  CARTA  INGERANNI  DE  CORNNBURGE  DE  vi 

ACRIS  TERRE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  DERHAM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ingeramnus  de  Cornyburgo1, 
dedi  ....  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  sex:  acras  terre  de  dominio  meo 
in  villa  de  Derham,  cum  uno  tofto  qui  jacet  juxta  domum 

12  In  margin  :    pro  pane  et  vino  etc. 

13  The  deed,  which  has  neither  title  nor  testing  clause,  is  not 
mentioned  in  the  table  of  contents,  but  is  inserted  in  the  Register 
between  books  ix.  and  x.     Taken  with  No.  371,  the  two  deeds 
throw  a  welcome  light  on  the  ecclesiastical  status  of  chapels  in 
Cumberland  during  the  medieval  period. 

390.  1  There  is  little  doubt  that  the  grantor  came  to  Dearham 
by  the  instrumentality  of  the  canons  of  Gisburne  who  had  from 
an  early  date  the  rectory  of  the  church  and  some  land  there. 
We  have  William  de  Corneburgh  witnessing  a  charter  in  West- 
morland to  the  monks  of  Byland  (Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rep.  x. 
App.  iv.  323)  :  he  was  probably  father  of  Ingeram  the  grantor. 
It  was  ordered  in  1202  that  William  de  Corneburg  was  not  to  be 
impleaded  for  anything  so  long  as  Ingelram,  his  son  and  heir, 
was  beyond  the  sea  on  the  King's  business  with  Robert  de 
Turnham  (Abbrev.  Placit.,  Rec.  Com.  p.  37).  Ingelram  was  alive 
in  1227  (Pat.  Rolls,  1225-32,  p.  131),  but  he  was  dead  in  1228 
when  Mabel  his  widow  was  administering  the  affairs  of  Benning- 
ton  in  Yorkshire  (Close  Rolls,  1227-31,  p.  107).  We  have  not 
found  the  name  again  in  Cumbrian  record,  but  it  is  prevalent 
enough  in  Yorkshire  evidences  about  Ingeram's  period. 


I 
REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA  395 

Willelmi  de  Bridekirke  versus  orientem  ....  scilicet, 
duas  acras  juxta  Keldsyke  versus  austrum  et  unam 
acram  juxta  croftum  Ade  filii  Uctredi,  et  duas  acras  in 
Stainhoudale,  et  unam  acram  in  Crokeland.2  Et  scien- 
dum  est  quod  predict!  monachi  habebunt  unum  hominem 
manentem  in  eadem  villa  et  habebunt  insuper  pasturam 
ad  viginti  vaccas  cum  sequela  duorum  annorum,  et  ad 
sexaginta  oves  cum  sequela  duorum  annorum  :  habebunt 
eciam  in  eadem  villa  octo  boves  et  duos  equos  et  porcos 
suos  sine  pannagio  :  predictus  vero  homo  molet  bladum 
ad  molendinum  meum  ad  vigesimum  vas  ....  Hiis 
testibus  Willelmo  de  Derham,  Ricardo  de  Alneburgo, 
Galfrido  de  Talentire,  Nicholao  de  Scefht[ling],  Roberto  de 
Bonekil,  Hamelfino],  Henrico  de  Millum,  Willelmo  le 
Harp[ur],  et  multis  aliis.3 

391.  CARTA  ALEXANDRI  FILII  ALEXANDRI  WAYTE- 
FOTE  DE  J  BOVATA  TERRE  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  TALENTYR. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Alexander  films  Alexandri  Waythe- 
fote  de  Talentire,1  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  .... 
me  ....  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 

2  Crokeland  has  gone  through  permutations  like  Craika  and 
Craikhow  till  it  has  reached  Crosshow  on  the  Ordnance  Map 

(Xlv.    N.W.) 

3  All  the  witnesses  are  well-known  local  men.     Hamelin  who 
has  no  designation  is  identified  in  Nos.  394-5,  400,  as  a  son  of 
Walter  of  Gilcruce.     In  the  Pipe  Roll  of  1211  he  is  described  as- 
Hamelin  the  Serjeant  (serviens). 

391,  l  In  1208  Alexander  son  of  Alexander  had  an  agreement 
with  William  de  Yreby  touching  two  oxgangs  of  land  in  Talgh- 
entir  whereby  the  same  William  recognized  the  said  land  to  be 
the  right  of  Alexander  to  hold  to  him  and  his  heirs  by  the  free 
service  of  rendering  a  skep  of  grain  on  the  feast  of  the  Assumption 
at  Talghentir  for  all  service  except  forinsec  service,  for  which 
agreement  Alexander  quit-claimed  to  William  all  his  right  in. 
Uctred  son  of  Gerard  and  his  belongings  (et  sequela  ejus)  (Pedes 
Finium,  Rec.  Com.  ii.  14).  The  name  of  the  grantor  appears 
in  the  Pipe  Rolls  of  1211-13  as  Alexander  de  Talentir. 


396  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

et  sancte  Bege  virgin!  de  Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  unam  bovatam  terre  ad  mensuram  rode 
viginti  pedes  continentis2  in  territorio  de  Talentire3  cum 
tofto  et  crofto  integro  et  toto  prato  ad  illam  bovatam 
terre  in  predicta  villa  pertinentibus  et  cum  omnibus  aliis 
pertinenciis  et  aisiamentis  prefate  terre  pertinentibus 
infra  villam  et  extra  absque  ullo  retinemento  .... 
Tenendam  ....  videlicet,  in  crofto  duas  acras  et  dim- 
idiam  rodam  et  quatuordecem  perticatas  apud  Biggehoue4 
versus  Occident  em,  unam  acram  et  unam  rodam  et  quatuor 
perticatas  ibidem  versus  orientem,  duas  rodas  et  dimidiam 
apud  Thuahovel,  unam  acram  sub  Wartheholis,  unam 
acram  et  unam  rodam  et  viginti  novem  perticatas  apud 
Routheland,  unam  rodam  et  tresdecim  perticatas  infra 
vias  de  Warthehol'  et  Karl'i,  duas  acras  et  unam  rodam  et 
dimidiam  et  quinque  perticatas  apud  Hayberhe,  unam 
acram  et  viginti  tres  perticatas  apud  Levedibuthes,  dimid- 
iam acram  et  quatuor  perticatas  ad  Sandrig,  tres  rodas  et 
dimidiam  rodam  et  octo  perticatas  ad  Hildirflath,  unam 
acram  et  unam  rodam  et  dimidiam  rodam  et  quatuor- 
decim  perticatas  in  cultura  a  molendino  versus  aquilonem, 
in  quinta  et  sexta  selione5  versus  orientem  duas  rodas  et 

2  The  scribe  has  volunteered  the  information  in  the  margin 
that  ista  bovata  continet  xiiij  acras  et  x  perticas. 

3  A  township  in  the  parish  of  Bridekirk. 

4  Most  of  the  place-names  in  the  Tallentire  group  of  deeds 
belong  to  small  parcels  of  fields  and  do  not  now  appear  on  the 
map  within  or  without  the  vill.     Thuahovel  might  be  read  as 
Chuahovel  :    Wartholis  is  well-known  as  Warthole,  the  ancient 
seat  of  the  family  of  Dykes,  though  it  now  appears  on  the  map  as 
Ward  Hall  in  the  neighbouring  parish  of  Plumbland  :    Routhe- 
land,   perhaps    represented   by    Rowmoor   on   the    Row    Beck  : 
Hayberhe  must  be  Hayborough  in  the  next  parish  of  Dearham. 

5  The  evidence  of  this  group  of  deeds  is  of  considerable  value 
in  the  early  agricultural  history  of  Cumberland.     The  selio  was 
a  strip  in  the  open  fields  before  hedges  were  invented.     The  land 
measures  here  mentioned,  with  their  relationships  to  each  other, 
should  be  compared  with  Seebohm,  English  Village  Community, 
pp.  2-8. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  397 

dimidiam  et  sexdecim  perticatas  ....  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Roberto  de  Hampton,  tune  senescallo  de  Cokir- 
mouth,  Ricardo  le  Brun,  Ada  de  Neuton,  Willelmo  de 
Plumland,  Willelmo  de  Yreby,  clerico,  Roberto  de 
Carlaton,  Alano  de  Lascell,  Ricardo  de  Alneburc,  Johanne 
de  Furmery,  Johanne  de  Talentirs,  Ada  de  Brigham,  et 
aliis.6 

392.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  DE  TALENTYR  DE  j  TOFTO  [ET 
CROFTO  ET,  in  a  later  hand]  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  EADEM 
[ET  NOVEM  ACRIS  TERRE,  in  same  hand  as  above]. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  de  Talentire,  salutem.  Nov- 
eritis  me  ....  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unum  toftum  in  villa 
de  Talent  ire  quod  Ormus  Rockedure  aliquando  de  me  tenuit, 
et  novem  acras  terre  in  territorio  de  Talantire,  scilicet,  in 
crofto  ejusdem  domus  tres  rodas  et  octodecim  perticatas, 
in  Hagwrinron,  cum  prato  ibi  jacente,  quinque  rodas  et 
unam  perticatam,  ad  Brawron  unam  acram  et  tres  rodas 
et  decem  perticatas,  in  Thorfinesakyr  unam  acram  et  tres 
rodas  et  octodecim  perticatas,  ad  Bighou  tres  rodas  una 
perticata  minus,  ad  Blaakepot  unam  rodam  et  triginti 
duas  perticatas,  super  Bankes  unam  acram  et  triginta 
perticatas,  ad  viam  que  ducit  ad  capellam  sancte 
Trinitatis1  tres  rodas  et  octodecim  perticatas.  Concessi 
eciam  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  predictis  monachis  unam 
acram  prati  mei  percipiendam  per  singulos  annos  de 
caruca  mea  eligendo  unam  acram  ad  opus  meum,  aliamque 
acram  eligendam  ad  opus  illorum,  cum  communi  pastura 
et  omnibus  aliis  libertatibus  et  aisiamentis  predictis 
terris  pertinentibus  infra  villam  et  extra  de  Talentire 

6  The  witnesses  agree  with  the  first  quarter  of  the  thirteenth 
century. 

392.  *  This  is  the  only  mention  yet  discovered  of  the  chapel 
of  the  Holy  Trinity  in  Tallentire.  In  most  townships  where 
religious  houses  had  property  there  was  a  chapel  for  their  use. 


398  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

absque  ullo  retenemento  ....  Hiis  testibus  Radulfo  de 
Feritate,  Roberto  de  Hamton,  tune  senescallo  de  Cokyrmie, 
Ricardo  Brun,  Willelmo  de  Yreby,  clerico,  Ada  de  Cros- 
twayt,  Ysaac,  persona  de  Thorpenhou,  Ricardo  de  Alen- 
burc,  Ada  de  Derham,  Johanne  de  Camerton,  et  aliis.2 

393.    CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  DERHAM  DE 
TERRIS  IN  TALENTYRE. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Ricardus  filius  Johannis  de  Derham, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  concessisse  ....  Deo 
et  beate  Marie,  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci, 
et  monachis  apud  cellam  sancte  Bege  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus  inperpetuum  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui 
vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potui  in  una  pertica  terre  de 
•curtilagio  meo  in  Talentire  propinquius  jacente  domui 
-dicti  abbatis  quam  de  dono  meo  habuit,  et  in  una  acra 
terre  divisim  jacente,  scilicet,  dimidia  acra  terre  et  sex 
pertice  jacent  in  quodam  campo  qui  vocatur  Blenkerpot 
inter  terram  Johannis  dicti  Quinahytefote  et  terram  Ade 
le  Gret,1  et  alia  dimidia  acra  terre,  exceptis  sex  perticis, 
jacet  in  crofto  meo  propinquius  terre  ipsius  abbatis  ex 
parte  occidentis,  unacum  toto  prato  ad  unam  bovatam 
terre  in  Fletehoumyre  pertinente  in  eadem  villa  de  Talen- 
tire. Ita,  scilicet,  quod  ego  nee  heredes  mei  ....  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton,  Johanne  de 
Hyreby,  Thoma  de  Cletere,  Ricardo  le  Flemyng,  militibus, 
Thoma  de  Derwentwater,  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  et  aliis. 

2  The  date  of  this  deed  cannot  be  far  from  the  foregoing,  as 
ihe  grantor  is  a  witness  thereof  and  both  deeds  have  several 
witnesses  in  common.  Ysaac  parson  of  Thorpenhou  can  scarcely 
be  identified  with  the  Isaac  de  Torpennoc  who  appears  in  the 
Pipe  Roll  of  1163.  Similarity  of  territorial  name  does  not  always 
connote  relationship.  Men  migrated  from  one  place  to  another 
.and  became  known  by  the  places  of  their  abode. 

393.  l  Adam  the  Great  occurs  as  Adam  Grossus  in  No.  400. 
The  identification  displaces  the  possible  reading  of  Adam  le 
•Grec  or  the  Greek. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS   DE  SANCTA  BEGA  399 

394.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  ij  ACRIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS 
IN  TALENTYR. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  filius  Johannis  divitis  de  Der- 
ham,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  ....  quietum 
clamasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in 
Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus 
meum  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  quoquomodo  habere 
potui  in  duabus  acris  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  villa  de 
Talentire,  quarum  tres  rode  et  decem  pertice  jacent  apud 
Bighou,  et  tres  rode  et  dimidia  et  undecim  pertice  apud 
Suahowes,  et  dimidia  roda  et  undecim  pertice  in  mora 
versus  Warthole,  et  octo  pertice  jacent  in  crofto  meo 
juxta  dimidiam  acram  terre  dicte  domus  sancte  Bege. 
Preterea  concessi  ....  dimidiam  acram  terre  in  eadem 
villa  de  Talentire  divisim  jacent  em,  scilicet,  unam  rodam 
terre  et  octodecim  perticatas  in  mora  et  dimidiam  rodam 
et  duas  perticas  terre  in  crofto  meo  propinquius  terre  dicte 
domus  sancte  Bege  ex  parte  occidentali  jacentes,  una  cum 
toto  prato  uni  bovate  terre  in  dicta  villa  de  Talentire 
pertinent e,  ubicunque  jacet  infra  di visas  dicte  ville. 
Preterea  ....  confirmavi  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  que 
prius  dedi  dictis  monachis  sancte  Bege  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  et  libertatibus  suis  prout  melius  et  plenius 
continetur  in  cart  is  suis  quas  inde  penes  se  habent. 
Habendas  ....  Et  si  contingerit  (sic)  quod  uxor  mea, 
quod  absit,  me  super  vixer  it  et  terciam  part  em  suam  de 
dictis  terris  calumpniaverit  et  jure  adquisierit,  tune  volo, 
concede  et  statuo  quod  heredes  mei  vel  assignati  mei, 
quicunque  vel  quecunque  fuerint,  satisfacient  predictis 
monachis  in  omnibus  de  tanta  terra  per  provisionem  et 
consideracionem  virorum  fidedignorum.  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkyngton, 
Roberto  de  Mulcastre,  Johanne  de  Camberton,  Johanne 
de  Yreby,  militibus,  Thoma  de  Brigham,  Petro  Dayn- 
court,  Johanne  Quinaytefote,  Hamelino  de  Gillecrouhit, 
et  aliis. 


40O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

395.  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DIVITIS  DE  ij 
ACRIS  IN  TALENTYRE. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  films  Johannis  divitis 
de  Deram,  remisi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  totum  jus 
et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  duabus  acris 
terre  in  villa  de  Talentire  in  his  divisis,  scilicet,  jacentibus, 
apud  Bighou  tres  rode  et  decem  pertice,  et  apud  tuahoues 
tres  rode  et  dimidia  et  undecim  pertice,  et  in  mora  versus 
Warthole  dimidia  roda  et  undecim  pertice,  et  in  crofto 
meo  octo  pertice  juxta  dimidiam  acram  terre  dicte  domus 
sancte  Bege.  Tenendas  ....  Et  si  contigerit  quod  uxor 
mea  me  supervixerit  et  de  dicta  terra  dotem  calumpniare 
voluerit  et  optinuerit,  heredes  mei  vel  assignati  mei  de 
tanta  terra  predictis  monachis  per  virorum  fidedignorum 
providenciam  in  omnibus  satisfacient  ....  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Roberto  de  Molecastre,  Johanne  de  Camberton, 
Michaele  de  Haverington,  Johanne  de  Yreby,  militibus, 
Alexandro  de  Ribbton,  Adam  de  Brigham,  Johanne  de 
Derham,  Petro  Dayncort,  Thoma  de  Brigham,  Johanne 
Waitfote,  Willelmo  filio  Walteri  de  Gilcruce,  Hamelino 
fratre  ejus,  et  aliis.1 

396.  CARTA    RICARDI    FILII    JOHANNIS    DIVITIS    DE 
nij  ACRIS  IN  TALENTYRE. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  films  Johannis  divitis 
de  Derham,  remisi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere 

395.  1  In  lowest  margin  we  have  this  note  :  Item  sunt  in 
Talentyre  Hi  acre  in  Sothfeld  ad  Rondebank  closse,  et  i  acra  in 
Foreland  doss  vel  Hallwhynnes,  et  i  acra  in  Stanbanckdosse,  i  acra 
in  lez  owtfeld  et  in  lez  infeld,  ut  patet  per  ten\entes\  creditur,  ix  acre 
et  ultra,  una  xiii  acre  et  ultra  parte  ten[_entiuni]  ibidem. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  401 

potui  in  quatuor  acris  terre  in  villa  de  Talentire,  quarum,. 
videlicet,  due  acre  et  dimidia  roda  et  sex  perticate  terre 
jacent  in  Arkelflat  inter  terram  Alexandri  Wayfote  et 
terram  Willelmi  de  Derwentwater,1  et  in  Bighou  una  acra 
et  una  roda  exceptis  quatuor  perticatis  inter  terram 
Willelmi  filii  Johannis  et  terram  Johannis  Wayfote,  et 
in  banco  dimidia  acra  et  octodecim  perticate  terre  in 
parte  australi  terre  mee.  Tenendas  ....  Et  si  contigerit 
quod  uxor  mea  me  supervixerit  et  de  dicta  terra  dotem 
calumpniare  voluerit  et  optinuerit,  heredes  mei  de  tanto 
terre  dictis  monachis  per  virorum  fidedignorum  provid- 
enciam  satisfacient  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto2 
de  Mulcastre,  tune  vicecomite  Carlioli,  Johanne  de  Cam- 
berton,  Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby, 
militibus,  Ada  de  Brigham,  Johanne  de  Derham,  Petro 
Dancourt,  Alexandra  Waitfote,  Johanne  Waitfote,  et  aliis. 

396.  l  The  relation  of  William  de  Derwentwater  to  Tallentire 
needs  explanation.  According  to  No.  498  the  vills  of  Talintyre 
and  Castebryge  (Castlerig)  with  the  forest  between  Caltre  and 
Greta  were  given  by  Waldeve  son  of  Earl  Gospatric  to  Oderd  son 
of  Liolfe.  These  parcels  are  found  in  the  possession  of  the  family 
of  Derwentwater  before  the  close  of  the  twelfth  century.  In 
1234,  while  the  heir  of  Adam  de  Derwentwater  was  under  age 
and  in  ward  of  the  Earl  of  Albemarle  his  feudal  superior,  four 
oxgangs  of  land  in  Talentyr  were  forfeited  by  John  son  of  Richard 
of  Talentyr  and  restored  to  Adam's  heir  (Close  Rolls,  1231-4, 
p.  511).  Adam  the  deceased  here  was  Adam  son  of  William,  and 
the  heir  was  William  son  of  Adam,  the  William  de  Derwentwater 
mentioned  in  the  text.  See  the  charters  of  Adam  son  of  William 
de  Derwentwater  and  of  William  son  of  Adam  de  Derwentwater 
to  the  monks  of  Fountains  in  the  Register  of  that  house  (Cotton 
MS.  Tib.  C.  xij.  ff.  94-5).  The  vill  was  held  in  1303  by  William 
de  Derwentwater  from  his  kinsman  Thomas  de  Derwentwater  by 
the  service  of  doing  suit  at  the  court  of  Derwentwater  (Inq.  p.  m. 
31  Edw.  I.,  No.  15).  Tallentire  remained  with  that  family  and 
the  Ratcliffes,  its  successors,  till  late  in  the  sixteenth  century. 

2  This  must  be  an  error  for  Robert  de  Mulcastre  who  was  sheriff 
in  1260-61  which  is  the  date  of  this  deed.  In  other  local  evidences, 
some  of  the  witnesses  here  are  found  in  association  with  this 
sheriff.  2  D 


4O2         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

397.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  DIVERSIS  TERRIS  IN  TALEN- 
TYR. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  filius  Johannis  divitis 
de  Derham,  remisi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere 
potui  in  sex  acris  terre  et  decem  perticatis  in  villa  de  Talen- 
tire  in  hiis  divisis,  scilicet,  jacentibus ;  in  Harkilflat  due  acre 
et  viginti  et  octo  pertice  inter  terram  Alexandri  Whitefote 
et  terram  Thome  de  Derwentwater,1  et  in  Bighou  una 
acra  et  triginta  et  tres  pertice  inter  terram  Willelmi  filii 
Johannis  et  terram  Johannis  Qwitefote,  et  in  banco 
quinque  rode  et  decem  et  octo  pertice,  et  in  banco  de 
Warthichole  quinque  rode  et  duodecim  perticate.  Ten- 
endas  ....  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Mulcastre,  Johanne 
de  Camerton,  Michaele  de  Haverington,  Johanne  de 
Yreby,  militibus,  Alexandro  de  Ribton,  Ada  de  Brigham, 
Johanne  de  Derham,  Petro  Deyncurt,  Alexandro  White- 
fote, Johanne  filio  suo,  Willelmo  filio  Walteri,  Hamelino 
fratre  suo  de  Gilcruz,  et  aliis.a 

398.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  TAL- 
ENTYR. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  filius  Johannis  Talantire,1 
salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me,  pro  salute  anime 

397.  *  See  the  note  on  the   Derwentwaters  to   the  previous 
charter. 

2  This  deed  is  in  duplicate.  From  the  grantor  and  the  witnesses 
it  cannot  be  many  years  later  than  No.  396. 

398.  l  The    danger    of    accepting    territorial    names    at    this 
period  as  a  proof  of  relationship  is  shown  by  this  group  of  deeds. 
In  No.  397  we  have  Richard  son  of  John  de  Derham  and  here 
we  have  the  same  person  calling  himself  of  Talantire.     In  the 
case  of  these  mesne  tenants,  a  man  was  known  by  the  title  of  the 
property  with  which  he  was  dealing.     The  same  rule  applies  to 
parsons  of  parishes.     The  parish  is  often  given  as  the  surname 
without  any  indication  that  he  was  the  parson. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA  403 

mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  meorum,  concessisse  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  virgini  in 
Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
beate  Bege  virgini  servientibus,  tot  am  terram  meam  in 
Talentire  cum  omnibus,  suis  pertinenciis,  introitibus  et 
exitibus,  libertatibus  et  aisiamentis.  Exceptis  domo  mea 
et  una  placea  terre  que  se  extendit  de  dicta  domo  mea 
usque  ad  orreum  predictorum  monachorum  et  cujus 
latitudo  continet  longitudinem  domus  mee  predicte, 
quamquidem  terram  quondam  tenui  de  eisdem  monachis 
in  eadem  villa.  Reddendo  inde  eis  annuatim  duodecim 
denarios  argenti  ad  duos  anni  terminos.  Habendam 
....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkynton,  Roberto 
de  Haverington,  militibus,  Alano  de  Yreby,  Johanne 
Waytfote,  Thoma  de  Neuton,  Roberto  de  Carleton, 
Roberto  de  Lamplou,  Benedicto  de  Clifton,  et  aliis. 

399.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  VEL  OBLIGACIO. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Ricardus  films  Johannis  divitis  de  Derham,  obligavi  me 
domino  priori  de  sancta  Bega  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  quod  de  cetero  nullam  terram  vendere, 
invadiare  nee  aliquem  terminum  statutum  dimittere  sine 
licencia  eorum.  Et  si  fecerim,  concessi  dicto  priori  et 
monachis  in  totam  terram  meam  intrare  et  illam  pro  me 
et  heredibus  meis  in  pace  possidere.  Et  quod  hec  mea 
obligacio  et  concessio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat  super 
reliquias  sancte  Bege  juravi.  Et  ad  majorem  securitatem 
tenendam  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Molecastre,  Johanne  de 
Camerton,  Michaele  de  Haverington,  Ada  de  Brigham, 
Alexandra  de  Ribton,  Johanne  de  Derham,  Roberto  le 
Surays,  Alano  de  Croseby,  et  aliis. 

400.  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DIVITIS  DE  vnj 
ACRIS  IN  TALENTYR. 


404  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  films  Johannis  divitis 
de  Derham,  [per]  assensum  et  consensum  uxoris  mee,  Ede, 
remisi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege 
in  Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in 
octo  acris  terre,  cum  pertinenciis,  in  territorio  de  Talentire 
in  hiis  locis,  scilicet,  jacentibus  :  in  Harkylflat  due  acre 
et  dimidia  roda  et  sex  perticate  inter  terram  Alexandri 
Waytfote  et  terram  Thome  de  Derwentwater  ;x  et  in 
Bighou  una  acra  et  una  roda  quatuor  perticatfis]  minus 
inter  terram  Willelmi  filii  Johannis  et  terram  Johannis 
Waitfote  :  item  in  eadem  Bighou  due  acre  et  dimidia 
inter  terram  domini  Henrici  filii  Conan2  militis  et  terram 
Ade  Grossi :  et  in  Hagwrinrun  una  acra  et  una  roda  et 
dimidia  inter  terram  Ade  Grossi  et  terram  Ricardi  Strie  : 
et  in  banco  quinque  rode  :  et  in  banco  de  Warthole 
quinque  rode  et  dimidia.  Tenendas  ....  Et  si  contigerit 
quod  uxor  mea,  Eda,  me  supervixerit  et  de  dicta  terra 
dot  em  calumpniare  voluerit  et  optinuerit,  heredes  mei  vel 
assignati  mei  de  tanta  terra  predictis  monachis  per 
virorum  fidedignorum  providenciam  satisfacient  .... 
Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Mulcastre,  Johanne  de  Camberton, 

400.  l  Thomas  died  in  1303,  when  John  his  son  had  livery  of 
his  lands,  saving  dower  to  Margaret  the  widow  (Cal.  of  Fine, 

i-  477)- 

2  Those  who  wish  to  see  a  discussion  of  Henry  son  of  Conan, 
knight,  and  his  ancestry,  should  refer  to  Cartul.  Prior  at.  de 
Gyseburne  (Surtees  Soc.),  ii.  183-5,  where  Mr.  W.  Brown  deals 
with  a  difficult  pedigree.  Henry  or  one  of  his  ancestors  probably 
got  his  footing  in  Talentire  through  his  connexion  with  the  above 
priory  of  which  the  family  were  benefactors.  The  name  does  not 
occur  again  in  this  Register.  It  would  appear  that  Henry  had 
property  also  in  Westmorland,  for  in  1263  Henry  son  of  Conan 
and  Juliana  his  wife  gave  half  a  mark  for  an  assize  of  novel 
disseisin  taken  before  M.  de  Lytlebyr  (Fine  Rolls,  ii.  400,  Rec. 
Com.).  He  died  before  19  Aug.  1285,  being  a  tenant  of  Lucy 
daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  de  Twenge,  a  minor  in  the  king's 
ward  (Cal.  of  Fine,  i.  219). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  405 

Michaele  de  Hawrington,  Johanne  Deyreby,  militibus, 
Alexandra  de  Ribton,  Ada  de  Brigham,  Thoma  de  Brig- 
ham,  Johanne  de  Derham,  Petro  Dayncurt,  Alexandra 
Waitfote,  Johanne  Waitfote,  Willelmo  filio  Walter!, 
Hamelino  de  Gillecruce,  et  multis  aliis. . 

401.  QUIETA    CLAMACIO    EDE    UXORIS    RlCARDI    FILII 
JOHANNIS  DlVITIS  DE  TERRIS  IN  TALENTYR. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Eda  relicta  Ricardi  filii  Johannis 
•divitis  de  Derham,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  .... 
me,  in  libera  potestate  ac  legia  viduitate  mea,  concessisse 
....  Deo  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  ac  celle  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibi  Deo  servientibus, 
totum  jus  meum  et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  aliquo  modo 
habere  potui  in  terris  et  tenementis  quas  Ricardus,  vir 
meus,  et  ego  habuimus  in  Talentire,  unacum  dote  de  pre- 
dictis  tenementis  me  contingente,  pro  quadam  summa 
pecunie  quam  frater  Willelmus  de  Dereby,1  prior  dicte 
celle,  michi  dedit  premanibus.  Tenendum  ....  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Thoma  de  Culwen,  domino  Thoma  de 
Derwentwater,  domino  Thoma  de  Yreby,  Willelmo  de 
Mulcastre,  Alexandra  de  Bastinthwait,  Thoma  de  Ribton, 
Roberto  de  Derham,  Henrico  Daunaie,  et  aliis  multis.2 

402.  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DIVITIS  DE  j 

TENEMENTO  IN  TALENTYR. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  films  Johannis  de  Talentire 
salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  reddidisse  .... 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  celle  sancte  Bege  in 
Coupland  et  monachis  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et 

401.  x  This  prior  whose  name  is  found  in  dated  deeds  between 
1288-95  (Nos.  71,  438)  should  be  distinguished  from  his  pre- 
decessor William  de  Rothewel  who  was  prior  in  1256  (No.  425). 
See  note  on  No.  266. 

>2The  witnesses  agree  with  the  date  of  the  prior,  1288-94. 


406  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

perpetuam  elemosinam,  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui 
vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potui  in  toto  illo  tenemento 

quod  quondam  tenui   in  Talentire Hiis  testibus 

dominis  Thoma  de  Culwen,  Thoma  de  Derwentwater, 
Roberto  de  Haverington,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Bramp- 
thwait,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Johanne  de  Pardishou, 
Ada  de  Windscales,  Willelmo  clerico  de  sancta  Bega,  et 
multis  aliis.1 

403.  CARTA    RICARDI    FILII    JOHANNIS    DIVITIS    DE 

QUIETA   CLAMACIONE   REDDIT[US]    UNIUS   DENARII. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  films  Johannis  de  Talentire, 
salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis  me  reddidisse  ....  ec- 
clesie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in 
Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod 
habui  vel  habere  potui  in  uno  denario  annui  redditus  de 
quo  seisitus  fui  per  manum  et  per  scriptum  fratris  Nicholai 
de  Langton,  tune  prioris1  sancte  Bege Hiis  test- 
ibus domino  Thoma  de  Derewentwater,  domino  Thoma 
de  Culwenne,  Alano  de  Yreby,  Johanne  de  Plumland, 
Thoma  de  Ribton,  Ada  de  Maneriis,  Willelmo  clerico  de 
sancta  Bega,  et  aliis. 

404,  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DIVITIS  DE  j 

TOFTO  CUM  DOMO  ET  GRANGIA  IN  TALENTYRE. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  films  Johannis  div- 
itis  de  Derham,  dedi  ....  Henrico,  fratri  meo,  pro 
libero  servicio  suo,  unum  toftum  cum  domo  et  grangia  in 
villa  de  Talentire  in  parte  orient ali  dicte  ville  juxta  toftum 

402.  l  This  deed  is  some  years  earliei  than  that  which  pre- 
cedes it. 

403.  1  Nicholas   de   Langton   was   prior  from    1258   to    1282 
according  to  dated  deeds  in  this  Register. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  407 

domini  prior  is  de  Gilburn1  versus  villam,  quod  continet 
in  latitudine  quatuor  perticatas  et  in  longitudine  sicut 
tendit  inter  vicum  dicte  ville  et  viam  extra  villam  versus 
croftum,  et  dimidiam  acram  terre  in  crofto  meo  versus 
orientem,  et  duas  acras  terre  in  Braytton2  et  tres  rodas 
terre  in  Sandrig  et  tres  rodas  terre  in  Aroherlandes,3 
scilicet,  quatuor  acras  terre  in  omnibus,  excepto  tofto. 
Tenendas  ....  Reddendo  (sic)  inde  ipse  et  heredes  sui 
vel  sui  assignati  michi  et  heredibus  meis  in  die  Natalis 
domini  pro  omni  servicio  seculari  michi  et  heredibus  meis 
pertinente  unum  denarium  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Johanne  de  Camberton,  domino  Johanne  de  Yreby, 
domino  Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  Ada  de  Brigham,  Alex- 
andro  de  Ribton,  Waltero  Wodcoke,  Johanne  de  Derham, 
Alano  de  Croseby,  Willelmo  filio  Johannis,  et  aliis. 

405.    CARTA  HENRICI  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  EISDEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Henricus  films  Johannis  divitis 
de  Derham,  concessi  et  quietum  clamavi  totum  jus  et 
clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  totam  terram 
illam  quam  habui  de  Ricardo  fratre  meo  in  villa  de 
Talentire  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in 
Coupland  et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus, 
scilicet,  unum  toftum  cum  domo  et  grangia  in  predict  a 
villa  de  Talentire  in  parte  orientali  dicte  ville  juxta  toft- 
um quod  dominus  prior  de  Gisburn  emit  de  Ricardo  fratre 
meo  versus  villam,  quod  continet  in  latitudine  quatuor 
perticatas  et  in  longitudine,  sicut  tendit  se  inter  vicum 

404.  1  For  the  origin  of  the  property  of  the  priory  of  Gysebum 
in  Bridekirk  and  Dearham,  see  the  interesting  deeds  printed  in 
the  Chartulary  of  that  house  (Surtees  Soc.  ii.  318-21)  and  in 
Dugdale,  Mon.  vi.  270-74. 

2  Brayheron  in  the  next  deed.  It  is  doubtful  that  the  place 
can  be  identified  with  Bray  ton  which  is  some  distance  away. 

a  Strherland  in  No.  405. 


408  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

dicte  ville  et  viam  extra  villam  versus  croftum,  et  dimid- 
iam  acram  terre  in  crofto  dicti  Ricardi  fratris  mei  versus 
orientem,  et  duas  acras  terre  in  Brayheron,  et  triginta 
quinque  perticatas  in  mora,  et  tres  rodas  terre  in  Sandrig, 
et  tres  rodas  terre  in  Strherland  ;  in  omnibus,  scilicet, 
quatuor  acris  terre  et  quinque  perticatfis]  terre,  except  o 
predicto  tofto  cum  domibus.  Tenendfas]  ....  Red- 
dendo  hide  annuatim  Ricardo  fratri  meo  unum  denarium 
in  die  Natalis  domini  pro  omni  servicio,  exaccione  et 
demanda  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de 
Mulcastre,  John  de  'Camberton,  Johanne  de  Yreby, 
Michaele  de  Haver ingt on,  militibus,  Ada  de  Brigham, 
Alexandra  de  Ribton,  Ada  de  Plumlund,  Johanne  de 
Derham,  Petro  Dayncourt,  Alexandra  Phuayfote,  Will- 
elmo  filio  Walteri,  et  aliis. 

406.      ClROGRAFUM    NlCHOLAI     PRIORIS     DE    TERRA    IN 

TALENTYR. 

Hoc  scriptum  cirographatum  testatur  quod  dompnus 
Nicholaus,  prior  sancte  Bege,  concessit,  dimisit,  ac  tradi- 
dit  Willelmo  filio  Stephani  de  Broucton  manenti  in 
Talentire  ad  firmam  totam  terram  integram,  cum  per- 
tinenciis  suis,  quam  habuit  de  dono  Ricardi  filii  Johannis 
de  Derham  in  dicta  villa  de  Talentire  ad  terminum  octo 
annorum  plenarie  completorum,  incipiente  termino  in 
festo  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  anno  domini  m°  cc°  lxx° 
nono.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  predicto  priori  et  ejus 
successoribus  de  predicto  Willelmo  undecem  solidos  ar- 
genti  et  sex  denarios  ad  duos  anni  terminos,  scilicet, 
medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  et  aliam  medietatem  ad 
festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme  pro  omni  servicio,  exaccione 
et  demanda.  Predictus  Nficholaus],  prior  sancte  Bege, 
predictam  terram  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  predicto 
Willelmo  pro  predicto  servicio  warantizabit  usque  ad  pre- 
dictum  terminum  contra  omnes  gentes.  In  cujus  rei 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  409 

testimonium  present!  scripto  ad  modum  cirographi  con- 
fecto  hinc  et  inde  utraque  pars  alternatim  signum 
suum  apposuit.  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  de  Derewentwater, 
Petro  Dayncurt,  Johanne  Waitfote,  Johanne  de  Brigham, 
Thoma  fratre  suo,  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam 
-die  dominica  proxima  post  festum  omnium  Sanctorum, 
anno  supradicto.1 

407.      DlMISSIO  TERRE  DE  HEVERSHAM.1 

ANNO  ab  incarnacione  domini  m°  cc°  octuagesimo 
secundo  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  ita  convenit 
inter  dominum  Benedictum2,  priorem  de  sancta  Bega,  ex 
una  parte,  et  Rogerum  Croys[er],  ex  altera,  videlicet,  quod 
dictus  dominus  prior  dimisit  ad  firmam  dicto  Rogero 
totam  terram  quam  habet  in  villa  de  Heversham  in 
territorio  de  Milnethorp'  unacum  prato  usque  ad  terminum 
octo  annorum  plenarie  completorum.  Ita,  etiam,  quod 
idem  Rogerus  reddet  dicto  priori  pro  dictis  terra  et  prato 

406.     l  5  November,  1279. 

407-  l  The  deed  whereby  the  monks  were  enfeoffed  of  this 
land  in  Milnthorp,  in  the  parish  of  Heversham,  Westmorland, 
has  not  been  preserved,  but  there  is  a  note  in  a  later  hand  written 
over  the  title  of  the  deed  in  the  Register  which  probably  refers  to 
it  :  Memorandum  de  carta  Willelmi  de  Wyndessoure  de  xij  acris 
in  Heuersham  in  communi  pastura.  As  these  (Nos.  407-8)  are 
the  only  deeds  touching  this  property  in  the  Register,  it  may  be 
assumed  that  they  refer  to  the  first  dimission.  In  that  case  the 
place  of  William,  the  grantor,  in  the  pedigree  of  Wyndessoure 
is  certain.  On  the  death  of  William  de  Lyndeseye,  lord  of  this 
part  of  Westmorland,  in  1282,  the  inquest  reported  that  Heveres- 
ham,  Grarig  and  Morlund  were  held  by  William  de  Windesouer 
(Cal.  of  Inguis.,  ii.  270).  For  this  branch  of  the  family,  see 
Duchetiana,  267-312. 

2  The  renewal  of  the  lease  on  u  November,  1282,  after  the  acces- 
sion of  Prior  Benedict  is  interesting.  Prior  Nicholas  de  Langton 
his  predecessor  (see  next  deed)  must  have  vacated  since  14 
September.  Benedict  was  still  prior  in  1286  (No.  106). 


4IO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

singulis  annis  per  totum  dictum  tempus  dimidiam  mar- 
cam  argenti  ad  Pentecosten  pro.  omni  servicio  et  exaccione. 
Dictis  vero  octo  annis  completis,  idem  Rogerus  dictam 
terram  cum  prato  predicto  domino  priori  vel  cuicunque 
successori  suo  sine  aliqua  contradiccione  restituet.  Et 
ut  ista  convencio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat,  huic  scripto 
cirographato  utraque  pars  alternatim  sigillum  suum 
apposuit.  Datum  apud  sanctam  Begam  festo  et  anno 
supradictis. 

408.  CONVENCIO  DE  EADEM. 

ANNO  ab  incarnacione  domini  m°  cc°  lxxx°  secundo  in 
festo  exaltacionis  sancte  Crucis,1  ita  convenit  inter  dom- 
inum  Nicholaum,2  priorem  de  sancta  Bega,  ex  una  parte, 
et  Rogerum  Croys[er]  ex  altera.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod 
dictus  dominus  prior  dimisit  ad  nrmam  dicto  Rogero 
totam  terram  quam  habet  in  villa  de  Eversham  in  terri- 
torio  de  Milnethorpe  una  cum  prato  usque  ad  terminum 
octo  annorum  plenarie  completorum.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod 
idem  Rogerus  reddet  dicto  priori  pro  dicta  terra  et  prato 
singulis  annis  per  totum  dictum  tempus  dimidiam  mar- 
cam  ad  Pentecosten  pro  omni  servicio  et  exaccione.  Et 
dictis  octo  annis  plenarie  completis,  idem  Rogerus  dictam 
terram  cum  prato  dicto  domino  priori  vel  cuicunque  ejus 
successori  sine  aliqua  contradiccione  restituet.  Et  ut 
hec  convencio  rata  et  stabilis  permaneat  alter  alterius 
huic  scripto  cirographato  sigillum  suum  apposuit.  Dat- 
um apud  sanctam  Begam  in  festo  et  anno  predictis.3 

409.  CARTA  RADULFI   DE  LEVYNTON   DE  FIRMA  IN 
KARLIOL. 

408.     x  14  September,   1282. 

2  See  note  2  on  previous  deed. 

8  In  a  note  in  a  later  hand  at  the  foot  of  this  deed  it  is  added  : 
Consimilis  dimissio  facia  est,  anno  Domini  etc.  nonagesimo,  per 
Willelmum  priorem — which  apparently  refers  to  Prior  William 
de  Dereby,  1288-94. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  41 1 

OMNIBUS  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit,  Radulfus 
de  Leuyngton,1  salutem.  Noveritis  me  dedisse,  concess- 
isse  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus,  pro  anima  Ricardi  de  Leuington  et  pro  ani- 
mabus  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  duos  solidos 
annuos  per  manum  Henrici  cissoris  de  Karliolo  et  heredum 
suorum  fideliter  percipiendos  de  firma  illius  terre  quam 
dicto  Henrico  et  heredibus  suis  ad  feudofirmam  tradidi  in- 
eadem  villa,  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten,  et  medietatem 
ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Tenendos  et  habendos  sibi 
inposterum  de  me  et  heredibus  meis,  in  puram  et  perpet- 
uam  elemosinam,  adeo  libere  et  quiete  sicut  aliqua  ele- 
mosina  liber ius  et  quiecius  dari  potest.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Testibus  Willelmo  de  Salcoc,  tune  vicecomite  Cumberland- 
ie,  Roberto  de  Hampton,  Johanne  delamore,  Roberto  de 
Witerig,  Willelmo  de  Vallibus,  Roberto  de  Bampton, 
Alano  de  Berwys,  Rogero  de  Leuyngton,  et  aliis. 

410.    OBLIGACIO  ABBATIS   DE  HOLMCOLTRAM   DE  vj 
DENARIIS. 

UNIVERSIS  Christi  fidelibus  has  literas  •  visuris  vel 
audituris,  frater  Johannes1  dictus  abbas  de  Holmcoltram 

409.  l  Ralf  de  Levyngton,  lord  of  Levinton,  now  Kirklinton, 
on  the  north  of  Carlisle,  succeeded  his  brother  Richard  in  1250- 
and  died  without  male  issue  in  1253  (Fine  Rolls,  ii.  80,  176,  Rec. 
Com.).     For   an   account   of   his   family  and   its   descent   from 
Richard  the  Knight  who  was  enfeoffed  of  the  manor  by  Henry  I., 
see  my  article  in  The  Ancestor,  iii.  80-84.     As  the  grant  was  made 
for  the  soul  of  Richard  de  Levington,  the  date  must  be  between 
1250  and  1253. 

410.  :  No  deed  has  been  found  in  the  Register  of  Holmcultram 
to  answer  to  this  bond.     It   must,   however,   refer  to  John  who 
was  abbot  from  1237  to  1255  (Chron.  de  Mailros,  pp.  148,  182, 
Bann.  Club).     John  had  been  previously  abbot  of  Grey  Abbey 
(de  Jugo  Dei)  in  the  county  of  Down,  Ireland,  a  dependent  or  cell 


412  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

et  ejusdem  loci  conventus,  salutem  in  domino.  Noveritis 
nos  teneri  domino  priori  de  sancta  Bega  ad  solucionem 
sex  denariorum  argenti  annuatim  pro  mina2  nostra  super 
terram  suam  apud  Whithofthaven  reponenda.  Ita  quod 
sulta3  convencio  aliquando  dicto  domino  priori  displicu- 
erit  libere  possit  earn  infringere  et  nos  ab  ipso  loco  am- 
movere.  Quod  si  nobis  aliquando  non  placuerit  prefatam 
convencionem  observare  libere  nobis  licebit  ab  eadem 
resilire.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  scripto  sigillum 
nostrum  apposuimus.  Valet e. 

411.  CARTA  RICARDI  DE  PRESTON  ET  AMABILLE, 
UXORIS  SUE,  DE  IJ  ACRIS  TERRE  IN  TERRITORIO  DE  STRILK- 

LAND. 

OMNIBUS  hominibus  suis  has  literas  visuris  vel  audituris 
Ricardus  de  Preston1  et  Amabilla,  uxor  ejus,  salutem  in 

of  Holmcultram.  One  of  the  acts  of  this  abbot  was  under  dis- 
cussion in  the  King's  court  in  1269  (Coram  Rege  R.  53  Hen.  III. 
No.  146,  m.  i.). 

2  For  the  history  of  mining  at  Whitehaven,  see  my  article  in 
V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  ii.  340-41. 

8  The  scribe  has  written  sulta,  but  apparently  in  error  for  si 
ista  or  si  ilia  or  si  dicta,  probably  the  first-named. 

411.  *A  succession  of  Richards  of  Preston  makes  the  identi- 
fication of  the  grantor  somewhat  difficult.  Amabilla  his  wife 
was  a  daughter  of  Walter  de  Stirkland  as  named  in  the  next  deed. 
There  was  a  Richard  de  Preston  in  1208  who,  with  Erneburg  his 
wife,  had  an  agreement  with  Gilbert  son  of  Gilbert  touching  40 
acres  of  land  in  Kirkeby  Lonesdal  and  10  acres  in  Whitinton 
(Feet  of  Fines,  Westmorl.  10  John,  No.  30),  and  there  was  another 
Richard  de  Preston  in  1256,  who,  with  Alice  his  wife,  had  tran- 
sactions with  Henry  of  Notingham  touching  two  oxgangs  of  land, 
except  a  mill  and  25  acres,  in  Preston,  when  the  property  was 
granted  to  Richard  and  Alice  and  the  heirs  of  Alice  for  ever  (Ibid, 
40  Hen.  III.  No.  30).  The  witnesses  to  the  deed  in  this  Register, 
Patrick  son  of  Thomas  and  Adam  de  Haverington,  agree  with 
the  later  date.  Unless  there  is  an  error  in  the  record  of  the  fine, 
Alice  for  Amabilla,  the  chronology  is  not  easy  to  explain.  The 
date  of  1256  would  suit  all  the  circumstances,  but  see  note  on 
No.  413. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  413 

domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos,  caritatis  in- 
tuitu,  concessisse,  dedisse  et  present!  carta  nostra  con- 
firmasse  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  duas  acras  terre  in  territorio  de  Stirkland 
in  Aykstubbes  cum  pertinenciis  ad  perficiendum  redditum 
duodecem  denariorum  per  annum  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni 
servicio  seculari,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
imperpetuum  et  in  auxilium  sustentacionis  luminare  (sic) 
ad  altare  sancte  Marie  virginis  imperpetuum.  Et  ut  ista 
carta  nostra  firma  sit  et  stabilis  imperpetuum  earn  sig- 
illorum  nostrorum  munimine  corroboravimus.  Hiis  test- 
ibus  domino  Patricio  filio  Thome,  Ada  de  Haverington, 
Gilberto  de  Kyrkslak,  Gilberto  de  Whitby,  clerico,  et 
Johanne  fratre  ejus,  et  aliis. 

412.  CARTA  WALTER:  DE  STRIKLAND  DE  ij  ACRIS 
TERRE  IN  CROSRIG. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presens  scriptum 
visuris  vel  audituris,  Walterus  de  Stirkland,1  salutem  in 

412.  1  At  Midsummer  1208  Walter  de  Stircland  and  Cristiane 
his  wife  had  an  agreement  with  Sigrid  daughter  o±  Uctred,  tenant 
of  a  ploughland  in  Stircland  in  Westmorland,  whereby  Walter 
and  Cristiane  acknowledged  the  land  to  be  the  right  of  Sigrid  to 
hold  of  them  and  the  heirs  of  Cristiane  by  the  free  service  of  a 
two  shilling  render  yearly.  For  this  acknowledgment  Sigrid 
granted  to  them  all  her  land  from  Aspelgile  to  Groshoucsic  and 
from  Groshoucsic  to  Bounwath,  to  hold  to  the  same  and  the 
heirs  of  Cristiane  (Feet  of  F.  Westmor.  10  John,  No.  28.)  The 
purport  of  the  fine  suggests  that  Stircland  was  of  the  inheritance 
of  Cristiane,  who  is  said  to  have  been  a  daughter  of  Roger  fitz 
Reinfred  from  whom  she  had  Great  Strickland  in  dower.  Walter's 
heir,  son  or  daughter,  was  given  as  a  pledge  for  the  loyalty  of 
Gilbert  son  of  Roger  son  of  Reinfred  in  1216  when  that  baron  was 
restored  to  King  John's  favour  (Rot.  de  Oblat.,  pp.  570-71).  From 
1228  to  1232  Walter  was  employed  as  one  of  the  justices  of  West- 
morland for  gaol  delivery  or  for  taking  assizes  of  novel  disseisin 
(Pat.  Rolls,  1225-32,  pp.  418-9,  310,  412),  and  in  1235  ne  was  one 
of  the  collectors  of  the  aid  to  Henry  III.  (Close  Rolls,  1234-7,  PP* 


414  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  Cristiane  uxoris  mei  et  pro  salute  animarum 
omnium  antecessorum  meorum  et  successorum  meorum, 
dedisse  et  concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirm- 
asse  Deo  et  Beate  Marie  et  celle  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  duos  acras  terre 
arabilis  de  dominico  meo  in  Crosrig  cum  pertinenciis,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  libere  et  quiet e  ab  omni 
terreno  servicio  et  exaccione  ad  lumen  inveniendum  ante 
altare  beate  Marie  virginis.  Et  ego  vero  et  heredes  mei 
predictas  duas  acras  terre  prefatis  monachis  warantiz- 
abimus  contra  omnes  homines  imperpetuum.  Confirmo 
insuper  et  concedo  predictis  monachis  duas  acras  terre 
quas  Ricardus  de  Preston  et  Amabilla  filia  mea  uxor  ejus, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  per  cartam  suam  eis 
dederunt.  Et  ut  hec  mea  donacio  et  concessio  perpetuum 
robur  optineat  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  in  testi- 
monium  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Warino  tune  cappellano, 
Thoma  capellano,  Ada  de  Sclegille,  Clement  e  clerico,  David 
de  Kyrkeby,  Radulfo  tune  dispensatore,  Ricardo  filio 
David,  Waltero  forestario  de  sancta  Bega,  et  multis  aliis. 

413.    CARTA  AMABILLE  UXORIS  RICARDI  DE  PRESTON 
DE  TERRIS  IN  STRIKLAND  ET  IN  AYKSTUBBES. 

OMNIBUS   Christi   fidelibus   ad   quos   presens  scriptum 

189-91)  :  his  return  is  given  in  Testa  de  Nevill,  p.  412.  But  he 
was  dead  before  12  Nov.  1246  when  there  was  partition  of  a 
moiety  of  the  manor  of  Stirkeland  between  Robert  son  of  Robert 
de  Stirkeland  and  Adam  son  of  Walter  de  Stirkeland,  in  which 
Rowland  de  Revegyl  and  Ralf  de  Ayencurt  were  interested  (Feet 
of  F.  31  Hen.  III.  No.  14).  See  the  Strickland  grants  in  the 
Register  of  Wetherhal,  pp.  321-7,  specially  that  by  William  de 
Stirkeland,  knight,  whereby  he  confirms  the  grant  to  St.  Bees  in 
the  vill  of  Great  Strickland  of  Walter  de  Stirkeland  his  proavus. 
There  are  several  pedigrees  of  this  family  in  print  more  or  less 
unsatisfactory.  Walter's  daughter  is  called  here  Amabilla  or 
Mabel,  wife  of  Richard  de  Preston,  as  well  as  in  the  previous  and 
following  charters. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  415 

pervenerit,  Amabilla1  quondam  uxor  Ricardi  de  Preston, 
salutem  eternam  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra 
me,  divine  pietatis  intuitu,  in  libera  potestate  viduitatis 
mee,  concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse 
Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram  quam  dominus 
meus  Ricardus  de  Preston  dedit  eisdem  in  territorio  de 
Stirkland  et  Aykstubbes  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  et 
aisiamentis  dicte  terre  pertinentibus,  libere  et  quiete  ab 
omni  servicio  seculari,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam. 
Et  ut  ista  mea  concessio  et  confirmacio  firma  sit  et  stabilis 
imperpetuum  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus 

414.    CARTA  BENEDICT:  DE  ROTINGTONA  DE  x  ACRIS 

ET  IIJ  PERTICIS  IN  ROTINGTONA.1 

413.  l  In  1292  William  de  Stirkeland  knight  confirmed  to  the 
monks  of  Wederhal  and  St.   Bees  of  Coupland  the  lands  and 
tenements  they  had  of  the  gift  of  Walter  de  Stirkeland  his  proavus 
and  of  his  other  ancestors  in  the  vill  and  territory  of  Great  Stirke- 
land (Reg.  of  Wetherhal,  pp.  326-7).     By  the  deed  here  Amabilla, 
widow,  of  Richard  de  Preston,  confirms  her  deceased  husband's 
grant  in  No.  411,  but  there  are  no  witnesses  to  indicate  an  approx- 
imate date.     So  late  as  1313-15,  we  have  Amabilla,  late  the  wife 
of  Richard  de  Preston,  making  a  fine  with  the  King  for  acquiring 
certain  tenements  in  Stirklaund  (Inq.  ad.  q.  d.  7  Edw.  II.  No.  32  : 
Originalia  R.  8  Edw.  II.  m.  n).     It  is  scarcely  possible  that  this 
Amabilla  could  have  been  the  daughter  of  Walter  de  Stirkland 
as  in  No.  412.     Two  successive  Richards  of  Preston  appear  to 
have    had    wives    named    Amabilla.     In    1281-2    the    monks    of 
Cockersand  demised  to  Richard  de  Preston  of  Keiidal  the  mill 
of  Preston  :    at  some  later  date  this  Richard  granted  to  Richard 
his  son  and  Anabilla  his  wife  land  at  Preston  :    and  Thomas  de 
Egelesfeld  conveyed  to  Richard  de  Preston  son  of  S'r  Richard 
and  to  Anabilla  his  wife  a  yearly  rent  in  Sygiswych  (Hist.  MSS. 
Com.  Rep.  x.  App.  iv.  225). 

414.  xThis  group  of  deeds   (Nos.   414-430,  436-7),   touching 
the  township  of  Rottington  on  the  north  of  the  village  of  St.  Bees, 


416  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,2  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me,  pro  salute  anime 
mee,  heredum  meorum,  et  antecessorum  meorum,  dedisse 
.  „  .  .  Deo  et  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in 
Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  decem  acras  terre  et 
tres  perticas  de  solio  meo  in  campo  de  Rotington,  quarum 
due  acre  et  dimidia  jacent  in  Meysigwra  inter  moram  et 
campum  quod  vocatur  Kenelflat.  Item  una  acra,  que 
vocatur  Garebrad,  jacet  juxta  terram  sancte  Bege  que 
vocatur  Kirkeland  ex  parte  australi.  Item  dimidia  acra 
jacet  in  Friday  landes  et  extendit  se  longitudine  a  ber- 
caria  usque  terram  sancte  Bege  que  vocatur  Kirkeland. 
Item  una  acra  et  septem  decem  pertice  jacent  juxta 
bercariam  ex  parte  aquilonari  inter  terram  que  vocatur 
Wynnefoth  et  terram  sancte  Bege  que  vocatur  Kirkeland. 
Item  unum  croftum  quod  fuit  quondam  Alani  de  Roting- 
ton quod  continet  in  se  unam  acram  et  sex  perticas  juxta 
terram  sancte  Bege  que  vocatur  Kirkeland  ex  parte 
australi.  Item  tres  acre  et  tres  rode  et  dimidia  jacent 
inter  Bernardhou  et  Brezhou  et  extendunt  se  in  longi- 
tudine de  Wynnefoth  usque  ad  Seberth.  Tenendas  .... 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Wirkinton,  domino 
Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  domino  Michaele  de  Haverington, 
domino  Thoma  de  Cletergh,  Roberto  de  Branthayth, 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Roberto  de  Wiltona,  Henrico  de 
Cletere,  et  aliis/ 


is  our  chief  evidence  for  the  succession  of  the  family  which  bore 
its  name  in  the  thirteenth  century,  but  the  deeds  are  not  in 
chronological  order.  The  place-names  on  St.  Bees  Head  are  full 
of  interest,  but  few  of  them  are  now  to  be  found  on  the  map. 

2  It  is  probable  that  all  the  deeds  of  this  group  in  the  name  of 
Benedict  de  Rotington  refer  to  Benedict  son  of  Benedict  son  of 
Ranulf  de  Rotington.  See  No.  426.  In  that  case  this  portion 
of  the  collection  would  fall  from  about  1240  to  1265.  Fortunately 
some  of  Benedict's  grants  are  dated  (Nos.  418,  420,  425,  427)- 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA.  417 

415.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  ij  TOFTIS  ET  CROFTIS  CUM 

OMNI  PASTURA  ET  OMNIBUS  LIBERTATIBUS  IN  ROTINGTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Benedictus  de  Rotington  .... 
dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege, 
Couplandie,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  duo 
tofta  et  crofta  terre  mee  in  parte  occidentali  de  Rotington, 
cum  omnibus  sine  aliquo  retenemento,  jacencia  inter 
terram  sancte  Bege  et  terram  quondam  Henrici  String 
quorum  latitude  continet  in  [se]  sex  perticatas  versus  pre- 
dictam  villam  et  quatuor  perticatas  et  dimidiam  linialiter 
versus  mare  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  infra  villam 
et  extra  ad  sustinendam  unam  ceroferariam1  ante  ymag- 
inem  sancte  Bege  juxta  magnum  altare,  pro  qua  cero- 
feraria  antecessores  mei  et  ego  et  successores  mei  tene- 
bamur  ad  festum  sancte  Bege2  duos  solidos  annuatim 
reddere.  Quare  volo  quod  predicti  monachi  predicta 
tofta  et  crofta  teneant  ....  ad  sustinendum  predictum 
lumen,  sicut  predictum  est,  cum  com[m]uni  pastura  .... 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino 
Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  domino  Elya  tune  ballivo  de 
Egyrmund,  Roberto  de  Braunthuait,  Michaele  de  Haver- 
ington,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  et  aliis. 

416.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  j  ACRA  TERRE  IN  HOUT- 
BERGH. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me  ....  dedisse  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia 
et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  unam  acram 
terre  in  Houtbergh,  jacentem  juxta  terram  quam  prius 

415.  l  More  properly  a  candlestick,  but  here  meant  for  a  wax 
candle,  that  is,  a  light.  In  No.  67  we  have  a  grant  ad  susten- 
tandam  unam  lampadem  ardentem  die  ac  node,  coram  reliquiis 
dicte  ecclesie. 

2  See  note  2  on  No.  227. 

2  E 


418  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

dictis  priori  et  monachis  dimisi,  extendentem  de  capraria 
domini  prioris  versus  orientem  juxta  predictam  terrain 
linialiter  in  longitudine  et  latitudine  unius  acre.  Tcn- 
endam  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Cletere, 
Johanne  de  Langlivere,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele 
de  Haverington,  Helya  tune  ballivo  de  Coupland,  Roberto 
de  Bramthwhait,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosfort, 
Willelmo  de  Puncunby,  et  aliis. 

417.  CARTA  BENEDICT!  DE  ROTINGTON  DE  j  ACRA  IN 

HOUTHEBERHE  DE  ROTINGTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me  ....  dedisse  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia 
et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  acram 
terre  in  Houtheberh,  jacentem  juxta  terram  quam  prius 
dictis  priori  et  monachis  dimisi,  extendentem  se  de 
capraria  domini  prioris  versus  orientem  juxta  terram  pre- 
dictam linialiter  in  longitudine  et  latitudine  unius  acre 
terre,  et  duas  acras  terre  et  novem  perticas  terre  in  eodem 
campo  quo  incipiunt  ad  terram  magistri  Willelmi  super 
Houburgh  et  extendent  se  in  longitudine  usque  ad  quern- 
dam  locum  qui  vocatur  Grenecaphou  super  litus  mar  is, 
jacentes,  scilicet,  inter  terram  ecclesie  in  latitudine  et 
terram  meam  versus  villam  de  Rotington  quam  Johannes 
de  Rotington  aliquando  de  me  tenuit.  Tenendas  .... 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Cleterh,  Johanne  de 
Langlivere,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de  Havering- 
ton, Helya,  clerico,  tune  ballivo  de  Egyrmund,  Roberto 
de  Bramtwhait,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosfort, 
Willelmo  de  Punsunby  et  aliis. 

418.  CONVENCIO  INTER  NlCHOLAUM  PRIOREM  ET  BENE- 
DICTUM  DE  ROTINGTON  DE  BARCARIA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

HEC  est  convencio  facta  inter  Nicholaum1,  priorem  de 
418.     :  Nicholas  de  Langton,  prior  from  about  1258  to  1282. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  419 

sancta  Bega,  et  monachos  ibidem  Deo  servientes,  ex  una 
parte,  et  Benedictum  de  Rotington,  ex  alia  parte,  vide- 
licet, quod  ego,  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  dimisi  et  con- 
cessi  dictis  priori  et  monachis  totam  terram  meam  super 
Howthberwe2  que  vocatur  Poteruns  ad  quamdam  ber- 
cariam3  faciendam  vel  alia  edificia  edificanda  ad  volunt- 
atem  dictorum  monachorum  sine  aliquo  retenemento  per 
has,  scilicet,  divisas,  sicut  idem  predictum  Poteruns  se 
extendit  in  mare  et  ab  eodem  Poteruns  sicuti  quadam  rana4 
se  extendit  usque  Michelknaphowe,  que,  scilicet,  Michel- 
knaphowe  semper  jacebit  inculta  :  et  ab  Michelknaphowe 
usque  ad  divisam  sancte  Bege  juxta  mare.  Ita  scilicet 
quod  ilia  terra  que  jacet  inter  dictam  Michelknaphowe  et 
predictam  divisam  sancte  Bege  nunquam  ulterius  ascend- 
endo  arabitur  per  latitudinem  quadraginta  pedum  ubi 
minus  se  extendit  versus  mare,  salva  michi  et  heredibus 
meis  communa  pastura  dicte  terre  necnon  et  hominibus 
meis  de  Rotington.  Ita  videlicet  quod  quandocumque 
contigerit  Howtberwe  inculta  jacere,  non  licebunt  (sic) 
predictis  priori  et  monachis  dictam  terram  que  vocatur 
Poteruns  arare  nee  seminare.  Insuper  dimisi  et  concessi 
predictis  priori  et  monachis  pasturam  ad  centum  oves  et 
ad  quadraginta  capras  euntes  et  redeuntes  ubique  in 
pastura  de  Rotington  cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu  ad 
predictam  pasturam  quocumque  de  anno  in  annum  con- 
tingent jacere,  sicuti  oves  mee  proprie  ire  solebant  vel  ire 
poterunt,  sine  aliqua  contradiccione  mei  vel  heredum 
meorum  vel  assignatorum.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  tota 
terra  subter  viam  que  tendit  a  molendino  sancte  Bege 

2  This  appears  to  refer  to  the  South  Head  where  there  is  a 
place  called  Pattering  Hole,  probably  the  Poteruns  here 
mentioned. 

8  A  sheepfold. 

4  A  strip  of  unploughed  turf  or  terrace,  sometimes  called  balk, 
lince  or  rean,  an  agricultural  term.  See  Seebohm,  Village  Com- 
munity, pp.  381-2,  for  the  meaning  and  variations  of  the  term. 


42O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

usque  ad  capellam  sancte  Michaelis  de  Rotington5  ct  sic 
per  eandem  viam  usque  ad  aulam  de  Rotington  libere 
jacebit  a  dictis  centum  ovibus  dictorum  monachorum  a 
Pascha  singulis  annis  usque  ad  festum  sancti  Michaelis,  et 
a  predicto  festo  sancti  Michaelis  licet  predictis  priori  et 
monachis  cum  animalibus  suis  predictis  ubique  per  totam 
pasturam  subter  predictam  viam  sicuti  alibi  intrare  et 
pasturare.  Ego  vero,  predictus  Benedictus  de  Rotington, 
et  heredes  mei  totam  predictam  terram  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  et  predictam  pasturam,  sicut  scriptum  est, 
contra  omnes  homines  warantizabimus,  acquietabimus, 
et  defendemus  usque  ad  terminum  octoginta  annorum 
plene  completorum  pro  decem  libris  argenti  quas  ego, 
Benedictus  de  Rotington,  cepi  premanibus  in  meo  urgenti 
negocio  de  catallis  proprie  domus.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod 
ad  finem  octoginta  annorum  quando  ego,  predictus 
Benedictus,  vel  heredes  mei  solvimus  decem  libras  dictis 
priori  et  monachis,  predicta  terra  michi  vel  heredibus 
meis  quiet  a  remanebit .  Hec  con  vencio  fact  a  f  uit  anno  regni 
regis  Henrici  filii  regis  Johannis  quatragesimo  secundo  in 
domo  sancte  Bege  die  sancti  Wilfridi  episcopi  in  Octobri.6 
Et  quia  volo  quod  hoc  sit  securum  huic  presenti  scripto 
sigillum  meum  pro  me  et  pro  heredibus  meis  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langliver,  domino 
Ricardo  de  Cletere,  domino  Elya,  tune  ballivo  de  Eger- 

5  The  site  of  the  chapel  of  St.  Michael  of  Rottmgton  has  not 
been  identified,  but  it  must  have  been  between  the  village  of 
St.  Bees  and  Rottington  Hall.     The  carved  lintel  opposite  the 
west  door  of  the  priory  church,  showing  the  figure  of  a  man  with 
a  sword  attacking  a  dragon,  supposed  to  be  a  legendary  repre- 
sentation of  St.  Michael,  is  said  to  have  been  brought  from  the 
ruins  of  the  chapel.     In  this  neighbourhood  stone  fragments  of 
ecclesiastical  design  have  been  found  which  may  have  had  a 
similar  origin.     There  must  have  been  ruins  here  in  the  seven- 
teenth century  which  caused  T.  Denton  to  guess  that  "  this  place 
was   heretofore    a    nunnery  "    (Perambul.    of   Cumb.    in    1687-8, 
MS.  f.  29). 

6  12  October,  1258. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     42! 

mund,  Michaele  de  Hawerington,  Nich[olao]  de  Moreceby, 
Alexandra  de  Puncunby,  et  aliis. 

419.  CARTA  BENEDICTI  DE  TERRIS  IN  ROTINGTONA 

CUM  DIVISIS  ET  PASTURIS,  SCILICET,  DE  POTRUN  ET  ALIIS 

MULTIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,1  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me,  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum, 
dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege,  Couplandie, 
et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  totam 
terram  meam  super  Howtbirwe,  as  in  No.  418/0  defende- 
mus.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  huic  present!  scripto 
sigillum  pro  me  et  pro  heredibus  meis  apposui.  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Ricardo  de  Cletere,  domino  Johanne 
de  Langliver,  domino  Johanne  de  Cambirton,  domino 
Elya,  tune  ballivo  de  Egermund,  Roberto  de  Bramtwhait, 
Alexandra  de  Puncunby,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele 
de  Haverington,  et  aliis. 

420.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EISDEM  ET  ALIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  salutem.  Nov- 
eritis me  concessisse  ....  priori  de  sancta  Bega  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  pasturam  ovibus  suis  per  totam 
terram  meam,  tarn  cultam  quam  incultam,  postquam 
blada  et  fena  sint  amota,  et  tarn  in  estate  quam  in  hyeme 
usque  ad  terminum  quinque  annorum,  termino  incipiente 
festo  Pentecost es,  anno  gracie  millesimo  ducentesimo 
quatragesimo  septimo1,  et  racionabilem  ingressum  et 

419.  l  This  deed  is  drawn  up  in  the  same  terms  as  that  which 
precedes  it,  the  common  clauses  being  omitted  in  the  printed 
text.     The  following  note  is  in  the  margin  :    Rotington  cum  divisis 
de  Knaphowe  :    nota  singula  verba  et  ranas  quia  ista  carta  cum 
declaratione  alterius  carte  Benedicti  in  3°  fo.  sequente  de  terra  sua 
de  Kyrkbyhavyn  usque  Knaphowe,  referring  probably  to  No.  428. 

420.  ^he  date  here  is  1247. 


422  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

exitum  usque  ad  predictas  terras  tarn  in  estate  quam  in 
yeme  sine  aliquo  impediment o  mei  vel  heredum  meorum. 
Pro  hac  siquidem  concessione  dedit  michi  dictus  prior 
premanibus  viginti  solidos  argenti.  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Guidone  de  Boyvill,  Johanne  de  Boyvill,  Elya 
clcrico,  David  de  Swaluhirst,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Ricardo 
de  Bradestanes,  Clemente  diacono,  Willelmo  de  Kirke- 
bysteph[an]  et  aliis. 

421.    CARTA  BENEDICT:  DE  ROTINGTON  DE  nj  TOFTIS 

ET   CROFTIS   TERRE   DE   ROTINGTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Benedictus  de  Rotington  .... 
dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in 
Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  tria 
tofta  et  crofta  terre  mee  in  parte  occidentali  de  Rotington 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  sine  aliquo  retenemento 
jacencia  inter  terram  sancte  Bege  et  croftum  quod  Alanus 
de  Rotington  quondam  de  me  tenuit,  quorum  latitude 
duorum  croftorum  continet  in  se  sex  perticas  versus  pre- 
dictam  villam  et  quatuor  perticas  et  dimidiam  linialiter 
in  longitudine  versus  mare  et  tres  rodas  in  tercio  crofto 
quod  Henricus  String  quondam  de  me  tenuit  quod  jacet 
juxta  predictum  croftum  quod  Alanus  de  me  tenuit  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  infra  villam  et  extra  ad  sus- 
tinendam  unam  ceroferariam  ante  ymaginem  sancte  Bege 
juxta  magnum  altare,  pro  qua  ceroferaria  antecessores 
mei  et  ego  et  successores  mei  tenebamur  ad  festum  sancte 
Bege1  tres  solidos  annuatim  persolvere.  Quare  volo  quod 
predicti  monachi  predicta  tofta  et  crofta  teneant  tarn 
libere  et  quiete,  tarn  solute  et  honorifice,  sicut  aliqua  terra 
elemosinata  melius  vel  liberius  poterit  dari  vel  concedi 
ad  sustinendam  predictam  ceroferoriam,  sicut  predictum 
est,  cum  communi  pastura  et  cum  omnibus  libertatibus 

421.  l  For  the  probable  date  of  the  feast  of  St.  Bega,  see  note 
on  No.  227. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  423 

....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Johanne  de  Langliver, 
Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de  Haverington,  Elia 
clerico,  tune  ballivo  de  Egermound,  Johanne  de  Hale, 
Johanne  Gosford,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Willelmo  de  Pun- 
cunby,  et  aliis.2 

422.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  PRATO  IN  WELLIMOUR  IN 

TERRITORIO  DE  FORS  CUM  BOSCO. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  salutem.  Nov- 
crit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  to  turn  pratum  de  Welmire  in 
territorio  de  Fors  cum  bosco,  sicut  continetur  infra  terras 
arabiles  circu[m]euntes  predictum  boscum  et  pratum 
cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu  ad  predictum  pratum.  Lice- 
bit  itaque  hominibus  predictorum  monachorum  pre- 
dictum pratum  tenentibus  transire  ab  alta  via  usque  ad 
predictum  pratum  ultra  terram  seminatam  sine  impedi- 
mento  ad  fenum  cariandum,  restaurando  tamen  dampnum 

bladi  secundum  estimacionem  virorum  legalium 

Hiis  testibus  Gilberto,  persona  de  Botill,  Roberto  de 
Bramttwhait,  Roberto  de  Hothuait,  Ada  de  Hyton, 
Johanne  de  Morthuith,  Willelmo  de  Kirkebystephan,  et 
aliis.1 

423.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  AQUA  MOLENDINI  DEDUCTA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et 
beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus  totam  aquam1  meam  de  Rotington  in- 

2  For  a  similar  deed,  see  No.  415. 

422.  l  Compare  this  deed  with  Nos.  364-6  and  see  notes  on 
No.  364. 

423.  1  The  mill  and  mill-stream  01   Rottington  are  still  in 
existence.     At  the  foot  of  the  deed  occurs  the  following  :    Mem- 
orandum I  William  Latus  of  Saint  Bees,  fermorer  of  the  mylles 


424  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

perpetuum  habendam,  illam,  scilicet,  que  est  divisa  inter 
predictos  monachos  et  terrain  meam  de  Rotington  ad 
capiendam  et  ducendam  quocunque  voluerint.  Et  ad 
stangnum  faciendum  super  terram  meam  ubi  melius 
viderint  expedirc  ad  predictam  aquam  vertendam  et 
ducendam  ad  molendina  sua  sine  aliqua  contradiccione 
mei  vel  heredum  meorum  inperpetuum.  Ego  siquidem 
et  heredes  mei  predictam  aquam  cum  stagno  predictis 
priori  et  monachis  contra  omnes  homines  inperpetuum 
warantizabimus  ct  defendemus.  Pro  hac  siquidem  don- 
acione  et  concessione  predicti  prior  et  monachi  reddent  , 
michi  et  heredibus  meis  annuatim  unum  denarium  die 
Natalis  domini  ad  oblacionem  apud  sanctam  Begam  pro 
omni  servicio  et  demanda.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  test- 
ibus  domino  Alano  de  Penington,  Hugone  de  Moreceby, 
Johanne  de  Langlyver,  Ada  de  Waythbutwait,  Roberto 
de  Bramptwhait,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Johanne  de  Boy- 
vill,  Willelmo  de  Kirkebystephan,  et  aliis. 

424.    CARTA  BENEDICTI  DE  ROTINGTON  DE  UNO  NATIVO 

IN    EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  ....  me  ....  liber [os]  fecisse 
et  quiet  [os]  clamasse  Deo  et  beate  Bege  priori  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  omnes  pueros,  filios  et  nlias 

there  do  confesse  to  have  received  by  the  delyvery  of  Syr  Thomas 
Chaloner  knight  into  my  custodie  that  oreginal  dede  under  seals 
concerning  the  graunt  of  the  watercourse  aforesaide,  which  dede  I 
promesse  and  bynde  my  self  at  all  tymes  to  restore.  Scriptum  xix° 
die  Augusti  1561.  William  Latus.  After  the  dissolution  of  the 
religious  houses,  the  manor,  rectory  and  cell  of  St.  Bees  were 
leased  to  Thomas  Leigh,  one  of  the  visitors  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  cv.)  : 
Dame  Joan  Leigh  his  widow  carried  the  property  in  marriage 
to  Thomas  Chaloner  in  1547  (Augmentation  Book,  ccxvij.  f. 
1430)  :  and  Chaloner  had  a  grant  thereof  from  Edward  VI.  in 
1553  (Pat.  R.  7  Edw.  VI.  pt.  ii.).  For  some  late  members  of 
the  family  of  Latus,  see  Jefferson,  Allerdale  Ward,  p.  172. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  423 

Simonis  filii  Sigerit  quondam  nativi  mei  a  nativitate, 
scilicet,  Willelmi  de  Aynersat,  Agnes,  Alice,  Amee,  Serot, 
Elene,  cum  tola  sequela  sua  que  de  eis  processit  vel  pro- 
cedere  poterit,  pro  quadam  summa  pecunie  quam  michi 
dictus  prior  dedit  in  negocio  meo  de  bonis  predicte  domus 

beate  Bege In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  domino 

Radulfo  de  Bethum,  Johanne  de  Thwaits,  Willelmo  ce 
Morthing,  Willelmo  de  Waibutwait,  Henrico  de  Botill, 
Ricardo  de  Cornay,  et  aliis.1 

425.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  PASTURA  IN  TOTIS  TERRIS 
SUIS  PRETER  BLADA. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  films  Benedicti  de  Rotington, 
salutem.  Noveritis  me  concessisse  ....  priori  de  sancta 
Bega  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  pasturam 
ovibus  suis  per  totam  terram  meam,  tarn  cultam  quam 
incultam,  preterquam  blada  et  fena  sint  amota,  et  tarn  in 
estate  quam  in  yeme  usque  ad  terminum  viij  annorum, 
termino  incipiente  festo  Pentecostes  anno  gracie  m.  cc.  1. 
sexto,  et  racionabilem  ingressum  et  exitum  usque  ad 
predictas  terras  tarn  in  estate  quam  in  yeme  sine  aliquo 
impedimento  mei  vel  heredum  meorum.  Pro  hac  siquid- 
em  concessione  dedit  michi  Willelmus1  prior  premanibus 
triginta  solidos  argenti  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Elya, 
ballivo  de  Egermund,  domino  Guidone  de  Bovyll,  David  de 
Swalhirst,  Clemente  clerico,  Willelmo  de  Kirkebistephan, 
et  mult  is  aliis. 

426.  CARTA  ALANI  PENYTON  DE  TERRIS  IN  ROTING- 
TON. 

424.  l  This  is  an  ordinary  grant  or  sale  of  villeins  or  serfs  to 
the  monks,  common  enough  in  the  thirteenth  century. 

425.  1  William  de  Rothewel.     See   Nos.   231  and  266  with 
notes  there.     The  date  is  1256. 


426  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Alarms  de  Peniton1  ....  concessi 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coup- 
land  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  inperpetuum, 
totam  terram  quam  habent  in  Rotington  ex  dono  Bene- 
dict! filii  Benedicti  filii  Ranulphi  de  Rotington  prout  carte 
quas  dicti  monachi  habent  ex  dono  ejusdem  Benedicti 
plenius  purportant.  Habendam  ....  Hiis  testibus  dom- 
inis  Johanne  de  Hodelston,  Thoma  de  Wirkyngton, 
Roberto  de  Haverington,  Ricardo  le  Flammac,  militibus, 
Roberto  de  Lamplogh,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Johanne 
fratre  suo,  Ricardo  de  Cletere,  Willelmo  clerico  de  sancta 
Bega,  et  aliis.2 

427.  HEC  EST  CONVENCIO  INTER  NlCHOLAUM  PRIOR- 
EM  DE  TOTA  TERRA  DE  KERKEHAVEN  USQUE  KNAPHOW. 

426.  xThe  feudal  or  other  claim  that  Alan  de  Peniton  had 
on  Rottington  has  not  been  ascertained.  At  a  later  period 
Robert  de  Rotington  is  found  acting  as  attorney  for  one  of  this 
family  (Furness  Coucher,  pp.  499-502).  Alan's  claim  seems  only 
to  have  been  to  confirm  the  acts  of  Benedict  son  of  Benedict 
son  of  Ranulf  de  Rotington  perhaps  by  reason  of  mortgage  or  in 
such  like  way.  The  manor  of  Rottington  was  held  by  Reiner 
the  Fleming  at  the  foundation  of  the  priory,  from  whom  probably 
the  family  of  Rottington  was  descended  :  it  was  a  fee  of  Becker- 
met  and  held  of  the  Flemings.  On  the  death  of  Thomas  de 
Multon  of  Egremont  in  1322,  Bekermet  with  its  dependents, 
Rotington  and  other  hamlets,  was  held  by  John  son  of  Rayner 
Fleming  (Cal.  of  Inquis.,  vi.  200).  J.  Denton  professes  to  have 
4t  read  in  a  deed  in  King  John's  time  Robert  de  Rotington  to  be 
a  witness  and  one  Reynold  de  Rotington  in  K.  Hen.  2nd  time  " 
(Accompt,  p.  25),  but  neither  appears  in  this  Register.  The 
Robert  mentioned  above  is  often  found  in  deeds  o±  the  fourteenth 
century  :  and  Reynold  may  be  another  form  of  Ranulf  who  is 
known  to  have  nourished  in  the  reign  of  King  John  (Nos.  31, 
430,  437). 

2  The  witnesses  here  agree  with  a  date  between  1270  and  1280. 
Alan  de  Peniton  was  alive  in  1291-2  (Furness  Coucher,  pp.  310-14, 
Chetham  Soc.),  but  was  dead  in  the  following  year  (Abbrev.  Rot. 
Orig.,  i.  77). 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  427 

HEC  est  convencio  facta  inter  Nicholaum1  priorem  de 
sancta  Bega  et  monachos  ibidem  Deo  servientes,  ex  una 
parte,  et  Benedictum  de  Rotington,  ex  alia  parte,  vide- 
licet, quod  ego,  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  dimisi  et  con- 
cessi  dictis  priori  et  monachis  totam  terram  meam  de 
Kirkehaven  usque  ad  Knaphou  in  latitudine  duarum 
rodarum,  excepto  Berh2  ubi  minus  se  extendit  versus 
mare,  et  ita  linialiter  de  Knaphou  sicut  meta  jacet  usque 
ad  Raise  ascendendo  usque  ad  Astinhole,3  et  ita  de  Rayse 
de  Astinhole  sicut  meta  jacet  usque  ad  Brundeshole,  et 
ita  de  Brunsdhole  usque  ad  Potronkirke  et  ita  de  Potro- 
kirke  usque  ad  caprariam  domini  prioris,  et  ita  de  dicta 
capraria  ascendendo  sicut  rana  jacet  usque  ad  terram 
ecclesie,  et  ita  de  terra  ecclesie  descendendo  usque  ad 
Grenehougap,  et  ita  de  Grenehougap  usque  in  mare,  usque 
ad  terminum  octoginta  annorum  plene  completorum  pro 
decem  libris  argenti  quos  ego,  Benedictus  de  Rotington, 
cepi  premanibus  in  meo  urgenti  negocio  de  dictis  priore  et 

monachis  de  bonis  proprie  domus  sancte  Bege 

Hec  convencio  facta  fuit  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii 
regis  Johannis  quatragesimo  quint o,  in  octabis  Ascencion- 
is  domini.4  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo  de  Cletere, 
Johanne  de  Langliver,  Roberto  de  Lamplou,  Nicholao  de 
Moreceby,  Michaele  de  Haverington,  Elya,  tune  ballivo 
de  Egermund,  Roberto  de  Brampthwait,  Johanne  de 
Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosford,  Willelmo  de  Puncunby,  et 
aliis. 

427.  *  Nicholas  de  Langton,  prior  according  to  dated  deeds  in 
this  Register  from  1258  to  1282. 

2  See  note  i  on  No.  164 

8  The  place-names  on  St.  Bees  Head  invite  the  attention  of 
philologists,  and  the  holes  or  caves,  such  as  Astinhole,  Brundeshole, 
Poteruns,  or  Pottering  Holes  might  furnish  interesting  adventures 
for  antiquaries.  At  present  the  district  is  a  terra  incognita  to 
local  investigation. 

4  9  June,   1261. 


428         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

428.  CARTA    BENEDICTI    DE    ROTINGTON    DE    TOTA 
TERRA  SUA  DE  KlRKEHAVEN  USQUE  KNAPHOW. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Benedictus  de  Rotington,  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me  ....  dedisse  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia 
et  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  totam 
terram  meam  de  Kirkehaven  usque  ad  Knaphou  in  lati- 
tudine  duarum  rodarum  excepto  Berh  ubi  minus  se  ex- 
tendit  versus  mare,  et  ita  linialiter  de  Knaphou  sicut  meta 
jacet  usque  ad  Rayse  ascendendo  usque  ad  Astinhole,  et 
ita  de  Rayse  de  Astinhole  sicut  meta  jacet  usque  ad  Brun- 
ildhole,  et  ita  de  Brunildhole  usque  ad  Potronkirke, 
et  ita  de  Poutronkirke  usque  ad  caprariam  domini 
prioris,  et  ita  de  dicta  capraria  ascendendo  sicut  rana 
jacet  usque  ad  terram  ecclesie,  et  ita  de  terra  ecclesie 
descendendo  usque  ad  Grenehougap,  et  ita  de  Grene- 
hougap  usque  in  mare.1  Tenendam  ....  totam 
predictam  terram  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo 
de  Cletere,  Johanne  de  Langliver,  Roberto  de  Lamp- 
lou,  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de  Haverington, 
Helia,  tune  ballivo  de  Egermund,  Roberto  de  Bramp- 
thwait,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gosford,  Willelmo 
de  Puncunby,  et  aliis. 

429.  CONVENCIO  INTER  NlCHOLAUM  PRIOREM  ET  BENE- 
DICTUM  ROTINGTON  DE  QUADAM  BARCARIA. 

Hoc  scriptum  testatur  quod  cum  quedam  convencio 
esset  mota  inter  Benedictum  dominum  de  Rotington  et 
dominum  N[icholaum]  priorem  de  sancta  Bega  super 
quadam  bercaria  sita  in  campo  de  Rotington  pertinente 

428.  l  The  territorial  description,  though  the  same  as  in 
No.  427,  has  been  repeated  here,  owing  to  the  variation  in  the 
spelling  of  important  place-names.  In  the  margin  we  have  a 
note  :  Nota  bene  istam  terram  sepere  per  priores  peragratam  p* 
terre  per  r.  Stanlay. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  429 

ibidem  ad  predictum  priorem  et  libertatem  domus  sancte 
Bege,  quamquidem  bercariam1  predictus  Bfenedictus] 
dicebat  ad  nocumentum  liberi  tenementi  sui  in  eodem 
territorio  esse  levatam,  pax  in  hunc  modum  conquievit, 
videlicet,  quod  dictus  B[enedictus]  concessit  pro  se  et 
heredibus  suis  et  pro  salute  sua  et  suorum  predicto 
Nficholao]  priori  vel  qui  pro  tempore  fuerit  ut  ipse  et 
successores  sui  habeant  sine  impedimento  suo  vel  hered- 
um  suorum  predictam  bercariam  cum  libero  introitu  et 
exitu  ad  oves  suas  fugandas  et  sustinendas  quando  illam 
partem  campi  jacere  contigerit  incultam.  Et  sciendum 
est  quod  cum  ilia  pars  campi  ad  culturam  redact  a  fuerit, 
ad  predictam  bercariam  predictus  prior  et  successores 
sui  cum  ovibus  suis  ullum  habebunt  ingressum  vel  egress- 
urn  nisi  cum  blada  fuerint  asportata.  Salva  tamen 
potestate  sibi,  libsra  et  quieta,  blada  sua  ibidem  cariandi 
et  asportandi  ubicumque  in  campo  fuerint  sine  dampno 
dicti  Benedicti  vel  hominum  suorum,  necnon  omnes 
commoditates  suas  predictus  prior  et  sui  successores 
ibidem,  ut  predicitur,  habeant  potestatem  faciendi  .... 
Hiis  testibus  Nicholao  de  Moreceby,  Michaele  de  Haver- 
ington,  militibus,  Gilberto  de  Sclegill,  Henrico  de  Botell, 
Alexandra  Matfelun,  et  aliis. 

430.  CONVENCIO  INTER  JOHANNEM  PRIOREM  ET  RAN- 
ULFUM  ROTIGTONA  DE  DIM[lDIO]  STAGNI  MOLENDINI  INTER 
KlRKEBY  ET  ROTINGTON. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  videntibus  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  quod  hec  est  convencio  inter  Johannem1  priorem  de 

429.  1  For  liberty  to  make  this  bercaria  or  sheepfold,  see  No. 
418. 

430.  l  Prior  John  here  must  be  distinguished  from  the  Prior 
John  of  No.  140  and  from  Prior  John  de  Lestingham  of  No.  230, 
where  see  the  notes.     This  Prior  John  is  identified  with  the  year 
in  which  Odo   King  of   Germany  came  into   England,   that  is, 
in  1207,  which  is  the  date  of  the  deed.     Matthew  Paris  has  much 


43O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

sancta  Bega  et  Ranulfum  de  Rotington2  quod  predictus 
J.  prior  cum  consilio  fratrum  suorum  dimisit  predicto 
Ranulfo  vel  cui  assignare  voluerit  dimidium  stagni  sui 
inter  divisas  de  Kirkeby  et  de  Rotington  ad  unum  mol- 
endinum  faciendum  ad  terminum  trium  annorum,  scilicet, 
quod  predictus  R.  reddet  singulis  annis  domui  sancte 
Bege  vjd.,  medietatem  in  festo  sancti  Martini  et  aliam 
medietatem  in  Pentecosten.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  pre- 
dictus prior  warantizabit  medietatem  predicti  stagni  pre- 
dicto Ranulfo  usque  ad  terminum  trium  annorum. 
Elapso  vero  termino  predictus  R.  tradet  medietatem  pre- 
dicti stagni  in  manu  prioris  nisi  ex  ejus  permissione  am- 
plius  habere  possit.  Preterea  sciendum  est  quod  sepe 
nominatus  R.  non  accipiet  aliquem  ad  molendinum  suum 
de  hominibus  prioris  nisi  pro  licencia  ejus  super  folifactum 
(sic)  unius  multonis.  Et  ut  hec  pactio  sit  firma  et  in- 
molabilis  tarn  sigillum  J[ohannis]  prioris  quam  sigillum 
ipsius  Ranuln  huic  scripto  sunt  appensa.  Hec  convencio 
anno  illo  incipit  quo  Odo  rex  Allemannie  venit  in  Angliam. 
Hiis  testibus  Gilberto  famulo  prioris,  Rogero  diacono, 
Gilberto  de  Yreschal,  Michaele  filio  Archilli,  Willelmo 
fratre  ejus,  Ada  preposito,  R.  de  Rotincton,  Henrico  de 
Mort',  Ricardo  preposito,  Willelmo  filio  Roberti,  Ricardo 
de  Hestholme,  Michaele  sac[erdote]  de  sancta  Bega, 
Johanne  Muchisda,  et  aliis  multis. 

to  say  about  him  and  his  visit  (Chronica  Major  a,  ii.  511).  It  was 
natural  that  the  visit  of  King  John's  nephew,  a  possible  claimant 
for  the  Crown,  should  be  regarded  as  an  event  of  great  national 
importance. 

a  With  the  exception  of  Reiner  the  Fleming,  Ranulf  is  the  first 
lord  of  Rottington  that  appears  in  this  Register.  His  name 
occurs  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  of  1211  and  1213  as  rendering  account  of 
half  a  mark  for  a  fine.  He  is  party  to  a  deed  with  Prior  Daniel 
at  No.  437  and  witnessed  a  charter  of  Richard  de  Lucy  at  No.  31. 
R.  de  Rotincton,  one  of  the  witnesses  here,  does  not  occur  again. 
It  is  possible  that  he  is  the  "  Reynold  de  Rotington  in  K.  Hen. 
2nd  time,"  of  whom  J.  Denton  speaks.  See  note  i  on  No.  426. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  431 

431.  CARTA  RICARDI  FILII  ALANI  DE  DIMIDIA  ACRA 
CUM  ALIIS  LIBERTATIBUS  IN  SANTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Ricardus  filius  Alani,1  eternam  in  domino 
salutem.  Noverit  ....  me  ....  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege,  Couplandie,  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  dimidiam  acram  terre  mee  de 
dominico  meo  in  Santon,  in  australi  parte  de  Thwitengales 
juxta  rivulum  ubi  domus  est  edificata.  Tenendam  .... 
cum  communi  pastura  ad  iiijor  averia  et  eorum  sequelam 
unius  anni  et  octo  oves  et  earum  sequelam  unius  anni  et 
octo  capras  et  earum  sequelam  unius  anni  et  duas  equas 
et  earum  sequelam  unius  anni  et  unam  suem  cum  quinque 
porcellis  unius  anni  et  cum  omnibus  communibus  aisia- 
mentis  et  libertatibus  predicte  ville  de  Santona  pertin- 
entibus  ....  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de  Langlifherie, 
Thoma  de  Yretona,  Alexandro  de  Ytona,  David  de 
Kirkeby,  Ada  capellano  de  Yretona,  et  multis  aliis. 

432.  CARTA  ALANI  DE  COUPLAND  DE  j  ACRA  IN  EADEM 

CUM   PERTINENCIIS   ET   LIBERTATIBUS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Alanus  de  Couplandia,  dedi  .... 
Deo  et  sancte  Bege,  priori  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus, unam  acram  terre  in  territorio  de  Santon,  jacent- 
em  in  Chaitmegalheg  juxta  terram  quam  Alanus  filii  Ade 

431.  l  The  grantor  appears  to  be  Richard  son  of  Alan  son  of 
Ketel  and  therefore  the  same  as  the  grantor  of  No.  271  where 
see  note.  We  have  the  following  dates  to  determine  the  succes- 
sion of  this  family,  who  were  owners  in  Hensingham,  Bolton  in 
Gosford  and  Santon  in  Irton  :  Alan  son  of  Ketel  in  1209-10 
(Cumberland  Pipe  Rolls,  pp.  133,  138)  :  Richard  son  of  Alan  in. 
1229-32  (Pat.  Rolls,  1225-32,  pp.  304,  351,  512)  :  Alan  son  of 
Richard  in  1256-66  (Cat.  of  Pat.,  1247-58,  p.  523  :  Ibid.,  1258-66, 
p.  632)  :  and  Richard  son  of  Alan  who  died  in  1298  in  possession 
of  Santon  with  lands  in  Botil  and  Seton,  leaving  a  son  Alan 
nearly  of  full  age  (Cal.  of  Inquis.,  iii.  341-2  :  Cal.  of  Fine,  i.  396). 
The  Couplands  were  owners  in  Lancashire,  including  Bolton  in 
Furness. 


432  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

fabri  tenet  de  predictis  priore  et  monachis  versus  austrum. 
Tenendam  et  sibi  et  cui  assignare  voluerint  ....  cum  pas- 
tura  viij  vaccis  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et 
duabus  equis  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  duabus 
suibus  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  xx  ovibus 
cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  XX  capris  cum  sequ- 
ela sua  duorum  annorum,  et  cum  libero  exitu  et  introitu 
et  cum  omnibus  aisiamentis  ville  de  Santon  pertinentibus 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langlifh[ere],  Thoma 
de  Yreton,  Ricardo  filio  suo,  Johanne  falconario,  Alex- 
andro  de  Puncunby,  David  Swaluhirst,  Ricardo  de 
Cornay,  Waltero  de  Sevenhoues,  Roberto  clerico  de 
Wilt  [on],  et  aliis. 

433.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  j  ACRA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS 
IN  EADEM  SANTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Alanus  de  Coupland,  dedi  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  acram  terre 
in  territorio  de  Santon  jacentem  in  Thitdunegalieges, 
juxta  terras  quas  dicti  monachi  habent  de  dono  meo  et  de 
dono  Ricardi  patris  mei  versus  partem  occidentalem,  et 
excendit  se  in  longitudinem  ad  quandam  sepem  versus 
meriodionalem  et  ad  quemdam  vallem  versus  aquilon- 
arem,  et  in  latitudinem  quatenus  se  extendere  potest 
versus  domum  Ade  de  Hosewayt,  ut  ad  prenominatas 
terras  largiorem  et  liberiorem  exitum  habeant  et  ingress- 
urn  quam  ante  istam  donacionem  habuerunt.  Tenendam 
....  cum  pastura  viij  vaccis  cum  sequela  sua  duorum 
annorum,  et  duabus  equis  cum  sequela  sua  duorum 
annorum,  et  duabus  suibus  cum  sequela  sua  duorum 
annorum,  et  xx  ovibus  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum, 
et  xx11  capris  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  cum 
-omnibus  aisiamentis  ville  de  Santon  pertinentibus  .... 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Wirkyngton,  domino 
Radulfo  de  Bethun,  domino  Ricardo  de  Flemyng,  domino 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  433 

Thoma  de  Clether,  Radulpho  de  Lamplou,  Roberto  de 
Haverington,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  de  Morthing, 
Nicholao  de  Yrton,  Waltero  de  Sevenhoues,  Roberto  de 
Mar',  Roberto  de  Wilton,  et  aliis. 

434.  CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  TERRIS  ET  LIBERT ATIBUS  IN 
SANTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Alarms  de  Coupland,  salutem.  Noverit 
....  me  ....  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
et  sancte  Bege,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  sancte  Bege 
servientibus,  unam  acram  terre  in  territorio  de  Santon, 
jacentem  in  Chaitdunegalheg,  scilicet,  inter  illam  dimid- 
iam  acram  terre  quam  Ricardus,  pater  meus,  dedit  pre- 
predictis  monachis  et  illam  acram  quam  ego,  Alanus,  dedi 
monachis  prenominatis.  Tenendam  ....  cum  pastura 
viij  vaccis  et  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  duabus 
equis  cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  duabus  suibus 
cum  sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  vigiriti  ovibus  cum 
sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  viginti  capris  cum 
sequela  sua  duorum  annorum,  et  cum  libero  exitu  et 
introitu  et  cum  omnibus  communibus  asiamentis  predicte 
ville  de  Santon  pertinentibus  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Gilberto  de  Wirkynton,  domino  Radulfo  de  Bethun, 
domino  Ricardo  de  Flemyng,  domino  Thoma  [de]  Cle- 
tergh,  Radulfo  Lamplow,  Roberto  de  Haverington, 
Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Willelmo  de  Morhing,  Nicholao 
de  Yrtona,  Waltero  de  Sevenhoues,  Roberto  de  Mar', 
Roberto  de  Wiltona,  et  aliis. 

435.  CARTA  ALANI  DE  COUPLAND  DE  TERRIS  IN  SAN- 
TON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Alanus  de  Coupland,  dedi  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  unam  acram  terre 
et  septem  virgatas  et  dimidiam  virgatam  in  territorio  de 

2F 


434  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Santon,  jacentes  in  Chaitduneleg'  sub  Wluehou  juxta 
terras  quas  dicti  monachi  habent  de  dono  meo  et  de  dono 
Ricardi,  patris  mei,  et  abuttant  ad  unum  capud  super  le 
Yuinhat  et  ad  capud  orientale  linialiter  super  mangnum 
alvum,  et  sic  extendunt  se  ulterius  usque  ad  terrain  dict- 
orum  monachorum.  Et  duas  acras  et  dimidiam  rodam  in 
Thueitdounegaleg'  juxta  terram  dictorum  monachorum 
ex  parte  australi  et  extendunt  se  juxta  Mosethueytbec 
ascendendo  usque  ad  fraxinum  que  stat  in  divisa  curie 
Rogeri  de  Crosdale,  et  de  fraxino  linialiter  usque  ad  mag- 
num alvum,  et  sic  linialiter  ab  uno  angulo  terre  dictorum 
monachorum  usque  ad  aliud  angulum  ubi  jacet  magna 
petra  juxta  domum  quondam  Ade  de  Osethueit,  descend- 
endo  usque  ad  terras  sepedictorum  monachorum.  Ten- 
endas  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilbert o  de  Wirkynton, 
domino  Radulfo  de  Heclyn,  domino  Ricardo  de  Flem- 
manc,  militibus,  Radulfo  de  Lamplou,  Roberto  de  Hav- 
erington,  Hugone  de  Moreceby,  Nicholao  de  Yrton, 
Waltero  de  Sevenhouses,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Willelmo 
filio  Waldelf,  Willelmo  le  Brim  de  Gedling,  et  aliis. 

436.    CARTA  SYMONIS  ABBATIS  DE  LIBERTATIBUS  IN 

DIVERSIS  LOCIS. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens 
scriptum  pervenerit,  Simon,1  permissione  divina,  abbas 
monasterii  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ejusdem  loci  con- 
ventus,  eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noveritis  nos  con- 
cessisse  Willelmo  de  Rotington  unam  viam  duodecim 
pedum  tantum  in  latitudine  in  terra  celle  nostre  sancte 
Bege  ad  cariandam  algam2  maris  per  eandem  viam  ad 
terram  suam  compostandam  inter  Litilknaphou  et  ber- 

436.  l  Simon  de  Warrewik,  abbot  from  1258  to  1296.  For 
Leland's  account  of  him,  see  Collectanea,  i.  23-4.  Several  of  his 
acts  are  recorded  in  this  Register. 

2  This  is  an  interesting  agricultural  item.  Seaweed  used  for 
manure  is  not  unknown  at  the  present  day. 


REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  435 

cariam  celle  supradicte.  Habendam  et  tenendam  eidem 
Willelmo  et  heredibus  suis  libere  et  quiete  inperpetuum  : 
dummodo  nobis  vel  successoribus  nostris  a  prefato  Will- 
elmo vel  heredibus  suis  occasione  concessionis  hujusmodi 
prejudicium  non  paretur.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium 
sigillum  capituli  nostri  apponi  fecimus  huic  scripto. 
Datum  Eboraci,  xiiij0  kalendas  Marcii,  anno  domini  m° 
cc°  octogesimo  nono.8 

437.  CONVENCIO  INTER  RANULFUM  ROTINGTON  DE 
TOTA  MULTURA  HOMINUM  OMNIUM  SUORUM  DE  ROTINGTOX. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  videntibus,  vel  audientibus  literas 
has  quod  hec  est  convencio  facta  inter  Ranulffum  de 
Rotington1  et  Danielem,2  priorem,  et  monachos  de  sancta 
Bega,  quod  predictus  Ranulfus  dimisit  priori  et  monachis, 
caritatis  intuitu  et  pro  obsequio  ei  a  priore  et  monachis 
prestito,  totam  multuram  de  omnibus  hominibus  suis  de 
Rotington  usque  ad  terminum  trium  annorum,  et  quod 
omnes  homines  sui  de  Rotington  molent  totum  bladum 
suum  ad  molendinum  prioris  per  annum  ad  xiijtum  vas 
sicut  alii  homines  prioris  faciunt,  excepto  proprio  blado 
predicti  RanulfL  Predictus  vero  prior  quolibet  anno  ei 
pro  multura  xijd.  persolvet,  scilicet,  ad  festum  sancti 
Martini.  Post  triennium  vero  elapsum  si  predictus  Ran- 
ulfus predicto  priori  et  monachis  duas  marcas  quas  ab  eis 
recepit  persolverit,  predicta  multura  ei  quieta  remanebit 
a  predicto  priore  et  monachis.  Quod  si  predict  as  duas 
marcas  tune  non  reddiderit,  duo  solidi  annuatim  corn- 
put  abuntur  in  solucione  predictarum  duarum  marcarum, 
donee  sic  sint  persolute.  Et  omnes  homines  predicti 
Ranulfi  de  Rotington  molent  ad  molendinum  predicti 
prioris  et  monachorum  donee  due  marce  sic  sint  persolute. 

:i  1 6  February,   1290. 

437.     l  For  Ranulf,  see  note  2  on  No.  430. 
a  Prior  Daniel  is  only  authenticated  in  the   Register  by  this 
solitary  reference.     The  date  is  1210. 


436  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Et  sciendum  est  quod  si  homines  predicti  Ranulfi  con- 
fessi  vel  convincti  fuerint  quod  bladum  suum  alibi  moler- 
int  vel  multuram  suam  alibi  dederint,  forisfactum  unius 
cuj  usque  hominis  erit  duorum  solidorum,  quorum  medie- 
tas  remanebit  predicto  priori  et  altera  medietas  sepedicto 
Ranulfo.  Hanc  convencionem  fideliter  et  sine  omni 
fraude  tenendam  predictus  Ranulfus  fidem  corporaliter 
prestitit  et  sigillo  suo  confirmavit.  Preterea  sciendum 
est  quod  homines  predicti  Ranulfi  venient  ad  stagnum 
predicti  molendini  reparandum  cum  hominibus  prioris 
cum  opus  fuerit.  Hiis  testibus  W.  de  Boyvill,  Willelmo 
filio  Ketelli,  Ada  filio  Alani,  Henrico  de  Frisington,  Ada 
de  Neuton,  Gilberto  de  Dundrage,  Ada  de  Affrington, 
Ricardo  de  Boyvill,  et  multis  aliis.  Hec  convencio  capta 
ad  primum3  Purificacionis  sancte  Marie  post  Natale  dom- 
ini  quando  Johannes  rex  tenuit  Natale  apud  Eboracum.4 

438.    CONVENCIO    INTER   WILLELMUM    BOYVILLE    ET 

WlLLELMUM  PRIOREM  DE  MANERIO  DE  KlRKESANTON  CUM 
PERTINENCIIS  IN  MOLENDINO  ET  ALIIS  LIBERTATIBUS. 

ANNO  domini  millesimo  cc°  octogesimo  octavo,  ad  festum 
sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  facta  fuit  hec  convencio  inter 
dominum  Willelmum  Boyville,1  militem,  ex  parte  una,  et 
fratrem  Willelmum,2  priorem  sancte  Bege  in  Coupland, 

8  This  appears  to  be  an  error  for  festum. 

4  According  to  Matthew  Paris  (Chron.  Majora,  ii.  531),  when 
rightly  interpreted,  King  John  kept  his  Christmas  at  York  in  1210, 
which  agrees  with  the  Itinerary  of  that  sovereign  compiled  by 
T.  D.  Hardy  and  printed  in  his  introduction  to  the  Rot.  Litt.  Pat., 
of  the  Record  Commission. 

438.  Constable  of  the  Castle  of  Carlisle  in  1282-3  (Cal-  °f 
Fine,  i.  160,  183)  :  died  in  1305  when  John  de  Boyvill  his  son  and 
heir  succeeded  (Ibid.,  i.  522,  524).  When  John  died  in  1319  it 
was  reported  that  he  held  the  manor  of  Kirkesanton  of  the  abbot 
of  St.  Mary,  York  :  there  was  no  capital  messuage  in  the  manor 
because  it  had  been  burnt  by  the  Scots  :  and  that  Edmund  his 
brother,  aged  30,  was  his  heir  (Inq.  p.  m.  13  Edw.  II.  No.  10). 

2  William  de  Dereby,  prior  from  1288-95.     See  Nos-  71,  401. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  437 

ex  altera,  videlicet,  quod  idem  dominus  Willelmus,  pro 
se  et  heredibus  suis  et  assignatis,  concessit  et  ad  firmam 
dimisit  predicto  priori  et  suis  successoribus  universis 
totum  manerium  de  Kirkesantan,3  cum  omnibus  pertin- 
enciis  suis,  in  molendinis,  redditibus,  boscis,  planis,  pas- 
turis  et  pascuis,  in  omnibus  exitibus  ad  dictum  manerium 
pertinentibus,  pro  quadam  summa  pecunie  quam  idem 
prior  dicto  Willelmo  dedit  premanibus.  Tenendum  et 
habendum  predicto  priori  et  suis  successoribus  usque  ad 
terminum  decem  annorum  plenarie  completorum,  adeo 
libere  et  quiete  sicut  dictus  Willelmus  vel  aliquis  ante- 
cessorum  suorum  illud  uncquam  liberius  vel  quiecius 
tenuerunt.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  dictus  prior  et  sui 
successores  totum  manerium  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  sicut 
predictum  est,  in  fine  dicti  termini  in  adeo  bono  statu  quo 
illud  recepit  predicto  Willelmo  et  heredibus  suis,  tarn  in 
homagiis  quam  serviciis  et  edificiis  in  dicto  manerio  con- 
structis  dimittent.  Exceptis  tamen  hiis  que  per  casus 
fortuiti  eventum  accidunt  seu  accidere  poterunt  in  futur- 
um.  Dictus  vero  dominus  Willelmus  de  Boyville  et 
heredes  vel  assignati  sui  totum  manerium  predictum  cum 
suis  pertinenciis  usque  ad  finem  dictorum  decem  annorum 
contra  omnes  homines  warantizabunt,  adquietabunt  et 
defendent.  Et  ut  ista  convencio  rata  et  stabilis  perman- 
eat  tarn  dictus  dominus  Willelmus  quam  predictus  prior 
huic  scripto  sigilla  sua  alternatim  apposuerunt.  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Johanne  de  Hodeleston,  Thoma  de  Cul- 
wen,  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Ricardo  le  Flemyng, 
militibus,  Willelmo  de  Bethum,  WTillelmo  del  Thaytes, 
Johanne  de  Morthyng,  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Roberto  de 
Frysyngton,  Radulfo  de  Puncunby,  Symone  de  Stotevile, 
tune  ballivo  de  Egremund,  Willelmo  clerico  de  sancta 
Bega,  et  multis  aliis.4 

3  For  Kirkesantan,  see  note  on  No.  441. 

4  ii  November,  1288. 


438         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

439.  CARTA  AGNETIS  DE  LANGETWAIT  DE  WRENG[IS] 
ET  HAVERIG  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Agnes  de  Langethwait  quondam  uxor 
Henrici  de  Boyvill,1  salutem.  Noveritis  me,  in  viduitate 
et  libera  pbtestate  mea,  concessisse  ....  pro  me  in  tota 
vita  mea  Johanni  de  Boyvill  et  heredibus  suis  totam 
terciam  partem  de  Wrengis  de  Haverig  que  ad  me  per- 
tinebat  de  dote  post  obitum  Henrici  mariti  mei.  Ita 
quod  ego,  quamdiu  vixero,  aliquod  jus  vel  clamium  in 
predictam  terram  contra  dictum  Johannem  vel  heredes 
suos  inperpetuum  vendicare  non  potero.  Pro  hac  siquid- 
em  concessione  et  quieta  clamacione  dedit  michi  premani- 
bus  dictus  Johannes  decem  solidos  argenti.  In  cujus  rei 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Widone  de  Bovill,  Radulfo  de 
Bethum,  Johanne  de  Morthing,  Thoma  Korbet,  Adam  de 
Hyton,  et  aliis. 

440.  CARTA  WILLELMI  DE  BOIVILL  DE  DIMIDIA  MARCHA 
PRO  TERRA  IN  KlRKES ANTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Willelmus  de  Boivill,1  reddam 

439.  l  Henry  and  Agnes  only  occur  here  in  the  Register,   but 
John  de  Boyvill,  to  whom  the  grant  was  made,  was  dead  before 
1251,  for  early  in  that  year  Elen,  his  widow,   quit-claimed  to 
Michael  de  Corneye  and  John  Morthing  certain  lands  and  rents 
in  Stokbriggeholm,  Fors,  Botele,  Hyton,  Bothelton,  Goseford  and 
Egremund,  with  half  a  ploughland  in  Wytebec  in  exchange  for 
an  annuity  during  her  life  (Feet  of  F.,  Cumb.  35  Hen.  III.,  No.  57). 
At  an  earlier  date  John  de  Bovilla  acquired  two  oxgangs  of  land 
in  Witbec  from  John  de  Morthing  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  571).     Guy 
de  Boyvill,  one  of  the  witnesses,  had  an  agreement  with  William 
son  of  Habrake  in  1241  touching  the  manor  of  Swynesat,  whereby 
the  manor  was  acknowledged  to  belong  to  Guy,  and  William 
received  ten  acres  per  totum  in  campis  remociores  de  sole  (Feet 
of  F.,  Cumb.  26  Hen.  III.  No.  32).     The  date  of  this  deed  will  be, 
therefore,  about  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth  century,  or  a  few 
years  earlier. 

440.  l  The  first  of  the  under-tenants  of  Kirksanton  that  has 
been  met  with  is  Robert  de  Boyvill  in  the  middle  of  the  twelfth 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  439 

singulis  annis  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  de  Eboraco  et  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  dimidiam 
marcham  ad  duos  terminos,  eis  reddendam  medietatem  ad 

century.  Robert  gave  his  land  of  Kirksanton  and  Horrum  to 
the  church  of  Furness  with  all  the  liberties  "  quas  Arturus  cog- 
natus  meus  eedem  ecclesie  concessit,  eo  intuitu  pariter  et  tenore 
quatinus  cum  de  peregrinacione  rediero  earn  libere  teneam. 
Huius  donacionis  testes  sunt  Arturus  filius  Godardi,"  etc.  (Beck, 
Annales,  pp.  128-9).  This  grant  was  afterwards  confirmed  by 
Pope  Eugenius  in  1152  (Ibid.,  pp.  135-6).  By  No.  27  the 
Countess  Cicely,  lady  of  Coupland,  gave  to  St.  Bees  four  plough- 
lands  in  Kirksanton,  Haverigg  and  Thwaites  with  the  service  of 
William  de  Boy  villa  and  his  heirs,  and  by  No.  441  Abbot  Clement 
of  York  demised  the  same  to  the  said  William  at  a  yearly  rent  of 
half  a  mark.  The  present  charter  is  the  bond  for  payment.  In 
1 202  Turstan  de  Bosco  quit-claimed  half  a  ploughland  in  Kirk- 
santon to  William  de  Beovill  for  a  silver  mark  (Pedes  Fin.,  p.  6, 
Rec.  Com.).  William  de  Boivilla  gave  to  the  monks  of  Furness 
the  whole  land  de  Melis  de  Kirkesantan,  from  Sandscarth  on  the 
sea  to  the  syke  in  Sleuenmire,  and  so  to  the  syke  "  inter  duas 
leiriggas  "  (now  two  farmhouses  a  short  distance  apart),  as  far 
as  Helupul  and  by  the  file  of  that  water  to  the  sea.  Among  the 
witnesses  of  the  grant  are  Richard,  Gilbert  and  Robert  de  Boivilla 
(Anct.  D.,  L.  462),  the  two  brothers  and  nephew  mentioned  in 
this  deed.  Robert  de  Boivilla  son  of  this  William  confirmed  his 
father's  gifts  to  Furness  for  the  soul  of  his  brother  Ralf,  adding 
the  holme  near  his  garden  and  ten  acres  at  the  boundary  between 
Kirksantan  and  Millom,  for  the  use  of  the  poor  in  the  seculary 
infirmary  at  the  abbey.  To  these  confirmations  Henry  son  of 
Arthur,  Alan  son  of  Ketel,  Anselm  of  Furness,  Richard,  Gilbert 
and  Robert  de  Boivill  are  witnesses  (Ibid.,  463,  464).  The  right 
of  common  on  the  meles  of  Kirksanton  involved  the  monks  of 
Furness  in  a  curious  dispute  with  Roger  son  of  Ralf  de  Hestholm 
(now  Hestham),  a  tenant  there.  In  1279  Roger  disputed  the 
abbot's  right  to  the  common  and  appealed  his  opponent  to  the 
wager  of  battle.  The  judicial  combat  came  off  in  area  duelli 
before  the  justices  in  eyre  at  Appleby,  but  as  the  contest  pro- 
ceeded, the  champions  were  withdrawn  at  the  instance  of  Roger 
who  acknowledged  the  abbot's  claim  and  by  charter  renounced 
his  right  to  the  abbot's  pasture.  This  deed  (Anct.  D.,  L.  465} 
with  its  unique  endorsement,  has  been  printed  by  Beck,  Annales, 
pp.  224-5. 


440  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Pascha,  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Michaelis. 
Et  hanc  donacionem  confirmavi  illis  per  hanc  meam  cart- 
am  et  nominatim  prope  terram  quam  teneo  de  illis  in 
Couplanda,  scilicet,  prope  Kirchesantfon],  cum  pertin- 
enciis  suis.  Et  hanc  dimidiam  marcham  assignavi  illis 
reddendam,  scilicet,  de  Gilberto  fratre  meo  et  heredibus 
suis  iiijor  solidos,  et  de  Roberto  fratre  meo  et  heredibus 
suis  ij  solidos,  et  de  Ricardo  nepote  meo  et  heredibus  suis 
viij  denarios.  Hiis  testibus  Waltero  abbate  de  Caldre, 
magistro  Rogero  officiali  de  Richemund,  Waltero  de 
Bricham,  Michaele  presbytero,  Thoma  capellano  de 
Wirketon  et  fratre  suo,  Roberto  capellano  de  Egremund, 
Roberto  de  Hauetofi,  Adam  clerico  de  Camreton,  Daniel 
de  Furnes,  et  multis  aliis. 

441.  CARTA  SIVE  DIMISSIO  DE  KIRKESANT[ON],  HAVER- 
IG,  ET  THWEITES. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  literas  [has] 
quod  ego,  Clemens],1  abbas  sancte  Marie  Eboracensis, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  tocius  capituli  nostri, 
concessi  et  dedi  Willelmo  de  Boyvilla2  et  heredibus  suis 
tenere  de  nobis  in  feudo  et  hereditate,  libere  et  quiete,  in 
perpetuam  possessionem,  Kirchesantala3  et  Haverich  et 

441.     1  Clement  was  abbot  of  St.  Mary's  from  1161  to  1184. 

2  For  this  William,  see  note  on  the  previous  charter. 

8  This  property  came  to  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  by  gift  of  the 
Countess  Cicely  as  in  No.  27,  when  William  de  Boivill  was  mesne 
tenant.  The  thiee  townships  lie  around  Millom  in  the  south 
western  angle  of  Cumberland.  Kirchesantala  (Kirkesantan  in 
No.  27)  is  mentioned  in  Domesday  Book  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  in), 
under  the  name  of  Santacherche  with  one  ploughland  assessed 
to  geld  :  it  was  included  in  the  possessions  of  Earl  Tostig  and 
surveyed  as  part  of  the  manor  of  Hougun  under  Agemundrenesse 
or  Amounderness.  The  name  has  an  ecclesiastical  flavour.  The 
grant  of  the  church  of  Millom  to  the  monks  of  Furness  by  William 
de  Millom  carried  with  it  the  chapels  belonging  thereto  (West, 
Antiquities  of  F.,  App.  xi.  No.  62).  When  the  rectory  was 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  441 

Thueites  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis.  Reddent  autem 
nobis  tarn  ipse  quam  heredes  sui  annuatim  pro  eadem 
tenura,  pro  omni  servicio  ad  nos  pertinente,  dimidiam 
marcam  argenti  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Hoc  eis  con- 
cedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga  nos  habuerint  et  pre- 
dictum  censum  bene  reddiderint.  Si  vero  contingat  eos 
vi  vel  racione  prenominatam  tenuram  amittere  non 
dabimus  eis  excambium.  Testibus  hiis  Jocelino  capellano, 
Adam  Rotomagensi,  Rogero  diacono,  Waltero  clerico  de 
Hornesh',  Turgisio  dispensatore,  Ricardo  filio  Eustachii, 
Gaufrido  de  Ketelby,  Ricardo  de  Cliftona,  Alano  de 
Helmeswell,  Willelmo  de  Coupland,  et  multis  aliis.  Illud 
quoque  sciendum  est  quod  heredes  prenominati  Willelmi 
non  dabunt  inperpetuum  pro  relevamine  prescripte  tenure 
nisi  nnam  marcam  argenti. 

442.    CARTA  ADE  DE  HYTON  DE  TERRA  IN  HYTON. 
OMNIBUS  ....  Adam  de  Hyton,1  eternam  in  domino 

appropriated  in  1228,  it  was  stipulated  that  Adam  the  parson 
should  resign  the  chapel  of  Kirksanton  to  the  abbot  and  convent, 
saving  to  the  mother  church  of  Millom  only  the  bodies  of  the  dead 
with  the  oblations,  but  the  wills  and  chattels  of  deceased  persons 
should  remain  as  the  perquisites  of  the  chapel  without  reserve 
(Cotton  MS.  Claudius  B.  iii.  175  :  Reg.  of  Abp.  Gray,  Surtees  Soc. 
p.  161).  Haverigg  and  Kirksanton  are  now  included  in  the 
modern  township  of  Chapel  Sucken  (Sucken  in  1641  :  Seuken  in 
1699  :  sometimes  Sunken).  Sunken  Kirk  is  the  popular  name 
of  a  stone  circle  in  that  parish.  It  may  be  taken  that  they  are  all 
variants  of  the  same  territorial  name.  K'rksanton  appears  to 
connote  the  church  of  St.  Sanctan,  an  Irish  saint.  The  name  is 
found  in  this  connection  both  in  the  Isle  of  Man  and  in  Ireland. 
442.  xThe  earliest  of  this  family  we  have  found  is  William 
de  Hyton,  not  mentioned  in  this  Register,  who  quit-claimed  two 
oxgangs  of  land  in  Old  Hyton  to  William  de  Milnum,  lord  of  the 
fee,  in  1202,  and  was  thereby  reinstated  in  the  tenancy  (Feet  of 
F.,  Westmor.,  4  John,  No.  15).  Alexander  de  Hyton  gave  the 
canons  of  Conishead  two  acres  in  Hyton  adjacent  to  the  land 
of  Adam  de  Hyton  above  Labote  and  part  of  a  meadow  in  Hyton 


442  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

salutem.  Noverit  ....  me  ....  dedisse  ....  Deo  et 
sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus  tres  acras  terre  mee  et  unam  rodam  et  dimidiam 
in  Hytun,  scilicet,  duas  culturas  propinquiores  versus 
orientem  super  Swinebrechan,  et  totum  pratum  de  Stain- 
croft,  scilicet,  a  terra  Stephani  de  Hytun  versus  austrum 
usque  ad  pratum  prioris  de  Coningesheved  et  sic  ex  trans- 
verso  versus  orientem  usque  ad  sicetum  quod  est  divisa 
inter  Botel  et  Hyytun,  et  sic  ascendendo  per  illud  siket- 
um  usque  ad  terram  predicti  Stephani,  et  preter  hec, 
dimidiam  acram  terre  culte  tenendam  (sic)  ab  australi 
parte  dicti  prati  versus  Occident  em  usque  ad  altam  viam. 
Tenendas  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Linliverg, 
Suward  de  Cornay,  Radulfo  de  Bethfum],  Johanne  de 
Morthing,  Willelmo  de  Morthing,  Henrico  filio  Johannis, 
Thoma  Corbett,  et  aliis.2 

443.  CARTA  AGNETIS  FILIE  MICHAELIS  [DE]  CORNAY 
DE  TERRA  ET  PRAT[o]  IN  HYTON1. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Agnes  filia  Michaelis  clerici  de  Corney, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me  red- 
didisse  .  .  .  .  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  Deo  et  beate  Marie, 
Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  virgini,  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  totam  terram  et  totum  pratum  cum  suis 

near  Copsiholm  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  558).  Adam  de  Millum  son 
of  Henry  de  Millum  gave  to  the  monks  of  Furness  a  toft  and  croft 
in  the  vill  of  Botil,  to  which  grant  Thomas  parson  of  Bootle, 
Edward  de  Cornay,  Henry  son  of  John  (one  of  the  witnesses  here), 
Alexander  de  Hitun  and  Adam  de  Hitun  (the  grantor  here)  were 
witnesses  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  473).  As  Alexander  de  Hyton  is  the 
same  as  Alexander  son  of  Ulfh,  a  nephew  of  Anselm  de  Furness 
(Illus.  Doc.  Nos.  xvj.,  xvij),  it  is  probable  that  Adam  belonged 
to  the  same  stock. 

2  The  date  will  lie  about  1220-30. 

443.  1  These  four  deeds  (Nos.  443-6)  belong  to  the  latter  half 
of  the  thirteenth  century.  For  Michael  de  Corney,  see  note  on 
No.  439. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  443 

pertinenciis  in  Hyton,  quamquidem  terram  et  quod 
pratum  de  eisdem  tenui,  viz.  illam  terram  et  illud  pratum, 
quamquidem  terram  et  quod  pratum  habent  de  dono  Ade 
de  Hyton,2  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  prout  in 
carta  sua  plenius  continetur.  Tenendas  ....  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Roberto  de  Haverington,  Willelmo  de  Bovill, 
Ricardo  de  Flammaunk,  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Thueites, 
Willelmo  de  Waybirthueit,  Willelmo  de  Punzunby, 
Roberto  de  Wilton,  Roberto  de  Frysington,  et  aliis. 

444.  CARTA  ANABILLE  FILIE  MICHAELIS  EJUSDEM  DE 
J  MESSUAGIO  [ET]  TERRA  CUM  PRATO  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN 

EADEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Anabilla  filia  Michaelis  de 
Corneye,  in  libera  viduitate  mea  et  legia  potestate 
mea,  quietum  clamavi,  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis,  Deo 
et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totum  jus  et  clamium 
quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  uno  messuagio  cum 
terra  et  prato,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  quod  messuagium, 
quam  terram  et  pratum,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  dicti 
monachi  habent  de  dono  Ade  de  Hyton,  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  prout  in  carta  sua  plenius 
continetur.  .  .  .  Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Haveryngton, 
Johanne  de  Morthing,  Willelmo  de  Waybirthueit, 
Roberto  de  Goseford,  Willelmo  de  Punzunby,  Willelmo 
de  Rotington,  Waltero  de  Wilton,  et  aliis. 

445.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  JOHANNIS  DE  HODILSTON 
DE  TOTA  TERRA  SUA  IN  HYTON  CUM  P[RAT]O. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  films  Johannis  de  Hodeliston1 
dominus  de  Millum  in  Coupland,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noveritis  me,  ....  concessisse  ....  abbati  sancte 

'2  See  previous  deed. 

445.     *  For  the  grantor,  see  note  on  No.  366. 


444  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Marie,  Eboraci,  et  suis  successoribus  et  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate  Marie 
et  beate  Bege  virgini  servientibus  totam  terrain  et  totum 
pratum,  quam  quidem  terram  et  quod  pratum  Adam  de 
Hyton  dedit  eisdem  monachis  quondam  et  incartavit. 
Habend[a]  ....  prout  in  carta  quam  dicti  monachi 
habent  ex  dono  ejusdem  Ad[e]  plenius  continetur  .... 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkenton,  Johanne  de 
Kyrkebirlithe,  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Ricardo  de 
Brocton,  Ricardo  de  Flammaunc,  militibus,  Willelmo  de 
Thueitis,  Willelmo  de  Waybirthueit,  Johanne  Morthing, 
et  aliis. 

446.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FILII  THOME  DE  FRYSINGTON 
DE  TERRIS  IN  HYTON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  films  Thome  de  Frysyngton, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me  con- 
cessisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege 
virgini  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  totam  terram 
et  totum  pratum  cum  suis  pertinenciis  in  Hyton,  quam- 
quidem  terram  et  quod  pratum  Adam  de  Hyton  eisdem 
monachis  dedit  et  incartavit  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam  prout  in  carta  sua  plenius  continetur.  Ten- 
endas  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Wirkington, 
Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Ricardo  de  Flammanc,  militi- 
bus, Roberto  de  Landplog,  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  Roberto  de 
Frisington,  Roberto  de  Goseford,  Willelmo  de  Punzunby, 
et  aliis. 

447,  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  ALDELMI  DE  FIRMA  IN 
KlRKEBY  SUPER  MORAM. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presentibus  et 
futuris,  Willelmus  films  Adelmi,1  salutem.  Noverit  uni- 

447.  l  The  grantor  is  a  well-known  name  in  English  history 
in  the  time  of  Henry  II.  His  appearance  among  the  benefactors 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  445 

versitas  vestra  me,  intuitu  caritatis  et  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  et  pro  salute  Eustachie  de 
Curtelun,  uxoris  mee,  dedisse  et  concessisse  et  hac  mea 
present!  carta  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Bege,  Caupland, 
et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  servientibus,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  duos  solidos  per  annum 
de  firma  asisa  de  Kircheby  super  Moram  juxta  pontem 
Burgi,  reddendos  ad  festum  sancti  Martini.  Hiis  testibus, 
Alano  cappelano,  Hud[ardo]  filio  Ade,  Waltero  Alem  [an- 
no], Willelmo  filio  Radulfi,  Willelmo  Carello,  Radulfo  de 
Gattehil,  Radulfo  Alem  [anno],  Thoma  filio  Radulfi, 
Ricardo  preposito  de  sancta  [?  Bega],  Turpino,  Theobaldo 
servientibus  de  prioratu,  Willelmo  de  Ponelint',  Willelmo 
Alem  [anno],  et  mult  is  aliis. 

448.    CARTA  EJUSDEM  DE  EADEM  FIRMA. 

SCIANT  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego,  Willelmus 
films  Aldelmi,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  servientibus  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam  pro  anima  mea  et  pro  anima 
Eustachie,  uxoris  mee,  et  pro  animabus  antecessorum 
meorum,  Godefridum  Surrensem  cum  tota  sequela  sua 
et  terram  quam  idem  Godefridus  tenet  in  Kirkebeia  super 
Moram  juxta  Doddekere,  qui  inde  reddet  annuatim  pre- 
dictis  monachis  duos  solidos,  scilicet,  xij  denarios  ad 
festum  sancti  Martini  et  xij  denarios  ad  Penthecosten. 

of  St.  Bees  is  perhaps  due,  like  that  of  Robert  de  Tateshale  in 
No.  270,  to  the  fact  that  he  was  sheriff  of  Cumberland  from  1188 
to  1 197.  He  was  dead  in  1202,  for  in  that  year  the  heir  of  William 
fitz  Aldelin  is  made  responsible  for  certain  sums  due  to  the  Crown 
as  issues  of  the  sheriff's  office.  Geraldus  Cambrensis  has  drawn 
a  curious  picture  of  his  person  and  character.  For  the  historical 
value  of  this  charter  and  that  which  follows,  compare  my  note 
on  "  William  fitz  Aldelin  "  in  The  English  Hist.  Review,  xxij. 
730-31,  with  Round,  Feudal  England,  pp.  516-18. 


446  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Hiis  testibus  Alano  capellano  ejusdem  ville,  Waltero 
Alemanno,  Willelmo  filio  Radulfi,  Thoma  fratre  ejus, 
Johanne  Alemanno,  Willelmo  Clarello,  Godefrido  abb[at]e, 
Radulfo  de  Pontefracto,  Henrico  filio  Roberti,  Warino 
capellano  castri  Karliolensis. 

449.  CARTA  THOME  MULTON  DE  DIMIDIA  MARCA  AR- 
GENTI  IN  BURGH  JUXTA  LE  SANDES. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presens  scriptum 
visuris  vel  audituris.  Thomas  de  Multon,1  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  Ade,  uxoris  mee,  et  omnium  ante- 
cessorum  et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse,  concessisse  et 
hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse,  Deo  et  sancte  Marie 
et  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 

449-  l  The  barony  of  Burgh  by  Sands  was  carried  successively 
in  marriage  to  Richard  de  Lucy  of  Egremont  and  Thomas  de 
Multon  by  Ada,  the  elder  daughter  of  Hugh  de  Morvill.  Richard, 
the  first  husband  of  Ada,  was  alive  on  25  June,  1212,  when  the 
report  of  the  great  inquest  of  knights'  fees  in  Cumberland  was 
delivered  into  the  Exchequer  (V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  141-2),  but  he 
had  died  before  n  July,  1213,  when  Ada  his  widow  paid  a  fine 
for  having  her  inheritance  and  dower  out  of  her  deceased  husband's 
lands  (Rot.  de  Oblat.,  pp.  474-5).  Richard  de  Lucy  left  two 
daughters  Amabil  and  Alice  as  his  co-heirs.  Thomas  de  Multon 
obtained  the  guardianship  of  Richard's  lands  and  daughters  in 
1213  and  followed  up  the  advantage  by  marrying  the  widow 
without  the  King's  leave.  For  this  act  the  wardship  of  Egremont 
was  taken  from  him  and  delivered  to  another,  but  he  was  rein- 
stated in  1218  in  the  custody  of  Coplande  with  the  castle  (castro) 
of  Egremunde  and  of  all  Ada's  lands  (Pat.  Rolls,  1216-25,  pp. 
165-6).  In  a  few  years  his  sons,  Lambert  and  Alan,  were  married 
to  Richard's  two  daughters  Amabil  and  Alice  respectively, 
among  whom  the  Lucy  inheritance  was  apportioned.  Thomas 
de  Multon,  who  died  in  1240,  is  described  by  M.  Paris  (Chron. 
Majora,  iv.  49)  as  a  knight  of  experience  in  warlike  feats  and  a 
man  abounding  in  possessions  and  well  skilled  in  the  law.  For 
more  about  him,  see  Dugdale,  Baronage,  i.  567. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  447 

servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  dim- 
idiam  marcam  argenti  de  firma  terre  Willelmi  Robert 
quam  de  me  tenet  in  mora  in  territorio  de  Burgh,  ad  duos 
[terminos  ?]  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Michael- 
is  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  Pasche.  Salvo  michi 
et  heredibus  meis  homagio  dicti  Willelmi  et  heredum 
suorum  et  residuo  servicio  de  predicto  tenemento  donee 
ego  et  heredes  mei  predictis  monachis  providerimus 
equipollentem  redditum  in  alio  loco  competent!.  Et  ut 
hec  donacio  mea  rata  et  inconcussa  permaneat  inperpet- 
uum  presens  scriptum  munimine  corroboravi.  Hiis  test- 
ibus  domino  Alano  de  Multon,  Alano  de  Multon,2  Thoma 
de  Lascell[esl,  Johanne  de  Mora,  et  multis  aliis. 

450.    CARTA  SIVE  CONFIRMACIO  EJUSDEM  DE  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  presens  scriptum 
visuris  vel  audituris,  Thomas  de  Multon,1  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  pro  animabus  Ricardi  de  Lucy  et  Ade 
de  Morevell,  quondam  uxoris  mee,  et  omnium  antecessor- 
um  et  successorum  meorum,  dedisse,  concess[iss]e  et  hac 

2  The  grantor  had  a  son  Alan,  who  married  Alice,  one  of  the 
coheiresses  of  Richard  de  Lucy  of  Egremont  as  stated  in  the 
previous  note,  and  a  brother  Alan,  who  does  not  often  appear 
in  Cumberland  evidences.  Both,  however,  appear  as  witnesses 
to  one  of  the  charters  of  this  Thomas  de  Multon  to  the  monks  of 
Wetheral  (Reg.,  pp.  193-4)  where  they  are  described  as  "  Alano 
de  Multon  fratre  meo,  Thoma  et  Alano  filiis  meis."  The  date  of 
this  grant  will  fall  about  1220. 

450.  l  This  deed,  in  which  Ada  is  described  as  deceased,  is 
much  later  than  the  foregoing  in  which  it  is  implied  that  she  was 
alive.  At  Easter  1232  there  was  an  agreement  between  Thomas 
de  Muleton  and  Ada  his  wife,  the  plaintiffs,  and  Richard  Gernun 
and  Joan  his  wife,  defendants,  touching  land  and  woods  in 
Ayketon,  of  the  inheritance  of  Hugh  de  Morevill,  father  of  the 
said  Ada  and  Jean,  whose  heirs  they  were  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb., 
1 6  Hen.  III.  No.  14).  The  date  must,  therefore,  be  between 
1232  and  1240. 


448  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

present!  carta  mea  confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  dimidiam 
marcam  argenti  ad  pitanciam  monachis  faciendam  et  ad 
luminare  sustendendum  in  anniversarfiis]  dictorum  dom- 
ini  Ricardi  et  Ade  annuatim,  percipiendam  de  firma  terre 
Willelmi  Roberti  quam  de  me  tenet  in  mora  in  territorio 
de  Burgh  ad  duos  terminos,  scilicet,  medietatem  ad  festum 
sancti  Michaelis,  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  Pasche. 
Salvo  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  homagio  dicti  Willelmi  et 
heredum  suorum  et  residuo  servicio  de  predicto  tenemento, 
donee  ego  et  heredes  mei  predictis  monachis  equipollentem 
redditum  providerimus  in  alio  loco  competenti  et  eis 
magis  utili.  Si  vero  contingat  quod  predictus  Willelmus 
vel  heredes  sui  predictam  firmam  statutis  non  reddid- 
erint,  licebit  predictis  monachis  sine  impedimento  et 
contradiccione  mei  vel  heredum  meorum  ipsos  compellere 
infra  predictum  tenementum  ad  solvendam  earn  secundum 
consuetudinem  et  legem  terre.  Hanc  vero  donacionem  et 
concessionem  ego  et  heredes  mei  de  predicta  Ada  pro- 
creati  predictis  monachis  warantizabimus  contra  omnes 
homines  imperpetuum.  Et  in  hujus  rei  testimonium 
presenti  script o  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Alano  de  Multon,  domino  Thoma  de  Multon, 
rectore  ecclesie  de  Skyrebec,2  Thoma  de  Lascell,  Johanne 
de  Oxenholm,  et  multis  aliis.3 

'2  Skirbeck  near  Boston  in  Lincolnshire.  Thomas  de  Multon, 
the  rector,  was  a  son  of  the  grantor,  who  negotiated  with  the  King 
for  his  father's  release  in  1216  for  marrying  Ada,  widow  of  Richard 
de  Lucy  (Pat.  Rolls,  1216-25,  pp.  15-6,  69-70,  83). 

;t  In  the  lower  margin  of  this  deed  we  have  Nota  pro  vjs.  viijd. 
in  Kirkeandres  iuxta  Burgh  libra  primo  fo.  xxvj  :  fial  inquisicio. 
This,  no  doubt,  refers  to  the  half-mark  rent  issuing  out  of  the 
mill  of  Kirkeandres  given  by  Bernard  de  Ryppelay  and  Margaret 
his  wife  to  be  paid  yearly  at  the  fair  of  Carlisle.  The  latter 
clause  seems  to  show  that  the  Kirkandrews  near  Carlisle  is  not 
meant. 


REGI  STRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEG  A  449. 

451.  [PRO  FALcoNiBus.1] 

452.  [CONCORDIA    INTER    WlLLELMUM    SANDES    ET 
THOMAM  BARWYKE,  CUSTODEM  CELLE  SANCTE  BEGE,  PRO 
UNA  PECIA  TERRE.] 

ITEM  anno  domini  ml0  cccc°  Ixxxxviij0,  Willelmus 
Sandes  filius  Christoferi  Sandes  et  uxor  sua  concordabant 
cum  Thoma  Barwyke,  custode  celle  sancte  Bege,  pro  una 
pecia  terre,  parcelle  de  Petgroffes1  et  jacet  inter  sepem  de 
Petgroffes  et  torrentem  que  dividit  terram  sancte  Bege 
et  terram  de  Rodington,  et  dederunt  predicto  Thome 
Barwyke  duas  caponas  pro  hoc  anno  tantum,  et  sic  pre- 
dictus  Thomas  licenciebat  predictum  Willelmum  Sandes 
fensare  vel  fossare  predictam  peciam  terre  ex  parte 
australi. 

453.  CARTA    ROBERTI    DE    CURTENEI    DE    DIMIDIA 
MARCA  DE  MOLENDINO  FULLONARIO  IN  KORKIRMWTH  CUM 
I  MANSURA  IN  EADEM. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  fiituri  quod  ego, 
Robertus  de  Curtenei,1  cum  consilio  uxoris  mee,  Aaliz  de 

451.  1  This  deed  and  that  which  follows  have  no  titles  and 
are  not  enumerated  in  the  table  of  contents  :    they  are  inserted 
between  books  xij  and  xuj  in  the  Register.     The  present  deed 
is  a  duplicate  of  No.  164  with  only  grammatical  variations  in 
the  text. 

452.  l  Pete  Groves,  the  name  of  a  close  near  the  priory  con- 
taining 8  acres  at  the  time  of  the  dissolution  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  civ.). 

453.  l  Alice  de  Rumelli,   daughter  of  William  fitz   Duncan, 
and  lady  of  Cockermouth,  was  given  in  marriage  by  Henry  II. 
to  Gilbert  Pipard,  an  itinerant  justice  and  one  of  the  barons  of 
the  Exchequer.     Gilbert  had  the  forest  of  Allerdale  in  1191-2 
(Pipe  R.  3  Ric.  I.),  but  he  died  during  that  year  at  Brindisi  while 
on  the  Crusade  (Benedictus  Abbas,  ii.  150).     Her  second  husband, 
Robert  de  Curtenai,  the  grantor,  had  a  plea  in  1195  with  Orm  the 
knight  about  land  in  Embleton,  part  of  his  wife's  inheritance 
(Fed.  Fin.,  ii.   i,  Rec.  Com.).     Robert  went  beyond  the  sea  in 

2  G 


45O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Rumeleie,  et  amicorum  meorum,  pro  amore  Dei  et  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  patris  et  matris  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum, 
et  pro  salute  Aaliz,  uxoris  mee,  concessi  et  dedi  ecclesie 
sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplande  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  dimidiam  marcam  argenti  de 
redditu  meo  in  molendino  fullonum  de  Kokermuth 
annuatim,  reddendam  eis  ad  duos  terminos  quadraginta, 
videlicet,  denarios  ad  Nativitatem  domini  et  quadraginta 
in  Nativitate  sancti  Johannis  Baptiste,  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemosinam,  quousque  assignem  eis  eandem 
dimidiam  marcam  vel  in  terra  vel  in  pastura.  Habenda 
....  Insuper  concessi  et  dedi  predictis  monachis 
unam  mansuram  terre  in  Kokermouthe  ad  monachos 
cum  voluerint  ad  hospitandum  suscipiendos.  Quam, 
videlicet,  terram  Uctredus  de  Derham  aliquando  de 
me  tenuit,  solutam  eis  et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno 
servicio  ad  me  vel  heredes  meos  pertinent e.  Et  insuper 
humagium  predicti  Uctredi  sepedictis  monachis  clamavi 
quietum.  Et  ne  hoc  in  irritum  revocetur  sigilli  mei 
testimonio  connrmavi.  Testibus  hiis  Willelmo  capellano, 
Willelmo  Gibwin,  Johanne  de  Kyngestun,  Willelmo  de 
Curtenei,  Aumerico,  Symone  de  Roie,  Ricardo  Tibicine, 
Rogero  capellano,  Ricardo  preposito,  Turpino,  Rogero  de 
Beverlaco,  Thoma  [filio]  Ypoliti,  et  multis  aliis,  Patricio 

1209-10  (Coram  Rege  R.,  n  John,  No.  41)  and  died  soon  after- 
wards, for  in  that  year  Alice  his  wife  paid  a  fine  of  £500,  ten 
palfreys  and  ten  fillies  to  have  her  inheritance  as  she  held  it  on 
the  day  of  her  marriage  to  Robert,  as  well  as  reasonable  dower 
from  Robert's  land  and  the  land  of  Gilbert  Pipard  her  previous 
husband  (Pipe  R.,  n  John).  Alice  was  alive  at  the  date  of  the 
great  inquest  of  1212  (V,  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  421),  but  the  custody  of 
her  land  was  in  dispute  in  1223  (Coram  Rege  R.,  7  &  8  Hen.  III. 
No.  17).  Alice  occupies  a  large  place  in  the  history  of  the  county 
during  the  reign  of  King  John.  She  was  probably  buried  at  the 
abbey  of  Fountains  of  which  she  was  a  munificent  benefactor. 
Her  grant  of  the  mill  of  Bratheweit  near  Cockermouth  to  the 
monks  was  made  "  una  cum  corpore  meo  ibidem  sepeliendo  " 
(Cotton  MS.  Tib.  C.  xij.  ff.  86-7).  See  note  on  No.  14. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  451 

Brun,  Reginaldo  clerico,  Stephano  Rufo,  Theobaldo  et 
Petro  fratre  ejus,  et  multis  aliis.2 

454.    CARTA  ALANI  FILII  WALTHEVI  DE  xmj  SALMON- 

IBUS  IN  KOKIRMOWTH. 

ALANUS1  Walthevi  filius  omnibus  hominibus  de  Alredala 
et  de  Coupelandia  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris,  salutem. 
Sciatis  me,  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unoquoque  anno  in 
quadragesima,  pro  animabus  patris  et  matris  mee  et  pro 
salute  anime  mee,  xiiijcem  salmones  in  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam  apud  Cokyrmoth2  dedisse.  Quare  volo  et  precipio  ut 
omnes  heredes  et  successores  mei  hanc  elemosinam  manu- 
teneant  et  semper  pro  salvacione  mea  et  sua  hilariter  illam 

The  date  will  lie  between  1195  and  1209. 

454.  1  For  the  grantor,  see  notes  on  Nos.  22,  49  and  308, 
By  the  latter  deed  it  will  be  seen  that  Alan  had  lands  in  Gosford 
which  will  account  for  his  address  to  his  men  of  Coupland  as  well 
as  of  Allerdale. 

2  This  phrase  might  give  rise  to  an  interesting  discussion  on 
the  earliest  capital  messuage  of  the  barony  of  Allerdale.  J. 
Denton  was  of  opinion  that  "  Waldeof  first  baron  of  Allerdale 
seated  himself  first  at  Papcastle,  where  he  had  a  mansion  house 
but  afterwards  he  moved  to  Cockermouth"  (Accompt,  p.  41).  In 
support  of  this  it  may  be  added  that  Papcastle  was  regarded  from 
a  remote  date  as  the  chief  manor  of  the  barony.  For  example  in 
1286,  after  the  death  of  Walter  de  Wigton,  it  was  reported  that 
he  had  held  his  fees  in  Allerdale  of  the  countess  of  Albemarle 
by  suit  at  the  court  of  Papcastle  (Inq.  p.  m.  14  Edw.  I.  No.  15). 
For  several  centuries  afterwards  the  manor  occupied  the  same 
feudal  relation  to  Allerdale.  Legends,  however,  have  grown 
thick  around  this  Roman  site,  like  most  of  such  sites  in  Cumber- 
land. See  Camden,  Britannia  (ed.  Holland),  p.  768.  In  any 
case,  from  the  evidence  of  this  deed,  it  seems  clear  that  Alan 
was  living  at  Cockermouth,  from  which  Papcastle,  on  the  other 
side  of  the  Derwent,  is  only  a  couple  of  miles  distant.  According 
to  No.  498  William  Meschin,  lord  of  Coupland,  enfeoffed  Waldeve, 
father  of  Alan,  of  the  Quinque  Ville  between  the^Cocker  and 
Derwent,  now  the  Honor  of  Cockermouth. 


452  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

faciant.  Testibus  Gospatricio  filio  Horm,  Flwardo  filio 
Dolfini,  Gospatricio  et  Walthevo  et  Horm  fratribus  suis,9 
Odardo  capellano,  Getello  presbitero,  et  Gilmichaele 
presbitero. 

455.  CARTA    YNGERANNI    DE    vj    ACRIS    TERRE    IN 
DERHAM  CUM  pERTiNENCiis.1 

456.  CARTA  HUGONIS  FILII  EDE  FILIE  WALTERI  DE 
TERRIS  IN  COKIRMOUE  ET  DERHAM  CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

OMNIBUS  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris,  Hugo1  films 
Ede  filie  Walteri  de  Alredal,  salutem  in  domino  sempitern- 
am.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  teneri  dominis  meis, 
priori  et  conventui  de  sancta  Bega  in  tanto  servicio  pro 
terra  mea  in  Cokirmue  et  in  villa  de  Derham  faciendo, 
quantum  uncquam  ab  aliquo  predecessorum  meorum  pro 
dicta  terra  faceri  consuevit.  Hinc  est  quod  ego  nee 
heredes  mei  dictam  terram  alicubi  absque  licito  consensu 
et  assensu  dictorum  dominorum  meorum,  prioris  et  con- 
ventus,  alienare  de  cetero  presumemus.  In  cujus  rei 
testimonium  presens  scriptum  impressione  sigilli  mei 
firmiter  roboravi. 

457.  CARTA  HUGONIS  FILII  EDE  DE  HOBY  DE  OMNI- 
BUS TERRIS  SUIS  IN  DERHAM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Hugo  films  Ede  de  Hoby,  salutem  in 
domino.  Noverit  ....  me  concessisse  ....  Deo  et  beate 
Marie,  abbati  et  conventui  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
monachis  apud  cellam  de  sancta  Bega  Deo  servientibus 

3  For  these  witnesses,  see  note  i  on  No.  308.  "  Flwardo  "  is 
a  scribal  error  for  "  Ailwardo." 

455.  ^his  deed  is  a  shortened  form  of  No.  390. 

456.  l  The  grantor  here  may  be  identified  with  the  grantor 
of  the  next  deed.     From  the  witnesses  to  No.  457,  it  may  be 
suggested  that  the  date  of  both  deeds  falls  about  1290. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  453 

et  eorum  successoribus  inperpetuum  totum  jus  et  clamium 
quod  habui  vel  quoquomodo  habere  potui  in  omnibus 
terris  et  in  omnibus  toftis  et  domibus  cum  pertinenciis 
in  villa  de  Derham  et  in  una  domo  et  messuagio 
in  villa  de  Chokirmuhe  propinquiore  Ade  de  Karliol' 
a  parte  occidental!.  Ita,  scilicet,  quod  ego  nee  heredes 
mei  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Radulpho  de  Bethum, 
Thoma  de  Cletere,  Ricardo  de  Flemeng,  militibus, 
Willelmo  Ponsonby,  Thoma  de  Hale,  Hugone  de  Morisse- 
by,  Willelmo  de  Gillinc,  Roberto  de  Wiltona,  et  aliis. 

458.    [CARTA  GILBERT:  FILII  ADE  DE  ij  ACRIS  TERRE  IN 

OVERKELET  CUM  PERTINENCIIS.1] 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  Gil- 
bertus  films  Adam,2  cum  consilio  et  assensu  heredum 
meorum  et  amicorum  meorum  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  mea 
carta  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  sancte  Bege 
virgini  in  Coupelfand]  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
entibus  duas  achras  terre  in  Chellet,3  in  puram  et  perpetu- 
am  elemosinam,  liberas  et  quiet  as  ab  omni  terreno  serv- 
icio  et  consuetudine,  illas,  scilicet,  que  jacent  inter  terras 

458.  l  The  title  is  taken  from  No.  491  of  which  it  is  a  duplicate. 
The  present  copy  is  in  a  late  hand  and  is  not  mentioned  in  the 
table  of  contents. 

2  The  grantor  offered  half  a  mark  in  1204  for  an  inquiry  whether 
he  held  land  in  Penwortham  subject  to  tallage  (Farrer,  Pipe  Rolls 
of  Lanes.,  p.  181)  :  he  was  afterwards  known  as  Gilbert  de  Kellet. 
At  a  later  date  Richard  de  Kellet  enfeoffed  Ellota  de  les  Brotis 
of  an  acre  in  Seton  in  Coupland,  called  "  Blakakir  in  les  Brotis," 
which  he  had  by  reason  of  the  contract  of  Alina  his  wife  :  to  hold 
to  her  and  her  heirs,  except  the  religious  [of  the  nunnery  of  Seton] 
and  the  lords  of  the  fee  :  at  the  rent  to  him  of  three  oysters  (ostrea) 
at  Christmas,  and  of  a  penny  to  Alan  de  Coupland  on  St.  James' 
Day.  The  deed  is  witnessed  by  Robert  de  Bevirlay,  who  was 
parson  of  Boo  tie  about  1280  (see  No.  479).  The  seal  is  an  antique 
gem  with  the  legend  :  S.RICARDI.DE.KEL.  (Anct.  D.,  A.  11632). 

8  Overkellet  as  stated  in  the  title.  See  the  map  of  feudal  fees 
prepared  by  Farrer  in  his  edition  of  the  Pipe  Rolls  of  Lanes. 


454  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

quas  A.  filius  Osberni4  et  Orm  films  Gernolfi5  dederunt 
hospital!  Jerosalem6  et  ad  perimplendum  predictas  acras 
dedi  in  exitu  ejusdem  ville  ad  dexteram  de  terra  mea 
propriore  versus  villam  et  in  communi  pastura  ad  xijcim 
porcos  et  xvjcim  animalia  et  xx4i  oves.  Et  ego  et  heredes 
mei  warantizabimus  predictis  monachis  predictam  ele- 
mosinam  contra  omnes  homines.  Hanc  donacionem  feci 
pro  salute  mea  et  heredum  meorum  et  omnium  parentum 
meorum.  Hiis  testibus  Ada  Gernet,  Ada  filio  Osberni, 
et  A.  et  Waltero  filiis  ejus,  et  Al.  filio  A.,7  Turpino  serv- 
iente  prioris,  Roberto  Tailfer,  Willelmo  fabro,  et  aliis 
multis. 

459.  APPELLACIO  CONTRA  ABBATEM  DE  FURNEYS  PRO 
DECIMIS  JUXTA  MlLLUM. 

In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Cum  religiosi  viri,  abbas  et 
conventus  monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  ecclesiam 
parochialem  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  infra  Archidiacon- 
atum  Richmundie  in  usus  proprios  canonice  optinentes, 
fuissent  et  sint  nomine  ejusdem  ecclesie  in  plena,  pacifica, 
canonica  et  sufnciente  possessione  vel  quasi  jure  percipi- 
endi  omnimodas  decimas  de  quadam  cultura  juxta  sal- 

4  This  must  be  Adam  son  of  Osbert  who  paid  a  fine  in  1194  for 
having  the  King's  benevolence  :  he  was  dead  in  1207  when  his 
wife  Matilda  stipulated  that  she  should  not  be  compelled  to 
marry  (Pipe  Rolls  of  Lanes.,  pp.  77,  216).  This  deed  settles  the 
puzzle  of  the  locality  of  Adam's  estate. 

6  A  scribal  error  for  Orm  son  of  Bernolf  :  it  appears  correctly 
in  the  duplicate,  No.  491.  Orm  was  one  of  the  jurors  about 
1157-63  who  divided  Furness  Fell  between  William  de  Lancaster 
and  the  monks  of  Furness  (Pipe  Rolls  of  Lanes.,  p.  311).  If  the 
grantor  was  Gilbert  son  of  Adam  son  of  Bernulf,  Orm  must  have 
been  his  uncle. 

6  Jherusalem  in  No.  491. 

7  This  witness  is  written  at.  filio  A.  in  No.  491,  a  very  unusual 
way  of  expressing  "  another  son  of  Adam  "  son  of  Osbern.     In 
the  present  deed  the  script  looks  as  if  it  could  be  read  Al.  filio  Ac. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  455 

inam1  suam  de  Millom  infra  parochiam  ecclesie  de  Millom, 
et  sic  easdem  decimas  pacifice  possiderunt  et  perceperunt 
a  tempore  et  per  tempus  cujus  contrarii  memoria  non 
existit.  Audito  tamen  a  nonnullis  quod  religiosi  viri, 
abbas  et  conventus  de  Furnesio,2  diet  am  ecclesiam  de 
Millom  in  usus  suos  proprios,  ut  dicitur,  optinentes, 
comminati  sunt  per  se  et  suos  de  inquietando,  perturb- 
ando  et  molestando  predictos  abbatem  et  conventum 
monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  predictam  ecclesiam 
suam  sancte  Bege  in  jure  et  possessione  suis  predictis  et 
multipliciter  circa  ea.  Unde  ego,  frater  Adam  de  sancto 
Bothulpho,  monachus  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  procurator 
predict orum  abbatis  et  conventus  de  Eboraco,  metuens 
ex:  hujusmodi  communicacionibus  et  ex  aliis  verisimilibus 
conjecturis  et  probabilibus  posse  saltim  de  facto  per  pre- 
dictos abbatem  et  conventum  de  Fourneys  et  per  adher- 
entes  eisdem  sic  ex  parte  sua  prefatis  religiosis  de  Eboraco 
et  ecclesie  sue  sancte  Bege  predicte  in  jure  et  possessione 
eorundem  et  circa  ea  prejudicium  generari,  quod  absit. 

459.  l  For  the  foundation  of  the  claim  of  the  monks  of  St. 
Bees,  see  the  charter  of  Adam  son  of  Henry,  lord  of  Millom,  at 
No.  57. 

2  The  church  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Millom,  with  its  chapels, 
was  given  to  Furness  by  William  lord  of  Millom,  early  in  the  thir- 
teenth century  (West,  Antiquities,  Ap.  xi.  No.  62).  In  I22& 
Archbishop  Walter  Gray  issued  a  licence  for  its  appropriation  to 
that  house  (D.  of  L.,  Box  A.  No.  395)  and  in  1230  by  an  ordination 
he  assigned  one  moiety  for  the  maintenance  of  three  chaplains 
and  another  moiety  for  the  use  of  the  convent  of  Furness.  By 
another  deed  Abbot  Robert  of  Furness  allotted  a  yearly  sum 
of  34  marks  for  the  portion  of  the  chaplains  (Beck,  Annales,  pp. 
194-5).  I*1  I23°  Adam  of  Millom,  who  had  succeeded  his  brother 
William  in  the  lordship,  quit-claimed  the  church  and  the  advow- 
son  to  Furness  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  459).  See  the  deeds  in  Reg. 
Abp.  Gray  (Surtees  Soc.),  s.v.  Millom.  When  Sir  John  de  Hudle- 
ston,  son  of  Sir  Richard,  made  a  new  fishery  near  Houberghe,  now 
Hodbarrow,  on  the  river  Duddon  in  1338,  the  monks  of  Furness, 
as  rectors  of  Millom,  claimed  the  tithe  of  fish  and  exacted  a  yearly 
tribute  of  two  shillings  from  the  owner  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  461). 


456  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Ne  predict!  abbas  et  conventus  de  Fourneys  sen  quis 
alms  vel  aliquis  ex  parte  sua  cujuscunque  status  seu 
condicionis  perstiterit3  (blank  in  MS.)  abbatem  et  con- 
ventum  monasterii  beate  Marie  Eboraci,  prefatam  ecclesi- 
am  sancte  Bege  in  usus  proprios  optinent[es]  canonice  aut 
priorem  celle  sue  sancte  Bege,  nomine  ejusdem  abbatis 
et  conventus,  molestent,  inquietent  seu  perturbent  seu 
predictam  suam  possessionem  pervertant  aut  immutent 
aut  ab  ipsa  possessione  ejiciant  aut  spolient,  spoliari 
mandent  aut  faciant  seu  quicquam  contra  eos  aut  eorum 
aliquem  facient  seu  fieri  procurent,  procedendo  juris 
ordine  qui  in  hoc  casu  requiritur,  pretermisso  aut  citando 
seu  monendo  vel  suspendendo  aut  excommunicando, 
interdicendo  suspenses  aut  excommunicates,  suspensum 
aut  excommunicatum,  nunciandum  durum  vel  penale 
inferendo  seu  alio  modo  gravando  ad  sedem  apostolicam 
directe,  et  ad  curiam  Eboraci  pro  tuicione  in  hiis  scriptis 
provoco  et  provocandum  appello  ac  appellatos  in  hoc  casu 
quatenus  sunt  petendfum]  peto  subjiciens  et  supponens 
me  et  dictos  dominos  meos  et  omnes  nobis  adherentes  et 
adherere  volentes  proteccioni  et  defensioni  ac  tuicioni 
sedis  et  curie  predictarum  protestans  me  ipsorum  nomine 
istam  appellacionem  cum  necesse  fuerit  prosequi  cum 
effectu. 

460.  CARTA  NICHOLAI  STUTEVYLL  DE  ij  BOVATIS 
TERRE  IN  DREG. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Nicholaus  de  Stutevilla,1  pro  amore  Dei  et  pro  salute 

8  There  is  a  blank  here  in  the  manuscript  nearly  an  inch  long. 

460.  l  The  manor  of  Drigg,  though  in  the  barony  and  held  of 
the  castle  of  Egremont,  was  parcel  of  the  barony  of  Lydal  north 
of  Carlisle.  Nicholas  de  Stuteville,  lord  of  Lydal,  held  Drigg  of 
the  lord  of  Egremont.  From  No.  466  it  will  be  seen  that  Anselm 
of  Furness  was  also  an  owner  in  Drigg.  At  a  subsequent  period 
the  manor  appears  as  divided  between  the  Stutevilles  and  the 
Flemings.  In  an  extent  of  the  barony  of  Lydal,  taken  on  18 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  457 

anime  mee  et  patris  mei  et  matris  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et 
antecessorum  meorum,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  present! 
carta  confirmavi  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  in  ea  Deo  servientibus, 
duas  bovatas  terre  in  Dreg  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis, 
in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberas  et  quietas  ab 
omni  terreno  servicio  et  ab  omnibus  rebus  que  ad  me 
pertinent.  Hiis  testibus  Bartholomeo  de  Stute  villa, 
Achetino  filio  Durandi,  Willelmo  de  Alteneia,  Jordano  de 
Lidel,  Richero  filio  Puncun,  Rogero  capellano,  Alexandra 
diacono,  Ricardo  preposito,  Thoma  filio  Ypoliti,  Rogero 
de  Beverlaco,  Theobaldo  de  Beningburg,  et  multis  aliis. 

461.    DIMISSIO  C[LEMENTIS]  ABBATIS  DE  EISDEM. 

SCIANT  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  literas  has 
quod  ego,  C[lemens],  abbas  sancte  Marie  Eboracensis, 
cum  communi  consilio  et  assensu  capituli  nostri,  concessi 
et  dedi  Ketello  Porte joie1  et  heredibus  suis  tenere  de  nobis 

March,  1282,  it  is  stated  that  William  son  of  Thomas  de  Greystoke 
held  half  a  knight's  fee  in  Drigg  in  Coupland,  and  that  the  lady 
of  Aldingham  in  Furness  held  a  like  amount  (Inq.  p.  m.  10  Edw.  I. 
No.  26).  It  is  probable  that  the  Stuteville  .portion  was  carried 
to  the  Greystokes  by  the  marriage  of  Helewise  de  Stuteville  with 
William  son  of  Ranulf,  grandfather  of  the  owner  in  1282.  In 
agreement  with  this,  Thomas  son  of  William,  who  died  in  1247, 
once  laid  claim  to  the  patronage  of  the  chapel  of  Drigg  (Anct.  D., 
L.  No.  472).  Turgis  Brundas,  to  whom  Ranulf  Meschin,  lord  of 
Cumberland,  gave  the  barony  of  Lydal,  as  stated  in  the  inquest 
of  12 12,  is  by  some  called  a  Fleming,  and  if  so,  Anselm's  ancestor 
or  Michael  Flamengus  his  father  may  have  been  nearly  related 
to  the  aforesaid  grantee  of  Lydal.  As  the  two  oxgangs  in  the 
grant  were  afterwards  demised  by  Abbot  Clement  (No.  461),  the  ' 
date  of  the  benefaction  must  be  before  1184,  when  the  abbot  died. 
The  name  of  Nicholas  the  grantor  appears  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  of 
Cumberland  from  1177  to  1204. 

461.  :  The  epithet  portejoie  here  and  overhaire  and  batwrikth 
in  No.  465,  the  latter  being  called  le  batewrit  elsewhere  (No.  484), 
are  manifestly  descriptive  of  some  personal  characteristic,  occu- 
pation or  trade,  but  no  satisfactory  explanation  can  be  offered^ 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

[in]  feudo  et  hereditate,  libere  et  quiete,  duas  bovatas 
terre  in  Dreg,  quas  Nicholaus  de  Stutevill  dedit  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  in  perpetuam  elemosinam  cum  omnibus  per- 
tinenciis  suis.  Reddent  autem  nobis  pro  eadem  terra 
singulis  annis  pro  omni  servicio  duos  solidos  ad  duos 
terminos,  dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  et  dimidium 
ad  Pent hecos ten.  Facient  autem  forinsecum  servicium. 
Et  si  aliquo  casu  contingat  quod  habeant  adquietacionem 
forinseci  servicii  extunc  dabunt  nobis  singulis  annis  tres 
solidos.  Hoc  eis  concedimus  quamdiu  se  legaliter  erga 
nos  habuerint  et  predictum  censum  bene  reddiderint.  Si 
vero  contingat  aliquo  casu  eos  vi  vel  racione  prenomin- 
atam  terram  amittere  non  dabimus  eis  excambium.  Hiis 
testibus  Jocelino  capellano,  Adam  de  Rotomago,  Waltero 
clerico  de  Hornesh',  Thoma  clerico  de  Fuleford,  Eadwyno 
Buzavant,  Turgisio  dispensatore,  Galfrido  portario,  Ric- 
ardo  de  Thalamo,  Ricardo  de  Clifton,  Roberto  de  Appel- 
tona,  Alano  de  Elmeswell,  Stephano  de  Mitona,  Ketello, 
magistro  Albarto,  et  multis  aliis. 

462.  CARTA  JORDANI  FIL  RETELL  DE  TERRIS  CUM 
DIVISIS  IN  DREG'. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Jurdanus  fil.  Ketelli1  Portejoie  de  Dreg' 
salutem  in  Domino.  Noverit  ....  me  pro  salute  anime 
mee,  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum  omnium, 
dedisse  ....  Radulfo  de  Kircosewald  capellano2  totam 
terram  meam  in  Dreg'  sine  aliquo  retinemento,  iacentem, 
scilicet,  in  Hwsgiles  inter  terram  domini  Roberti  de 
Janenwith8  et  terram  domini  abbatis  de  Caldra,4  cum 

462.  1  Jurdan  is  apparently  the  son  of  the  Retell  Portejoie 
of  the  last  charter. 

a  No  doubt  chaplain  of  Drigg. 

8  It  is  not  known  how  Robert  of  Yanwath  in  the  parish  of 
Barton,  Westmorland,  came  to  Drigg.  In  1241  Robert  de 
Yavenwith  had  an  agreement  with  Henry  son  of  Roald  and  Juliane 
his  wife  touching  land  in  Yavenwyth  (Feet  of  F.  Westmor.,  26- 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  459 

mesuagio  in  eodem  loco  et  cum  toto  prato  meo  in  holmo, 
saluo  seruicio  meo  et  redditu  spectant[ibus]  ad  domum 
sancte  Bege  virginis.  Tenendam  ....  reddendo  inde 
annuatim  priori  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo 
servientibus  tres  denarios  in  .die  sancte  Bege5  virginis, 
....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  persona  de  Botil 
tune  temporis,  domino  Johanne  de  Langliuer,  Alano  de 
Coupland,  Willelmo  de  Waybirthwait,  Ricardo  de  Ranglas, 
Waltero  de  Seuenhoues,  Michaele  clerico,  Michaele  Croke, 
et  multis  aliis.6 

463.  CARTA  JURDANI  DE  DREG'  DE  QWYNHOU  IN 
DREG'. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Jurdanus  de  Dreg',  salutem.  Noverit 
....  me  concessisse  et  quietum  clamasse  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus 
quandam  rodam  terre  in  campo  de  Dreg',  in  loco  qui 
vocatur  Quinhou,  iacentem  inter  terram  domini  abbatis 
de  Caldra  versus  australem  et  terram  Roberti  de  Yanene- 
wyd  versus  aquilonarem  cum  edificiis  in  dicta  terra  edifi- 
catis  et  edificandis,  in  quibus  scilicet  edificiis  et  terra  jus 
non  habeo  nee  habere  potero  nee  heredes  mei  post  me 
per  ullam  cartam  vel  saisinam  quam  ante  habuimus  cum 
libero  introitu  et  exitu,  sed  sciant  omnes  quod  nos  pre- 
dictam  terram  et  edificia  omnino  resignavimus  sicut  ilia 
in  quibus  jus  non  habuimus  nee  habere  poterimus  in- 
perpetuum.  Et  quia  volo  quod  sit  notum  propter  hoc 
presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus 

Hen.  III.  No.  10).  Geoffrey  son  of  Baldewin  de  Carletona  made 
a  grant  to  Henry  son  of  Odard  de  Carletona,  to  which  Robert  de 
Yavenuiht  and  Symon  then  vicar  of  Penreht  were  witnesses 
(Collectanea  Top.  et  GeneaL,  Hi.  398). 

4  The  name  of  the  donor  has  not  been  found,  but  the  value  of 
the  temporalities  of  the  monks  of  Calder  in  the  vill  of  Drege  in 
1535  was  £3  I3S-  4^.  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  v.  341). 

5  For  the  date  of  the  day  of  St.  Bega,  see  note  2  on  No.  227. 

6  The  witnesses  would  seem  to  fix  the  period  about  1230-40. 


460  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

domino  Ricardo  de  Cleter,  domino  Johanne  de  Langliuer, 
domino  Roberto  de  Langplu,  Michaele  de  Hauringtona, 
Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  Benedicto  de  Rotingthona  et  aliis. 

464.  CARTA   RICARDI   FILII   JURDANI   DE  DREG'  DE 

TOTIS  TERRIS  SUIS-IN  STANIHOUS  IN  DREGE. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ricardus  films  Jurdani  de  Dreg, 
dedi  ....  Thome  Flint  de  Dreg  et  heredibus  suis  .... 
totam  terram  meam  quam  habeo  super  Stanihous  in 
territorio  de  Dreg'.  Tenendam  ....  Reddendo  inde  annu- 
atim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  unum  par  cerotecarum, 
scilicet,  ad  Natale  Domini,  pro  omni  servicio,  demanda 
et  exaccione.  Ego  vero  predictus  Ricardus  et  heredes 
mei  .  .  .  .  et  sciendum  est  quod  predictam  terram  dedi  et 
concessi  predicto  Thome  et  heredibus  suis  cum  consilio 
et  assensu  (blank)  uxoris  mee.  Hiis  testibus  Waltero  de 
Sewynhous,  Nicholao  de  Irtona,  Willelmo  de  Puncunby 
€t  aliis. 

465.  CARTA  ALICIE  FILIE  BENEDICTI  OVERHAIER  DE 
DREG  DE  j  ACRA  ET  DIMIDIA  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  DREG. 

NOVERINT  ....  quod  ego,  Alicia  filia  Benedicti  Over- 
haier1  de  Dreg  in  Coupland,  concessi  ....  abbati  sancte 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  suis  successoribus  et  ecclesie  beate 
Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ecclesie  beate  Bege  in  Coupland  et 
monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege  servientibus  inperpetuum,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  unam  acram  et  dimidiam  acram  terre  jacent- 
em  in  territorio  de  Dreg,  que  terra  jure  hereditario  de 
morte  Ricardi  Batwrikth  de  Ranglas,  avunculi  mei,  michi 

descendit Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Haver- 

yngton,   Ricardo  de  Flammank,   militibus,  Willelmo  de 

465.  J  See  note  on  No.  461  and  compare  with  Richard  Bat- 
wrikth of  Ranglas  below,  In  another  place  Richard  is  called 
le  Batewrit  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vj.  558)  :  and  le  Batwrith  in  No.  484. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  461 

Wayburthueyt,  Johanne  de  Morthyng,  Willelmo  de 
Punzunby,  Hugone  de  Moriceby,  Ricardo  de  Cleter, 
Roberto  de  Frysington,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Roberto  de 
Goseford,  Willelmo  de  Gyllyng,  et  aliis.2 

466.    CARTA  ANSELLI  DE  j  LIBRA  INSCENSI  DE  DREG. 

SCIANT  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego,  Ansellus 
de  Furneis,1  dedi  et  concessi  et  present!  carta  mea  con- 
nrmavi  Henrico  capellano  de  Dreg  duas  acras  terre  mee 
in  Dreg,  in  liberam  et  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
et  quietam  ab  omni  seculari  servicio  omnibus  diebus  vite 
sue,  reddendo  inde  annuatim  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  et  mona- 
chis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  libram  incensi  vel 
valenciam,  scilicet,  in  vigilia  Omnium  Sanctorum.  Hanc 
siquidem  terram  habebit  predictus  Henricus  cum  omni- 
bus aisiamentis  terre  mee  de  Dreg  et  communem  pasturam 
concessi  illi  viginti  vaccis  et  viij  bobus  et  tribus  equis  et 
sexaginta  ovibus.  Ego  vero,  Ansellus,  et  heredes  mei 
warantizabimus  predictam  terram  prefato  Henrico  cap- 

*The  witnesses  suggest  about  1290  as  the  date. 

466.  l  For  Anselm's  place  in  the  family  of  Fleming  of  Furness, 
see  notes  on  Nos.  68,  381.  For  the  further  endowment  of  the 
chapel  of  Dreg  by  Anselm  de  Furness  and  his  son-in-law  Thomas 
son  of  John,  see  the  three  interesting  deeds  in  Illus.  Doc.  Nos. 
xvj.-xviij.  Anselm  seems  to  have  been  the  founder  of  the  chapel, 
which  is  entitled  in  the  name  of  St.  Peter.  It  was  he  who  gave  it 
to  the  canons  of  Conishead  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  558).  Thomas 
son  of  William  de  Greistoc,  knight  (see  note  on  No.  460),  resisted 
the  claim  of  John,  rector  of  Goseford,  to  the  patronage  of  the 
chapel  on  behalf  of  the  canons  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  472) .  The  advow- 
son  was  the  subject  of  an  agreement  in  1255  between  William  de 
Furness  and  John  prior  of  Conishead,  whereby  the  chapel  was 
acknowledged  as  the  right  of  the  priory  and  William  received 
25  marks  in  compensation  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  39  Hen.  III.,  No. 
58).  This  chapel  was  enumerated  among  the  churches  appropri- 
ated to  the  canons  which  were  allowed  in  1390  to  be  served  by 
stipendiary  chaplains  removable  at  pleasure  according  to  immem- 
orial custom  (Cal.  of  Papal  Lett.,  iv.  367). 


462  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

ellano.  Post  decessum  Henrici  capellani  remanebit  pre- 
dicta  terra  in  donacione  mea  vel  heredum  meorum,  salvo 
redditu  beate  Bege  virginis.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  filio 
Ranulfi,2  Alano  filio  Ketelli,  Willelmo  fratre  ejus,  Alano 
filio  Benedicti,  Roberto  capellano  de  Puncunesby,  Gal- 
frido  falcunario,  Michaele  filio  Ketelli,  et  aliis. 

467.    CARTA    JURDANI    DE    DREG    DE    BARCARIA    IN 
EADEM. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Jurdanus  de  Dreg,1  salutem.  Noverit 
....  me  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ec- 
clesie  sancte  Bege  et  specialiter  ad  luminare  altaris  beate 
Marie  ubi  cotidie  in  honore  ejusdem  missa  celebratur, 
quandam  barcariam  in  Dreg  quam  Stephanus  filius 
Siwardi  aliquo  tempore  de  me  tenuit,  cum  dimidia  acra 
terre  in  Sandlandis  prope  dictam  bercariam,  cum  omnibus 
aisiamentis  predictis  bercarie  et  terre  pertinentibus.  In 
quibus  bercaria  et  terra  jus  non  habeo  nee  habere  potero 
nee  heredes  mei  post  me  per  ullam  cartam  vel  seisinam 
quam  ante  habuimus,  cum  libero  introitu  et  exitu.  Set 
sciant  omnes  quod  nos  predictam  terram  et  bercariam 
omnino  resignavimus  sicut  illas  in  quibus  jus  non  habu- 
imus nee  habere  poterimus  inperpetuum.  Et  quia  volo 
quod  ista  donacio,  concessio  et  quieta  clamacio  rata  sit 

2  This  is  William  son  of  Ranulf  of  Greystoke  who  was  assessed 
to  the  scutage  in  1203  (Pipe  R.,  5  John)  :  he  held  two  vills  in 
demesne  and  two  in  homage  (Liber  Rubeus,  ii.  493,  R.S.)  :  but  he 
must  have  died  in  1209,  for  in  that  year  his  land  and  heir  were 
given  in  ward  with  the  marriage  of  Helewise  de  Stuteville  his 
widow  (Pipe  R.,  n  John),  with  whom  he  had  received  the  fee  of 
Drigg.  The  other  witnesses  agree  that  the  date  of  the  deed  will 
fall  at  the  opening  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

467.  l  The  grantor  may  not  be  identified  with  Jordan,  brother 
•of  Anselm  de  Furness  (see  note  on  No.  68),  but  with  Jurdan  son 
of  Retell  in  Nos.  462-3.  The  witnesses  show  that  the  deed  cannot 
"be  earlier  than  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth  century.  Compare 
next  deed. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  463 

et  stabilis  propter  hoc  present!  scripto  sigillum  meum 
apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langlever, 
Willelmo  de  Wedakir,  Benedicto  de  Rotingtona,  Willelmo 
dispensatore,  Ricardo  filio  David,  Henrico  filio  Ricardi, 
Alexandro  filio  Laurencii,  Gilberto  fratre  suo,  Ricardo 
filio  fabri,  et  multis  aliis.  Et  si  quis  defraudaverit  vel 
asportaverit  firmam  predicte  terre  a  predicto  luminari  ab 
abbate  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  monachis  ibidem  com- 
morantibus  sit  inperpetuum  excommunicatus. 

468.  DlMISSIO  BARCARIE  DE  DREG. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Nicholaus,1  prior,  et  monachi  de  sancta 
Bega,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  nos  dimisisse 
....  Thome  de  Melis  et  heredibus  suis  quandam  bercariam 
in  Dreg,  quam  Stephanus  filius  Siwardi  aliquo  tempore  de 
Jurdano  de  Dreg  tenuit,  cum  dimidia  acra  terre  prope 
diet  am  bercariam.  Habendam  ....  cum  libero  introitu 
et  exitu  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  nobis  et  luminari 
beate  Marie  ecclesie  sancte  Bege  duodecim  denarios  ad 
duos  terminos,  medietatem,  scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten,  et 
aliam  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Langlevere,  domino 
Ricardo  de  Cletere,  Ricardo  Flandrensi,  Alexandro  de 
Punchunby,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Goseford, 
Willelmo  dispensatore,  et  multis  aliis. 

469.  CARTA  ROBERTI  ABBATIS  DE  xx  ACRIS  IN  TERRI- 
TORIO  DE  EGREMONT. 

OMNIBUS  Christi  fidelibus  presens  scriptum  visuris  vel 
audituris,  Robertus,1  abbas  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et 
ejusdem  loci  conventus,  eternam  in  domino  salutem. 
Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  dedisse,  concessisse  et  hac 

468.  1  Nicholas   de  Langeton,  prior  1258-82. 

469.  1  This  will  be  Robert  de  Longo  Campo,  abbot  from  1 1 89 
to  1239. 


464     REGISTRUM  PR1ORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

present!  carta  nostra  confirmasse  Johanni  de  Dreg,  elf  -\\ « >:/- 

<  t  },r P, hi, ii  ,  --.in-,  pro  J,orn;i;  .'-  -  r  viuo  suo  vi^inti  ;i/,r;i-, 
t-  n-  in  terftorto  de  Eggremund,  viz.,  totam  terrain  cum 
P<  1 1  iri'-ii<  iis  quam  Hawisa  de  Eggremund8  de  nobis  tenuit, 
libere,  quiete,  et  honorifice,  sicut  alii  franctenentes  nostri 

f|«       ,,ot,|  ,     tenant.        IV  J  .:,<",     r-t      |jf:n:d<--> 

in  rcddcnt  annuatim  priori  de  sancta  Bega,  qui  pro 
t-  mpore  hi'-iit,  quatuor  solidos  argenti  ad  duos  terming 
anni  pro  omm  -  i  icio,  exaccione  et  demanda,  vi/., 
in«li<  t;,t.  ni  ;.'!  \'<  nt •  <<,  ,t lien  et  medictatem  ad  i< 
»ancti  M;nfini  in  yemc.  Hoc  autem  eis  concedimus 
quamdiu  1  •• -M liter  erga  nos  habuerint  ct  predictam 
firmam  bene  reddiderint.  Si  vero  contigerit  eos  prefatam 
terrain  vivei  racioneamittere,nondabimuseise3Ccambium. 
Hit  t(;stibus  Will- 1  mo  tune  decano  Caupellande,4  Hugone 
d'  Moriceby,  Roberto  H<  Wilt  on,  kohf.rto  de  Bracethueit, 
Jordano  de  Dreg,  Johanne  mariscallo  de  Eggremund 
Mi'  li;i«-lrj  de  Newton,  et  multis  aliis. 

470.    [CARTA  HUGONIS  FILII  EDWARDI  DE  nj  ACRIS 

IN    K ELTON.1] 

3  John  clerk  of  Dreg  who  is  a  witness  to  No*.  291,  294. 

"The  name  only  occurs  here.    Hawisa  is  probably  n  <  <>H\\I\<,\\ 
burgher  of  Eggremund,  but  there  is  no  chronological  <liMi»  uit  > •  n. 

|.|<-l,1||y|j,j'    III.-   '!'•  ,'   Il|«fl';li     .Vlli,     1  i.:  '  .".Jif'-l    >,\    It,''   (    ',MMl<  •.  . 

Cicely.  Her  uncle  William  the  Boy  was  known  as  William  oi 
i  ;•!•  :;.',i  •,  KM  ii.-uri  »ii-  Lucy  as  Richard  of  Egremont. 

After  the  death  of  Alice  de  Rumelli,  daughter  of  \Villi;.n.  Meschin 
and  wife  of  Willi;un  iitz  Duncan,  the  barony  n:in;iim:»l  uuMivifi'-'i 
for  some  time  in  the  administration  of  the  Countess  (  Mcly,  the 
eldest  of  the  coheiresses. 

4  William  parson  oi    Wukinion,    \/.<>\  \ /./.•/.     '\\\<-  <>\\\<-\    wit 

n<  ••.  /  ••.,  \.i.\'.<  -ii  v/it  1 1  UK-  jM.-i.iit  oi ,  ;I.IMCC  with  tin:,  period  lot  a  jnot>al;J»- 
date,. 

470.       ''Ill*'    till-     '.    l.il.'-n    lion.    Ill'-    l;i.l,l«-    oi    roritents,    ;..  ,    tli«- 
top  ol    the  l«-;..l    l',  loin  oil    will,   j.ai  I    ol    lh«-  <\<  <  <\        The  olhei    side 

, .  blank, 


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466     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

Benedicto  fratre  suo,  Alexandro  de  Kaldra,  Ricardo  filio 
Johannis,  Ulfo  filio  Ewardi,  Roberto  presbitero  de  Pun- 
cuneby,  Roberto  capellano  de  Acrimonte,4  Michaele 
capellano  de  sancta  Bega,  et  multis  aliis. 

471.  CARTA  WILLELMI  FILII  HUGONIS  DE  EISDEM 
CUM  PERTINENCIIS. 

SCIANT  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Willelmus 
filius  Hugonis,1  concessi  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  illas  tres  acras 
terre  quas  pater  meus  dedit  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte 
Bege,  scilicet,  illas  quas  Jordanus  filius  Walteri  et  heredes 
sui  tenent  in  Gledemerthueit,  insuper  et  illam  acram 
quam  ego  dedi  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancte  Bege  in 
Keltona.  Et  hujus  acre  donacio  et  supradictarum  trium 

4  The  witnesses  suggest  a  date  about  1200  or  a  little  earlier. 
The  Latin  name  for  Egremont,  adopted  by  Richard  the  chaplain, 
has  the  support  of  Geoffrey  de  Monmouth  (Hist.  Britonum,  p.  27), 
who  speaks  of  the  burgus  de  A  crimonte  or  mons  dolosorum  founded 
by  the  legendary  Ebraucus.  In  the  foundation  charter  of  the 
borough  by  Richard  de  Lucy,  the  address  is  made  burgensibus 
meis  de  Acrimonte  and  the  witnesses  are  Adam  abbot  of  Caldra, 
Robert  prior  of  St.  Bega,  Henry  son  of  Arthur,  Alan  son  of  Retell, 
William  his  brother,  Hugh  son  of  Eward  (the  grantor  here),  Alan 
son  of  Benedict,  Gilbert  son  of  Gilbert,  Robert  de  Haveringtun, 
Adam  de  Landplogh,  Richard  son  of  Anketill  and  Robert  de 
Wiltona  (Transactions  of  C.  &  W.  Archteol.  Soc.,  i.  282,  facsimile). 
The  etymologists  were  early  at  work  on  the  place-names  of  the 
district. 

471.  l  William  son  of  Hugh  may  be  identified  with  William 
son  of  H.  who  with  Alan  de  Peintone  (Pennington)  and  Roger  son 
of  Edward  had  a  complicated  agreement  with  Richard  de  Lucy 
in  1208  touching  Renglas.  Alan,  William  and  Roger  acknow- 
ledged the  fee  of  Ravenglas  to  be  the  right  of  Richard,  and  in 
return  Richard  gave  them  the  whole  land  of  Saurescal  and  Mold- 
corkin  by  a  curious  tenure  graduating  from  Richard  to  William 
(Fed.  Fin.,  pp.  10-11,  Rec.  Com.).  The  parcels  of  Sosgill  and 
Mockerkin  lay  alongside  Kelton.  See  note  2  on  previous  charter, 
and  compare  with  the  next. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  467 

acrarum  confirmacio  ita  sit  firma  et  stabilis  sicut  ulla 
donacio  vel  confirmacio  possit  firmius  vel  stabilius  donari 
vel  confirmari.  Et  ideo  present  em  paginam  confirma- 
cionis  causa  sigilli  mei  apposicione  corroboravi.  Hiis 
testibus  Henrico  [filio]  Arturi,  et  Willelmo  filio  ejus, 
Willelmo  de  Bo  villa  et  Roberto  filio  ejus,  Willelmo  filio 
Ketelli,  Benedicto  [et]  Michaele  fratribus,  Radulfo  Corbet, 
Alejandro  filio  Ulf[i],  Anketino  filio  Durandi,  Alexandro 
filio  Ketelli,  Henrico  de  Frysyngton.2 

472.  CARTA  ADAM  DE  WAIBUTHWAIT  DE  TERRA  IN 
KELTONA,  j  ACRA. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Adam  de  Waybouthueit,1  dedi 
....  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege 
in  Couplanda  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  unam  acram  terre  in 
territorio  de  Keltone  jacentem  inter  tostelterun  et  inter 
Sputekelde  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  communibus  et 
aisiamentis  predicte  ville  infra  et  extra  pertinentibus. 
Tenendam  .  .  .  .  Et  sciendum  est  quod  predicti  monachi  de 
sancta  Bega  et  eorum  tenentes  habebunt  in  predictam 
pasturam  predicte  ville  quatuor  boves  et  octo  vaccas  cum 
sequelis  suis  unius  anni  et  xxx  oves  cum  sequelis  suis 
unius  anni  et  decem  capras  cum  sequelis  suis  anni  unius, 
et  duo  jumenta  cum  sequelis  suis  unius  anni  .... 
Hiis  testibus  Alano  de  Penyngton,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  Adam 
Grundy,  Ranulfo  de  Mari,  Waltero  de  Sewenhouhes,  David 
de  Kirkeby,  Hugone  filio  Si  ward,  et  aliis. 

2  This  deed  will  be  some  ten  years  later  than  that  which 
precedes  it. 

472.  l  Adam  de  Waybouthueit  here  may  be  identified  with 
the  Adam  son  of  William  son  of  Hugh  de  Waybuthethwait,  the 
grantor  of  Nos.  278  and  279,  and  therefore  the  son  of  William 
son  of  Hugh,  the  grantor  of  No.  471.  Compare  the  witnesses 
here  with  those  of  No.  278,  the  dates  of  which  will  be  nearly  the 
same,  about  1250. 


468         REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

473.  CARTA  GILBERTI  FILII   RICARDI    DE   FRANCEYS 
DE  J  ACRA  TERRE  IN  EADEM. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Gilbertus  filius  Richard!  de  Franceys, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  .  .  .  .  me 
dedisse  ....  Michaeli  de  Haveryngton  unam  acram  terre 
in  villa  de  Keltona,  illam,  scilicet,  quam  ego  tenui  de 
priore  et  monachis  de  sancta  Bega  cum  omnibus  edificiis 
super  eandem  constructis  et  aliis  pertinenciis  suis.  Ten- 
endam  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  predictis  priori  et 
monachis  dimidiam  libram  cimini  ad  festum  sancte  Bege1 
pro  omni  servicio  seculari,  consuetudine,  exaccione  et 
demanda  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Lang- 
livergh,  domino  Radulfo  de  Bethun,  domino  Nicholao 
de  Morisceby,  Thoma  de  Cletergh,  Ricardo  le  Flemeng, 
Johanne  le  Falconer,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  et  aliis. 

474.  CARTA  PETRI  TROVET  DE  j  ACRA  CUM  EDIFICIIS 
ETC.  IN  KELTON. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Petrus  Trovet  de  Kelton,  assensu 
et  consensu  Raynilde,  uxoris  mee,  et  heredum  meorum, 
concessi  ....  abbati  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  suis  suc- 
cessoribus  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  in  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  et  beate 
Marie  et  sancte  Bege  virgini  servientibus  unam  acram 
terre  cum  edificiis  desuper  constructis  in  Kelton,  quam- 
quidem  terram  Alicia  vidua  quondam  tenuit  de  dictis 
monachis.  Habendam  ....  Ita  eciam  quod  nee  ego, 
Petrus,  nee  heredes  mei  nee  mei  assignati  nee  Raynilda, 
uxor  mea  ....  jus  aut  clamium  in  predict  a  acra  terre  cum 
suis  pertinenciis  de  cetero  poterimus  exigere  vel  clamare. 
Et  ego,  Petrus,  et  heredes  mei  et  mei  assignati  et  Raynilda, 
uxor  mea,  predictam  acram  terre  ....  defendemus  contra 
omnes  mortales  inperpetuum  :  et  dicta  Raynilda,  uxor 

473.  1  There  is  a  note  at  No.  227  on  the  probable  date  of  the 
feast  of  St.  Bega. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA.  BEGA  469 

[mea],  juravit  super  armillam1  sancte  Bege  se  dictam 
concessionem,  reddicionem  et  quietam  clamacionem  rat- 
am  habere  et  stabilem  inperpetuum.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  . 
Hiis  testibus  dominis  Roberto  de  Haveryngton,  Ricardo 
de  Flammannk,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Landplog,  Hugone 
de  Moriceby,  Thoma  et  Johanne  de  eadem  fratribus  suis, 
Ricardo  de  Cletere,  Roberto  de  Frysyngton,  Willelmo 
clerico  de  sancta  Bega,  et  aliis. 

475.  CARTA  ROBERT:  STUBE  DE  TOTIS  TERRIS  suis  IN 
KELTON  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  ET  LIBERTATIBUS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Robertus  Stube,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noverit  ....  me  remisisse  .  .  .  .  de  me  et  heredibus  meis 
Deo  et  ecclesie  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  in 
Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  totam  terram  quam  tenui  de 
dictis  priore  et  monachis  in  villa  de  Kelton  et  totum  jus 
et  clamium  quod  habui  vel  uncquam  habere  potui  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis,  libertatibus,  communis  et  aisia- 
mentis  predicte  ville  de  Keltona  infra  et  extra  pertinent- 
ibus  .  .  .  .  Et  sciendum  est  quod  predicti  monachi  de  sancta 
Bega  et  eorum  tenentes  habebunt  in  pasturam  predicte 
ville  quatuor  boves  et  octo  vaccas  cum  sequelis  suis  unius 
anni  et  triginta  oves  cum  sequelis  suis  unius  anni  et  decem 
capras  cum  sequelis  suis  unius  anni  et  duo  juvencas  cum 
sequelis  suis  unius  anni ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Ricardo 
de  Cleterh,  Johanne  de  Langliverh,  Roberto  de  Lamplou, 
Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  Johanne  de  Hale,  Johanne  de  Gose- 
ford,  Ricardo  Flandrensi,  Willelmo  de  Kirkebystephan, 
Willelmo  de  Gyllyng,  et  aliis. 

476.  QUIETA     CLAMACIO     SYMONIS     DE     KELTON     DE 
LIBERTATIBUS  IN  EADEM. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Symon  films  Ricardi  de  Kelton, 

474.  l  For  the  local  custom  of  swearing  on  the  holy  bracelet 
of  St.  Bega,  see  note  2  on  No.  65. 


470  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

remisi  ....  religiosis  viris,  abbati  et  conventui  monasterii 
beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  necnon  priori  sancte  Bege  in  Coup- 
land  et  sociis  suis  ibidem  commorantibus  et  successoribus 
suis  universis,  totum  jus  et  clamium  quod  habui,  habeo  vel 
habere  potero  in  una  acra  terre  arabilis  quam  tenui  de 
priore  sancte  Bege  in  territorio  de  Kelton  que  jacet  juxta 
terram  ipsius  prioris  ex  parte  occidentali  et  terram  que 
vocatur  le  Crounk  ex  parte  orientali  ....  Hiis  testibus 
Johanne  le  Flemyng,  Johanne  de  Landplog,  Ricardo  de 
Cleter,  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Rotington,  Roberto  de 
Harras,  Nigello  de  Ayringthwait,  et  aliis. 

477.  CARTA  BENEDICT:  FILII  WILLELMI  FILII  ROGERI 
DE  TERRIS  ET  AISIAMENTIS  IN  SETON. 

SCIANT  om[n]es  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  egoy 
Benedictus  films  Willelmi  filii  Rogeri  de  Seton,1  dedi  et 
concessi  et  hac  presenti  mea  carta  confirmavi  Henrico 
filio  Thome,2  persone  de  Botle,  totam  terram  que  fuit 
Gunilde  matris  mee  in  eodem  campo,  ei  et  heredibus  suis, 
Tenendam  de  me  heredibus  in  feudo  et  hereditate,  libere 
et  quiete  cum  omnibus  communibus  aisiamentis  ville  de 
Seton  pertinentibus.  Reddendo  inde  michi  et  heredibus 
meis  annuatim  unam  piratam  cirotecarum  albarum  ad 
Pentecosten  pro  omni  servicio,  consuetudine  et  demanda. 
Et  istam  predictam  terram  ego  et  heredes  mei  predicto 
Henrico  et  heredibus  suis  contra  omnes  homines  warantiz- 
abimus.  Hiis  testibus  Ewardo  de  Kornai,  Alexandra  de 

477.  l  In  No.  170  Thomas  son  of  Robert  de  Seton  speaks  of 
Gunnild  his  grandmother  and  refers  to  her  charter.  Robert  de 
Seton,  therefore,  was  the  brother  of  Benedict  the  grantor  here, 
both  being  sons  of  Gunnild  perhaps  by  William  son  of  Roger. 
Gunnild  must  not  be  confounded  with  Gunnild,  daughter  of 
Henry  son  of  Arthur,  lord  of  Millom,  who  received  Lekeley  in 
Seton  from  her  father  in  marriage  with  Henry  son  of  William 
(Reg.  of  Holmcultram,  MS.  ff.  60-62)  :  she  was  the  daughter  of 
Alan  son  of  Ketel  as  stated  in  note  i  to  No.  263. 

2  For  charters  of  Henry  son  of  Thomas,  see  Nos.  263-5. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  471 

Hyton,  Ada  de  Hyton,  Henrico  filio  Johannis,  Johanne 
de  Bo  villa,  Ada  de  Meles,  et  aliis.8 

478.  CARTA  HENRICI  FILII  THOME  DE  TOTIS  TERRIS 
SUIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  SETON. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Henricus  filius  Thome,  quondam  per- 
sone  de  Botel,  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  de- 
disse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  priori  et  mona- 
chis  de  sancta  Bega  totam  terram  meam  in  territorio  cbe 
Seton  quam  habui  de  dono  Benedicti  filii  Willelmi  filii 
Rogeri  et  de  dono  Gunilde  matris  sue  cum  omnibus  per- 
tinenciis,  libertatibus,  aisiamentis  eidem  terre  pertinenti- 
bus,  sicut  plenius  in  cartis  dictorum  Benedicti1  et  Gunilde2 
continetur.  Quasquidem  cartas  prefatis  priori  et  mon- 
achis  simul  cum  terra  tradidi.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis 
testibus  domino  Alano  de  Penygton,  domino  Johanne  de 
Langlevere,  domino  Ada  de  Waybirthephait,  Edwardo  de 
Cornai,  Johanne  de  Boivill,  Benedicto  de  Rotington, 
David  de  Swaluhirst,  et  aliis.8 

479.  CARTA  N[ICHOLAI]  PRIORIS  DE  TERRIS  IN  SETONA. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Nicholaus  de  Langetona1  tune  temporis 
prior  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noveritis  me,  assensu  et  consensu  fratrum  meorum, 
dedisse  ....  domino  Roberto  de  Beverlik,2  rectori  ecclesie 
de  Botil,  et  heredibus  suis  vel  suis  assignatis,  unam  acram 
terre  in  territorio  de  Seton,  de  terra  quondam  Ricardi  de 
Mora,  que  scilicet  jacet  in  crofto  quondam  Odonis  versus 

3  Compare  the  witnesses  here  with  those  in  No.  263.  The  date 
will  fall  in  the  second  quarter  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

478.  l  See  previous  charter. 
2  No.  263. 

8  The  date  will  be  about  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth  century. 

479.  x  Prior  from  1258  to  1282  as  appears  from  dated  deeds 
in  this  Register. 

2  Only  occurs  here  in  the  Register. 


472     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

aquilonem  et  quam  dominus  Johannes  de  Langlivere8 
nobis  dedit  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  et  quam 
Benedictus  filius  Aldyche  quodam  tempore  de  nobis  ten- 
uit  ad  firmam  et  in  plena  curia  nostra  apud  sanctam 
Begam  nobis  reddidit  et  resignavit.  Tenendam  .... 
sicut  carta  domini  Johannis  de  Langliverye  testatur. 
Reddendo  inde  annuatim  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris 
apud  sanctam  Begam  sex  denarios  ad  duos  terminos 
anni,  videlicet,  tres  denarios  ad  Pentecosten  et  tres 
denarios  ad  festum  sancti  Martini  in  yeme,  pro  omni 
servicio  seculari  ....  Hiis  testibus  magistro  Johanni  de 
Reygate,4  rectore  ecclesie  de  Wytingham,  magistro  Will- 
elmo  de  Langliverye,  Rogero  de  eadem,  domino  Petro, 
rectore  ecclesie  de  Waybirthueit,  domino  Petro  de  Oke- 
ham,  capellano  de  Botil,  Ricardo  de  Corneye,  Alexandro 
de  Seton,  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Johanne  de  Pikeryng, 
Willelmo  de  Gedlyng,  tune  clerico  prioris,  et  aliis. 

480.  CARTA  REGIS  ANGLIE  CONCESSA  M[ONASTERIO] 
BEATE  MARIE,  EBORACI,  DE  LIBERTATIBUS  MONASTERII 

CUM  MEMBRIS  AC  PERTINENCIIS. 

UNTO  all  Cristen  people  to  wome  thies  presentes  shal 
come,  Wyliam1  thabbot  off  the  monasterie  of  owre  blyssyd 
lady  be  sydes  the  cetye  of  Yorke  sendith  greting  in  owre 
lorde  God  everlastyng.  For  so  muche  as  her  before 
William  Ruphus  then  kynge  of  England,  Henry  ye  first, 
Stephan,  Henry  ye  second,2  successive  kynges,  by  ther 
lettres  patentz  of  ther  certain  knawleg  and  meer  mocion 

s  See  Nos.  281-2. 

4  In  1278  Master  John  de  Reygate,  parson  of  the  church  of 
Wytingham,  had  a  grant  from  Ralf  de  Bethum  of  estovers  in 
Ralf's  wood  of  Wytingham  for  himself  and  his  successors  in  the 
church  of  Wytingham  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  6  Edw.  I.  No.  7). 

480.  1  William  Thornton,  abbot  from  1530  to  the  dissolution 
of  the  abbey  in  1539  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  539). 

2  The  charters  of  William  Rufus,  Stephen  and  Henry  II.  are 
printed  in  Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  547-50. 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA     473 

emonge  other  grette  thynges  hath  gevyn  and  grantyd 
unto  ye  sayd  monasterie  the  especiall  privilegies  and 
libertes  for  them  and  ther  [successors]  for  ever  that 
thabbot  and  monks  of  the  sayd  monasterie  and  ther 
successorrs  for  ever  have  and  occupye  all  ther  landes  and 
lyvelode  frelie  and  quiete  frome  all  worldely  service  in 
perpetuall  possession,  wyth  the  same  lawes  and  liberties, 
dignities  and  customes  as  hathe  the  churche  of  saint 
[Peter]  off  York  or  the  churche  of  saint  John  of  Beverlay 
and  that  the  sayd  [abbot  and  monks]  and  ther  successors 
for  ever  schal  have  al  maner  of  catalles  and  guddes  of  ther 
men  and  tenants  owtlawyd,  dampned  and  fugitive,  and 
also  that  the  sayd  abbot  and  monks,  theer  men  and 
tenandes  shalbe  fre  and  quiete  in  cetie  and  burght,  in 
markytt  and  faire  and  passage  of  brygges  and  portes  of 
the  see  and  in  all  other  places  of  England,  Ireland  and 
Wales,  by  water  and  lande  of  al  maner  of  toll,  tallage, 
passage,  stallage,  wardage,  murage,  cariage,  femgild, 
hornegell,  forgell,  pennigell,  miskenyng,8  chevage,  chem- 
inage,  herbage,  trubutes,  suits  of  curtes,  hundredth, 
wapintakes,  Rithings,  escapie,  concelamentes,  and  of  all 
-charges  of  shiriffes,  baylyffes,  exchetores,  and  of  the  othir 
ofhceres  and  ministeres  of  ye  kyng  and  of  all  maner 
recognicions,  inquisiciones,  somondes,  and  all  other  suche 
exactions,  and  that  also  noo  scheryf,  exchetor,  ballyfe  or 
other  ministre  or  officer  unto  ye  kyng  shall  enter  any  offor 
grund  or  any  man  tak,  bete,  slea,  or  otherwise  violente 
commite,  or  in  anything  us  or  thame  in  bodies  or  gudes 
hurt,  vex  or  disturbe,  as  more  at  large  it  apperyth  by  the 
sayd  letters  patentes  wyche  ye  kyng  our  soveraine  lorde 

8  The  Law  dictionaries  and  glossaries  must  be  consulted  for 
explanations  of  these  feudal  incidents,  so  far  as  they  existed  in 
feudal  law  :  several  of  them  seem  to  have  been  adopted  at  random 
by  the  good  abbot  William.  For  the  genuine  names,  the 
"  Expositiones  vocabulorum  "  in  the  Red  Book  of  the  Exchequer 
(R.S.  p.  1032-9)  or  the  "  Explicatio  vocum  veterum  "  in  Raine, 
North  Durham,  App.  No.  DCX.,  may  be  referred  to. 


474  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Henri  ye  viii  that  no  we  is  of  especiall  grace,  meere  motion 
and  cartane  knowlege,  emonges  other  thynges  bountifully 
grantyd  unto  ye  sayd  monasterij,  and  by  all  other  hys 
nobyll  progenitors,  kynges  of  England,  succesiviely  sith 
the  first  grawnt  of  ye  same  be  confirmyd.  Therefore  we 
desieryng  all  cure  men  and  tennandes  in  ye  countie  of 
Cumbrie  and  every  of  thame  to  be  dischargyd  according 
to  ryght  of  all  and  every  of  the  premisses  have  cawsyd  to 
be  made  thies  presentes,  testifyeng  the  sayd  men  and 
tennandes  w*in  ye  sayd  counte  of  ryrght  worthi  to  be 
dischargyd  accordyng  to  the  sayd  premissies,  wherfor  we 
in  owre  moste  hartely  maner  desire  and  pray  your  uni- 
versite  and  on  guddes  behalfe  require  you  and  every  of 
you  to  suffer  or  saide  men  and  tennants  and  every  of 
thame  frome  tyme  to  tyme  peaxably  to  enjoie  the  sayd 
previleges  and  liberties  w*out  eny  interrupcion  or  contra- 
diction of  you  or  any  of  yow  in  that  behalfe,  wherby  ye 
schall  not  oonlie  avoide  ye  sentance  of  the  grete  cursyng 
and  othier  censures  of  ye  church,  lawfully  providyd 
ayenst  suche  persones  as  presumyt  to  attempe  any  thyng 
ayens  ye  privileges,  liberties  and  fraunches  of  ye  sayd 
monasterij,  bot  as  well  deserve  the  especial  prayeres  of 
all  the  bredren  of  ye  same  to  thencres  of  yor  merites  and 
rewardes  in  hevyn.  In  wetnesse  wharofe  we  the  sayd 
Abbot  have  sett  or  sell  unto  thies  presentes.  Yeven  in 
ye  sayd  monasterij  in  ye  fest  of  saint  Georg4  anno  regni 
regis  Henrici  viii,  xxv°. 

481.  CARTA  ROGERI  FILII  EDWARD  DE  j  DOMO  ET 
inj  ACRIS  IN  RANGLASS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Roger  films  Edwardi,1  salutem  in  domino. 

4  23  April,   1533. 

481.  *  Roger  son  of  Edward  appears  in  No.  269  as  the  grantor 
of  land  in  Waberthwaite.  His  plea  with  Richard  de  Lucy  in 
1208,  touching  the  whole  land  and  whole  fee  of  Renglas,  in  which 
he  was  associated  with  William  son  of  H[ugh  son  of  Edward]  and 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  475 

Noveritis  me,  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  antecessorum 
meorum  et  successorum,  dedisse  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie 
et  celle  sancte  Bege  de  Coupelandia  et  monachis  ibidem 
Deo  servientibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
unam  domum  juxta  crucem2  in  Renglass  et  quatuor  acras 
terre  arabilis  de  dominico  meo  in  eadem  villa,  unam, 
scilicet,  acram  propinquiorem  terre  que  fuit  Alexandri3 
filii  mei  versus  rivulum  qui  cadit  in  Esk4  fluvium  juxta 
predictam  crucem,  et  iii  acras  ex  altera  parte  versus 
aquilonem  inter  terram  que  fuit  predict!  Alexandri  et 
terram  meam  que  terminatur  in  placea  predicte  ville  et 
extendunt  (sic)  se  ascendendo  usque  ad  pratum,  cum 
communi  pastura  et  omnibus  aisiamentis  predicte  ville 
pertinentibus.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Weiburethweit, 
Thoma  de  Yrton,  Roberto  de  Branthwertwith,  Waltero 
senescallo  de  Wirkyngtona,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  Michaele 
Newton,  David  de  Kirkeby,  et  multis  aliis.5 

482.    CARTA  ALANI  FILII  ROGERI  DE  ij  ACRIS  TERRE 

IN    EADEM. 

Alan  of  Pennington,  has  been  referred  to  in  a  note  under  No.  471. 
To  William  remained  a  fishery  in  the  Mighet  or  Mite  which  dis- 
charges into  the  sea  at  Ravenglass,  where  also  some  land  belong- 
ing to  Alan's  fee  was  reserved  to  Roger  (Pedes  Fin.,  pp.  10-11, 
Rec.  Com.).  It  is  suggested  that  Roger  was  the  elder  son  of 
Edward  and  lord  of  Waberthwaite,  from  which  the  territorial 
name  was  adopted  by  Edward's  descendants. 

2  The  cross  in  Renglass  probably  refers  to  the  market-cross, 
the  site  of  which  is  still  preserved  in  the  bottle-shaped  street  of 
that  village.  On  20  August,  1208,  King  John,  while  he  was  at 
Kyrkebi  in  Kendale,  granted  to  Richard  de  Lucy  a  yearly  fair 
on  St.  James'  Day,  and  a  weekly  market  on  Saturday,  at  his  manor 
of  Renglas  (Rot.  Chart.,  p.  182,  Rec.  Com.),  for  which  he  gave  one 
good  palfrey  (Pipe  Rolls  of  Cumb.,  pp.  129,  135). 

8  See  his  charter  at  No.  486. 

4  The  estuary  of  Ravenglass  is  formed  by  the  confluence  of  the 
Esk,  Irt  and  IVite,  the  latter  occupying  the  central  position. 

5  The  date  seems  to  be  about  1220-30. 


476  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego, 
Alarms  films  Roger!,1  dedi,  concessi  et  hac  mea  present! 
carta  confirmavi  Ivoni  filio  Michaelis  et  Alicie,  cognate 
mee,  duas  acras  terre  mee  in  Ranglas  pro  homagio  suo  et 
servicio,  scilicet,  unam  acram  et  dimidiam  in  crofto  quern 
Robertus  Logan  tenuit,  et  dimidiam  acram  super  Watsad- 
ding,2  eis  et  heredibus  suis  tenendas  et  habendas  de  me 
et  heredibus  meis,  in  feudo  et  hereditate,  libere  et  quiete 
[et]  honorifice  cum  omnibus  aisiamentis  tante  terre  in 
eadem  villa  pertinentibus.  Reddendo  inde  per  annum 
duos  denarios,  scilicet,  in  die  Pasche.  Ego  vero,  Alanus, 
et  heredes  mei  totam  predictam  terram  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  contra  omnes  homines  warantizabimus  et  ab 
omni  forinseco  servicio  quasi  liberum  maritagium8  defend- 
emus.  Hiis  testibus  Adam  filio  Willelmi,  Edwardo  de 
•Cornai,  Rogero  filio  E[d]wardi,  Ricardo  filio  Roberti. 

483.    CARTA  ALANI  FILII  ROGERI  DE  ij  ACRIS  TERRE 

€UM   PERTINENCIIS   IN    RANGLAS. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Alanus  films  Rogeri  de  Renglas,  salutem 
in  domino.  Noverit  ....  me  ....  dedisse  ....  Deo  et 
abbacie  sancte  Marie,  Eboraci  et  celle  sancte  Bege  in 
Couplandia  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  in 
puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  duas  acras  terre  mee 
in  Ranglas  cum  pertinenciis,  unam,  videlicet,  acram  et 
dimidiam  in  crofto  quod  Robertus  Logan  tenuit,  et  dim- 
idiam acram  super  Watriding  cum  communi  pastura  omni- 
modis  animalibus  hominis  illius  qui  predictam  terram  de 
predictis  monachis  tenebit  et  cum  omnibus  communibus 
aisiamentis  predicte  ville  de  Ranglass  pertinentibus  .... 

482.     l  Son  of  the  grantor  of  the  previous  charter. 

2  Watriding  in  next  charter. 

3  By  this  deed  Alan  son  of   Roger  appears  to  convey  some 
land  in  Renglas  to  Ives  son  of  Michael  as  a  marriage  portion  with 
his  relative  Alice  :    in  the  next  deed  the  said  land  is  bestowed  on 
the  monks  of  St.  Bees. 


REGI  STRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA  477 

Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Adam  filio  Willelmi, 
Petro  de  Sevenhoues,  Jordano  de  Dreg,  Michaele  de 
Neuton,  David  de  Kirkeby,  et  multis  aliis. 

484.  CARTA  IVONIS  DE  RANGLAS  DE  TOTA  TERRA  CUM 
PRATO  IN  LlKOKERIDING. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ivo  faber  de  Ranglas,1  ....  dedi 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  sancte  Bege  in  Coup- 
land  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  totam  terrain 
meam  cum  prato  in  Likokeryding,  que,  videlicet,  terra 
jacet  inter  terram  Richardi  le  Batwrith2  et  rivulum 
descendentem  de  Heyriding  in  latitudine  et  extendit  se 
a  terra  prioris  de  Conigsheved8  usque  ad  terram  domini 
de  Penigton4  in  longitudine.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testi- 
bus dominis  Johanne  de  Langliver,  Nicholao  Morisciby, 
Roberto  de  Lanplog',  militibus,  Waltero  de  Sevenhows, 
Willelmo  de  Waibirthwaith,  Ricardo  Flandrensi,  Johanne 
de  Hale,  et  aliis. 

485.  CARTA  IVONIS  DE  j  ACRA  ET  DIMIDIA  CUM  PER- 
TINENCIIS  IN  RANGLAS. 


484.     l  The  grantor  may  apparently  be  identified  with 
son  of  Michael  at  No.  482. 

2  For  this  person,  see  notes  on  Nos.  461,  465. 

8  The  canons  of  Conishead  had  several  grants  of  land  in  Raven- 
glass.  Roger  de  Ranglas  (no  doubt,  Roger  son  of  Edward,  the 
grantor  of  Nos.  269  and  481)  gave  two  acres  in  the  vill  of  Ranglas 
lying  above  the  fields  called  Grastamflet  and  Watelandes,  between 
the  land  of  Richard  le  Batewrit  and  the  land  of  Hubert  de 
Neueton  :  also  9^  acres  there  :  the  whole  land  upon  Editheknot 
in  the  same  vill.  Richard  son  of  Robert  de  Ranglas  gave  a 
fourth  part  of  land  in  the  same  vill,  bounded  as  Hulotbec  falls 
on  the  sand,  then  up  the  beck  to  Aylficroft  and  thence  to  Kirksti 
and  so  to  the  King's  highway  (ad  stratum  regiam],  and  thus  south- 
ward to  the  said  Hulotbec  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  vi.  558). 

4  If  the  date  of  the  deed  be  about  1250  or  within  ten  years  on 
either  side,  the  lord  of  Penigton  here  mentioned  will  be  Alan  de 
Pennington,  lord  of  Muncaster  (Penningtoniana,  pp.  g-n). 


478  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Ivo  faber  de  Renglas  ....  remisi 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  in  Coup- 
land  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus,  totum  jus  et 
clamium  quod  habui  vel  habere  potui  in  una  acra  et 
dimidia  terre  super  Graftaneslete  jacente  inter  croftum 
meum  et  croftum  Gilberti  filii  Radulfi  in  latitudine  et  a 
magna  via  usque  Todheleriding  in  longitudine  cum  toto 
gardino  et  omnibus  domibus  et  edificiis  in  predicta  terra 
constructis  et  dimidia  acra  terre  mee  et  prati  in  Likeke- 
riding  inter  terram  Ricardi  le  Batwricte  et  rivulum  des- 
•cendentem  de  Heyeriding  in  latitudine  et  extendit  se  a 
terra  prioris  de  Connisheved  usque  ad  terram  domini  de 
Peniton  in  longitudine.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testibus 
•dominis  Johanne  de  Langlivere,  Roberto  de  Lantploch, 
Nicholao  de  Moriceby,  militibus,  domino  Gilberto  rectore 
ecclesie  de  Botle,  Johanne  Falconario,  Ricardo  Flan- 
•drensi,  Rogero  de  Renglas,  et  aliis. 

486.    CARTA  ALEXANDRI  FILII  ROGERI  FILII  EDWARDI 

DE  J  ACRA  ET  DIMIDIA  CUM  AISIAMENTIS  IN  RANGLAS. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  presentibus  et  futuris  quod  ego, 
Alexander1  films  Rogeri  filii  Edwardi  dedi  et  concessi  et 
hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et 
sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servi- 
•entibus  unam  acram  terre  et  dimidiam  in  villa  que  vocatur 
Reynglas2  cum  aisiamentis  infra  villam  et  extra,  que  jacet 
versus  aquilonem  inter  toftum  Yvonis  et  Gilberti  filii 
Radulfi,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Tenendam 
libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  seculari  servicio.  Et  ut  hec 
donacio  mea  rata  et  illibata  permaneat,  huic  scripto  sig- 
illum  meum  apposui.  Ego  autem  et  heredes  mei  pre- 
dictam  terram  predictis  monachis  et  eorum  assignatis 
omnes  homines  warantizabimus.  Hiis  testibus  Hugone 

486.     l  For  the  grantor,  see  No.  481. 

2  This  is  a  welcome  form  of  the  name  in  the  evolution  of  the 
modern  orthography  of  Ravenglass. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  479 

de  Moriceby,  Roberto  de  Braunthayt,  Ada  de  Mosherh, 
Roberto  de  Landploth,  Willelmo  filio  Dereman,  Jurdano 
de  Dreg,  et  multis  aliis.3 

487.  CARTA  ALICIE   UXORIS   IVONIS   DE   MEDIETATE 
TOCIUS  TERRE  SUE  IN  RANGLAS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego,  Alicia1  quondam  uxor  Ivonis 
fabri  de  Rayneglas,  in  mea  prospera  viduitate,  dedi  .... 
medietatem  tocius  terre  mee,  quam  habui  vel  postmodum 
aliquo  jure  hereditario  habere  potui  in  villa  de  Rayneglas, 
et  medietatem  tofti  et  crofti  mei  in  eadem  villa,  in  libero 
maritagio  cum  filia  mea  Eda,  de  me  et  heredibus  meis, 
Johanni  cimentario  et  heredibus  suis  vel  cuicunque  seu 
quibuscunque  assignare  voluerit  cum  omnibus  libertatibus 
et  aisiamentis  predicte  terre  pertinentibus  ....  Tenendam 
....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  priori  sancte  Bege,  qui  pro 
tempore  fuerit,  tancquam  in  elemosina,  tres  denarios  ad 
duos  terminos,  viz.,  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Martini 
in  yeme  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten  pro  omni 
servicio  seculari  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Alano  de 
Penigtona,  milite,  Johanne  Nigro,  Willelmo  filio  ejus, 
Willelmo  de  Egremonte  manente  in  Rayneglas,  Roberto 
cimentario  de  eadem  villa,  Willelmo  Frawuk  de  eadem, 
et  multis  aliis.2 

488.  CARTA  JOHANNIS  FIL.  RICARDI  CEMENTARII  DE 
TERRA  ET  TENEMENTO  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN  RANGLAS. 

SCIANT  ....  quod  ego  Johannes  films  Richardi  Cement- 
arii  de  Abirford,  assensu  et  voluntate  Ede,  filie  Ivonis 
fabri  de  Raynglas,  uxoris  mee,  dedi  ....  Deo  et  beate 

8  The  date  cannot  be  much  later  than  1240. 

487.  l  For  Alice's  marriage  portion  with  Ives  the  smith,  see 
No.  482.  By  the  present  deed  she,  in  her  widowhood,  dowers 
her  daughter  Eda  on  her  marriage  with  John  the  mason. 

2  This  deed  is  considerably  later,  perhaps  about  1270. 


480  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Marie  Eborac[i]  et  beate  Bege  virgin!  et  monachis  apud 
sanctam  [Begam]  Deo  et  beate  Bege  servientibus  totam 
terrain  et  totum  tenementum  quam  et  quod  Alicia  quond- 
am uxor  Yvonis  fabri  de  Raynglas  in  libera  viduitate  sua 
michi  dedit  in  eadem  villa  in  libero  maritagio  cum  Eda 
filia  sua.  Tenendam  ....  sicut  carta  dicte  Alicie  quam 
predicti  monachi  habent  penes  se  testatur  plenius  et  pro- 
portat  .  .  .  .  Et  dicta  Eda  in  vigilia  sancti  Oswaldi  Regis1 
anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  fil.  Regis  Henrici  vii°  juravit 
super  armillam2  sancte  Bege  omnia  ista  rata  habere  et 
inconcussa  inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Alano 
de  Coupland,  domino  Alano  de  Penyton,  domino  Radulfo 
de  Bethum,  militibus,  Willelmo  de  Waybirthueyt,  Will- 
elmo  de  Morthyng,  Adam  de  Auisthueit,  Willelmo  de 
Egremund  de  Raynglas,  Johanne  le  heir  de  eadem  et 
multis  aliis. 

489.  CARTA  ALICIE  UXORIS  YVONIS  FABRI  DE  OMNI- 
BUS TERRIS  ET  TENEMENTIS  SUIS  CUM  PERTINENCIIS  IN 

RANGLAS. 

UNIVERSIS  ....  Alicia  que  fuit  uxor  Yvonis  fabri  de 
Ranglas,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me, 
in  propria  viduitate  et  ligia  potestate  mea,  concessisse 
....  Deo  et  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  beate  Bege  virgini  et 
monachis  apud  sanctam  Begam  Deo  et  beate  Bege  ser- 
vientibus, omnes  terras  et  tenementa  cum  pertinenciis, 
quas  Yvo  faber,  quondam  maritus  meus,  dedit  in  Ranglas 
celle  beate  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  monachis  in  eadem  cella 
Deo  et  beate  Bege  servientibus  et  omnes  terras  et  tene- 
menta quas  Rogerus  films  Edwardi  dedit  eidem  celle  in 
villa  de  Ranglas  et  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  quas  Alex- 
ander et  Alanus  filii  Rogeri  filii  Edwardi,  avunculi  mei, 

488.     l  4  August,  1279. 

2  For  the  use  of  this  relic  to  give  greater  sanctity  to  oaths,  see 
Nos.  65  and  304  and  compare  with  my  narrative  in  V.  C.  H. 
Cumb.,  ii.  181. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  481 

dederurit  eidem  celle.  Tenendas  ....  sicut  carte  pre- 
dictorum  Yvonis,  Rogeri,  Alexandri  et  Alani,  quas  pre- 
dict! monachi  habent  penes  se,  testantur  plenius  et  pro- 
portant.  Ita  quod  nee  ego  nee  aliquis  heredum  meorum 
....  aliquid  preter  preces  et  oraciones  de  predictis  terns 
de  cetero  valeamus  exigere  vel  habere  ....  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Radulfo  de  Bethum,  milite,  Willelmo  de  Morthyng, 
Willelmo  de  Waythebutwat,  Henrico  de  Botyll,  Johanne 
filio  David,  Thoma  de  Auisthwait,  Willelmo  de  Egremund, 
Willelmo  de  Dereman,  et  aliis. 

490.  CARTA  ALICIE  DE  ROMELEY  DE  TERRIS  IN  RIB- 
TON. 

SCIANT  omnes  tarn  futuri  quam  presentes  quod  ego, 
Alicia  de  Romili,1  filia  Willelmi  filii  Dunecani,  quietum 
clamavi  Willelmo  de  Ribton2  et  heredibus  suis,  pro  horn- 
agio  et  servicio  suo,  drengagium3  quod  clamavi  in  Ribelton 
quam  Gamell,  pater  suus,  tenuit  de  me.  Et  concedo  et 
volo  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmo  quod  predictus 
Willelmus  et  heredes  sui  teneant  predictam  Ribelton  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  de  me  et  de  heredibus  meis 

490.     l  For  the  grantor,  see  the  note  on  No.  453. 

a  William  de  Ribton  is  the  second  lord  of  Ribelton  or  Ribton, 
a  township  in  the  parish  of  Bridekirk,  his  father  Gamell  being  the 
first,  of  whom  there  is  charter  evidence.  According  to  No.  498, 
Waldeve,  son  of  Earl  Gospatric,  lord  of  Allerdale,  the  predecessor 
of  Alice  the  grantor  here,  enfeoffed  Waldeve  son  of  Gilemin  of 
the  vills  of  Broughton,  Ribton  and  Little  Broughton  as  a  marriage 
portion  with  Ethreda  his  sister.  No  existing  evidence  connects 
Gamell  with  this  grantee.  But  Gamell  de  Ribton  was  the  con- 
temporary of  Alan  son  of  Waldeve  and  was  witness  of  a  charter 
whereby  he  enfeoffed  Waldeve  son  of  Dolfin  of  the  vill  of  Brachen- 
thwaite  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xiij.).  From  the  days  of  Gamel  de 
Ribton  in  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century  till  the  early  part  of 
the  seventeenth,  when  it  was  alienated  by  William  Ribton  and 
Jane  his  wife,  and  George  Ribton  and  Susan  his  wife,  the  manor 
was  held  by  this  family  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  9  James  I.  Trin.). 

3  For  the  nature  of  this  tenure,  see  note  2  on  No.  223. 

2  I 


482  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

libere  et  quiete  et  honorifice.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
michi  vel  heredibus  meis  xx4i  solidos  scilicet,  xcem  solidos 
termino  Pasche  et  xcem  solidos  termino  f esti  sancti  Michaelis 
et  faciendo  inde  liberum  servicium  secundum  quod  ad 
tantum  terre  pertinet,  quod  ceteri  liberi  homines  mei  de 
Alredal  solent  et  debent  mihi  facere  de  liberis  tenementis 
suis,  que  de  me  tenent,  salvo  forinseco  servicio4  domini 
regis.  Et  pro  hac  concessione  et  quieta  clamancia  pre- 
dictus  Willelmus  dedit  mihi  xx11  marcas  argenti.  Hiis 
testibus  Thoma  filio  Gospatricii,  Hormo  de  Ireby,  Gilberto 
filio  Gilberti,  Willelmo  filio  Adam,  Alano  de  Camerton, 
Roberto  de  Haurinton,  Thoma  de  Brundefeld,  Willelmo 
de  Derham,  Johanne  de  Dene,  Gerardo  de  Bramtueit, 
Willelmo  de  Apelthueit,  Patricio  Bruno,  Ranulpho  Bruno.5 

491.  CARTA  GILBERT:  FILII  ADE  DE  ij  ACRIS  TERRE 

IN  OVERKELET  CUM  PERTINENCIIS.1 

492.  CARTA  PRO  REDDITU  DE  HARRES. 

OMNIBUS  ....  Johannes  Moresby,1  dominus  de  Harres, 

4  On  "  forinsec  service  "  belonging  to  the  King,  see  my  narrative 
in  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.  322-4.  In  a  charter  in  Reg.  Epis.  Glasg. 
(Bann.  Club.  i.  73),  the  service  is  thus  denned  :  "  Sepedictus  enim 
Simo  ibit  mecum  super  [equum]  suum  ad  forinseca  regis  servicia 
facienda.  Ego  vero  dum  mecum  sit  sibi  et  equo  suo  omnia 
necessaria  inveniam.  Et  si  equus  suus  in  meo  servicio  moriatur, 
ego  illi  alium  reddam.  Et  si  contigerit  quod  ipse  mecum  ire 
non  poterit  alium  in  loco  mihi  inveniet." 
Date  about  1200-1210. 

491.  1  Duplicate  of  No.  458.     In  the  table  of  contents  the 
two  acres  are  described  as  lying  inter  terras  que  vocantur  Spitelflat 
juxta  Carnforih  et  in  exitu  ejusdem  ville  ad  dextram  vnius  tofti  et 
vnius  crofti  continencium  vnam  rodam  et  communam  ut  patet  t>er 
cartam. 

492.  *  The  grantor  here  must  have  been  a  scion  of  the  house 
of  Moresby,  but  his  exact  position  has  not  been  definitely  ascer- 
tained.    He   was  probably  the   same   person  who   had  a  com- 
mission in  1460  to  purchase  horses  for  the  King's  mails  and  who 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   GEBA  483 

armiger,  salutem  in  domino.  Cum  nuper  discordia  fuit 
inter  me  et  abbatem  monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci, 
ac  priorem  celle  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  pro  quodam 
clauso  juxta  Whillyngmor,  wocato  Harres  close,2  capto  et 
incluso  ut  de  parcella  communie  pasture  dictorum  abbatis 
et  prioris.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  ....  predictis  abbati 
monasterii  beate  Marie,  Eboraci,  et  priori  celle  sancte 
Bege  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  et  successor- 
ibus suis  unum  annualem  redditum  quindecim  denari- 
orum exeunt  em  de  clauso  meo  predict  o  juxta  Whyllyng- 
more  vocato  Harres  close.  Habendum  et  reddendum 
predictum  annualem  redditum  quindecim  denariorum 
predictis  abbati  et  priori  ac  monachis  et  suis  successoribus 
ad  festa  sancte  Martini  in  yeme  et  Pentecostes  per  equales 
porciones.  Et  si  contingat  predictum  redditum  quin- 
decim denariorum  aretro  esse  ad  aliquem  terminum  quo 
solvi  debeat  in  parte  vel  in  toto  quod  tune  bene  licebit 
predictis  abbati  et  priori  ac  monachis  et  suis  successoribus 
in  predicto  inclauso  distringere  et  districciones  inde 
ducere,  fugare,  asportare  et  penes  eos  retinere,  quousque 
de  predicto  annuo  redditu,  si  qui  fuerint,  eis  plenarie 
fuerit  satisfactum.  Et  ego  vero,  predictus  Johannes,  et 
heredes  mei  predictum  annualem  redditum  quindecim 
denariorum  predictis  abbati  et  priori  ac  monachis  et  suis 
successoribus  contra  omnes  gentes  warantizabimus  in- 
perpetuum.  Et  pro  possessione  predicti  redditus  pre- 
dictis abbati  et  priori  ac  monachis  unum  denarium 
deliberavi.  In  cujus  rei  .  .  .  .  Datum  apud  Harres  primo 
die  Augusti  anno  [regni]  regis  Henrici  sexti  post  con- 
questum  Anglie  vicesimo  quinto.3  Hiis  testibus,  domino 

received  in  the  following  year  the  laundership  of  the  park  of 
Plumton  near  Penrith  (Cal.  of  Pat.,  1452-61,  p.  625  :  Ibid.,  1461-7, 

P-  51)- 

2  These  places  lie  close  to  the  manor  of  Moresby,  and  the  interest 

of  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  therein  is  authenticated  by  several  deeds 
in  this  Register. 

3  i   August,   1447. 


484  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Willelmo  Brokylbank,  rectorc  de  Cornay,  Johanne  Skel- 
ton,  Nicolao  Skelton,  Willelmo  Sandz,  Willelmo  Ponsunby, 
et  aliis. 

493.      [LlMITES  ET  BUNDE  DE  RODYNGTON.] 

MEMORANDUM  quod  anno  domini  m°  cccc  septuagesimo 
quarto,  vicesimo  sexto  die  mensis  Octobris,  isti  subscripts 
indifferenter  electi  per  venerabiles  viros,  dominum  Thorn- 
am  Curwen,  militem,  et  Johannem  Penyngton,1  armi- 
gerum,  amicabiles  pads  compositores  inter  Johannem 
Warde,2  tune  priorem  sancte  Bege,  et  Christoferum  Sandz, 
liberum  tenentem  de  Rodyngton,3  jurati  in  presencia 
dictorum  venerabilium  virorum,  Thome  Curwen  et  Johan- 
nis  Penyngton  et  Thome  Eglisfeld,  per  sacramentum  suum 
ad  fideliter  pergendum  metas  terre  sancte  Bege  juxta 
mare  in  campo  de  Rodyngton  :  quod  actum  est  die  et 
anno  predicto  coram  dictis  venerabilibus  viris  et  multis 
aliis. 

Ricardus  Hogeson  de  Kyrkby 
Thomas  Jonson  de  eadem 
Wylliam  Porter  de  eadem 
John  Hogeson  de  eadem 
Ricardus  Cape  de  Sandwath 
John  Sanderson  de  eadem 
Jurati  Ricardus  Payntour  senior  de  eadem 

Ricardus  Payntour  junior  de  eadem 
Nicholaus  Jonson  de  le  Seecote 
Thomas  Lownde  de  Rodyngton 
John  Payntour  de  eadem      j        Tenentes 
John  Cape  de  eadem  Christopori 

Jacobus  Wycliffe  de  eadem  J          Sandz 

493.  l  For  the  adjudicators  here,  see  W.  Jackson,  Papers  and 
Pedigrees,  i.  305. 

*  Prior  John  Warde  occurs  only  here  in  the  Register.  In  1473 
he  was  admitted  a  brother  in  the  Guild  of  Corpus  Christi  at  York 
(Surtees  Soc.,  No.  57,  p.  84). 

:i  On  the  troubles  between  the  monks  of  St.  Bees  and  the  lords- 
of  Rottington,  see  Nos.  164,  451-2,  with  the  notes  there. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  485 

Isti  inceperunt  transitum  suum  ad  australem  angulum 
cujusdam  fossati  dicti  Christoferi  Sandz  prope  cursum 
aque  qui  dividit  ex  convencione  terras  prioris  a  terra  dicti 
Christoferi  extra  fossatum  le  pete  grovis4  (blank  in  MS.) 
Deinde  transitum  fecerunt  per  dictum  fossatum  dicti 
Christoferi  usque  ad  quemdam  parvum  cursum  aque 
vocatum  Knapehow  syke  ;  deinde  per  le  upcast  aratri 
usque  ad  quamdam  divisam  vel  ranam  directe  sub  le 
Knapehowe  ;  deinde  per  dictam  ranam  ascendendo  usque 
le  Knapehowe  ubi  est  congeries  lapidum  ;  deinde  per 
quamdam  divisam  usque  ad  magnam  ranam  sub  le  Rayse : 
deinde  per  dictam  ranam  usque  ad  summitatem  ejus  : 
deinde  ex  transverse  versus  aquilonem  usque  le  Rayse  ubi 
est  congeries  lapidum  :  deinde  per  quamdam  divisam  et 
foramina  terre  usque  caprariam  prioris  :  deinde  ascend- 
endo versus  aquilonem  per  propinquam  ranam  dicte 
caprarie  usque  terram  ecclesie  sancte  Bege :  deinde 
descendendo  per  dictam  terram  ecclesie  versus  mare  usque 
le  upcast  aratri :  deinde  usque  le  Grenehowgapp  per  le 
upcast  aratri :  deinde  usque  in  mare.5 

494.  PATE  AT  universis  per  present  es  me,  Rogerum 
Armyn,  priorem  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia,  recipisse  et 
habuisse,  die  confeccionis  presencium  de  W[illelm]o 
Haryngton1,  armigero,  receptore  reverendissime  domine, 
domine  de  Haryngton,  octo  solidos  pro  una  quarta  frum- 

4  In  the  manuscript  here  there  is  a  line  and  a  half  erased. 

5  This  deed,  like  that  which  follows,  has  no  title  in  the  Register  : 
Nos.  492-4  are  not  indexed  in  the  table  of  contents. 

494.  l  After  the  death  of  Sir  William  Haryngton  of  Aldyn- 
gham,  knight,  on  10  March,  1458,  the  Haryngton  estates  passed 
to  William  lord  Bonville  the  younger,  son  of  his  daughter  Eliza- 
beth (Inq.  p.  m.,  36  Hen.  VI.  No.  20),  and  from  this  William  lord 
Bonville  to  his  daughter  Cicely,  wife  of  Thomas  Grey,  marquess 
of  Dorset,  who  entered  by  fine  in  1475  (Feet  of  F.  Cumb.,  15 
Edw.  IV.  file  76,  No.  101). 


486  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

enti2  dicto  priori  et  successoribus  suis  debitos  et  ex  antiquo 
per  reverendissimum  dominum,  dominum  de  Haryngton, 
et  antecessores  ejusdem  annuatim  solvi  consuetos,  de 
quibus  quidem  octo  solidis  fateor  me  fore  solutum  dict- 
umque  receptorem  inde  esse  acquiet[atum]  per  presentes. 
In  cujus  rei  testimonium  sigillum,  quo  utor,  presentibus 
est  appensum.  Datum  xmo  die  mensis  Decembris  anno 
domini  millesimo  ccccmo  Ixxxv0.3 

495.  MEMORANDUM  yt  I,  Robert  Paddy,1  prior  of 
sanct  Bees,  have  fully  content  and  agreyed  Christofer 
Lyster  for  all  maner  labor,  dettes,  paymentes,  waigyth, 
covenaunces  frome  ye  begynnyng  off  ye  worlde  to  this 
present  day,  beyng  ye  feast  off  sanct  Mychaell  therch- 
angell  in  ye  xxx  yere  of  ye  reigne  off  our  soveraigne  lord 
kyng  Henry  the  eight,2  and  also  ye  said  Christofer  grauntes 
hym  selff  to  pay  at  Martynmesse  next  comyng  his  yerely 
dew  ferme  and  also  all  mercyamentes  and  fynys  in  ye 
strettes3  of  ye  graves  marcyell  in  ye  courtes  of  sanct  Bees 
fro  ye  entre  and  comyng  of  ye  said  Robert,  prior,  unto  ye 
above  said  day  over  and  besyd  all  other  agrementes.  In 
wytnes  wheroff  I  dan  Th.  Osbye,  monke,  Th.  Hicson, 

2  The  payment  for  a  quarter  of  grain  originated  in  a  grant  of 
Alyne  de  Caunsfeld  who  gave  the  monks  unam  cribram  frumenti 
to  be  received  yearly  on  28  October  at  Aldyngham  (Nos.  69,  70). 

3  10  December,  1485. 

495.  l  John  Poule  was  prior  in  1535  (Valor  Eccles.,  v.  n). 
"William,  abbot  of  York,  wrote  early  in  1537  to  Cromwell  that  he 
had  sent  Dan  Robert  Paddy  "  to  his  room,"  but  he  was  afraid 
what  might  befall  him  on  the  journey  (Illus.  Doc.  Nos.  xciv., 
xcv.).  The  memorandum  here,  which  is  entered  on  the  fly-leaf 
of  the  Register,  must  have  been  one  of  the  last  of  the  official  acts 
of  a  prior  of  St.  Bees.  The  warrant  for  Paddy's  yearly  pension 
of  ^40,  after  the  dissolution  of  the  priory,  is  dated  3  June,  1538, 
that  is,  a  few  months  before  this  memorandum  was  written. 

2  29  September,   1538. 

8  Estreats  :  copies,  duplicates  or  extracts  of  the  record  of  fines 
or  amercements  in  the  rolls  of  the  court. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  487 

Steven  Dyghton  testefyeth  ye  same  die  et  anno  ut  supra. 
Wher  upon  ye  said  Christofer  haith,  ye  said  day  and 
yere  as  above  specyfyeth,  content  ye  said  prior  for  mar- 
tynmasse  ferme  ye  next  to  come  after  ye  wrytyng  heroff 
for  makyng  one  pare  of  wayne  whelles. 

496.  MEMORANDUM1  quod  mora  de  Whelyngmore 
continetur  infra  bundas  et  divisas  ut  inferius  declaratur, 
videlicet,  a  quibusdam  circulis  qui  vocantur  le  Wheles 
juxta  Harashowe,  extendens  juxta  fossatum  de  Moresby 
et  Distyngton  usque  ad  fossatum  de  Substal,  et  sic  per 
fossatum  de  Gylgarran  usque  ad  quemdam  lapidem 
stantem  de  Frothowe,  et  sic  ascendendo  versus  orientem 
juxta  Inweregh,  et  sic  ascendendo  per  fossatum  de  Brown- 
rig,  descendendo  versus  austrum  usque  ad  Arlokdenbek, 
et  sic  per  Arlokdenbek  usque  ad  fossatum  de  Wedaker, 
et  sic  per  dicta  fossata  usque  ad  aquam  de  Kikill  versus 
occidentem,  et  sic  ex  altera  parte  aque  de  Kikil  ascendendo 
juxta  rivulum  de  Prestgill,  et  sic  a  Prestgill  versus  Boriam 
per  medium  de  Withemyre,  et  sic  ascendendo  per  siketam 
usque  ad  croftum  Mauricii  anglice  Croft  morez.2 

496.  1  This  document,  which  is  written  on  the  fly-leaf  of  the 
Register,  may  be  referred  to  No.  492,  when  there  was  a  dispute 
between  John  Moresby,  lord  of  Harras,  and  the  monks  of  St. 
Bees,  touching  a  close  near  Whillyngmor,  called  Harres  Close. 

2  All  the  place-names  mentioned  in  these  bounds  are  still  found 
on  the  map,  except  le  Wheles,  which  appears  to  connote  a  vanished 
stone  circle,  Frothowe  and  Inweregh  :  Substal  is  Stubsgill  (O.  S., 
Ixi.  N.E.)  :  croftum  Mauricii  anglice  Croft  morez,  now  represented 
by  Croftmorris  (O.  S.,  Ixi.  S.E.),  is  interesting.  J.  Denton  sur- 
mised that  "  Morisceby  or  Mauriceby,  now  Moresby,  took  name 
first  of  one  Maurice,  who  first  seated  himself  there,  the  ruins  of 
whose  mansion  house  yet  appearing  approves  the  same  "  (Ac- 
compt,  p.  31).  If  the  etymology  is  no  better  than  the  identifi- 
cation of  the  ruins,  by  which,  of  course,  the  Roman  camp,  in 
which  the  church  now  stands,  is  meant,  Denton's  explanation 
of  the  origin  of  the  place-name  is  somewhat  fanciful.  The  manor 
of  Moresby  was  bounded  on  three  sides  by  moors,  the  fourth  side 
being  the  sea.  The  situation  apparently  gave  the  place  its  name. 


488  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

497.  [INSTRUMENTA  INSULANA  SANCTE  BEGE  PER- 
TINENCIA.1] 

1.  OMNIBUS  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris,  Thomas 
Ranulphi,  comes  Mora  vie,  dominus  Wallie,  Anandie  et 
Mannie,  salutem.     Noveritis  nos  inspexisse  cartam  Reg- 
inald!, Dei  gracia,  regis  Insularum  etc.,  as  in  No.  47. 

2.  PLACiTA2  apud  ecclesiam  sancti  Lupi3  in  Russehin 
in  Insula  de  Manne,  die  Martis  proxime  post  festum  sancti 
Hillarii,  anno  pontificatus  domini  Afntonii],  Dei  gracia, 
Dunelmensis  episcopi,  decimo  nono,4  inter  priorem  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland  petentem  et  .  .  .  .  abbatem  de  Russehin 
tenentem,    coram    Waltero    de    Huntercoumb   et    fratre 
Willelmo  de  Malt  on,  justiciariis  dicti  domini  episcopi  et 
domini  dicte  Insule  ad  hoc  assignatis  per  breve  suum,  et 
coram  domino  Nicholao  de  Morisceby,  milite,  Gilberto 
Maschaskel  et  Reginaldo  Macstephan,  coronatoribus  dicte 
Insule,  eis  associatis  in  hec  verba. 

Antonius,  Dei  gracia,  Dunelmensis  episcopus,  dilectis 
et  fidelibus  suis,  Waltero  de  Huntercomb  et  fratre  (sic) 
Willelmo  de  Malton,  salutem.  Sciatis  quod  constituimus 
vos  justiciarios  nostros  unacum  hiis  quos  vobis  associav- 
eritis,  ad  audiendfum]  et  terminand[um]  loquelam  que  est 
inter  priorem  et  conventum  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland 
petentem  et  .  .  .  .  abbatem  de  Ruscelin  tenentem  de  tota 
terra  in  Eskedale  et  de  tota  terra  in  Asmundertoftes  in 
Insula  de  Manne.  Et  ideo  vobis  mandamus  quod  ad 
certos  diem  et  locum  quos  ad  hoc  provideritis,  vocatis 
partibus  coram  vobis,  predictam  loquelam  audiatis  et 
terminetis  secundum  consuetudinem  dicte  Insule,  et 
plenam  et  celerem  justiciam  partibus  predictis  inde 

497.  l  These  two  deeds  are  written  on  a  narrow  strip  of  vellum 
and  mounted  on  a  guard  at  folio  27  of  the  Register. 

2  This  deed  serves  as  an  introduction  to  No.  46. 

8  The  church  of  Rushen  is  now  said  to  be  entitled  in  the  name 
of  the  Holy  Trinity  :  here  it  is  St.  Lupus  or  St.  Leu. 

4  1 6  January,   1302. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA  489 

habere  faciatis.  Sal  vis  nobis  amerciamentis  inde  prov- 
enientibus.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  has  lit t eras  nostras 
fieri  fecimus  patent es.  Datum  apud  Dunelmum  nono 
decimo  die  Junii,  pontificatus  nostri  anno  octavo  decimo.5 
Idem  ....  abbas  summonitus  fuit  ad  respondendum 
dicto  ....  priori  de  placito  terre,  unde  idem  ....  prior 
dicit  quod  idem  ....  abbas  se  deforc[iavit]  unum  messuag- 
ium,  tria  tofta,  sexaginta  acras  terre,  sexaginta  acras 
more  cum  suis  pertinenciis  in  Eskedale  et  in  Asmunder- 
toftes  in  Insula  de  Mannie,  unde  quidam  Willelmus6  pre- 
decessor suus  fuit  vestitus  et  seisitus  in  dominio  suo  ut 
de  feodo  et  jure  ecclesie  de  sancta  Bega  in  Coupland  temp- 
ore  pacis,  scilicet,  tempore  reg[is]  Godredi  patris  Olavi, 
et  inde  explecia  recepit  ut  in  bladis  et  agistamentis  pas- 
ture ad  valenciam  dimidie  marce,  etc.  Et  quod  hoc  sit 
jus  suum  et  jus  ecclesie  de  sancta  Bega  tendit  sect  am  et 
der'  etc.  Et  idem  ....  abbas  venit  et  defendit  jus  pre- 
dicti  prioris,  etc.  Et  dicit  quod  quidam  Alexander, 
quondam  rex:  Scocie,  qui  Insulam  de  Manne  per  ensem7 
conquestabatur,  quemdam  predecessorem  suum  de  pre- 
•dictis  tenementis  feoff  avit,  que  feoff  amenta  fuerunt  in 
partibus  de  Furneis,  et  eciam  dicit  quod  quidam  prior, 
predecessor  suus,  versus  quemdam  ....  abbatem,  pre- 
decessorem dicti  abbatis  predict  a  tenement  a  petiit  per 
breve  dicti  regis  Alexandri  ejusdem  nature  coram  Mauricio 
Acarsan,  justiciario  ad  hoc  assignato  etc.  et  coram  quo 
predicta  loquela  inter  predictos  priorem  et  abbatem  erat 
determinata.  Ita,  videlicet,  quod  predictus  abbas  pre- 

5  19  June,   1301. 

6  Prior  William  of  St.  Bees  only  occurs  here  in  the  Register  :  his 
•date  falls  at  some  time  during  the  reign  of  King  Godred  father 
of  King  Olave,  1154-87.     See  King  Godred's  charter  at  No.  43. 

'  This  probably  refers  to  the  cession  of  the  Isle  of  Man  to 
Alexander  III.  by  King  Magnus  of  Norway  in  1266,  as  reported 
in  the  Chron.  de  Mailros,  pp.  196-7,  and  the  Chron.  de  Lanercost, 
p.  64,  though  both  chronicles  give  a  different  complexion  to  the 
.annexation  than  that  in  the  pleadings. 


49O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

dicta  tenementa  per  judicium  tenuit  etc.  Et  predictus 
prior  in  misericordia  remansit.  Et  predictus  ....  prior 
dicit  quod  predictus  abbas  ad  formam  eXcepcionis  sue 
non  debet  admitti,  pro  eo  quod  excepcio  dicti  abbatis  est 
ad  actionem  dicti  prioris  excludendam,  et  idem  ....  abbas 
nullam  fecit  mencionem  de  certa  persona  petente  nee 
tenente,  nee  eciam  recordum  rotulorum  dicti  justiciarii 
in  forma  qua  pertinet  vocavit,  set  omnino  recusavit.  Ideo 
predictus  prior  petit  judicium  etc.  Et  eciam  quoad  hec 
quod  dictus  ....  abbas  dicit  quod  quidam  Alexander, 
quondam  rex  Scocie,  feoffavit  predecessorem  suum  de 
predictis  tenementis  etc.  Idem  prior  petit  judicium 
desicut  idem  ....  abbas  in  respondendfo]  nullum  feoffa- 
mentum  inde  ostendit,  nee  aliquid  aliud  per  quod  jus 
suum  possit  deteriorari  nee  cur[ia]  in  aliquo  certiorari 
etc.  Et  super  hoc  datus  est  dies  dictis  partibus  usque 
diem  Lune  proxime  post  octabas  sancti  Hillarii  anno 
supradicto. 

Et  postea  dicto  die  in  octabis  etc.  venerunt  partes  et 
petierunt  licenciam  concordandi  etc.  Et  convenit  ita 
inter  eos  quod  predictus  ....  abbas  cognovit  dicto  .... 
priori  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  cum  messuagiis,  toftis, 
molendinis,  serviciis  liberorum  et  villanorum,  pratis, 
pasturis,  moris,  marescis,  viis,  aquis,  semitis,  et  omnibus 
aliis  pertinenciis  'in  Asmundertoftes  sine  aliquo  reteni- 
mento  esse  jus  dicti  prioris  et  conventus  et  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  in  Coupland.  Tenenda  et  habenda  predictis  priori 
et  conventui  de  sancta  Bega  et  successoribus  suis  inper- 
petuum.  Et  pro  hac  autem  concessione  idem  prior  con- 
cessit  pro  se  et  successoribus  suis  predictis  ....  abbati  et 
conventui  de  Ruscelin  quod  teneant,  habeant  tot  as  terras 
et  tenementa  de  Eskedale  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis 
sine  aliquo  retenimento  sibi  et  successoribus  suis  inper- 
petuum.  In  cujus  rei  testimonium  predict!  justiciarii 
presenti  processui  sigilla  sua  apposuerunt. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  491 

498.    CHRONICON  CuMBRiE.1 

REX  Wyll[elmus]  cognomine  bastardus,  dux  Normanie, 
conquestor  Anglie,  dedit  totam  terrain  de  comitatu 
Combrie  Ran[ulfo]  de  Melchenis  et  Galfrido  fratri  eor- 
umdem  totam  terrain  de  Coupland. 

Sciendum  est  quod  magnum  feodum  militis  constat  ex 
iiijor  hidis  ;  et  una  hida  ex  iiijor  virgatis  :  et  una  virgata 
ex  iiijor  ferndellis  :  et  una  ferndella  ex  x  acris  terre.  Item 
sciendum  est  quod  quando  dabitur  ad  scutagium  pro- 
magno  feodo  militari  xls.,  tune  j  virgata  terre,  ijs.  v]d. 
Et  dimidia  virgata,  xvd.  Et  pro  ferndella,  v\]d.  ob.  Et 
pro  j  acre,  ob.  q.  Et  sic  clxx  acres  terre  faciunt  unam 
hidam  ut  iiijor  hide  faciunt  unum  magnum  feodum 
militare  quod  dabit  ad  relevium  cs.,  et  feodum  militare 
integre  continet  cxl  acras  terre. 

Memorandum,  e  converse,  quod  x  acres  terre  faciunt 
j  ferndellam,  et  iiijor  ferndelle  faciunt  unam  virgatam 
sive  dimidiam  carucatam  :  et  sic  iiijor  virgate  faciunt 
unam  hidam  sive  ij  carucatas  :  et  iiijor  hide  faciunt  viij. 
carucatas  :  quod  est  feodum  militis. 

xx 

Item  j  carucata  terre  continet  iiij  .  xv  acras. 

Rex2  Will[elmus]  cognomine  bastardus,  dux  Normanie,. 

498.  l  The  text  of  this  compilation  is  written  on  paper  quarto 
size,  mounted  on  a  guard  and  inserted  in  the  Register  after  fol. 
72,  where  it  occupies  fols.  73-6  of  the  manuscript.  Fragments 
of  the  document  have  been  often  printed  from  untrustworthy 
sources  during  the  past  three  centuries.  The  text  here  has  not 
been  printed  before  and  the  alternative  readings  are  taken  from 
the  early  copy  of  the  Register  of  Wetheral  (MS.  ff.  clxi.-clxiij) 
recently  restored  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Carlisle.  These 
two  copies  are  the  earliest  at  present  known.  St.  George  made 
some  extracts  from  a  copy  in  the  '  Liber  Abbatie  de  Holme 
Coltraine  in  comitatu  Cumbrie  '  (Add.  MS.  10108,  No.  64),  but 
they  are  of  little  value.  This  document  should  be  compared 
with  Illus.  Doc.  No.  vj.  For  the  origin  of  both  compilations,, 
see  my  argument  in  V.  C.  H.  Cumb.,  i.,  297-8. 

2  The  Wetheral  copy  begins  here. 


492  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

conquestor  Anglie,  dedit  tot  am  terrain  de  comitatu 
Cumbrie  Ranfulfo]  de  Melchins  et  Galfrido  fratri  ejusdem 
Ranfulfi]  totum  comitatum  Cestrie,  et  Willelmo  fratri 
eorumdem.  totam  terrain  de  Coupland  inter  Duden  et 
Darwent. 

Ranfulfus]  de  Melchines  feoff avit  Hubbertum  de  Waux 
de  baronia  de  Gillysland  et  Ran[ulfum]  fratrem  ejus  de 
Sowerby,  Carlatone,  Hubbryghtby,  et  Robertum  frat- 
rem eorumdem  de  baronia  de  Dalstone :  et  feoffavit 
Robertum  de  Stiviers3  de  baronia  de  Burgo  :  et  Richerum 
de  Boyvile  de  baronia  de  Lemyngtone,  et  Oderdo  de 
Logis  de  baronia  de  Stainton  :  et  feoffavit  Waldevum 
filium.  Cospatricii  de  Dunbar  comitem  in  Scocia  de  tota 
baronia  de  Allerdale  inter  Wathenpole  et  Darwent. 

Predictus  Will[elmus]  de  Meschins,  dominus  de  Coup- 
land,  feoffavit  Waldevum  filium  Cospatricii  de  tota  terra 
inter  Cocar  et  Darwent  simul  cum  quinque  villis,  scilicet, 
Brygham,  Eglysfeld,  Dene,  Bramtewat',4  Graisothen,  et 
duo  Clyftone  et  Stainburne  :  et  feoffavit  Oderdum  le 
Clarke  de  quarta  parte  de  Crostwait  pro  custodia  astur- 
corum  suorum. 

Galfridus  de  Meschins,  comes  Cestrie,  obiit  sine  herede 
de  corpore  suo  :  et  Ran[ulfusl  de  Melchins5  fuit  comes 
Cestrie  et  reddidit  domino  regi  totum  comitatum  Cumbrie 
tali  condicione  ut  singuli  feoffati  sui  tenuissent  terras  suas 
de  domino  rege  in  capite. 

Predictus  Waldevus  films  comitis  Cospatricii  feoffavit 
Oderdum  de  Logis  de  baronia  de  Wygton,  Dondraft,6 
Wa  vert  one,  Blencogo  et  Kyrkbryde,  qui  fundavit  eccles- 
iam  de  Wygton  :  et  dedit  Oderdo  filio  Liolfe  Talintyre  et 
Castebryge7  cum  foresta  inter  Caltre  et  Greta,  et  priori  et 
conventui  de  Gisburne,  Appleton  et  Brycekyrke,  cum 
advocacione  ejusdem  ecclesie  :  et  dedit  Ade  filio  Liolfe 
Uldel'  [et]  Gilcruce  ;  et  dedit  Gamello  filio  Brun,  Bothil : 

8W.  Dest'ivers.  4  W.  Bramtwhate.  SW.  Meschins. 

6W.  Dondragt.  7  W.  Castelrige. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA  493 

et  dedit  Waldevo  filio  Gileminii,  cum  Ithreda8  sorore  sua, 
Broghtone,  Rybtone,  et  parvam  Broghtone,  et  Donwoldef 
ac  Bowaldef  ad  unam  logeam  ;  et  dedit  Ormo  filio  Ketelli 
Ceton,  Cambertone,  Flemingby,  Craiksothen,  cum  Grav- 
elda9  sorore  sua  :  et  Dulfino  filio  Alwardi  cum  Matilda 
sorore  sua  Appletwarter10  et  parvam  Crosby,  Langryge, 
et  Brygham  cum  advocacione  ejusdem  ecclesie  :  et  dedit 
Melbeth,  medico  suo,  villam  de  Bromefeld,  salva  sibi 
advocacione  ejusdem  ecclesie. 

Alanus  filius  et  heres  ejusdem  Waldevi  dedit  Ran[ulfo] 
Lyndsei  Blenerhasset  et  Ukmanby  cum  Ethereda  sorore 
sua  :  et  dedit  Uthredo  filio  Fergus,  domino  Galwidie, 
cum  Gornella11  sorore  sua,  Torpenhow  cum  advocacione 
ecclesie  :  et  dedit  Catello  de  Spanser12  Threpeland  :  et 
dedit  Herberto  villam  de  Thuresby  pro  tercia  parte  unius 
ville  ;  et  dedit  Cospatricio  filio  Ormi  altam  Ireby  pro 
tercia  parte  unius  ville  ;  et  dedit  Gamello  le  Brun  Rugh- 
twate  pro  tercia  parte  unius  ville  :  et  dedit  Radulfo- 
Engaine  Issael  cum  pertinenciis  [et]  Blancrake  cum  ser- 
vicio  de  Newtone.  Et  idem  Alanus  habuit  unum  frat- 
rem  bastardum  nomine  Cospatricum,  cui  dedit  Boulton, 
Bastyntwait,  et  Esterholme  :  Et  dedit  Oderdo  Newton 
cum  pertinenciis  :  et  dedit  tribus  venatoribus  suis, 
scilicet,  Sleth  et  sociis  suis,  Hay  ton  :  et  dedit  Uitredo13- 
unam  carrucatam  terre  in  Aspatryke  ut  esset  summonitor 
in  Allerdall :  et  dedit  Dulfino  sex  bovatas  terre  in  alta 
Crosby  ut  esset  serviens  domini  regis  in  Allerdale  :  et 
dedit  Simoni  de  Schetelinges14  medietatem  de  Derem  et 
Dolfino  filio  Cospatricii  aliam  medietatem :  et  dedit 
Waldevo  filio  Dolfini  Brakanewat'  :  et  dedit  prioratui 
sancte  Bege  Stainborne  :  et  dedit  prioratui  Karliol[i]r 
cum  corpore  Waldevi  filii  sui,  crucem  sanctam  quam 
adhuc  possidet  et  Crosby  cum  advocacione  ejusdem 
ecclesie,  et  cum  servicio  Uitredi,15  et  advocacionem 

» W.  Ethreda.  9  W.  Gurwelda.          10  W.  Appletwhaite, 

11 W.  Gurnelda.  ia  W.  Despencer.        18  W.  Uctredo. 

14  W.  Scheftelyngs.       15  W.  Uctredi. 


494  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

ecclesie  de  Aspatryke  cum  servicio  Alani  de  Brayton,  cum 
advocacione  ecclesie  de  Ireby  cum  servicio  Waldefvi]  de 
Langtwat. 

Idem  Alanus  films  Waldevi  dedit  domino  Henrico  regi 
landas  foreste  de  Allerdale  unacum  venacione  quando 
hospitavit  apud  Holme  coltrane. 

Cui  Alano  successit  Will[elmus]  filius  Doncani,  comes  de 
Murrafe,  nepos  ipsius  Alani  et  heres  procreatus  ex 
Ethreda  sorore  Waldevi  patris  sui. 

Idem  Willfelmus]  filius  Doncani  disponsaverat  Aliciam 
filiam  Roberti  de  Romeney,  domini  de  Skepton  in  Craven  : 
qui  Robertus  quondam  disponsaverat  filiam  Willelmi16  de 
Meschins,  domini  de  Coupland.  Idem  Willelmus  pro- 
creavit  ex  predicta  Alicia  uxore  sua  Willelmum  puerum 
de  Egremond,  qui  infra  etatem  obiit,  et  tres  filias,  quarum 
prima,  nomine  Cicilia,  maritata  fuit,  cum  honore  de 
Skypton,  Willelmo  le  Brossas,17  comiti  Albemarlie,  per 
dominum  Henricum  regem  Anglie  :  Item  secunda,  nom- 
ine Amabilla,  maritata  fuit  Reginaldo  de  Luce  cum 
honore  de  Egremond  per  eundem  regem  :  Tercia,  nomine 
Alicia  de  Romilie,  maritata  fuit  Gilberto  Pipard  cum 
Aspatryke  et  baronia  de  Allerdall  et  libertate  de  Coker- 
mouth  per  eundem  regem,  et  iterum  per  reginam  Roberto 
de  Courteney,  et  obiit  sine  herede  de  se. 

Willelmus  Brossus,18  comes  Albemarlie,  genuit  ex  ea 
Cicilia  Hawisiam  :  cui  successit  Willelmus  de  Fortibus, 
comes  Albemarlie  :  cui  successit  alter  Willelmus  de 
Fortibus  :  cui  successit  Avelina,  que  fuit  disponsata 
domino  Edmondo  fratri  domini  regis  Edwardi  et  obiit 
sine  herede. 

Reginaldus  de  Luce  genuit  ex  Amabilla  Amabillam  et 
Aliciam  :  et  successit  Amabille  Lambertus  de  Multon  : 
cui  successit  Thomas  de  Multon  de  Egremond  :  et  suc- 
cessit Alicie  Thomas  de  Luce  :  cui  successit  Thomas 
filius  ejus  :  cui  successit  Antonius  f rater  ejus. 

111  Omitted  in  W.  1T  W.  Grossus.  1R  W.  Grossus. 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE    SANCTA   BEGA  495 

[DECENSUS  DE  MULTON  ET  Lucv.]19 


Cecilia  filia  primogenita,  que 
maritata  fuit  Willelmo  le  Bros,20 
comiti  Albemarlie,  habuit  ad 
partem  suam  Skepton  et  Rude- 
stone  cum  pertinenciis  per  ser- 
vicium  illi  pertinens.  De  Cecilia 
venit  Hawisia,  de  Hawisia,  Will- 
elmus  de  Fortibus,  alius  Willel- 
mus  de  Fortibus,  de  quo  Will- 
elmo. J 


-sine  herede 


Willelmus 

Teronis 

Thomas 

Johannes 

Avicia 

Avelina,  que  maritata 

fuit  domino  Edmondo 

filio  regis  Edwardi 

primi,  sine  herede. 


Willelmus  comes  de  Murray,  films  Doncany,  fuit  dom- 
inus  de  Coupland,  Cokermouth,  Allerdall,  Skyptone,  et 
Rodystone,  et  habuit  tres  filias,  scilicet,  Cicilia,  Amabilis, 
et  Alicia,  inter  quas  partita  fuit  tota  hereditas  sua  in  hunc 
modum,  et  habuit  unum  filium,  Willelmum  nomine,  qui 
sine  herede  obiit. 

Amabilis,  secunda  filia,  que  maritata  fuit  Reginaldo  de 
Lucy,  habuit  ad  partem  suam  Egremond  et  Coupland  per 
servicium  unius  antiqui  feodi  militis.  De  Amabilla  venit 
Ricardus  de  Lucy  :  de  Ricardo,  Amabilis  et  Alicia,  inter 
quas  partita  fuit  tota  terra  de  Coupland  post  decessum 
patris  sui.  Et  ille  eidem  post  modum  dissonaverint  versus 
Willelmum  de  Fortibus  medietatem  de  Cokermouth  et 
Allerdale  que  fuit  de  hereditate  Alicie  de  Rumly,  amite 
Ricardi  de  Lucy,  patris  predictarum  Amabilis  et  Alicie, 
unde  bene  constat  quod  dicte  Amabilis  et  Alicia  et  heredes 
sui,  viz.,  Thomas  films  Lamberti  de  Multon  et  Thomas  de 
Lucy  films  Alani  de  Multone,  tenuerunt  et  adhuc  heredes 
eorum  tenere  debent  de  domino  rege  totum  Coupland  per 
servicium  quod  illi  pertinet  :  et  nihilominus  medietatem 
baronie  de  Allardal  et  de  Cokermouth  et  heredes  Willelmi 
de  Fortibus  si  essent  superstites  :  Alani  medietatem 
baronie  de  Allardall  et  Cokermouth  ct  totum  Skiptone  et 

19  The  rubric  is  supplied  from  W.  20  W.  Gros. 


496  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Rodestone.  Alicia  de  Rumely,  tercia  soror,  habuit  ad 
partem  suam  Cokermouth  et  Allardall  tenendam  per 
baroniam  :  que  quidem  Alicia  obiit  sine  herede  de  se.  Et 
Willelmus  de  Fortibus,  filius  Awici  et  nepos  Cecilie,  seis- 
ivit  in  manum  suam  totum  Cokermouth  et  Allardal  quoad 
usque21  Amabilla  et  Alicia,  filie  Ricardi  de  Lucy,  disson- 
averint  inde  medietatem,  eo  quod  fuit  de  hereditate 
Alicie  de  Rumney,  amite  Ricardi  de  Lucy  patris  sui. 
Amabilla  maritata  fuit  Lamberto  de  Multon  ;  de  qua 
Amabilla,  Thomas  de  Multon  de  Egremont  :  de  quo, 
alius  Thomas  :  de  quo  Teronys  Thomas,  qui  nunc  petit. 
Alicia  maritata  fuit  Alano  de  Multon  fratri  predicti 
Lamberti :  de  qua  Alicia,  Thomas  de  Lucy  :  de  quo, 
Thomas  et  Antonius  ;  et  Thomas  sine  herede  obiit : 
Antonius  nunc  petit. 

tl  W.  quousque. 


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I.  VITA  ET  MIRACULA  S.  BEGE  VIRGINIS  IN  PROVINCIA  NORTH- 
ANHiMBRORUM.1  [Cott.  MS.  Faustina,  B.  IV.  ff.  122-13813.] 

Vita  S.  Bege  et  de  Miraculis  eiusdem. 

Incipit  prologus  in  vita  sancte  Bege  virginis  pridie  Kalendas 
Novembris.2 

Si  essem  scriba  doctus  in  regno  celorum,  sciens  et  potens  de 
thesauro  meo  proferre  nova  et  vetera,  profecto  eructaret  cor 
meum  verbum  bonum,  dicens  immo  edicens  ad  honorem  regis 
Christi  prima  et  novissima  beate  Bege  virginis  opera.  Sed  eius 
vetera  transierunt  ex  magna  parte,  elapsa  a  presentium  noticia, 
eo  quod  non  esset  cuius  pia  lingua  calamus  scribe  velociter  scribens 
ea.  Venerabilis  tamen  Beda  quedam  de  eius  actionibus  in 
istoria  sua  tractatim  tangit,  et  multo  succintius,  ut  pluribus 
videtur,  quam  talis  tantaque  materia  exposcit,  stilo  currente 
pertransiit.  Nova  vero  eius  opera  et  recentiora,  que  video  sunt 
facta,  non  obliteravit  omnino  oblivio  a  posteriorum  memoria, 
quia  pro  patribus  filii,  qui  nati  exsurrexerunt,  ennarraverunt  ea 
filiis  suis  ut  cognoscat  generatio  altera.  Licet  enim  generatio 
adveniat  et  generatio  pretereat,  quamdiu  tamen  terra  stat  Bege 
virginis  beate  semper  in  benedictione  memorande,  memoria  manet 
in  generatione  sanctorum,  crebraque  miracula  in  presentia  hom- 
inum  exhibita  illam  presentialiter  cum  sponso  suo  regnare  com- 
probant  in  regno  celorum.  Ego  vero,  licet  egenus  et  pauper 
scientia,  incitante  tamen  devotione,  ex  cronicis  et  ystoriis  au- 
thenticis,  et  virorum  veridicorum  narrationibus,  que  fide  digna 

1  The  date  of  this  compilation  has  been  ascribed  by  Sir  Thos.  Duffus  Hardy 
to  the  latter  part  of  the  twelfth  century  (Descriptive  Catalogue  of  Materials, 
R.S.,  i.  224),  but  it  is  quite  certain  from  the  internal  evidence  that  it  is  much 
later.     The  manuscript  volume,  of  which  the  Vita  et  Miracula  forms  a  part, 
once  belonged  to  the  abbey  of  Holmcultram,  as  the  inscription  on  its  title-page 
shows  :— "  Liber  sancte  Marie  de  Holmcoltran,  lib.  cxl."     The  manuscript, 
which  is  written  in  double  column  with  red  rubrication,  was  printed  by  S. 
Jefferson,  Carlisle,  in  1842,  with  a  translation  and  notes  by  G.  C.  Tomlinson, 
F.S.A. 

2  This  statement  seems  to  show  that  the  monks  observed  31  October  as  the 
feast  of  St.  Bega  as  it  is  calendared  in  the  Aberdeen  Breviary.     See  note  2  on 
No.  227  of  the  Register  of  St.  Bees. 

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docebantur,  diligenter  collegi,  et  ad  edificationem  filiorum  ecclesie 
in  duos  libellos  vitam  et  miracula  sancte  virginis  redegi.  Explicit 
prologus. 

Incipit  vita  sancte  Bege  virginis. 

Quomodo  de  Ybernia  patrem  clanculo  fugiens  primum  ad 
Coplandium  venit. 

Regnabat  quidam  rex  prepotens  in  Hybernia,  qui  predecessores 
suos  reges  precessit  divitiis  et  gloria,  qui  licet  ad  voturn  in  terra 
successibus  polleret  felicibus  eo  tamen  estimatur  principari 
felicius  quo  sub  titulo  nominis  Christi,  cui  servire  regnare  est, 
semet  ipsum  divine  legi  mancipabat  devotius.  Suscipit  itaque 
ex  legitimo  coniugio  nliam,  nomine  Begam,  Christiane  fidei 
misteriis  ex  materno  utero  initiatam,  que  sane  vestem  nuptialem,. 
quam  in  baptismo  induit,  immaculatam  conservans,  semetipsam 
sponso  celesti  sponsam  non  habentem  maculam  aut  rugam 
exhibuit.  Quantumcunque  enim  profecit  etate  tanto  magis  ut 
ei  placeret,  cui  se  probavit,  crescere  studuit  sanctitate  in  puellari 
facie  induit  maternalem  maturitatem  et  puerillem  percurrens 
etatem  nullam  puerilitatis  incurrit  impuritatem :  frequens 
namque  erat  in  thalamo,  rarissima  in  publico.  lam  vitam  suam 
informabat  et  preparabat  sancte  religionis  quam  arreptura  erat 
proposito,  et  ne  in  conclavi  inutile  dissolveretur  otio,  aut  oneroso 
torperet  fastidio,  ac  sic  dormitaret  anima  eius  pre  tedio,  tempus 
redimebat  sacras  literas  discendi  studio,  aut  manibus  suis  auri- 
frisia  operando  vel  gemmas  auro  intexendo  miro  et  perpulchro 
satis  artificio.  Aliquando  eciam  manus  suas  misit  ad  forfices, 
aliquando  digiti  eius  apprehendunt  fusum,  ne  dies  in  vaccuum 
consumeret,  sed  potius  tempori  illuderet,  et  ut  huiusmodi  disceret 
exercitium  quandoque  ornamentis  ecclesie  profuturum  et  haberet 
horum  usum,  aniles  fabulas  et  ineptias  et  puellares  lusus  et  iocos 
fugiebat.  Quecunque  sancta,  quecunque  honesta,  audire  ac  loqui 
dulce  habebat.  Spiritus  enim  dilectionis  a  patre  precedens 
unctione  sua  interius  earn  de  omnibus,  que  ad  salutem  spectabant, 
docebat,  fuitque  Dominus  cum  ea  et  omnia  opera  eius  dirigebat, 
per  quern  in  cunctis  virgo  prospere  agebat.  Inspiravit  enim 
Paraclitus  spiritui  eius  vitiorum  odium,  amorem  virtutum,  mundi 
contemptum,  conversationis  celestis  apetitum,  virginee  pudicitie 
affectum  et  effectum,  et  ante  omnia  immortalis  sponsi  amorem 
et  desiderium. 

Erat  preterea  speciosa  forma  pre  cunctis  filiabus  regionis 
illius,  tamen  non  solum  pauperes  et  mediocres,  verum  eciam 
omnes  magnates  et  divites  plebis  mirabantur,  desiderabant, 
deprecabantur  vultum  eius.  Cumque  iam  puerilibus  annis- 


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evolutis  ad  mundum  muliebrem  pervenisset  virgo  generosa,  et 
in  facie  eius  vernarent  velut  verno  tempore  lilium  et  rosa,  eius 
coniugium  appetebant  principum,  ducum,  tarn  extraneorum 
quam  indigenarum,  filii,  mittentes  ac  secum  afferentes  armillas 
inaures,  anulos,  ciclades  auro  textas,  gemmas,  et  alia  ornamenta 
et  munera  preciosa.  Beata  vero  Bega  aurum  amplexans  ut 
paleas  animo,  argentum  ut  lutum  platearum,  gemmas  ut  stipu- 
lam  aura  raptam,  armillas  ut  favillas,  vestes  olosericas,  purpuram 
et  bissum,  ut  pannum  menstrualem,  et  quicquid  honorum  aut 
divitiarum  huius  mundi  profert  vel  pollicetur  iactantia  pompatita, 
ob  Christi  amorem,  quern  sibi  lucifacere  omnimodis  optabat, 
arbitrabatur  ut  stercora. 

Et  quamvis  aliquando  pro  tempore  et  loco,  in  vestitu  deaurato 
circumamicta  erat  varietate,  utpote  puella  natu  nobilis,  etate  iam 
nubilis,  constituta  in  regiis  laribus  omnis  tamen  gloria  filie  regis 
erat  ab  intus.  Ab  ipso  enim  pubertatis  prime  vo  no  re  spiritu 
anelo  desiderabat  monasterium  potius  quam  matrimonium,  fieri 
magis  monacham  quam  maritam,  habitare  in  domo  domini  carne 
et  mente  virginem  quam  in  solio  regni  matrem  filiorum  letantem. 
Considerabat  virgo  prudentissima  curas  multimodas  carnales 
sequentes  nuptias,  qualiter  cum  labore  incipiunt,  in  pudore  per- 
sistunt,  et  cum  dolore  finiunt.  Et  sicut  tribulacionem  carnis 
habent  huiusmodi,  teste  apostolo  :  ita  qui  non  nubunt  neque 
nubuntur  similes  erunt  angelis  in  celo.  Distant  namque  virgo 
et  angelus  natura  et  felicitate  sed  non  gracia  vel  virtute.  Angeli 
namque  integritas  est  felicior,  virginis  vero  fortior  :  fortis  plane  in 
continue  pene  prelio  et  assiduo  conflictu  virginitas,  que  in  corpore 
pene  bestiali,  et  in  hac  regione  dissimilitudinis  assimilari  illius 
forma,  que  de  sursum  est,  cum  gracia  conatur,  ymagini  et  celibat- 
um  civium  celestis  representare  regionis.  Cum  enim  quilibet 
gradus  coniugatorum  sive  continentium  habeat  de  perpetrata 
carnis  corruptione,  quo  doleat,  sancta  et  immaculata  virginitas 
semper  habet  in  salvatore  suo  unde  gaudeat.  Et  licet  quilibet 
iustus  videatur  sequi  Deum  via  qua  poterit,  de  illis  tamen  qui 
non  inquinaverunt  vestimenta  sua  legitur  quod  sequuntur  agnum 
quocunque  ierit. 

Quocirca  beatissima  Bega  balatum  agni  celestis  studebat  audire 
aure  audiendi,  et  de  eius  vellere  sibi  vestem  nuptialem  texere, 
ut  ad  eius  nuptias  posset  pervenire,  et  quasi  sponsa  ornata  mon- 
ilibus  suis,  sponsum  decoratum  corona  videre,  et  ab  eo  indui 
vestimento  salutis,  et  circumdari  mereretur  indumento  letitie 
sempiterne.  Spernens  itaque  cunctas  mundi  huius  immundi 
illecebras,  vanitates  et  insanias  falsas,  virgo  venerabilis  virgini- 


500  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

tatem  suam  die  illo  Deo  offerens  voto  se  contraxit  non  contract - 
uram  vel  experituram  sponte  cum  aliquo  copulas  nuptiarum, 
quatenus  nesciens  thorum  in  delicto  haberet  fructum  in  respect- 
ione  animarum  sanctarum. 

Hec  autem  ea  cogitante  et  in  se  de  se  statuente,  quidam  vir 
venusto  vultu  et  habitu  venerando  coram  astans  ei  apparuit,  et 
quasi  omnia  interiora  anime  eius  sciens,  propositum  illius  apro- 
bans,  votum  magnificans,  tunicam  talarem  induere  et  capud 
hostie  cum  cauda  immolare  admonuit.  Cumque  plura  concion- 
aretur  ad  eamque  confirmarent  et  corroborarent  in  ea  celibatum, 
dedit  ei  armillam  habentem  signum  sancte  crucis  in  summitate 
eius  evidenter  expressum.  Deinde  subiungens,  "  Accipe "  in- 
quit,  "  eulogium  istud  a  Domino  Deo  tibi  missum,  quo  te  illi  sub- 
arratam  agnoscas,  illumque  effici  tibi  sponsum.  Pone  ergo  illud 
sicut  signum  super  cor  tuum  et  super  brachium  tuum  ut  nullum 
amatorem  admittas  preter  ipsum." 

Hec  dicens  disparuit,  et  virgo  multiplices  gracias  agens  fecit 
sicut  edocta  fuit  et  armillam  super  se  fere  indesinter  portavit. 
Utrum  autem  ilia  persona  fuerit  angelus  vel  aliquis  sanctus  habe- 
tur  incertum,  sed  tamen  quod  per  armillam  illam  crebra  miracula 
facta  sunt  et  adhuc  fiunt  satis  est  compertum.  Et  non  videatur 
cuiquam  absurdum,  Begam  Domino  ab  angelo  vel  ab  aliquo  sancto 
obpignerari  per  armillam  dum  legamus  a  sancto  Germane,  Autis- 
iodorensi  episcopo,  per  nummum  ereum  consignari  sanctam  vir- 
ginem  genofevam.  His  ita  gestis  dum  virgo  genere  et  specie 
vernaret  in  Hibernia,  degens  in  patris  regis  thalamo,  procul  et 
de  ultimis  finibus  precium  eius,  procos  regii  germanis  attrahebat, 
inter  quos  erat  quidam  adolescens  illustris,  fillius  regis  Norwagen- 
sis,  et  heres  regni,  post  modicum  rex  futurus.  Cuiusdum  fama 
formose  et  facete  puelle,  et  regis  patris  illius  potestas,  honor  regni, 
divitie  et  delicie  filiorum  hominum,  pulsassent  aures,  consilio 
optimatum  et  amicorum  suorum,  qui  erant  ei  a  secretis,  nuncios 
destinat  in  Hiberniam  ad  explorandum  si  rei  veritas  fame  con- 
quadraret.  Si  autem  fama  non  volasset  in  vacuum,  nee  vero 
oppositum  proferret  testimonium,  nomine  eius  appeterent 
Begham,  filiam  regis,  sibi  in  coiugale  consortium. 

Nuncii  vero,  sicut  erant  docti,  sibi  iniuncta  prosecuti  sunt,  et 
veritate  rei  opinione  maiorem  experti,  graciam  in  oculis  regis  et 
magnatum  terre  super  peticione  sua  invenirent.  Rex  autem,  qui 
predecessorum  suorum  plantationibus  in  Hibernia  altas  stirpis 
sue  miserat  radices,  et  quaquam  versum  in  insula  usque  ad  mare 
extenderat  palmites  prosapie,  ex  filia  in  successione  nepotum 
ultra  mare  extendere  suas  proposuit  propagines.  Perpendit 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  501 

enim  tale  conubium  sibi  et  suis  ob  varies  vitree  fortune  rotatus, 
qui  accidere  solent,  fore  profuturum,  et  utrique  regno  et  utriusque 
regionis  incolis  per  illud  firmari  fedus  pacis  et  mutue  amicitie 
incrementum. 

Nuncios  itaque  regiis  muneribus,  ut  decebat,  remunerates  ad 
propria  remittens,  regi  iuveni  denunciavit  ut  si  suam  presenciam 
illis  in  partibus  exhiberet,  et  in  conspectu  suo  et  optimatum  terre 
cum  filia  sua  matrimonium  contraberet,  illi  earn  honorifice  trad- 
eret.     Alioquin  non  arbitrabatur  tutum,  comodum  aut  honestum 
puellam  tarn  eximii  decoris  et  generis  sub  alterius  alicuius  custodia 
quam  sponsi  proprii  in  regionem   tarn  longinquam  mittere  ad 
thalamum  collocandum.     Nuncii  vero  repatriati  postquam  re- 
sponsa  que  mvenerant  domino  suo  regi  denudassent,  bonus  visus 
est  sermo  in  oculis  eius  et  consiliariorum  eius  Hiberniam  adire,  et 
cum  virgine  prenominata  coniugium  inire.     Quid  plura  ?     Arm- 
amenta  naute   expediunt   et   ventis   ad   vota   perflantibus   vela 
committunt,  optatisque  Hibernie  portubus  allabantur.     A  rege 
autem  et  aulicis  rex  cum  suis  excipitur  cum  gaudio,  et  facta  est 
letitia  magna  in  populo  illo.     Sicut  regiam  ergo  decebat  magnifi- 
cenciam  extruitur  convivium,  et  quum  advesperascebat  et  inclin- 
ata  erat  iam  dies,  communi  assensu  deliberant  mane  maturare 
pro  quo  venerant  negocium.     Indulgebant  interim,  ut  se  habet 
seculi  vanitas,  calicibus,  epotandis  potentes  ad  potandum,  et  viri 
fortes  ad  miscendum  ebrietatem,  laurea  se  coronatum  quilibet 
estimat  qui  vino  posset  sopire,  immo  quodammodo  sepilire  suum 
conbibitorem.     Tali  itaque  ludo  asuetos  temulencia  cunctos  pene 
oppresserat,  et  iam  plurima  pars  noctis  expensa  singulos  ad  lectos 
suos  compellebat. 

Beata  vero  Begha  inter  hec  vehementer  anxiabatur,  formidans 
et  ymaginans  orti  sui  conclusi  lilium  iamiamque  deflorandum  et 
decolorandum,  et  thesaurum  in  vase  fictili  preciosum,  immo  ut 
ita  dixerim  vitreo,  cum  magna  cautela  et  multo  sudore  servatum, 
e  vicino  surripiendum.  Angustie  enim  fuerunt  illi  undique,  et 
quid  eligeret  vel  quo  se  verteret  ignorabat.  Si  enim  fuge  remed- 
ium  quereret,  videbat  ostia  obserrata,  exitus  obstrusos,  vigiles 
qui  custodiebant  regiam  excubantes.  Plures  namque  ex  fortiss- 
imis  Hybernie  ambiebant  ex  more  non  solum  lectulum  regis  vel 
thalamum,  sed  eciam  totum  palacium,  et  uniuscuiusque  sica 
super  femur  suum,  et  bipennis  super  humerum,  et  lancea  in  manu 
eius,  propter  timores  nocturnes  et  casus  inopinatos.  Si  vero 
aliquo  casu  exitum  inveniret,  et  per  medium  vigilum  transiret, 
non  facile  sibi  a  facie  patris  locum  latendi  aut  evadiendi  alicubi 
inveniret.  Si  posuisset  tenebras  latibulum  pater  eius  quereret  earn 


502  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

in  milibus  suis  et  invenire,  inventam  reduceret,  reductam  plagis 
vapularet  multis,  utpote  scientem  voluntatem  eius  et  non  facient- 
em,  necnon  imperium  eius  prevaricantem.  Si  vero  aliquid  sancti- 
monalium  ingrederetur  cenobium,  inde  manus  patris  educeret 
earn,  ecia-m  ab  altari  evelleret  illam.  Quid  ergo  faciet  ?  Mortali 
sponso  que  se  immortali  voverat  nubere  nee  licet  nee  libet.  Patris 
iussioni  obniti  non  prevalet,  periit  eciam  fuga  ab  ea,  et  quo  se 
abscondat  non  habet.  Totum  ergo  refugium  suum,  solam  spem 
in  Domino  Deo  suo  ponit,  totam  curam  suam  in  Domino  iactat,  ut 
earn  de  laqueis  mundi  omnibus  eripiat. 

Consurgens  igitur  in  nocte  quando  sopor  solet  occupare  homines 
in  principio  vigiliarum  suarum,  efhmdebat  sicut  aquam  cor  suum 
ante  conspectum  Domini  Dei  sui,  levans  ad  earn  puras  manus  in 
oracione  cum  magno  lacrimarum  imbre,  dicens,  "  Domine  lesu 
Christe,  fili  Dei  et  virginis,  auctor  et  amator,  inspirator  et  conse- 
crator,  conservator  et  coronator  virginitatis,  tu  sicut  scis,  sicut 
tibi  placet,  sicut  potes,  custodi  in  me  propositum  quod  tibi  dedi- 
cavi  illibatum  in  corde  et  in  carne  integritatis.  Tu  namque, 
nature  conditor,  tempore  naturalis  legis,  opilionem  tuum,  Abel, 
duplici  laurea,  virginitatis,  scilicet,  et  martyrii  decorasti.  Tu 
sub  lege  scripta,  Heliam  integritatis  candidatu  stolatum  ad  sup- 
eros  rapuisti.  Tu,  Baptistam  tuum  et  precursorem  Johannem, 
nescientem  labem,  nivei  pudoris,  ante  te  misisti.  Tu  eciam 
unicam  spem  mundi,  Dominam  nostram,  ad  decus  et  decorem 
virginibus  in  speciosissimum  et  specialissimum  speculum  propos- 
uisti,  ex  cuius  utero  induvias  nostre  nature  assumens,  tanquam 
sponsus  procedens  de  thalamo  suo,  mundo  salvator  apparuisti. 
Tu  quoque,  dilectum  tuum  Johannem  a  nuptiis  ad  nuptias  agni 
vocans,  inmarcessibili  virginitatis  flore  vernantem  in  evum  con- 
servasti,  cui  cellam  aromatum  tuorum,  propiciatorium  humane 
reconciliationis,  custodiendam  tradidisti.  Tu,  Agnem,  Agatham, 
Luciam  et  Katerinam,  aliasque  perplures,  in  fide  tui  nominis 
propter  pudicitiam  agonizantes  coronasti,  et  nomen  tuum  bene- 
dictum  per  harum  triumphales  titulos  magnificasti.  Horum  ergo 
gracia  queso  ut  inveniam  ego,  ancilla  tua,  graciam  in  oculis  tuis, 
quatinus  assis  mihi  adiutor  in  oportunitatibus  [mea]  in  tribula- 
cione,  ut,  te  datore,  te  duce,  te  rectore  et  protectore,  reddam  tibi 
vota  mea  que  distinxerunt  labia  mea." 

Multa  in  hunc  modum  perorans  et  Dominum  exorans,  ipsi 
virginitatem  suam  conservandam  commendabat,  quia  violenciam 
patris  eo  quod  esset  homo  austerius,  et  a  sentencia  animi  quo- 
dammodo  inflexabilis  valde  formidabat.  Dum  ergo  silencium 
tenerent  omnia,  et  nox  in  suo  cursu  pene  medium  iter  haberet, 


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Omnipotentis  sermo  a  regalibus  sedibus  ad  virginem  manentem  in 
regalibus  edibus  descendit,  et  vox  celitus  ad  earn  facta,  ipsa  sola 
audiente,  ita  insonuit :  "  Noli  temere  Begha,  arnica  mea  carissima, 
exaudita  est  deprecacio  tua.  Audi  ergo,  filia,  et  inclina  aurem 
tuam  ad  me,  et  obliviscere  populum  tuum  et  domum  patris  tui, 
et  habebis  domum  non  manufactam  in  celis  iam  tibi  preparatam. 
Oportet  ergo  te  transire  de  regno  ad  regnum,  de  populo  tuo  ad 
populum  alterum,  de  terra  ad  terram,  de  Hybernia  ad  Britanniam 
que  vocatur  Anglia,  et  ibi,  consummatis  in  bono  diebus  tuis,  te 
recipiam  ad  consortia  angelica.  Surge  itaque  et  armillam,  qua 
mihi  subarrata  es,  accipe,  descendensque  ad  mare  navem  invenies 
preparatam  que  te  transveat  in  Britanniam." 

Virgo  igitur  Christi  venerabilis  iussioni  patris  celistis  quam 
.audivit,  ut  se  filiam  eius  comprobaret,  devote  obedivit.  Vidit 
«nim  cordis  oculis  credendo  se  percepturam  bona  domini  in  terra 
viventium,  quia  nimirum  firmior  fuit  in  ea  expectacio  futurorum, 
dum  vidit  eciam  corporaliter  se  percepisse  solacium  presentium 
munerum.  Et  ideo  mandatis  illius,  ad  faciendum  ea,  aurem 
suam  inclinavit,  quia  omnes  gloria  mundialis  fastu  despecto, 
corque  corpus  suum  divino  obsequio,  in  omni  humilitate  et 
obediencia  perseveranter  mancipavit. 

Et  ecce  sopor  Domini  super  omnes  infra  et  extra  aulam  regiam 
iacentes  et  excubantes  irruit,  et  omnia  claustra,  ad  tactum 
armille,  clavis  David,  virgini  egregie  egredienti  aperuit.  Exivit 
itaque  de  terra  sua  et  de  cognacione  sua  et  de  domo  patris  sui, 
cum  fideli  Abraham,  utpote  filia  Abrahe,  ut  veniret  ad  terram 
quam  monstraverat  ei  Dominus. 

Pergens  igitur  ad  portum  maris  pervenit,  navemque  preparatam 
iuxta  promissum  invenit  :  illamque  ingressa,  prospero  cursu  et 
felici  appulsu,  in  quandam  provinciam  Anglie,  vocabulo  Coup- 
landiam,  devenit.  Egressa  vero  de  navi  loca  maritima  circumivit 
et  cetera  finitima  reperit  que  circumcirca  nemora  densissima  et 
solitarie  vite  aptissima.  Ilia  vero  soli  Deo  vacare  desiderans  in 
loco  tune  temporis  satis  nemoroso  secus  litus  maris  posito,  cellam 
virgineam  virgo  sibi  construxit,  ibique  districtissime  conver- 
sationis  agone  Domino  diu  desudans  multis  annis  deguit.  Sede- 
bat  ergo  solitaria,  ac  levans  se  supra  se,  vacabat  et  videbat  quam 
Dominus  ipse  Deus,  gustans  frequenter  quam  suavis  et  dulcis  est 
omnibus  sperantibus  in  se.  Ibi  ergo  dilectus  suus  sibi,  et  ad  earn 
conversacio  eius  inter  ubera  sua  commorantis,  currensque  in  odore 
unguentorum  eius,  ab  eo  post  eum  tracta,  et  in  amore  eius  lique- 
facta  omnia  caduca  habens  sub  pedibus,  pre  desiderio  illius  earn 
crebro  visitantis. 


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Cumque  illo  in  loco  in  sanctitate  et  iusticia  coram  Domino 
vivens  multo  tempore  maneret,  cepit  ilia  plaga  regionis  a  piratis 
frequentari  qui  consueverant  fines  illos  depredari.  Dei  ergo 
famula,  a  facie  illorum  verita,  non  formidabat  mortem  aut  mem- 
brorum  abscissionem  aut  rerum  temporalium  quarum  preter 
solam  armillam  expers  erat  disspoliacionem,  sed  potius  a  sacril- 
egis  sibi  timebat  violenter  inferri  preciosissimi  sui  thesauri  direp- 
tionem,  virginitatis  videlicet  sue  deflorationem.  Consuluit 
itaque  super  hoc  Dominum,  ipsoque  revelante  necnon  iubente, 
ab  illo  loco  maturabat  discessum.  Digrediens  inde,  armillam 
suam,  nutu  divino  oblita,  secum  non  tulit,  quia  multa  inibi  fieri 
miracula  in  testimonium  et  signum  sancte  conversationis  ems- 
benignitas  Salvatoris  providit. 

Principatur  in  illo  tempore  regno  Northanhimbrorum,  Anglie 
decus,  servus  Christi,  rex  Osvvaldus,  post  modicum  proprio  cruore 
laureandus.  Pontificabatur  tune  Lindisfarnensi  ecclesie  sanctus 
presul  Aidanus,  natione  Hybernicus,  Yensis  cenobii  monacus,  a 
sancto  Oswaldo  ad  illud  officium  vocatus,  qui  gradum  sacerdocii 
sanctis  adornabat  moribus.  Ad  ilium  tanquam  sponsi  sui  para- 
numphum  Beghu  sponsa  Christi  accedens,  omne  anime  sue  se- 
cretum  et  ea  que  circa  se  divina  gerebantur,  pietate  aperuit,  et 
ab  eo,  qualiter  in  amore  et  obsequio  sponsi  celestis  arctius  vincire- 
tur,  consilium  perquisibit.  Vir  ergo  Dei,  utpote  optimus  custos 
murorum  Jerusalem,  querentem  dilectum  suum  et  invenire 
desiderantem  inveniens,  divini  amoris  spiculo  percussit  amplius 
et  vulneravit,  auferensque  expallium  habitus  hucusque  portati, 
novo  vestimento  salutis  illam  induit.  Sanctus  namque  pontifex, 
iuxta  morem,  virginem  sanctam  et  incorruptam  benedixit  et 
consecravit  in  sponsam  Christi  et  novam  agni  nuptam.  Imposuit 
autem  capiti  eius  velum  pro  regio  diademate,  pro  purpura  vestem 
pullam,  antequam  Northanhimbrorum  regio,  teste  Beda,  sancti- 
monialem  habuit  nullam.  Sane  sanctus  erga  earn  sano  usus  con- 
silio,  ut  sanctitatem  quam  hactenus  ex  proprie  deliberacionis 
servaverat  proposito,  extunc  arcius  custodiret  facto  solemni  voto. 
Et  quod  in  secreto  tenendum  arripuerat  actu,  iam  in  publicum 
exhiberet  ipso  eciam  exteriori  habitu.  Deinde  sanctus  presul 
virginalem  lampadem  sue  sancte  adhortacionis  flatu,  ut  magis  ac 
magis  luceret,  inflammavit  et  que  per  se  prius  lucebat,  ne  extingui- 
bilis  fieret  ante  adventum  sponsi,  ignem  divine  dilectionis,  oleum 
sancte  operationis,  lichinum  pie  devotionis,  illi  predicando  min- 
istravit. 

Sic  sic  venerabilis  Begha  in  Northanhimbria,  consecrante 
sancto  Aidano,  sanctimonialium  effecta  est  prima,  et  ideo  si  rerum 


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505 


precia  ex  raritate  pensamus,  pre  cunctis  compatriotis  virginibus- 
colenda  est  veneratione  precipua.  Sed  virgo  beata  tune  singularis, 
que  consecrata  est  sola,  non  diu  mansit  solitaria.  Ipsa  namque,' 
cum  beato  episcopo  petente  et  impetrante,  a  rege  sancto  locum 
sibi  prestitum,  vocabulo  Heriteseiam,  que  interpretatur  insula 
cervi,  accepit,  religioni  idoneum  in  quo  construxit  monasterium 
egregium,  in  quo  plane  cenobio  adducebantur  plures  virgines  post 
earn  regi  celesti,  eius  invitate  et  incitate  hortatu  et  exemplo,  sed 
et  multe  de  coniugali  gradu,  et  secular!  conversatione  penitentes. 
converse  offerebantur  in  leticia  et  exultacione  in  templum  regi 
domino,  illius  subiugate  servicio.  Sic  sic  sponsa  Christi,  que  in 
amore  sponsi  languebat,  huiusmodi  fulciri  floribus,  stipari  malis, 
ardenter  satagebat. 

Prelata  igitur  sancto  collegio,  Beghu  semetipsam  cunctis 
exhibebat  caritatis  affectu  matrem,  officio  ministram,  nunquam 
dominam,  sed  potius  exemplo  prepositam,  et  si  quandoque  ut 
res  poscebat  disciplina  vel  eruditione  magistram.  In  officinis. 
autem  monasterii  construendis,  magnam  operam  adhibens,  mami 
sua  cibos  coquens,  parabat,  artificibus  apponebat,  et  velud  apis 
mellificata  currens  et  discurrens  ministrabat. 

Ornamentis  eciam  ecclesie  et  sacris  vestibus  nendis  et  texendis 
et  consuendis  multociens  insudabat,  et  discipulas  suas  propter 
ociositatem  vitandam,  certis  temporibus  occupari  operibus  sim- 
ilibus  faciebat.  In  ieiuniis  vero  et  vigiliis  protelandis,  in  hymnis 
et  psalmis  et  canticis  spiritualibus  canendis,  et  lectionis  sacre 
studio,  instabat  ferventissime,  ita  ut  admirationi  esset  congre- 
gationi  universe.  Sed  inter  ceteras  dotes  virtutum,  quibus 
divina  gracia  ditaverat  earn,  humilitate  pollebat  supra  modum 
nature  vel  consuetudinis  humane. 

Sic  agebat  Marthe  negocium  ut  non  negligeret  Marie  sanctum 
otium,  nee  rursum  propter  Marie  sabbatum  contempneret  minis- 
terium  necessarium.  Et  quia  accepta  erat  Deo  et  hominibus, 
monasterium  suum  datis  sibi  a  principibus,  scilicet,  sancto  Oswaldo 
prius  et  sancto  Oswino  postea,  martire  futuro,  amplificabat 
possessionibus.  Cumque  aliquandiu  taliter  huic  monasterio  pre- 
fuisset,  sancta  Hilda,  virgo  Christi,  que  in  religionis  habitu  uno 
anno  in  Francia  in  monasterio,  nomine  Cale,  ob  regularem  dis- 
ciplinam  discendam,  sponte  pro  Christo  exulaverat,  repatriata 
et  a  sancto  Aidano  episcopo  invitata  ad  illas  partes  devenit,  et 
mansionem  sibi  non  longe  a  Tino  flumine,  ut  Beda  narrat,  edifi- 
cavit,  ibique  aliquandiu  in  magna  sanctitate  deguit. 

Beata  autem  Begha  que  se  exuit  tunica  mundane  sollicitudinis, 
admirabatur  sepe  secum  quomodo  induerat  illam  sub  specie 


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regiminis,  et  que  lavavit  pedes  suos  ab  omni  pulvere  terrene 
administrationis,  anxiebatur  in  se  quod  iterum  sibi  videretur 
quasi  inquinasse  illos  sub  cura  prelationis.  Recordabatur  vocis 
illius  turturis,  quam  audire  solebat  in  terra  sua,  illius  aure  lenis 
sibili,  quam  sibi  sentiebat  crebro  spirasse  in  interiore  cella  sua, 
"  quis,"  inquiens,  "  dabit  mihi  ut  sim  iuxta  dies  pristinos,  quando 
secreto  erat  Deus  in  tabernaculo  meo,  quando  inebriabar  ab 
ubertate  domus  sue,  et  torrente  voluptatis  sue  potabat  me." 

Hec  dum  sepe  animo  revolveret,  anxiebatur  in  se  spiritus  eius 
quia  omne  exterioris  occupacionis  negocium  et  omne  ministerium 
Marthe  linquere  deliberans,  et  illam  partem  Marie  optimam  que 
non  auferetur  sibi  eligens,  regimini  monasterii,  quod  edificaverat, 
absque  ulla  retractacione  renunciare  sedit  animo  eius.  Velle 
itaque  illud  sibi  adiacens  multociens  sancto  presuli  Aidano 
indicavit :  instans  tandem,  inoportune,  oportune,  absolvi  a  pre- 
latione  impetravit.  Tune  omnium  sororum  votis,  unanimi 
assensu,  scilicet,  pontificis  et  ipsius  Beghu  et  universe  congre- 
gacionis  benedicta  Hilda  in  abbatissam  eligitur  ;  et  licet  diu 
multumque  renitens,  humilis  tamen  et  obnixis  Beghe  precibus 
devicta,  ei  in  regimine  substituitur.  Satis  enim  humilis  et  arnica 
fuit  inter  illas  Dei  arnicas  altercatio  ;  dum  quelibet  alterius 
vitam  proprie  preferret  :  nee  minus  lis  inter  illas  versabatur  de 
prelatione  non  suscipienda,  quam  oriri  consuevit  inter  ambitiosos 
et  simoniace  heresis  veneno  potionatos  super  adipiscenda.  Beghe 
tamen  humilitas  in  hac  parte  vicit :  et  Hilde  obediencia  quamvis 
invite  vinci  sustinuit. 

Sancta  vero  Begha  ad  civitatem  Calcariam,  que  lingua  Anglor- 
um  Helcacester  vocatur,  secedens,  mansionem  sibi  construxit, 
ibique  in  magna  perfectione  multis  diebus  vitam  duxit.  Sancta 
vero  Hilda  susceptum  monasterium  strenue  rexit,  et  cum  religione, 
turn  exteriori  substantia  in  sublime  provexit.  Sed  tune  precipue 
in  altum  locus  ille  excrevit,  quin  rex  Oswinus  filiam  suam  Elfledam 
satis  parvulam  illuc  Deo  in  perpetua  virginitate  servituram  trad- 
idit,  sicut  Deo  vovit  quando  tarn  splendide  de  Penda  rege  pagan- 
issimo  triumphavit. 

Tractu  temporis  aliquanti  interiecto,  eadem  Christi  famula, 
Hilda,  a  rege  prefato  Oswino  locum  vocabulo  Streneshalch,  qui 
modo  vocatur  Witebi,  comparans  nobile  cenobium  inibi  edificavit, 
quod  et  in  brevi  rerum  affluentia,  et  quod  his  magnincentius  est, 
religione  magna,  virorum  clarissimorum  vita  et  doctrina,  ac 
sanctissimarum  ancillarum  Dei  sanctimonialium  copia,  nobilitavit. 
Licet  eciam  multi  viri  virtutum,  velud  celi  sidera,  in  iilo  monas- 
terio  claruerint  :  quinque  tamen,  teste  Beda,  singularis  meriti 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  507 

et  doctrine  ex  ems  disciplinatu  et  conventu  in  summum  sacer- 
dotium  electi  et  provecti  et  super  candelabrum  positi,  scilicet, 
Wilfridus,  Johannes,  Bosa,  Ethla,  Ostoforus,  luxerunt  quasi  celi 
clarissima  luminaria. 

Manebat  tamen  inter  sanctas  Hildam  et  Beghu  grata  societas, 
specialis  familiaritas  et  continua  adinvicem  materna  vigebat 
cantas  :  quamvis  locorum  separatio  teneret  eas  aliquandiu 
sequestratas,  frequens  erat  adinvicem  visitatio  et  crebra  de 
celestibus  collocutio  circa  salutem  animarum  devota  collocatio. 
Altera  alterius  onera  subportans,  implendo  legem  Christi  ad 
portandum  pondus  diei  et  estus  sese  mutua  ammonitione  anima- 
batur,  et  ut  accensis  lampadibus  vigilantes  in  adventu  sponsi,  et 
preparate  ad  intrandum  cum  eo  ad  nuptias  apparerent,  incit- 
abant. 

Sed  sponsus  supernus,  qui  dilectam  suam  non  semper  blandi- 
mentis  permulcet,  sed  multociens  terroribus  pulsat,  castigans 
castigavit  Hildam,  amicam  suam,  septenni  egritudine  decoquens 
earn,  quia  tanquam  aurum  probavit  electam  suam,  et  sicut  holo- 
causti  hostiam  acceptavit  illam,  et  invenit  earn  se  dignam.  Ut 
enim  virtus  ei  ex  innrmitate  proficeretur  et  corona  augeretur  : 
et  expiarentur  si  qua  fortasse  ex  mundana  conversatione  peccata 
admisit,  sex  annis  ante  decessum  suum  continuis  febribus,  sep- 
timo  vero  dolore  ad  interanea  converse,  celestis  aurifex  illam 
torreri  et  torqueri  permisit. 

In  quo  tamen  spacio  non  resonabat  in  ore  eius  murmur  neque 
querimonia,  sed  semper  vox  laudis  et  graciarum  actio,  cunctis 
relinquens  patiencie  sue  indicia.  In  quo  plane  tempore  Begha, 
que  illam  amabat  arctius,  visitabat  frequentius  cum  ea  habit- 
abat  diutius. 

Sed  cum  venisset  hora  ut  ex  hoc  mundo  beata  Hilda  transiret 
ad  Patrem,  et  pertransito  igne  corporee  egritudinis  et  aqua 
terrene  tribulacionis,  induceretur  in  sempiterne  quietis  refrig- 
erium,  divina  providentia  actum  est  ut  ante  paucos  dies  vener- 
abilis  Begha  visitasset  monasterium  virginum,  nomine  Acconos, 
eodem  anno  a  sancta  Hilda  constructum.  Nocte  vero  eadem  et 
hora,  scilicet,  circa  gallicinium,  quo  filia  lucis,  Hilda,  introducere- 
tur  in  splendoribus  sanctorum,  iacebat  Begha  pausans  apud 
Acconos  in  dormitorio  sororum.  In  visu  itaque  noctis  videbatur 
sibi  sive  in  excessu  mentis  audire  se  sonum  campane  illius  qua  ad 
congregandum  conventum  in  obitu  cuiuspiam  de  congregatione 
sanctarum  solebat  pulsari,  ac  deinde  erectis  oculis  sursum  subito 
se  videre  immensam  lucem  desuper  fusam  detecto  culmine  domus 
omnia  replevisse,  et  sancte  Hilde  animam  ab  angelis  lucis  cum 


508  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

luce  in  lucidam  regionem,  dum  luci  sollicita  intenderet,  aspexit 
deferri.  Cumque  ad  se  reversa  et  ceteras  videret  pausantes  circa 
se  sorores,  intellexit  vel  in  sompno  vel  in  visione  mentis  ostensum 
sibi  esse  omne  quod  viderat.  Que  mox  exsurgens  astrata  cum 
timore,  virginem,  nomine  Freitham,  que  monasterio  illi  vice 
abbatisse  prefuit,  evigilavit  :  eique  seriatim  ordinem  visionis 
enarrans,  matrem  illarum  omnium,  Hildam,  cum  suspiriis  et  luctu 
multo  obisse  affirmavit.  Deinde  cum  ceteris  excitatis,  vigilias 
sacras  nocturne  laudis  celebrantes,  totam  reliquam  partem  noctis 
insompnes  ducebant,  et  psalmos  et  hymnos  et  oraciones  pro  anima 
sancte  matris  persolvebant.  Mane  vero,  facto  primo  diluculo, 
advenientes  fratres  a  loco  quo  defuncta  fuit,  eadem  hora  sanctam 
Hildam  ex  hoc  mundo  emigrasse  nunciabant  quam  sancte  Beghe 
revelatam  per  visionem  agnoverant. 

Post  decessum  sancte  Hilde  mansit  beata  Begha  in  illo  monas- 
terio de  Acconos,  sicut  testantur  illius  provincie  incole  et  monachi 
de  Witebi  usque  ad  diem  depositionis  sue,  que  evenit  pridie  Kalen- 
das  Novembris,  ibique  fuit  funerata,  quia  non  diu  post  obitum 
tante  matris  in  corpore  mortis  in  tabernaculis  cedar  a  Domino 
est  peregrinata.  Utraque  enim  agno  Dei,  regi  et  sponso  virginum, 
cum  niveis  choreis  virginum  iuncta  est  in  celis,  cui  carne  et  mente 
incontaminata  cum  summa  devotione  obsequebatur  in  terris. 
Congrue  satis  dum  vigilia  Omnium  Sanctorum  recolitur  ad  con- 
sortium eorum  transivit  e  mundo,  ut  hieme  in  terris  intrante,  illi 
exeunti  hyems  omnis  transiret,  et  imber  abiret  et  recederet  ver 
eternum  ei  luceret,  flores  rosarum  et  lilia  convallium  appar- 
erent  in  celo. 

Latuit  ita  tarn  preciosa  margarita  sub  lapide  in  corde  terre, 
ubi  sepulta  fuerat,  quadringentis  sexaginta  circiter  annis,  et 
miracula  quibus  fulserat  in  carne  degens,  sive  eciam  vinculis 
carnis  absoluta,  Danica  depopulatio  delevit  ab  hominum  noticia, 
et  ideo  omnia  ilia  et  eciam  sepultura  eius  incognita  fere  fuerit 
cunctis.  Anno  autem  incarnationis  dominice  millesimo  centesimo 
[  ]  divinitus  revelatum  est  viris  fidelibus  et  religiosis,  ut 

in  cimiterio  de  Acconos  deberent  querere  et  indagare  sepulchrum 
sancte  Beghe  virginis  et  ad  cenobium  de  Witebi  transferre  sacras 
exuvias  suas.  Qui  profecto  rem  sibi  revelatam  non  segniter 
exequentes  ad  locum  venerunt  et  in  altum  fodiendo  multam  terre 
aggerem  a  loco  eruentes,  tantum  sarcofagum,  in  cuius  operculo 
exaratum  erat,  HOC  EST  SEPVLCHRVM  BEGHV,  invenerunt. 
Ammoventes  ergo  operculum  illud,  reppererunt  sacri  corporis 
glebam,  et  ad  caput  velum  eius  plurima  ex  parte  integrum, 
hauseruntque  inde  emanentem  odorem  suavissimum.  Deinde 


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illam  cum  hymnis  et  laudibus  processione  facta  ad  cenobium 
prefatum  transtulerunt  et  in  loco  condigno  decenter  reposuerunt. 

Ego  vero,  quia  de  translatione  et  de  miraculis  inibi  factis  non 
plenam  noticiam  habeo,  omnia  illis  ilia  qui  viderunt  et  rei  inter- 
fuerunt  scribenda  relinquo.  Ilia  vero,  que  per  earn  Dominus 
operari  dignatus  est  apud  Kirkebibeghoc  in  Coupelandia,  ubi 
prius  solitaria  deguit,  et  eius  memoria  cum  magna  veneratione 
habetur,  de  quibus  certioratus  esse  potero,  ad  presentium  et  ad 
posterorum  noticiam  stilo  elucidare  pertemptabo. 

De  miraculis  que  apud  Kirkebi  in  Copelande  operata  est 
sancta  Bega. 

Beata  Bega  rebus  humanis  corporaliter  exempta,  quam  preciosa 
fuerit  in  conspectu  Dei  eius  sanctissima  anima,  crebra  diversis  in 
locis  attestantur  miracula  facta.  In  illo  tamen  loco  quo  de 
Hybernia  transvecta  Couplandie  applicuit  et  diu  solitaria  deguit, 
ubi  in  sui  memoriam  armillam  superius  memoratam  ad  decus  et 
indicium  sanctitatis  sue,  quasi  quoddam  pingnus  dilectionis  et 
protectionis  et  visitationis  sue  erga  locum  ilium  reliquit,  signorum 
multiplicium  claritas  fulgescit.  Multi  namque,  variis  infirmit- 
atibus  gravati  aut  spiritibus  immundis  vexati,  optatam  sospit- 
atem  ibi  suffragantibus  meritis  et  precibus  eius  receperunt  :  plures 
incarcerati,  seu  catenis  vel  compedibus  astricti,  per  illam  liberat- 
ionem  senserunt.  Quicunque  super  armillam  eius  periuraverit 
velociter  periurii  penam  gravissimam  vel  mortem  celerem  incurrit. 
Nullus  eciam  loci  illius  pacem  impune  temerare  potuit,  sed  citam 
vindictam  terribiliter  ei  inflictam  ut  ceteri  metum  haberent  et 
loco  deinceps  deferrent  in  instanti  sensit.  De  quibus  omnibus 
quedam  pauca  ad  agnitionem  plurimorum  calamo  mandare  dig- 
num  diximus  :  quorum  veritas  ut  irrefragabilis  omnibus  audi- 
entibus  eluscescat,  tocius  fere  patrie  omnium  testimonia  credibilia 
facta  nimis  in  medium  produximus. 

De    quodam   Galwelense   propter   blasfemia   occiso. 

Fuit  vir  quidam  Belial,  nichil  Christian!  preter  nomen  habens, 
natione  et  habitacione  Galwaithensis,  letabundus  cum  male  faceret, 
et  exultans  in  rebus  pessimis,  qui  ab  adolescentia  sua  omnem  oper- 
am  dabat  furtis  et  rapinis  et  aliis  facinoribus  atque  flagitiis.  Hie 
dum  quadam  vice  cum  suis  consimilibus  consuetum  opus  iterare 
maturasset  et  versus  Coupelandiam  ad  iter  esset  accinctus,  mater 
eius,  que  ilium  arctius  amabat,  convenit  eum,  dicens,  "  Materna 
te  fill  sedulitate  commoneo  et  autoritate  precipio  ne  in  hoc 
negocio  quod  perpetrare  proponis  in  terra  sancte  Beghe  furtum 
vel  rapinam  seu  violentiam  aliquam  aliquando  ccmmittas,  nee 


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pacem  eius  ullatenus  violare  presumas."     Ille  vero,  qui  totus  erat 
Sathane,    matris    exortantis    verba    salubria    contempnebat    et 
subsannans  dicebat,  "  Quid  mihi  facere  poterit  vetula  ilia  ?  "  et 
manum  ad  secretiores  partes  natium  admovens,  ore  blaspheme, 
"  Hie,    hie,"    inquit    "  sagittabit   me."      Hec   dicit  et  abiit  in 
consilio  et   consortio  impiorum  :    et  tarn  de  terra  sancte  Bege 
quam  aliunde  clam  et  palam,  ubicunque  coadunare  cum  ceteris 
poterat,    predam    abigebat,    nam    unum   equum   ipse    de    terri- 
torio    sancte   virginis   abducens   iam   equitabat.      Quidam   vero 
pastorum  aspicientes   illos   a  longe   in   villam   concurrerunt,    et 
lituis  personantes  undique  confluentem  turbam  congregaverunt, 
congregatis,  que  acciderat,  rem  retulerunt.     Illi  autem  ocius  in- 
sequebantur  predones  iam  fugientes,  et  solum  furciferum  ilium 
superius  memoratum  dispersis  sociis  eminus  equitantem  conspex- 
erunt.     Nam  sodales  eius  dum  cornicinium  audirent  et  turbam 
copiosam    conspicerent    in    suam    internecionem,    relicta    preda, 
animas    tantum    salvare    cupientes    fugerunt.     Adolescentiores 
quidam  cursu  ceteris  velociores  sacrilege  equitanti  appropinqua- 
bant  et  versus  eum  sagittas  emittebant.     Dedignabatur  homo  ab 
equo  descendere,  sed  quia  in  corde  sagittari  timebat,  caput  super 
collum  equi  inclinans,  nates  sursum  erigebat.     Hoc  autem  genus 
armorum  Scotti  Hybernie  Galwaithenses  pre  ceteris  formidant, 
unde  et  sagittam  demonem  volantem  vocant.     Quidam  autem 
adolescentulus  sagittam,  quasi  in  incertum,  ut  ipse  postea  refere- 
bat,  iaciens,  percussit  ilium  in  fronticulo  fundamenti,  quern  locum 
ipse  in  proprio  domo  constitutus  manu  sua  designaverat,  et  lingua 
blasphema  contra  se  sentenciam  mortis  protulerat.     Sagitta  vero, 
celeri  et  libero  meatu  per  vitalia  transiecta,  pectus  eciam  eius 
penetrabat,  sicque  usque  ad  pennicias  exterius  prominentes  in 
corpore  eius  fixa  manebat.      Sagittatus  statim  de  equo  corruit 
et  vitales  auras  efflavit.     Sic,  sic,  ulcio  digna  Dei,  contumelias 
et  iniurias  virgini  illatas  inultas  iri  non  sinens,  percussit  inimicum 
eius  sacrilegum,  violatorem  pacis  eius,  in  posteriora,  et  obprobrium 
sempiternum   dedit  illi,   illiusque   in  tali  presumtione   secuturis 
vestigia,   dum  sagitta  parvuli  in  tali  loco  facta  est  plaga  eius 
mortifera.     Divulgatum  est  verbum  hoc  per  fines  Galwathie,  et 
timuerunt  homines  regionis  illius  deinceps  iniuriam  sancte  vir- 
gini inferre  aut  pacem  illius  ulterius  temerare. 

Quod  pulchro  nivis  miraculo  terra  beate  Bege  disterminata 
est. 

Dominabatur  provincie  Couplandie  vir  quidam  magni  nominis, 
iuxta  nomen  magnorum  qui  sunt  in  terra,  vocabulo  Ranulfus, 
cognomento  Meschin.  Is  monachos  de  cenobio  sancte  Dei  geni- 


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tricis  Marie  Eboracensi  finibus  illis  adduxit,  villamque  de  Kirkebi 
cum  omnibus  appendiciis  suis  et  alia  plura  Deo  et  benedicte  Marie 
offerens  et  monachis  libere  ac  liberaliter  contradens,  in  loco  quo 
sancta  Bega  primo  tempore  peregrinationis  sue  solitariam  vitam 
ducens  deguit,  monachorum  cellam  construxit.  Processu  temp- 
oris  quidam,  religioni  monastice  invidentes  et  derogantes,  auribus 
predicti  proceris  instillaverunt  monachos  terminos  possessions 
sue  nimium  dilatasse  et  terras  ipsius  indebite  et  iniuste  preoccu- 
passe.  Vir  autem  ille  dilatationi  aurem  plus  quam  decuit  in- 
clinavit,  quia  fortasse  facti  sui  penitudine  ductus,  manum  suam 
quam  antea  amplifice  expanderat,  sicut  se  habet  hominum  con- 
sueta  cupiditas,  contrahere  voluit.  Sepius  enim  inveniuntur  in 
fundatoribus  aut  patronis  monasteriorum  et  maxime  heredibus 
eorum,  qui  possessiones  cenobiorum  satagunt  minuere  potius 
quam  augmentare,  et  terrarum  illorum  terminos  coartare  conantur 
quam  dilatare. 

Quid  plura  ?  De  possessionum  monasterii  metis  movetur  con- 
troversia  ;  monachi  in  ius  vocantur  :  lis  contestatur  :  instrumenta 
a  monachis  sufficienter  producuntur ;  dies  eciam  plures  ad 
determinandam  causam  constituuntur,  nee  tamen  debito  fine 
concluditur.  Postremo  post  multos  dies,  et  unus  pro  multis  ad 
decisionem  litis,  quern  iurisperiti  peremtorium  nominare  con- 
suescunt,  prefigitur,  ad  quern  multitudo  copiosa  patriotarum 
convenire  precipitur.  Monachi  interim  quia  pati  formidabant 
preiudicium,  sedulis  precibus  ad  divinum  confugiebant  auxilium, 
beate  Bege,  advocatricis  sue,  instantissime  postulantes  suffragium. 

Die  vero  prefixa  convenerunt  ad  locum  plures  utriusque  partis 
ad  cognoscendum  et  videndum  qualiter  metas  metiri  et  terminos 
deberent  dividere  in  funiculo  distribucionis.  Sed  signum  insigne 
et  admirabile  in  oculis  omnium  apparuit,  quod  antiquo  miraculo 
tempore  Gedeonis  in  vellere  et  rore  perpetrato  ex  magna  parte 
non  degeneravit.  Nix  namque  profunda  universe  circumiacentis 
terre  superficiem  cooperuit ;  infra  metas  quas  monachi  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  virginis  adiacere  et  sibi  competere  astruxerant  nee 
unius  stille  vestigium  apparuit.  Sicut  enim  in  signo  reciprocate 
quod  secundo  Gedeon  petiit  in  indicium  triumphalis  tituli  de 
alienigenis  universa  terra  rore  maduit,  set  vellus  solum  siccum 
remansit,  sic  ad  convincendos  adversaries  sancte  huius,  ad  con- 
futandos  testes  falsidicos,  ad  litem  denique  determinandam  de 
terminis  ecclesie,  ut  perpetuo  silencio  obstrueretur  os  loquentium 
iniqua,  in  hac  parte  tota  terra  nive  canduit,  totum  territorium 
ecclesie  aridum  extitit. 

Vellus  itaque  Gedeonis,  prius  madidum,  postea  aridum,  virginis 


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matris,  divina  gracia  plene,  et  a  contagio  peccati  aliene,  ex  cuius 
plenitudinis  abundancia  irrigatur  latitude  terre,  tipum  pretendit. 
Siccitas  in  terra  ista  venerande  virginis  Bege,  famule  Dei  genitricis, 
meritum  liquido  cunctis  ostendit.  Stupent  igitur  qui  convenerant 
ad  tarn  stupendum  miraculum :  laudes  efferunt  in  celum  : 
omniumque  iudicio  et  favore  remanserunt  termini  territorii 
•ecclesie  sancte  Bege  usque  in  presens,  sicut  eos  designaverat 
•descriptum  celeste  prodigium. 

De  miraculo  equorum  Godardi  militis. 

Erat  quidam  miles  prepotens,  Godardus  nomine,  qui  munition- 
em  custodiebat  in  Eggremonte.  Hie  habebat  pratum  territorio 
sancte  Bege  continguum,  in  quod  misit  quadam  die  autumpnali 
tempore  equos  suos  ad  pascendum,  inter  quos  fuit  sonipes  perop- 
timus  quern  appreciabatur  plurimum.  Adiacebat  autem  ager 
monachorum  prato  collimitans,  habens  ordeum,  quod  iamiamque 
pre  maturitati  ad  messoris  manicabat  manum.  Equi  vero  soluti 
et  effrenati,  dum  virecta  carpentes  hue  illucque  discurrerent,  in 
agrum  proruperunt  et  ordei  recentis  commasticatione  illecti 
spicas  avide  absumpserunt,  et  reliquas  pedibus  conculcantes  non 
minimum  dampnum  agro  intulerunt  :  nee  tamen  custodes  iu- 
mentorum  hec  videntes  sive  ex  negligentia  seu  ex  dedignacione 
iumenta  ab  agro  abigere  voluerunt.  Quod  cum  quidam  de  fam- 
ilia  monasterii  cerneret  ocius  accurrit,  et  ut  equos  ab  agro  admov- 
•erent  et  de  illato  dampno  satisfacerent  pueros  admonuit. 

Pueri  vero  de  potencia  domini  sui  confidentes,  elati  et  inflati, 
Tiomini  iusta  persuadenti  et  rationem  poscenti  verba  contumeliosa 
reddiderunt,  et  peiora  prioribus  sese  illaturos  promiserunt.  Vir 
vero  ille,  quid  responderet  vel  quid  faceret  iniuriatoribus  illis 
adversum  se  animo  concitatis  non  inveniens,  eo  quod  essent 
manuque  numero  robustiores,  conticuit,  et  elevatis  oculis  ac 
manibus  ad  ecclesiam  sancte  Bege  dixit,  "  Sancta  Bega,  fac 
iudicium,  iniuriam  patientibus  servis  tuis  et  vindica  nos  de  iu- 
mentis  istis."  At  pueri  sensu  puerili  et  ore  impuro  hominem 
deriserunt,  immo  in  homine  simplici  et  suplici  sanctam  despici- 
entes  subsannado  dixerunt,  "  Veniat  Bega,  veniat,  et  quod  potest 
faciat,  forsitan  de  pedibus  equorum  nostrorum  furabitur  ferra- 
menta  aut  ipsa  nostra  nobis  auferet  iumenta."  Hec  et  his  similia 
stulti  chachinantes  adinvicem  protulerunt,  et  post  modicum 
temporis  intervallum  domi  reverti  disposuerunt. 

Cumque  ad  equos  ut  eos  infrenarent  venissent,  invenerunt 
omnes  omnium  equorum  ungulas  a  compage  pedum  calcaneo 
tenus  solutas  et  a  carne  et  nervis  penitus  et  integre  separatas  : 
•et  quod  magis  stupendum  est,  ipsas  omnes  granis  ordeiciis  in 


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concavitate  viderunt  esse  plenas.  Quod  cernentes  pueri  super 
temeritate  sua  penituerunt  et  quod  gestum  fuerat  circum  circa 
divulgaverunt.  Quo  audito,  utriusque  sexus  turbe  catervatim  ad 
miraculum  tarn  insolitum  conspiciendum  confluxerunt,  et  omnes 
qui  viderunt  vel  audierunt  mirabilem  Domini  in  sancta  sua  mira- 
bilia  operantem  glorincaverunt. 

Supra  memoratus  autem  Godardus  cum  cognovisset  signum, 
quod  factum  est  a  domina  Bega  in  nomine  Domini  et  est  mirabile 
in  oculis  omnium,  magis  applaudens  miraculo  quam  de  amissione 
equorum  et  maxime  sonipedis  quern  pluris  habebat  dolens  dampno, 
pratum  illud  monasterio  sancte  Bege  obtulit,  et  carta  sua  inde 
facta  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  eidem  confirmavit. 
Ungule  vero  ordeo  plene  ad  ecclesiam  sancte  virginis  sunt 
deportate  et  ad  indicium  et  testimonium  miraculi  huius  diebus 
multis  ibidem  reservate.  Et  licet  omnes  fere  patriote  illud  sig- 
num insigne  predicent  et  clament,  specialiter  tamen  illud  protest- 
antur  pratum  ecclesie  collatum  quod  monachi  in  presenti  possident 
et  carta  inde  facta  quam  habent. 

Quomodo  quidam  dives  sacram  armillam  sancte  Bege  per- 

ieraverat. 

Quidam  de  magnatibus  Anglie,  nomine  Walterus  de  Spec, 
consilio  instigatus  Rogeri  filii  et  heredis  sui  et  importunitate, 
impetebat  monachos  sancte  Dei  genitricis  Marie  Eboraci,  super 
quibusdam  terris  que  ad  ius  spectabant  monasterii  sui.  Post 
dies  plures  cognitioni  cause  constitutes,  et  post  multiplices  alter- 
cationum  allegationes,  tandem  per  iudices  parti  impie  propitios 
et  iniuste  proclives,  eo  quod  esset  unus  de  capitaneis  baronibus 
regis,  definitum  est,  ut  liberorum,  et  ut  usualiter  ac  vulgariter 
loquar,  hominum  legalium  iuramento  probare  Walterus  deberet 
possessionem  illam  de  qua  controversia  versabatur  sibi  de  iure 
competere,  sicque  illam  in  posterum  absque  ulla  contradictione 
possidere. 

Monachi  vero  habent  a  summo  pontifice  sibi  indultum  et  priv- 
ilegiatum  ut  quocienscunque  lis  vertitur  de  aliqua  possessione 
monasterii  que  iuramento  debeat  terminari,  impetitores  eorum 
tactis  sacrosanctis  reliquiis  ecclesie  sue,  quas  conventus  dixerit 
preferendas,  iuratoria  astruccione  sint  astringendi. 

Quamvis  ergo  preiu'dicium  paterentur,  diffinitivam  sentenciam 
cassare  non  valentes,  protulerunt  tamen  in  medium  sancte  Bege 
virginis  supra  memoratam  armillam,  quia  confidebant  inultum 
non  preterire  periurium  super  illam  perpetratum.  In  dampnum 
ergo  et  detrimentum  cenobii,  secundum  iudicium  diligentium 
commodum,  Waited  iuramentum  immo  Deo  et  sancte  virgin! 

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514  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

periurio  iniuriatum  est,  et  quod  iuris  erat  ecclesie  sub  pretextu 
iusticie  iniuste  ab  adversa  parte  possessum  est. 

Cumque  post  modicum  reverteretur  prefatus  Walterus  cum  suis 
ad  sua,  letabundus  quia  in  causa  iuxta  voluntatem  obtinuerit, 
et  nlius  eius,  Rogerus,  qui  patrem  suum  ad  hec  instigaverat,  per- 
turbanti  equo  insederit,  repente  ultio  divina  fructum  adinventionis 
eius  in  ilium  vindicavit,  nam  equus,  cui  insedit,  in  terrain  et  ipse 
de  equo  consequenter  corruit,  fractisque  cervicibus  expiravit. 

Verum  tamen  pater  illius,  quamvis  nimio  dolore  anxiaretur 
super  morte  filii,  semetipsum  tamen  accusans,  terribile  iudicium 
Domini  reprehendere  non  audebat,  sed  penitens  et  satisfaciens 
terram,  quam  male  adquisierat,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosin- 
am  prenominato  cenobio  dedit,  cartaque  sua  confirmavit,  vit- 
amque  suam  in  reliquum  diligencius  emendavit.  Quia  filium  et 
heredem  in  terra  amiserat,  in  hereditate  sua  multos  filios  Dei, 
qui  dispersi  fuerant  ad  serviendum  Deo  viventi,  ut  heredes  eius 
fierent,  coheredes  autem  Christi,  in  unum  colligebat.  Duo  namque 
preclara  cenobia,  ordinis  Cisterciensis,  Rievallem,  videlicet,  et 
Wardunum,  terciumque  canonicorum,  Kirkam  nomine,  in  proprio 
allodio  fundavit,  diesque  suos  in  bonum  consumavit. 

Item  de  alio  qui  similiter  super  eandem  armillam  perieravit. 

Versabatur  quodam  tempore  controversia  inter  eos  qui  domina- 
bantur  terre  de  Coupelandia  et  homines  subditos  sibi  super 
quadam  consuetudine  qua  boves  solebant  dominis  pensari.  Unde 
et  Anglice  pensio  ilia  nuncupatur  Noutegheld,  quod  Latine  per- 
solucio  bourn  dicitur.  Que  consuetudo  qua  de  causa  quibus  in 
locis  inoleverit  aut  a  quo  tempore,  non  est  huius  temporis  aut 
operis  enodare.  Impetebantur  homines  et  cogebantur  plus 
reddere  quam  arbitrabantur  se  solvere  debere.  Desudatum  est 
diu  tandemque  definitum,  ut  quorundam  iuramento  probari 
deberet,  que  pars  iustiorem  causam  foveret,  et  quod  sacramento 
corporaliter  prestito  probatum  fuisset,  ad  tenendum  inconcusse 
deinceps  neutra  pars  supersederet. 

Erat  quidam  Adam  nomine  nlius  Ailsi  vocatus,  homo  alicuius 
momenti  tune  temporis,  qui  ad  hanc  probationem  f  uerat  assignatus 
concessu  et  consensu  utriusque  partis,  eo  quod  crederetur  equi- 
volus  amator  et  executor  veritatis.  Hie,  fallacia  spiritus  mendacis 
qui  erat  in  ore  eius  seductus,  omnia  videntis  timore  postposito, 
placere  potentioribus  desiderans,  tacta  armilla  sancte  virginis, 
iuravit,  immo  periuravit  dominos  quod  iustum  est  exigere,  et  ab 
antiquis  diebus  homines  illius  terre  quod  exigebatur  consuetos 
reddere.  Tali  itaque  periurio  superioribus  emolumentum  con- 
tulit,  sed  ab  illo  tempore  magnum  gravamen  pauperioribus  intulit. 


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Sed  censura  divine  iusticie  periurium  inultum  diu  manere  non 
permisit,  quod  super  tarn  reverendas  reliquias  irreverenter  com- 
misit.  Mente  namque  captus  traditus  est  Sathane,  torquendus 
et  dilaniandus,  ac  novennio  spiritus  Domini  malus  continue 
vexabat  ilium,  ita  ut  esset  in  stuporem  et  sibilum  omnibus  vident- 
ibus  ilium. 

Decimo  autem  anno  vexacionis  eius  suorum  manibus,  licet 
invitus  et  renitens,  ad  ecclesiam  virginis  deducitur,  illisque  ibidem 
vigilantibus  et  orantibus  pro  eo,  sopore  diucius  placido  resolvitur. 
Excusso  denique  sompno,  a  demone  expurgatus  invenitur,  sen- 
suque  recepto,  compos  sui  cum  multo  imbre  lacrimarum  multi- 
modas  gracias  Deo  et  sancte  Bege  agit,  cuius  se  meritis  sospitatem 
adeptum  gratulatur.  Toto  igitur  tempore  quo  advixit,  ab  huius- 
modi  demonica  vexacione  et  oppressione  liber  permansit,  ipse 
vero  iugiter  penituit  de  peccato  periurii  sui,  seque  gravissime 
deliquisse  crebro  confitebatur  coram  populo  :  nee  tamen  eius 
confessio,  licet  publica,  plebem  potuit  absolvere  ab  imposite 
pensionis  gravi  iugo. 

De  peplo,  quo  armilla  involvitur,  furato  et  iterum  restitute . 

Quadam  vice  cum  sacra  sacre  virginis  armilla  ob  insigne  sancti- 
tatis  offeretur  in  publicum  et  negligencius  solito  et  incautius  cus- 
todiretur,  quidam  homo  pravus  atque  perversus,  nomine  N., 
peplum  quoddam  preciosum  a  quadam  devota  femina  oblatum, 
quo  armilla  ipsa  obvolvebatur,  mente  ac  manu  sacrilega  furari 
et  in  caliga  abscondere  non  reverebatur,  quia  ibi  scelus  suum 
detegi  facile  non  posse  arbitrabatur.  Queritur  pannus  preciosus 
nee  invenitur.  Auctor  vel  fautor  sceleris  verbis  commonitoriis 
ut  ablatum  restituat  convenitur  nee  agnoscitur. 

Ad  ultimum  anathematis  innodatio  intentatur,  sed  nee  sic 
redditur.  Ultio  denique  aut  denudatio  manifesta  huius  rei  a 
sancta  Bega  fieri  ab  omnibus  exposcitur,  cui  iniuria  specialiter 
facta  videbatur.  Sed  in  his  omnibus  dure  cervicis  homo  et  incir- 
cumcisus  corde  ad  penitenciam  non  emollitur,  sed  quia  multociens 
vexatio  sola  solet  dare  intellectum  auditui,  castigatur  homo 
flagello  competenti,  verum  tamen  non  ad  insipientiam  sibL 
Statim  ut  gausape  prenominatum  cruris  illius  nudum  tetigit, 
quasi  emortuum  et  ab  omni  vitali  vigore  totum  femur  effectum 
emarcuit,  et  a  iunctura  femoris  illius  usque  ad  extremas  plantas 
pedis  nichil  movere  aut  sentire  potuit. 

In  se  ergo  reversus  homo  peccatum  cum  lacrimis  multis  coram 
omnibus  patefecit,  et  extrahens  de  caliga  pannum  loco  stio  res- 
tituit.  Deductus  demum  ad  basilicam  beate  Bege,  cum  luminar- 
ibus  accensis  ibidem  pernoctavit  in  oracionibus  :  oratum  est 


516  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

eciam  pro  eo  ab  omnibus  circumstantibus,  et  misericordissime 
virginis,  que  misereri  consuescit  vere  penitentibus,  pietate  res- 
tituta  est  homini  pristina  salus.  Omnisque  plebs  ut  vidit  dedit 
laudem  Deo,  qui  glorificavit  sanctam  suam  signis  tarn  evidentibus. 
Quomodo  tres  viros  de  carcere  liberavit. 

Est  villa  in  Coupelandia,  vocabulo  Wirkentunia,  secus  Derwenti 
flumen  sita,  in  qua,  die  quadam  dominica  circa  vesperum,  quatuor 
viri  post  diurnam  potacionem,  dum  domi  reverterentur  a  taberna, 
in  rixam  nescio  qua  de  causa  exacuerunt  linguas  suas,  ac  de  lite 
ad  ictus  exercuerunt  manus  suas.  Tres  vero  numero  et  forti- 
tudine  supeiiores  in  quartum  irruerunt  et  non  mirum  sub  se  sub- 
ruerunt.  In  quandam  enim  domunculam  ad  exsicandos  fruges 
factam,  que  vulgo  torrellum  vocatur,  trahentes  hominem  opprim- 
endo  forsitan  cum  prefocaverunt,  aut  manibus  gutturi  iniectis 
strangulaverunt.  Quod  ilico  cum  compertum  esset,  convicanei 
undique  confluxerunt,  et  de  loco  illo  abdito  extinctum  efferentes, 
nullum  vulnus  in  perempto  repererunt.  Consequenter  clamor 
attolitur  secundum  consuetudinem  patrie  :  patriote  convicinio 
congregantur  :  tres  illi  homicide  comprehenduntur,  vinciuntur  et 
a  ministris  tali  ofncio  deputatis  usque  ad  castellum  Eggremontis 
deducuntur,  ibique  ergastulo  detruduntur. 

Cumque  ibidem  aliquanto  tempore  detinerentur,  compedibus 
astricti,  et  tarn  squalore  carceris  quam  timore  mortis  et  penuria 
multiplici  essent  afflicti,  vexacio  iuxta  propheticum  eloquium 
dedit  illis  sui  intellectum  delicti.  Reatum  enim  suum  agnos- 
centes,  sese  graviter  peccasse,  iniuste  egisse,  iniquitatem  fecisse, 
confessi  sunt :  et  indulgenciam  fusis  lacrimis  a  Domino  postu- 
lantes,  animas  suas  illi  humiliaverunt :  crebro  sanctam  Begam 
in  auxilium  sue  liberacionis  invocaverunt.  Cumque  sacrificium 
spiritus  contiibulati  in  corde  contrite  et  humiliate  cotidie  Deo  non 
cessassent  offere,  et  sancte  Bege  presidium  petere,  quadam  die 
coram  illis  quedam  femina  multe  venustatis  et  magne  venerationis 
apparuit,  illosque  verbis  consolatoriis  permulcens,  ait,  "  Videns 
vidi  afflictionem  vestram  et  gemitum  vestrum  audivi  in  tenebrosis 
et  umbra  mortis,  et  descendi  liberare  vos."  At  illi,  "  que  estis," 
inquiunt,  "  domine,  que  nos  indignos  peccatores  visitare  et  con- 
solari  dignaris."  Et  ilia,  "  Ego  sum,"  ait,  "  famula  Christi,  Bega, 
quam  assidue  invocastis  in  die  tribulacionis  vestre.  Plane  erip- 
iam  vos  et  de  manu  querentium  animas  vestras  liberabo  vos  : 
surgite,  exite,  venite  post  me  securi,  ad  asilum  meum  perducam 
vos."  Illi  vero  nil  cunctati,  sed  gracias  multas  agentes,  illamque 
per  viam  subsecuti  omnia  prius  obserata  et  repagulis  dampnata 
sibi  reserata  repererunt,  et  licet  compediti,  viam  tamen  sine 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  517 

impedimento   per  medium  custodum  carpentes  ad  territorium 
sancte  Bege  pervenerunt. 

Statim  autem  ut  ecclesiam  sancte  virginis  attigerunt  visu, 
rumpebantur  compedes  eorum  quasi  fila  stuppe  ad  odorem  ignis. 
Sed  visio  sancte  preambulantis  ab  illorum  evanuit  oculis.  Illi 
vero  concito  gradu  ad  ecclesiam  liberati  porrexerunt,  multisque 
lacrimis  ibidem  profusis  et  hostiis  precum  ac  graciarum  immolatis, 
compedes,  quibus  constringebantur,  ad  laudem  Dei  et  sancte 
virginis  preconium  in  testimonium  sue  liberationis  illic  reliquerunt. 
Signum  illud  per  fines  illos  divulgatum  est,  et  ut  confiteantur 
Domino  misericordias  eius,  et  mirabilia  eius  filiis  hominum, 
qualiter  sancta  Bega  eduxerit  eos  de  tenebris  carceris  et  vincula 
eorum  diruperit  memorie  multorum  commendatum  est. 

De  quodam  qui  alienam  coniugem  in  pace  virginis  rapuit. 

Juvenis  quidam,  Johannes  nomine,  sed  anti-Johannes  opere, 
veneris  venatu  venenatus  in  quandam  mulierem  Beatricem  dictam, 
sponsam  cuiusdam  Willelmi  cognomento  leporis,  que  iuxta  carnis 
putride  putribilem  pulchritudinem  non  illepide  forme  videbatur, 
oculos  iniecit  et  in  consensum  complexus  sui  eius  aurem  et  ani- 
mum  apellare  diu  desu davit.  Mulier  vero,  coniugalis  federis 
fidem  fedare  fedum  ducens,  illi  consentire  omnimodis  supersedit, 
et  tarn  fame  lubrico  quam  conscientie  sue  sereno  prospiciens,  ab 
eo  non  solum  assensum  verum  eciam  alloquium  et  asspectum 
absentavit.  Unde  factum  est  ut  iuvenis  maiori  urgeretur  stimulo, 
et  instar  ignis  qui  flatu  repressus  acrius  surgit,  ex  sui  repulsa  in 
eius  desiderium  copiosiori  ureretur  incentive. 

Advenerat  annua  revolutione  quedam  celebritas  quam  sacro- 
sancto  sabbato  in  vigilia  Pentecosten  homines  illius  terre  ob 
quedam  insignia  sanctitatis  sancte  virginis  tune  illic  inventa,  et 
signa  ibidem  perpetrata  solent  solempnizare,  et  ecclesiam  illius 
visitando  orationum  et  oblationum  hostiis  honorare. 

Prefata  femina,  post  sacras  vigilias  iuxta  morem  in  loco  illo- 
celebratas,  dum  domi  die  divinis  muniis  expletis  reverteretur  cum 
matre  sua,  invadit  illam  in  valle  cuiusdam  alneti  prenominatus 
iuvenis,  ut  lupus  agnam,  ut  milvus  columbam,  abreptamque  equo 
preparato  violenter  abvexit,  abduxit  et  oppressit.  Ilia  vero 
quod  renitendo  resistere  non  potuit,  pacem  Dei  et  sancte  Bege 
crebro  inclamitans,  violenciam  sibi  inferri  in  nomine  ipsius  pro- 
hibuit. 

Mater  mulieris  et  alii,  qui  audierunt  malum  quod  acciderat, 
circumcirca  cum  eiulatu  annunciaverunt.  Quod  cum  audissent 
fratres  oppresse,  assumptis  armis,  fugientem  mechum  persecuti 
sunt,  sociumque  eius  invenientes  decapitaverunt  :  ilium  com- 


5l8  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    UE    SANCTA    BEGA 

prehendere  aut  invenire  non  valuerunt.  Sed  licet  invasor  alien! 
thori,  Dei  iniuriator,  et  pacis  sancte  Bege  violator,  evaserit  manus 
hominum,  non  tamen  effugere  potuit  divine  animadversionis 
gladium.  Nam  quum  a  facie  querentium  animam  eius  fugiens, 
in  silva  poneret  tenebras  latibulum  suum,  invasit  eum  spiritus 
malignus  nee  ab  eius  vexacione  cessavit  donee  illius  excuteret 
spiritum.  Sic,  sic  ille  illius  effectus  est  usque  ad  vite  terminum, 
continuus  detentor,  qui  ad  adulterium  et  pacis  amice  Dei  temer- 
ande  sacrilegum  ausum  fuerat  assiduus  et  miserabiliter  efficax 
intentor.  Sicut  enim  plures  referunt,  cum  vagabundus  per 
diversa  oberrando  discurieret,  prius  vestes,  quibus  tegebatur,  a 
ramis  arborum  minutatim  discisse  in  ipsis  pependerunt  :  deinde 
carnes  eius  frustratim  dilacerate  spinis  et  vepribus  adheserunt. 
Demum  miserando  spectaculo  vitalem  emisit  flatum,  cadaverque 
eius  apud  Holmcoltran  in  ventrem  matris  omnium  est  ingressum. 
De  duobus  germanis  apud  sanctam  Begam  curatis. 

Vir  quidam  Francigena,  urbis  Carnocensis  indigena,  duos  filios 
habebat,  sed  patris  nomen  ut  pluribus  putabatur  sinistro  omine 
gerebat.  Primogenitus  namque  eorum  a  nativitate  paraliticus 
et  mutus  fuerat :  iunior  fistula  laborabat  que  inveterata  per 
multiplices  meatus  foraminum  plurimorum  saniei  fluorem  crebro 
distillabat.  Miser  prorsus  pater  prolis  miserande  multociens 
multari  maluit  orbitate  quam  cotidie  continua  torqueri  calamitate. 
Frequentabat  tamen  ecclesiam,  pressuram  suam  deplorans, 
levavitque  oculos  suos  in  montes  celites,  auxilium  inde  consol- 
acionis  et  remedii  sibi  affuturum  sedulo  implorans. 

Nocte  quadam  ammonitus  est  in  sompniis  ut  cum  filiis  Angliam 
adiret,  sanctorum  et  memorias  visitando  regionem  circumiret,  et 
quod  absque  ambiguitate  aliqua  sibi  solamen,  suisque  salus,  in 
ilia  proveniret.  Evigilans  homo,  et  visionem  amplexans,  iter 
suum  versus  mare  maturare  disposuit  :  et  quod  non  humeris 
pueros  portare  prevaluit,  necessitate  magistra,  redulam  quandam 
composuit  eique  natos  imposuit  :  ipse  vero  aliquando  antecedens, 
loco  iumenti,  illam  tali  sarcina  onustam  trahebat  :  quandoque 
retrogradiens  quadam  machina  ante  se  propellebat. 

Cum  magna  itaque  difncultate  transfretans  in  Angliam  et 
incipiens  a  Cantuaria  per  diversa  loca  sanctorum  circumivit 
terram  et  perambulavit  earn  donee  aquilones  fines  adhiens  deven- 
iret  Tynemutham.  Quo  dum  pervenisset  in  ecclesiam  sancti 
Oswini,  regis  et  martiris,  pernoctabat,  sed  nichil  uspiam  adhuc 
consequebatur  quod  optabat.  Cepit  ergo  homo  nimio  tedio  et 
merore  affici,  et  desperatione  quadam  effractus,  quod  sibi  revel- 
atum  in  propria  patria  fuerat  deputabat  seductorii  spiritus  illus- 
orie  vanitati,  non  veritati. 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  519 

Hec  diu  secum  cogitans  et  domi  reverti  deliberans,  membra 
quieti  soporis  dedit,  et  ecce  in  visu  noctis  personam  preclaram 
coram  se  asistentem  atque  dicentem  aspexit,  "  Cur,  homo, 
merore  consumeris,  cur  desperatione  et  tedio  depressus,  promiss- 
ioni  divine  incredulus  existis.  Constans  esto,  et  noli  esse  in- 
credulus  sed  fidelis.  Surge  velociter  et  perge  Coupelandam  ad 
€cclesiam  sancte  Bege  virginis,  ibique  tibi  pollicita  et  diu  desid- 
erata atque  quesita,  eius  meritis,  salus  dabitur  filiis  tuis." 

Hec  dixit  et  apparentis  et  colloquentis  visio  disparuit.  Expurg- 
•efactus  homo  mane  visionem  quibusdam  retulit  viam  versus 
Coupelandam  diligenter  perquirens  iter  arripuit,  et  quamvis  cum 
gravi  labore  illuc  pervenit,  et  sicut  ei  iussum  fuerat  pernoctavit. 
Cum  autem  aurora  albesceret  in  diem,  prior  natu  puerorum  para- 
liticus  et  mutus  repente  totus  diriguit  et  contremuit,  quandamque 
lucifluam  virginem  leni  tactu  se  atrectantem  sensit.  Et  ecce, 
virtute  divina,  vis  quedam  occulta  marcidis  membris  et  medullis 
vividum  succum  infundit,  ossa  arida  irrigat,  naturalis  sanguinis 
meatus  competenti  et  contemperato  cursu  per  fibras  discurrit, 
et  in  corpore  premortuo  singulos  artus  reviviscere  et  revirescere, 
sua  loca,  suos  motus,  suaque  officia  exercere,  facit. 

Continue  consolidatis  basibus  et  plantis  surgens,  supradictus 
puer  supra  pedes  stetit,  et  linguam  a  nativitate  obstrusam  in  nova 
verba  resolvit.  Duplicate  ita  miraculo  et  gressibus  stabilitis  ad 
altare  processit  et  gracias  multiplices  Deo  et  beate  Bege  persolvit. 
Et  ut  in  oculis  omnium  miraculum  multiplicius  manifestaretur, 
nee  solum  Gallicia  lingua,  qua  natus  fuerat,  sed  eciam  peregrina, 
videlicet  Anglica  expedite  loquebatur.  Sonuit  ergo  in  ore  om- 
nium hec  videntium  vel  audientium  graciarum  actio  et  vox  laudis  : 
benedictus  Dominus  Deus  Israel,  qui  facit  mirabilia  magna  solus, 
magnificatus,  et  meritum  preciose  virginis. 

Secundo  pro  alterius  filii  sanitate  vigilie  in  virginis  ecclesia  et 
preces  iterantur  :  iterate  beneficia  divina  secuntur,  Nam  fistula, 
cuius  molestia  puer  laborabat,  exsiccatur  :  foramina  divina  vir- 
tute obstruuntur  :  cutis  obducitur  :  et  cum  sospitate  prestita 
eciam  vigor  restituitur,  iterumque  a  cunctis  Deo  et  sancte  Bege, 
cum  graciis  exhibitis,  laudacio  libatur.  Post  aliquot  dies  abiit 
homo  in  viam  suam  cum  filiis  suis  gaudens,  redulamque  illam,  que 
filios  advexit,  in  testimonium  miraculi  loco  reliquit. 

Multa  quidem  et  alia  signa  fecit,  Jesu  Christi  famula,  virgo 
Bega,  in  nomine  ipsius,  que  non  sunt  scripta  in  libello  hoc.  Hec 
autem  scripta  sunt,  que  clariora  et  multorum  testimonio  celebri- 
ora  et  ideo  fide  digniora  cognovimus  :  cetera  propter  minorern 
certitudinem  non  adiacet  animo  relatu  prosequi  :  et  maxime  ob 


52O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

vitandum  fastidium  infirmis  lectoribus.  Hie  ergo  narrandi  finem 
ponimus,  cum  tamen  non  sit  finis  miraculorum  eius.  Quia  enim 
cum  illo,  qui  est  finis  infinitus  sine  fine,  regnat  in  gloria  perhenni  ; 
constat  nimirum  quod  in  eius  nomine  ubi  et  quando  et  in  quibus 
et  quociens  oporteat  possit,  si  velit,  miracula  operari  usque  ad 
consummacionem  seculi.  Sit  ergo  sancto  sanctorum  suorumque 
omnium  sanctificatori,  glorificatori,  virtus,  decus,  et  imperium 
per  infinita  secula  seculorum  .  Amen. 

Explicit  libellus  de  vita  et  miraculis  sancte  Bege  virginis, 
in  provincia  Northanhimbrorum  prime  actu  et  habitu  sancti- 
monialis. 

II.  IRISH  CHARTERS  RELATING  TO  THE  PRIORY  OF  ST.  BEES. 
[B.  M.  Cotton  Roll,  xm.  21.] 

Anno  gracie  m°  c°  lxx°  vij°  ante  purificacionem  beate  Marie, 
dominus  Johannes  de  Curci  subjugavit  sibi  Ultoniam.  Henricus 
....  annor  .  .  .  ci  regnavit  xxxv  annis.  Et  anno  m°  c°  Ixxviij 
dedit  dominus  Johannes  de  Curci  terram  de  Neddrum  mo[nachis] 
conventus  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland,  etc. 

i.     CARTA  DOMINI  JOHANNIS  DE  CURCI  DE  INSULA  DE  NEDDRUM 

ET  ECCLESIA. 

NOTUM  sit  omnibus  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  quod  ego, 
Johannes  de  Curci,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
confirmavi  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboracensi  et  sancte  Bege  de 
Coupland  et  monachis  inibi  Deo  servientibus  in  liberam  et  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  duas  partes  cujusdam  insule  que  voc- 
atur  Neddrum  et  duas  partes  ville  ejusdem  insule  et  duas  partes 
omnium  beneficiorum  ecclesie  que  in  eadem  insula  fundata  est 
et  ipsam  ecclesiam  totam  ad  laudandum  Deum  in  ea.  Et  duas 
partes  omnium  terrarum  ad  eandem  ecclesiam  pertinencium  tarn 
in  villis  quam  in  agris  et  ceteris  aisiamentis.  Terciam  autem 
partem,  tarn  de  beneficiis  memorate  ecclesie  quam  insula  prenom- 
inata  et  terris  predictis,  habebit  Ma[la]chias  episcopus  de  Duno. 
Preterea  concessi  et  dedi  memoratis  monachis  in  Duffren  totam 
terram  illam  que  fuit  Gillanhari  cum  pertinenciis  suis  in  bosco 
et  piano,  in  pratis  et  pascuis,  in  ecclesiis  et  molendinis,  in  stagnis 
et  ripis,  in  viis  et  semitis,  in  aquis  dulcibus  et  salsis,  in  insulis  et 
portibus,  in  piscariis  et  piscacionibus,  in  salinis  et  in  wreke  maris 
ubicunque  inventum  fuerit  in  terra  prenominata.  Concessi 
'eciam  eisdem  monachis  soc  et  sac,  tacke  et  toll  et  teem  et  infang- 
thef  et  omnes  libertates  ....  glia  de  terris  suis  et  hominibus. 
Hanc  vero  elemosinam  dedi  ad  honorem  Dei  prefatis  monachis 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  521 

pro  ....  animarum  patris  et'matris  mee  et  omnium  antecess- 
orum  meorum,  liberam  et  quietam  ab  .  .  .  .  heredes  mei  parti- 
cipes  simus  omnium  elemosinarum  et  oracionum  et  omnium 
bo  ....  in  abbathia  sancte  Marie  Eboracensis  et  in  domo  sancte 
Bege  virginis  et  mona  ....  Adhuc  autem  sciendum  est  quod 
predicti  monachi  abebunt  amodo  in  silvis  meis  ....  ria 
fuerint  ad  edificandum  et  ardendum  et  animalibus  suis  et  equis 
pasturam  ....  similiter  sine  pannagio  absque  ulla  vexacione 
et  impedimento  fore  .  .  .  mea  confirmavi  sepedictis  monachis 
omnes  terras  et  possessiones  ....  mei  eis  in  elemosinam  deder- 
unt  vel  daturi  sunt  inperpetuum.  Hiis  testibus  [Regijnaldo 
episcopo  de  Dalnard,  Mauricio  abbate  de  Bangor,  Patricio  .... 
Ricardo  filio  Roberti,  Rogero  de  Cestria,  Ada  camerario,  Willelmo 
de  .  .  .  .  fratribus  ejus,  Ricardo  filio  Trouce,  Ricardo  Masculo, 
Henrico  cleri  .  .  .  .,  .  .  .  .  de  Ridale,  Willelmo  forestario, 
Rogero  de  Dunsefothe  .... 

2.  CARTA  JURDANI  DE  CURCI  DE  xv  CARUCATIS. 

Notum  sit  universis  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  [quod  ego,, 
Jurdanus  de  Curci]  dedi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi 
[sancte  Marie  Eboracensi  et  sancte  Bege  in  Couplandia  et  mon- 
achis inibi]  Deo  servientibus  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam 
[decimas  omnium  terrarum]  mearum  et  xv  carucatas  terre,  x 
videlicet  in  ....  in  Lechayel.  Has  vero  jam  nominatas  xv 
c[arucatas]  ....  ano  in  ecclesiis  et  molendinis,  in  viis  et  sem- 
itis,  in  ....  et  piscariis,  in  pratis  et  pascuis  et  in  omnibus 
aisiamentis  ....  eno  servicio  pro  salute  anime  mee  et  pro 
redempcione  animarum  .  .  .  .  tis  monachis  concede  et  do  quod 
nichil  omnino  facturi  sunt  ....  dictis  xv  carucatis  et  decimis 
prenominatis  inperpetuum  ....  perunt  autem  me  et  heredes 
meos  monachi  jam  sepedicti  ....  erunt  nobis  participacionem 
omnium  bonorum  facta  sunt  et  que  fa  ....  in  domo  sancte 
Bege  virginis  et  in  omnibus  locis  sibi  adjacentibus  ....  [Hiis 
testibus  .  .  .  .  d]e  Duno,  Ada  abbate  de  Ynes,  Willelmo  priore 
de  sancto  Patricio,  Johanne  cap  ....  [Ada]  camerario,  Will- 
elmo clerico,  Ricardo  clerico,  Henrico,  Clemente,  Malachia  de 
....  Rogero  de  Dunseforthe,  Johanne  clerico,  scriptore  vide- 
licet carte. 

3.  CARTA  ROGERI  DE  DUNESFORD  DE  ECCLESIA  DE  [AUELORI] 
ET  DE  UNA  CARUCATA  TERRE  IN  EADEM  VILLA. 

Notum  sit  tarn  presentibus  quam  futuris  quod  ego,  Rogerus  de 
Dunseforthe,  cum  consilio  et  assensu  uxoris  mee  et  heredis  mei, 


522  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

Thome,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  mea  present!  carta  confirmavi 
Deo  et  sancte  Marie  Eboracensi  et  monachis  de  Neddrum  ibidem 
Deo  servieritibus  ecclesiam  de  Avelori,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis 
suis,  et  cum  una  carucata  terre  que  jacet  inter  nemus  et  villam 
et  omnes  ecclesias  alias  et  donaciones  ecclesiarum  de  tota  terra 
mea,  scilicet,  de  feudo  decem  militum,  excepta  ecclesia  de  Dunse- 
ford,  libere  et  quiete  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  in  puram  et  perpet- 
uam elemosinam  pro  salute  domini  mei,  Johannis  de  Curci,  qui 
michi  hanc  contulit  terram  et  libertatem,  pro  salute  mea  et  uxoris 
mee  et  heredum  meorum  et  omnium  antecessorum  meorum  et 
successorum  meorum.  Et  ut  hec  donacio  mea  in  perpetuitate 
robur  optineat  sigilli  mei  impressione  corroboravi.  Hanc  autem 
cartam  dedi  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  Eboracensi  et  monachis 
de  Neddrum,  anno  Incarnacionis  domini  m°  c°  nonagesimo  quarto 
in  capitulo  Eboraci  quando  fraternitatem  et  societatem  suscepi. 
Hiis  testibus  Thoma  herede  meo,  Waltero  de  Bovinton,  Turg[isio] 
filio  Turgis[ii],  Ricardo  filio  Eustachii,  Roberto  Bachel',  Osberto 
portario,  Johanne  Albo,  Johanne  coco,  Pagano  pincerna,  Radulfo 
de  Longa villa,  et  multis  aliis. 

4.  CARTA  BRIENNI  DE  SCHELERS  DE  UNA  CARUCATA  TERRE. 

Sciant  omnes  qui  viderint  vel  audierint  literas  has  quod  ego, 
Brien  de  Eschalers,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
confirmavi  Deo  et  beate  Marie  Eboracensi  et  sancte  Bege  et  mon- 
achis de  Neddrum  ibidem  Deo  servientibus  unam  carucatam 
terre  in  Balichatlan,  scilicet,  propinquiorem  Balidergan,  in  om- 
nibus aisiamentis  suis  ad  eandem  terram  pertinentibus,  liberam 
et  quietam  ab  omni  terreno  servicio,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  ele- 
mosinam pro  salute  anime  domini  mei,  Johannis  de  Curci,  et  pro 
salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  et  heredum  meorum  et  parentum 
meorum.  Hanc  terram  ego  et  heredes  mei  contra  omnes  homines 
warantizabimus.  Testibus  hiis  domino  meo  Johanne  de  Curci, 
Richero  filio  Roberti  dapifero,  Elia  priore,  Willelmo  filio  meo, 
et  multis  aliis. 

5.  [CARTA  MALACHIE  DUNENSIS  EPISCOPI  MONACHIS  DE  SANCTA 
BEGA  DE  ECCLESIA  DE  NEDDRUM.] 

Notum  sit  universis  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  tarn  presentibus 
•  quam  futuris  quod  ego,  Malachias,  Dei  gracia,  Dunensis  episcopus, 
non  compulsus  ab  aliquo  set  bene  devotus  in  domino,  spontanea 
voluntate  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi 
ad  honorem  Dei  et  ad  augmentum  sancte  religionis  monachis  de 
sancta  Bega  ecclesiam  de  Neddrum,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  523 

possessionem  simul  cum  duabus  partibus  omnium  possessionum 
et  beneficiorum  ejusdem  ecclesie  tarn  in  villis  et  ho  minibus  quam 
in  terris  cultis  et  incultis  et  in  omnibus  aisiamentis  que  infra 
terminos  terre  supradicte  ecclesie  facta  sunt  vel  fieri  poterunt 
inperpetuum.  Terciam  autem  partem  omnium  possessionum  et 
beneficiorum  memorate  ecclesie  in  manu  mea  retineo  ;  nichil 
unquam  exigens  a  prefatis  monachis  de  aliis  duabus  partibus  quas 
ipsi  canonice  possident.  Hanc  vero  concessionem  atque  donacion- 
em  feci  sepedictis  monachis  in  ecclesia  sancte  Trinitatis  de  Duno 
in  presencia  domini  Johannis  de  Curci,  coram  Reginaldo  episcopo 
de  Dalnard,  et  coram  Uroneca  episcopo  de  Uvehd,  et  coram 
Patricio  abbate  de  Saballo,  et  Consuero  de  sancto  Johanne  de 
Duno  et  Willelmo  priore  de  sancto  Patricio  et  Johanne  capellano 
episcopi,  Herwardo  capellano,  Jurdano  de  Curci,  Gocelino  de 
Angulo,  Rogero  de  Cestria,  Ricardo  filio  Roberti,  Rogero  Hert, 
Adam  camerario,  Ricardo  clerico,  Rogero  de  Dunseford,  Alano 
Malet,  Adam  portario. 

6.  CONFIRMACIO  ARCHIEPISCOPI. 

Universis  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  Eugenius,  Dei  gracia,  Ardmacanus  archiepiscopus  et 
tocius  Hibernie  primas,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit 
universitas  nos  dilecto  filio  nostro,  Walranno  monacho,  priori  de 
Neddrum,  et  successoribus  suis,  convencionem  et  composicionem 
factam  inter  ipsum  et  dominum  Malachiam  Dunensem  episcopum 
de  villa  de  Neddrum  tarn  de  ecclesia  ejusdem  ville,  tarn  de  terris, 
tarn  de  pertmenciis  quam  de  hominibus  et  omnibus  aliis  beneficiis 
[que]  ad  eandem  ecclesiam  pertinere  dinoscuntur,  confirmasse, 
libere  et  quiete  et  pacifice.  Tenendam  et  possidendam  sicut 
melius  in  carta  domini  Johannis  de  Curci  et  domini  M[alachie] 
Dunensis  episcopi  continetur.  Ut  igitur  hec  nostra  confirmacio 
firma  sit  et  inconcussa  permaneat  sigilli  nostri  munimine  earn 
corroboravimus.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Curci,  dom- 
ino R.  episcopo  de  Duno,  W.  priore  de  sancto  Patricio,  E.  priore 
de  sancto  Andrea  in  arce,  et  multis  aliis. 

7.  [CONFIRMACIO  ARCHIEPISCOPI.] 

T[homas],  Dei  gracia,  Ardmachanus  archiepiscopus  et  tocius 
Hibernie  primas,  universis  sancte  matris  ecc.esie  filiis,  tarn 
clericis  quam  laicis,  eternam  in  domino  salutem.  Noverit  uni- 
versitas vestra  nos,  ad  augmentum  sancte  religionis,  dilecto  filio 
nostro,  Waleranno  monacho,  priori  de  Neddrum,  et  successoribus 
suis,  convencionem  et  composicionem  factam  inter  ipsum  et 


524  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

dominum  Malachiam,  Dunensem  episcopum,  de  villa  de  Neddrum 
et  de  ecclesia  ejusdem  ville,  tarn  de  terris  cultis  et  incultis, 
tarn  de  pertinenciis,  quam  de  hominibus  et  omnibus  aliis  beneficiis 
que  ad  predictam  ecclesiam  pertinere  dinoscuntur,  confirmasse, 
libere,  pacifice  et  quiete.  Tenendam  et  possidendam  sicut 
melius  in  carta  domini  Johannis  de  Curci  et  M[alachie]  Dunensis 
episcopi  continetur.  Ut  igitur  hec  nostra  confirmacio  firma  sit 
et  inconcussa  permaneat  sigilli  nostri  munimine  earn  corroborav- 
imus.  Hiis  testibus  F.  abbate  de  Disert,  Andrea  priore  de  sancto 
Patricio,  Gilberto  priore  de  sancto  Thoma,  Mauricio  serviente 
domini  Primatis,  Briano  de  Sealers,  Willelmo  de  Coupeland, 
Davit  carpentario,  Radulfo  Martel,  Gilberto  de  lechayel,  Gil- 
berto de  Furnais,  E.  cancellario,  et  multis  aliis. 

8.  [CONFIRMACIO  JOHANNIS  TITULI  SANCTI  STEPHANI  IN 
COELIO  MONTE,  PRESBYTERI  CARDINALIS,  DE  OMNIBUS  TERRIS' 
ET  ECCLESIIS  HUIC  COENOBIO  COLLATIS.] 

Johannes,1  miseracione  divina  tituli  sancti  Stephani  in  celio 
monte,  presbiter  cardinalis,  Sedis  Apostolice  legatus,  dilecto  filio, 
Walranno,  priori  de  Neddrum,  et  successoribus  ejus,  salutem  et 
benediccionem.  Dignum  est  et  racioni  consentaneum  ut  viros 
religiosos  quos  divims  officiis  novimus  cotidie  mancipatos 
ampliore  cura  et  solicitudine  foveamus  et  eorum  peticiones  debe- 
amus  quantum  cum  Deo  possumus  promovere.  Ea  propter, 
dilecti  filii  in  domino,  justis  vestris  postulacionibus  clementer 
annuimus  et  personas  vestras  et  successorum  vestrorum  sub 
beati  Petri  et  domini  pape  et  nostra  proteccione  suscipimus  et 
vos  super  hoc  presentis  scripti  patrocinio  communimus,  statuentes 
ut  possessiones,  terras,  willas,  et  cetera  et  bona,  que  nunc  de  con- 
cessione  nobilis  viri,  Johannis  de  Curci,  seu  aliorum  proborum 
virorum,  juste  et  pacifice  possidetis  sive  in  futurum,  domino 
dante,  justis  modis  poteritis  adipisci  vobis  et  successoribus  vestris 
firma  et  illebata  permaneant.  In  quibus  hec  propriis  duximus 
exprimenda  vocabulis  ;  locum,  scilicet,  in  quo  domus  vestra  sita 
est,  ex  donacione  memorati  Johannis  de  Curci ;  ecclesiam  in 
insula  que  vocatur  Neddrum  fundatam,  cum  duabus  partibus 
ejusdem  insule  et  cum  duabus  partibus  tocius  terre  que  ad  eandem 
ecclesiam  pertinet ;  et  to  tarn  terram  illam  que  fuit  Gillanharna 
in  Duffran  et  tres  insulas  in  Lochwene,  quarum  nomina  sunt 
hec  Scatra,  Raynche,  et  Trasne  :  Ex  donacione  vero  Jurdani 

1  Note  in  margin  : — Anno  m°  c°  nonagesimo  vij°  Innocentius  papa  consecratus 
est  qui  sedit  annis  xviij,  mensibus  iiij°:,  diebus  xxiij  :  Ricardi  regis  anno  viij0,. 
data  liter  a. 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  525 

de  Curci,  xv  carucatas  terre  cum  decimacione  domus  sue  :  Ex 
presentacione  autem  Helie  de  Cestria,  ecclesiam  de  Balimor,  in 
•qua  villa  construitur  castellum  ejus,  cum  omnibus  ecclesiasticis 
beneficiis  ad  eandem  ecclesiam  pertinentibus,  et  unam  carucatam 
terre  in  eadem  villa  ex  dono  Baldwini  :  Ex  presentacione  autem 
Ricardi  Masculi,  omnes  ecclesias  et  capellas  tocius  terre  sue  quas 
habet  in  Ultonia  de  dono  domini  sui,  Johannis  de  Curci,  et  de 
dono  aliorum  virorum  tarn  in  Clenelhirech  quam  in  Lesmochan  et 
in  aliis  locis,  cum  omnibus  ecclesiasticis  beneficiis  ad  easdem 
•ecclesias  et  capellas  pertinentibus  :  et  unam  carucatam  terre  in 
Thweth  quod  vocatur  Clenelperth,  ex  dono  Stephani  Locardi  : 
Ex  dono  Rogeri  de  Croft  et  Gilberti  fratris  ejus,  duas  carucatas 
terre.  Decernimus  autem  ne  cui  liceat  personas  vestras  mo- 
lestare,  redditus,  possessiones  et  cetera  bona  vestra  minuere, 
subtrahere  vel  in  aliquo  perturbare,  set  omnia  integra  et  illibata 
permaneant  eorum  per  quorum  gubernacione[m]  et  sustent- 
acionem  sunt  collata  usibus  omnimodis  pro  futura.  Indulgemus 
quoque  vobis  ut  in  terris  in  quibus  de  episcoporum  concessione 
•ecclesiatica  beneficia  canonice  possidetis,  liceat  vobis  ea  per 
omnia  libere  tenere,  salva  in  omnibus  apostolice  sedis  auctori- 
tate  et  diocesani  episcopi  canonica  justicia.  Nulli  ergo  hominum 
omnino  liceat  hanc  nostre  proteccionis  et  confirmacionis  paginam 
infringere  vel  ei  ausu  temerario  contraire.  Si  quis  autem  hoc 
attemptare  presumpserit,  indignacionem  Omnipotentis  Dei  et 
beatorum  Petri  et  Pauli  apostolorum  ejus,  domini  pape,  et  nostram 
se  noverit  incursurum.  Anno  domini  m°  cc°  ij°,  hoc  anno  quinto 
pontificatus  domini  pape  Innocentii  tercii,  mense  Junii  ix°  die 
stante.  Data  Dunens. 

9.     [BULLA  HONORII  PAPE.] 

Honorius,1  episcopus,  servus  servorum  Dei,  dilectis  filiis  abbati 
et  conventui  sancte  Marie  Eboracensis,  salutem  et  apostolicam 
benediccionem.  Cum  a  nobis  petitur  quod  justum  est  et  honest- 
urn  tarn  vigor  equitatis  quam  ordo  exigit  racionis  ut  id  per  solli- 
citudinem  officii  nostri  ad  debitum  perducatur  effectum.  Eaprop- 
ter  dilecti  filii  in  domino  vestris  justis  precibus  inclinati  personas 
vestras  et  locum  in  quo  divino  estis  obsequio  mancipati  cum 
omnibus  bonis  que  in  presenciarum  racionabiliter  possidetis  aut 
in  futurum  justis  modis  prestante  domino  poteritis  adipisci  sub 
beati  Petri  et  nostra  proteccione  suscepimus,  specialiter  autem 
cellam  de  Neddrum,  cumpella  de  villa  Hugonis  de  Logan  et  terram 

1  Note  in  margin  : — Anno  m.  cc°  et  xvj°  Honorius  consecratus  est  qui  scdit 
annis  .  .  .  mensibus  viii,  diebus  ....  eodcm  anno  Henricus  rex  coronatus  est. 


526  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA    BEGA 

de  Baligavan  cum  pertinenciis  suis,  ac  alia  bona  vestra  sicut  ea 
omnia  juste,  canonice  ac  pacifice  possidetis  vobis  et  per  nos  mon- 
asterio  vestro  auctoritate  apostolica  confirmamus  et  presentis 
[script!]  patrocinio  communimus.  Nulli  ergo  omnino  hominum 
liceat  hanc  paginarn  nostre  protectionis  et  confirmacionis  infrin- 
gere  vel  ei  ausu  ternerario  contraire.  Si  quis  autem  hoc  acceptare 
presumpserit  indignacionem  Omnipotentis  [Dei  et]  beatorum 
Petri  et  Pauli  apostolorum  ejus  noverit  incursurum.  Data  Alatri, 
Idus  Junii,  pontificatus  nostri  anno  sexto.  Et  anno  vj°  Henrici 
Regis  iij1.2 

III.  EXTRACT  FROM  DOMESDAY  BOOK,  SHOWING  THE  EXIST- 
ENCE     OF     DISTINCT      TERRITORIAL     PARCELS,      VIZ.      WlTINGHAM, 

BODELE,  SANTACHERCHE,  AND  PERHAPS  HOUGENAI,  IN  THE  SOUTH 
WEST  ANGLE  OF  CUMBERLAND  BETWEEN  ESK  AND  DUDDON. 
[Facsimile  of  Domesday  Book,  Lancashire,  p.  xvii.] 

Terra  regis  in  Evrvic  scire.  West  Reding. 
Agemvndrenesse. 

Manerium.  In  Hougun  habuit  comes  Tosti  iiij  carucatas  terre 
ad  geldum.  In  chilvestrevic,  iij  carucate.  Sourebi,  iij  carucate. 
Hietun,  iiij  carucate.  Daltune,  ij  carucate.  Warte,  ij  carucate, 
Neutun,  vj  carucate.  Walletun,  vj  carucate.  Suntun,  ij  caru- 
cate. Fordebodele,  ij  carucate.  Rosse,  vj  carucate.  Hert,  ij 
carucate.  Lies,  vj  carucate  :  alia  Lies,  ij  carucate.  Glassertun, 
ij  carucate.  Steyntun,  ij  carucate.  Clivertun,  iij  carucate. 
Ouregrive,  iij  carucate.  Meretun,  iiij  carucate.  Pennigetun, 
ij  carucate.  Gerleworde,  ij  carucate.  Borch,  vj  carucate.  Berret- 
seige,  iiij  carucate.  Witingham,  iiij  carucate.  Bodele,  iiij  caru- 
cate. Santacherche,  j  carucata.  Hougenai,  vj  carucate.  Om- 
nes  he  ville  iacent  ad  Hougun. 

IV.  ENGLISH  WRIT  OF  GOSPATRIC  GRANTING  FREEDOM  FROM 

GELD  TO  CERTAIN  OF  HIS  DEPENDANTS  AS  IT  HAD  BEEN  ENJOYED 

BY  HIS  TENANTS  IN  ALLERDALE.  [From  an  early  copy  in  the 
muniment  room  of  Lowther  Castle.] 

Gospatrik  greot  ealle  mine  wassenas  and  hyylkun  mann,  freo 
and  threnge,  theo  woonnan  on  eallun  tham  landann  theo  weoron 

2  These  nine  deeds  from  the  Cotton  Roll,  which  is  much  mutilated,  should  be 
compared  with  the  copies  printed  by  Dugdale,  Mon.  vj.  1127-8,  and  by  Reeves, 
Antiq.  of  Down,  pp.  190-94.  Dugdale  omitted  all  except  Nos.  i,  3,  4,  8.  The 
two  bulls  on  the  back  of  the  same  Roll,  one  by  Pope  Gregory  and  the  other, 
dated  5  April,  1291,  by  Pope  Nicholas  IV.,  refer  to  the  possessions  of  the  abbey 
of  St.  Mary,  York. 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  527 

Combres  and  eallun  mine  kynling  freondlycc  :  and  ic  cythe  eoy 
that  myne  mynna  is  and  full  leof  that  Thorfynn  Mac  Thore  beo 
swa  freo  on  eallan  thynges  theo  beo  myne  on  Alnerdall  swa  aenyg 
mann  beo,  other  ic  other  aenyg  myne  wassenas,  on  weald,  on 
freyth,  on  heyninga  and  aet  aellun  thyngan,  theo  by  eorthe 
baenand  and  theoronther,  to  Shauk,  to  Wafyr,  to  poll  Wathoen, 
to  bek  Troyte  and  theo  weald  aet  Caldebek  :  and  ic  wille  that  theo 
mann  bydann  mith  Thorfynn  aet  Cartheu  and  Combetheyfoch 
beo  swa  freals  myth  hem  swa  Melmor  and  Thore  and  Sygoolf 
weoron  on  Eadread  dagan,  and  ne  beo  neann  mann  swa  theorif 
thehat  mith  that  ic  heobbe  gegyfen  to  hem  ne  ghar  brech  seo 
gyrth  thyylc  Eorl  Syward  and  ic  hebbe  getythet  him  cefrelycc 
swra  aenyg  mann  leofand  theo  welkynn  theoronther  :  and  loc 
hyylkun  by  thar  bythann  geyldfreo  beo  swa  ic  by,  and  swa  willann 
Walltheof  and  Wygande  and  Wyberth  and  Gamell  and  Kuyth 
and  eallun  mine  kynling  and  wassenas  ;  and  ic  wille  that  Thor- 
fynn heobbe  soc  and  sac,  toll  and  theam  ofer  eallun  tham  landan 
on  Cartheu  and  on  Combetheyfoch  that  weorpn  gyfene  Thore  on 
Moryn  dagan  fieols  myd  bode  and  wytnesmann  on  thyylk  stow.1 

V.  SHERIFF'S  RETURN  AFTER  INQUEST  OF  KNIGHTS'  FEES  IN 
CUMBERLAND  WITH  THE  NAMES  OF  THE  TENANTS  IN  CHIEF,  THEIR 
TENEMENTS  AND  SERVICES,  1212.  [Excheq.  K.  R.  Knights'  Fees, 
9-,  m.  2.] 

Karissimis  dominis  suis  baronibus  domini  Regis  de  Scaccario, 
vicecomes  Cumberlandie,  salutem  et  se  totum  cum  deuotis 
obsequiis.  Sciatis  quod  diligenter  feci  inquiri  de  feudis  et  tene- 
mentis  que  tenentur  in  capite  de  domino  Rege  in  Cumberlandia 
secundum  tenorem  literarum  domini  Regis  et  nomina  tenencium 
et  eorum  tenementa  et  seruicium  uobis  transmitto. 

Robertus  de  Vallibus  tenet  terram  suam  de  domino  Rege  per 
seruicium  duorum  militum  quam  Rex  Henricus,  pater  domini 
Regis,  dedit  Huberto  de  Vallibus  antecessori  suo  per  predictum 
seruicium. 

Ricardus  de  Lucy  tenet  Couplandiam  de  domino  Rege  per  ser- 
uicium unius  militis  et  ibit  ad  preceptum  domini  Regis  in  exercitu 
Wallie  et  Scocie.  Hanc  terram  dedit  Rex  Henricus,  auus  Regis 
Henrici  patris  domini  Regis,  Willelmo  Messchin  antecessori  pre- 
dicti  Ricardi  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Robertus    de    Brus    tenet    Edenhal   de  domino  Rege  per  ser- 

i  For  a  translation  of  this  deed  and  for  its  importance  to  early  Cumbrian 
history,  see  Victoria  History  of  Cumberland,  ii.  231-4,  241. 


528  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

uicium.  dimidii  militis.     Henricus  Rex  dedit  predictam  terrain 
Petro  de  Brus  antecessori  suo  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Johannes  de  Reigny  tenet  Neutofi  per  serianteriam  de  domino 
Rege  et  ibit  ad  preceptum  domini  Regis  in  exercitu  Scocie  cum 
uno  habbergeto.  Henricus  Rex,  auus  patris  domini  Regis  dedit 
predictam  terram  Turstano  de  Reigny  antecessori  predicti  Johan- 
nis  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Henricus  et  Thomas  et  Reginaldus  tenent  Racton  de  domino 
Rege  per  serianteriam  et  custodiunt  aeria  ancipitum  domini 
Regis  in  foresta  Karleoli.  Henricus  Rex  Anglie,  auus  Henrici 
patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  illam  terram  Edwino  antecessori  pre- 
dictorum  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Willelmus  films  Ade  tenet  Hotofi  de  domino  Rege  per  seriant- 
eriam custodie  Haie  domini  Regis  de  Plumton.  Henricus  Rex 
Anglie,  auus  Henrici  Regis  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  predictam 
terram  Edmundo  antecessori  predicti  Willelmi  per  predictum 
seruicium. 

Robertus  films  Alexandri  tenet  xx  acras  iuxta  Karleolum  de 
domino  Rege  per  serianteriam  et  debet  inuenire  librum  ad  pann- 
.agium  domini  Regis  et  custodire  porchos  donee  apprecientur. 

Ricardus  de  Lucy  et  Ricardus  Gernun  tenent  terram  que  fuit 
Hugonis  de  Moruill  cum  duabus  filiis  predicti  Hugonis  de  domino 
Rege  per  cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim,  xli.  ijs.  xd.  ob.  Comes 
Ranulfns  quondam  dominus  Cumberlandie  dedit  predictam  ter- 
ram Roberto  de  Triuers  antecessori  predicti  Hugonis  de  Moruill 
per  predictum  seruicium.  Predictus  Conies  dedit  predicto 
Roberto  cus'todiam  foreste  de  Cumberlandia,  reddendo  inde 
annuatim  x  marcas.  Dominus  Rex  habet  custodiam  predicte 
foreste  in  manu  sua. 

Alicia  de  Rumilly  tenet  terram  suam  de  Alredal  de  domino 
Rege  per  cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim  de  cornagio  xv11.  xiijs. 
iiijd.  Rex  Henricus  auus  Henrici  Regis  patris  domini  Regis  dedit 
predictam  terram  Waldevo  filio  Gospatrici  antecessori  predicte 
Alicie  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Nicholas  de  StuteuiTl  tenet  terram  suam  de  domino  Rege  per 
cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim  de  cornagio  Ivjs.  Comes  Ranulfus 
Cestriensis,  quondam  dominus  Cumberlandie,  dedit  predictam 
terram  Turgis  Brundas  antecessori  predicti  Nicholai  per  predictum 
seruicium. 

Robertus  de  Veteri  Ponte  tenet  terram  in  custodia  de  domino 
Rege  que  fuit  Willelmi  filii  Ranulfi,  simul  cum  herede  predicti 
Willelmi,  et  reddit  annuatim  de  cornagio  iiij  li.  Rex  Henricus, 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  529 

auus  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  illam  terrain  Forne  filio   Siolf 
antecessori  predict!  Willelmi  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Adam  filius  Odardi  tenet  terram  suam  de  domino  Rege  per 
cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim  de  cornagio  xxvjs.  iiijd.  Rex 
Henricus,  auus  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  Odardo  uicecomiti, 
antecessori  predicti  Ade,  predictam  terram  per  predictum  ser- 
uicium. 

Ricardus  de  Leuenton  tenet  terram  suam  de  domino  Rege  per 
cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim  de  cornagio  iiijli.  viijs.  ijd.  ob. 
Rex  Henricus,  auus  Regis  Henrici  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  pre- 
dictam terram  Ricardo  de  BoiuiFl  antecessori  predicti  Ricardi  per 
predictum  seruicium. 

Robertus  de  Stuteuill  tenet  uillam  de  Thorpennou  de  domino 
Rege  per  cornagium,  reddendo  inde  de  cornagio  xxiiijs.  Predicta 
terra  fuit  de  baronia  Alicie  de  Rumilly  et  quia  Reginaldus  de 
Lucy,  qui  quondam  tenuit  terram  illam  cum  sorore  predicte 
Alicie,  refutauit  homagium  Philippi  de  Valoines,  antecessoris  pre- 
dicti Roberti  et  uxoris  sue,  dominus  Henricus  Rex,  pater  domini 
Regis,  cepit  homagium  suum  et  ideo  seruicium  predicte  terre  est 
in  manu  domini  Regis. 

Willelmus  filius  Bernardi  tenet  terram  que  fuit  Ricardi  filii 
Truite  de  domino  Rege  in  custodia  cum  herede  predicti  Ricardi, 
reddendo  inde  annuatim  de  cornagio  xijs.  jd.  Rex  Henricus, 
auus  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  predictam  terram  Hildredo  ante- 
cessori predicti  Ricardi  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Galfridus  de  Lucy  tenet  terram  que  fuit  Simonis  de  Tillol  in 
custodia  de  domino  Rege  cum  herede  predicti  Simonis,  reddendo 
inde  annuatim  de  cornagio  xjs.  xjd.  ob.  Rex  Henricus,  auus 
Henrici  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  predictam  terram  Ricardo 
Ridere  antecessori  predicti  Simonis  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Rex  Henricus,  auus  Henrici  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  quond- 
am Waltero  capellano  suo  Linstoc  et  Karletofi,  reddendo  annuatim 
de  cornagio  xxxvijs.  iiijd.  Predictus  Walterus  voluntate  et 
concessione  domini  Regis  suscepit  habitum  religionis  in  prioratu 
sancte  Marie  de  Karleolo  et  voluntate  et  assensu  predicti  domini 
Henrici  Regis  dedit  totam  predictam  terram  predicte  domui 
religionis  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  per  predictum  ser- 
uicium. Predictum  seruicium  perdonatum  est  viris  religiosis 
predicte  domus  per  cartas  predecessorum  domini  Regis. 

Rogerus  de  Monte  Begonis,  Simon  filius  Walteri,  Alexander  de 
Neuill  tenent  terram  que  fuit  Willelmi  de  Neuill  in  Cumber- 
landia  per  cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim  de  cornagio  cxijs. 

2  M 


530  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

viijd.  Rex  Henricus,  auus  Regis  Henrici  patris  domini  Regis, 
dedit  predictam  terrain  Ade  filio  Swein  antecessori  predictorum 
per  predictum  seruicium. 

Willelmus  filius  Odonis  de  Bochardeby  tenet  terram  suam  de 
Bochardeby  per  cornagium,  reddendo  inde  annuatim  vjs.  ijd.  de 
cornagio.  Rex  Henricus,  auus  Regis  Henrici  patris  domini 
Regis  dedit  predictam  terram  Wydoni  venatori  antecessori 
Willelmi  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Adam  de  Staueleia  tenet  Rauenewyc  de  domino  Rege  per 
cornagium,  reddendo  annuatim  ijs.  viijd.  Rex  Henricus,  auus 
Regis  Henrici  patris  domini  Regis,  dedit  predictam  terram  Ade 
filio  Alani  antecessori  predicti  Ade  per  predictum  seruicium. 

Adam  cocus  domine  Regine  tenet  Saulhill  de  domino  Rege 
de  dono  Regis  Ricardi,  reddendo  annuatim  unam  libram  piperis. 

Willelmus  de  Ireby  tenet  Gamelesby  et  Glassaneby  de  dono 
domini  Regis  Johannis  cum  filia  et  herede  Odardi  de  Hodalfn, 
cuius  antecessores  habuerunt  predictam  terram  de  dono  Regis 
Henrici,  aui  Regis  Henrici  patris  domini  Regis,  qui  dedit  illam 
terram  Hildredq,  antecessori  predicti  Odardi,  reddendo  annuatim 
de  cornagio  ij  marcas. 

Nulla  tenementa  que  antiquitus  tenebantur  de  predecessoribus 
domini  Regis  nee  que  debent  teneri  de  domino  Rege  nee  seruicia 
scio  alienata  per  maritagium  nee  alio  modo  preter  predictam 
terram  Walteri  cappellani  domini  Regis  Heruici  et  preter  seruic- 
ium Ade  salsarii,  cuius  terra  solebat  dare  de  cornagio  annuatim 
xxvijs.  xjd.  et  perdonatum  est  ei  pro  seruicio  suo  per  cartam 
domini  Regis. 

Omnes  supradicti  tenentes  per  cornagium  ibunt  ad  preceptum 
domini  Regis  in  exercitu  Scocie,  in  eundo  in  anteguarda,  in  rede- 
undo  in  retroguarda. 

(Endorsed) 

Hunc  rotulum  recepit  Thesaurarius  in  crastino  sancti  Johannis 
Baptiste  per  manum  vicecomitis  de  Cumberland  coram  Baronibus 
de  Scaccario  anno  Regis  Johannis  xiiij0. 

De  hiis  qui  tenent  in  capite  de  domini  Rege.  Baronibus  de 
Scaccario  ex  parte  vicecomitis  Cumberlandie. 

VI.  MEMORANDUM  ON  THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  WALDEVE  SON 
OF  EARL  GOSPATRIC,  LORDS  OF  ALLERDALE,  c.  127 $.1  [Scottish 
Documents  (Chancery),  File  9,  No.  3.] 

Comes  Cospatryk,  qui  f  uit  quondam  Comes  de  Dunbar  in  Scocia, 

1  For  the  origin  and  nature  of  this  document,  see  Victoria  Hist,  of  Cumberland 
i.  297-8. 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  53! 

habuit  quemdam  fratrem  nomine  Dolfinum  Comitem  Norhumbrie, 
qui  ambo  bastard!  habuerunt  quemdam  fratrem  nomine  Wald- 
[evum]  legittimum  et  habuerunt  quandam  sororem  nomine 
Etheldredam  legitimam.  Et  sciendum  est  quod  Wald[evus] 
et  Etheldr[eda]  fuerunt  ex  uno  patre  et  ex  una  matre. 

Postea  venit  Ranulphus  de  Meschinis  in  Anglia  cum  Willelmo 
bastardo  Conquestore  et  ipse  Rex  Willelmus  conquestor  dedit 
eidem  Ran[ulpho]  to  tarn  terrain  a  loco  qui  dicitur  Rere  Crosse 
super  Stayn  moram  usque  flumen  versus  Scociam  quod  vocatur 
Sulewaht  ad  metas  certas  ibidem  inter  Angliam  et  Scociam. 
Ita  scilicet  quod  idem  Ran[ulphus]  tune  temporis  creatus 
fuit  in  Com[item]  Karl[eoli].  Idem  Ran[ulphus]  de  Meschinis 
attraxit  *secum  Wald[evum]  fratrem  predicti  Comitis  Cospatryk 
in  auxilium  et  propter  guerram  motam  inter  Scoticos  et  Angl- 
[icos]  ad  succursum  habendum  de  eo  qui  fuit  de  Scocia  :  et 
idem  Ran[ulphus]  dedit  eidem  Wald[evo]  pro  servicio  suo  totam 
Baroniam  de  Allerdal'  de  loco  qui  dicitur  Wahtelpole  usque 
Derwent  cum  pertinenciis,  salva  sibi  venacione  sua  t[antu]m. 

Et  idem  Wald[evus]  sic  feofatus  dedit  Odardo  de  Legys  qui 
luit  senescallus  Ran[ulphi]  de  Meschinis  vavassorem  de  Wygeton' 
cum  villatis  et  earum  pertinenciis  pro  servicio  suo,  faciend[o]  ei 
servicium  Cornag[ii]  et  Foryns[eci]  pannag[ii],  Et  idem  Odardus 
fundavit  ecclesiam  de  Wygeton'  in  dicta  foresta. 

Et  idem  Wald[evus]  dedit  Melbeht  servienti  suo  qui  venit 
secum  in  patriam  totam  villam  de  Bramfeld,  salva  sibi  advocac- 
ione  ecclesie  quam  penes  se  retinuit. 

Et  successit  eidem  Wald[evo]  Alanus  films  eius  et  heres  qui 
fuit  infra  eta  tern  et  in  custodia  Regis  Davidis  Scocie  qui  habuit 
terrain  Cumbrie  eo  quod  guerra  fuit  inter  Regem  Henricum  non 
adhuc  Regem,  qui  fuit  nepos  Regis  Davidis  Scocie,  filii  (sic) 
imperatricis  Matildis,  et  Stephanum  Regem  avunculum  predicti 
Regis  Henrici,  qui  optin[u]it  totam  terram  Wald[evi]  patris  sui 
in  Allerdal'  post  etatem  suam  conpletam. 

Et  idem  Alanus  habuit  quemdam  fratrem  bastardum  ex  patre 
suo  procreatum  nomine  Cospatryk,  cui  dedit  villatum  de  Bolton 
infra  forestam  et  Bastenthwyt  extra  forestam  et  Hestholm  in 
Derwentwater.  Et  idem  Alanus  dedit  cum  corpore2  present[i] 
filii  sui  Crucem  sanctam  Karl[eoli]  et  ecclesiam  de  Aspatrik  et 
servicium  antecessorum  Joh[annis]  de  Brayton'  in  eadem  foresta 
et  ecclesiam  de  Crosseby  et  quartam  partem  eiusdem  ville  quam 

2  Cors  presant  or  corpspresant,  a  mortuary  ;  in  late  wills  it  was  usually  "  my 
best  beaste  "  (Testamenta  Vetusia,  p.  265  :  North  Country  Wills  (Surtees  Soc.), 
p.  104). 


532  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Uhtredus  quondam  tenuit  in  foresta  et  extra  forestam,  ecclesiam 
de  Hyrby  et  servicium  antecessorum  Ysac  de  Yrby  in  Ysacby. 
Idem  Alamis  superfeofavit  Utredum  filium  Lyolfe  militem.  suum 
de  villa  de  Aylewardby  quam  Thomas  de  Louther'  et  Petrus  de 
Dayncurt  modo  tenent. 

Et  successit  eidem  Alano  Willelmus  filius  Duncan,  quondam 
Com[es]  de  Murreve,  nepos  ipsius  Alani,  procreatus  ex  Ethedr- 
[eda]  sorore  Wald[evi]  patris  sui. 

Idem  Willelmus  habuit  totam  Baroniam  de  Allerdale  preter 
Palmecastr'  que  est  landa  in  foresta  ad  presens  propter  guerram 
motam  inter  Regem  Scocie  et  ipsum  Willelmum  filium  Duncan 
qui  desponsaverat  Aliciam  de  Rumeley  filiam  Roberti  de  Rumeley 
domini  de  Scypton'  qui  quondam  disponsaverat  filiam  Willelmi 
de  Meschinis  domini  de  Coupelande. 

Idem  Willelmus  procreavit  ex  predicta  uxore  sua  Willelmum 
puerum  de  Egermund'  qui  infia  etatem  obiit  et  tres  filias  quarum 
prima  nomine  Cicilia  maritata  fuit  cum  honore  de  Scypton' 
Willelmo  Grosso,  Comiti  Albemarl',  per  predictum  Henricum  tune 
Regem  Anglye  in  custodia  domini  Regis  infra  etatem.  Et  secunda 
nomine  Amabill'  marita[ta]  fuit  Reginaldo  de  Lucy  cum  honore 
de  Egermund'  per  predictum  Regem  infra  etatem.  Et  tercia, 
scilicet,  Alicia  de  Rumeley  nomine,  maritata  fuit  Gilberto  Pypard 
ex  familia  Reg[is]  cum  honore  de  Cokermu  per  predictum  Regem 
infra  etatem. 

Willelmus  filius  Duncan  habuit  quemdam  filium  qui  obiit  infra 
etatem  et  tres  filias  reliqu[it  he]redes  in  custodia  Henrici  Regis 
avi  Regis  Henrici  qui  nunc  ultimo  fuit,  quarum  pr[ima]  maritata 
fuit  Willelmo  Grosso,  Comiti  Albemarl',  cui  successit  Hawysia 
filia  eius  et  heres,  et  successit  Hawyse  Willelmus  de  Fortibus, 
Comes  Albemarl',  et  postea  successit  ei  Willelmus  qui  ultimo  fuit, 
et  successit  ei  Avelyna  filia  eius  et  heres  quam  disponsaverat 
dominus  Edmundus  frater  illustris  Regis  Edwardi,  et  Avelyna 
mortua  [est]  sine  herede. 

Secunda  Amabyll'  maritata  fuit  per  dominum  Regem  Reginaldo 
de  Lucy  et  successit  ei  Ricardus  de  Lucy  cui  successerunt  Amabill' 
et  Alicia  de  Lucy. 

Tercia  maritata  fuit  per  eundem  Regem  Gilberto  Pypard  et 
idem  Gylbertus  obiit  sine  herede,  et  dominus  H[enricus]  Rex 
obiit  et  successit  ei  Ricardus  filius  eius  qui  postea  creatus  est  in 
Regem  et  iter  suum  aripuit  versus  terram  sanctam.  Et  Regina 
Elyanor'  mater  ipsius  Regis  maritavit  ipsam  Aliciam  Roberto  de 
Curteney  militi  et  congnato  suo  qui  tenuit  totam  Baroniam  de 
Allerdal  tota  vita  Regis  Ricardi  predicti  et  tempore  J[ohannis] 
Regis  quousque  idem  Robertus  obiit  et  sine  herede. 


VII.     DEVOLUTION  OF  THE  LORDSHIP  OF  Co^uth  Castle.] 


Willelmus  filius  Duncani 
fuit  dominus  de  Coup- 
land  et  Allerdale  et 
Skypton  et  habuit 
ties  filias,  Ceciliam 
et  Amabillam  et  Aliciam, 
inter  quas  partita 
fuit  tota  hered- 
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modum 


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1  This  document  should  be  compared  with  th^  Rec.  Com), 
as  they  all  belong  to  the  same  group  i 

ace  page   533. 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  533 

Et  sciendum  est  quod  tempore  quo  guerra  mota  fuit  inter 
Regem  Scocie  et  Willelmum  filium  Duncan  qui  fuit  pater  Cicilie, 
Amabill'  et  Alicie  presentavit  se  Rogerus  Goky  qui  fuit  cum 
domino  Rege  et  peciit  ab  eo  pro  servicio  suo  landam  Sancte  Hilde 
in  Yngylwode  et  concessit  eidem  dominus  Rex  dictam  landam  de 
hereditate  earundem  sororum  et  tenuit  earn  fere  per  xxx  annos 
et  amplius.  Et  in  extremis  vite  sue  reddidit  se  conversum 
Abbacie  de  Holm  et  ante  obitum  suum  adierunt  dominum  J[oh- 
annem]  Regem  Anglie  et  idem  Rex  concessit  eiis  sicut  idem 
Rogerus  Goky  quondam  tenuit  vivente  Roberto  marito  suo.  Ita 
scilicet  quod  ad  presens  nullum  ius  debet  preterire. 

VII. — See  separate  page. 

VIII.  CONFIRMATION1  BY  KlNG  STEPHEN  OF  WlLLIAM  DE 
LANCASTER'S  GRANT  OF  THE  VILL  OF  MULCASTER  TO  THE  ABBEY 
OF  FURNESS.  [Duchy  of  Lancaster,  Class  xi.  No.  3.  f.  42b.l 

Stephanus,  Rex  Anglorum,  omnibus  fidelibus  suis  tocius  Anglie, 
salutem.  Sciatis  quod  concessi  Deo  et  ecclesie  sancte  Marie  de 
F[urnesio]  et  abbati  et  monachis  ecclesie  eiusdem  in  ea  Deo 
servientibus  in  perpetuam  elemosinam,  pro  anima  domini  Henrici 
Regis  et  avunculi  [mei]  et  patrum  et  antecessorum  meorum,  et 
pro  remissione  pecatorum  meorum  et  uxoris  et  prolis  mee,  et 
fratrum  meorum,  et  pro  stabilitate  regni  mei,  omnia  ista  subscripta 
que  eidem  ecclesie  dederam  dum  Comes  Moretonii  eram,  scilicet, 
totam  forestam  meam  de  F[urnesio]  cum  omni  venatione  que 
in  ea  est,  et  Daltonam,  et  totum  dominicum  meum  infra  F[urn- 
esiam],  cum  hominibus  et  omnibus  ei  pertinentibus,  in  bosco,  in 
piano,  in  terra  et  in  aquis,  et  Olvestonam,  et  Rogerum  Brist- 
[oldum]  cum  suis,  et  do  eis  socum  et  sacum,  et  toll  et  tern,  et  in- 
fangthef,  et  quicquid  infra  F[urnesium]  continetur,  preter  terram 
Michelis  Flamengi,  eo  tamen  tenore  interposito,  ut  in  loco  illo  per 
dispositionem  abbatis  presentis  ordo  monasticus  et  regularis, 
Deo  succurrente,  teneatur.  Concessu  quoque  meo  et  voluntate, 
dedit  eis  Willelmus  de  Lancastria  villam  de  Mulcaster,  que  est 
de  feodo  meo,  solutam  et  quietam  ab  omni  servitio,  cum  omnibus 
que  ei  pertinent.  Hanc  itaque  donacionem  et  concessionem 
meam  factam  Deo  et  ecclesie  illi,  regia  auctoritate  connrmo,  et 
inviolate  integreque  mansuram  usque  in  sempiternum,  a  Deo 
michi  concessa  potestate,  corroboro.  Et  quicquid  presentium 
vel  f  uturorum  devocio  fidelium  ipsis  in  Christo  contulerit,  firmum 
manere  statuo  et  compono. 

*  Printed  by  W.  Farrer  in  Pipe  Rolls  of  Lancashire,  pp.  304- 5- 


534  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

IX.  EXTRACT  FROM  THE  CONFIRMATION  CHARTER  OF  RICHARD 

I.  TO  THE  ABBEY  OF  ST.  MARY,  YORK,  ENUMERATING  THE 

POSSESSIONS  OF  THE  PRIORY  OF  ST.  BEES.1  [Calendar  of  Charter 
Rolls,  in.  116-7.] 

In  Copelandia  Willelmus  Meschin,  Kirkebibeccoch,  hoc  est  vij 
carucatas  terre  cum  omnibus  pertinentiis  suis  et  ecclesiam  Sancte 
Bege  et  quicquid  ad  earn  pertinet  sicut  carta  predict!  Willelmi 
testatur. 

Randulphus  films  ejus,  villam  de  Ananderdala  et  dimidiam 
carucatam  terre  in  Egremund. 

Romaldus  faber  aliam  dimidiam  carucatam  terre  in  eadem 
villa. 

Ketellus  filius  Eltredi,  ecclesiam  de  Wirchintuna  et  ij  carucatas 
terre  et  j  molendinum  in  eadem  villa  et  villam  de  Prestona  cum 
bosco  et  ceteris  pertinentiis. 

Walthef  filius  Gospatrici,  villam  de  Steainburna.  Gospatricius 
filius  Orm,  villam  de  Saltherge  et  communam  in  bosco  et  pastura 
sua  de  Wirchintona  illis  qui  manent  in  terra  monachorum  in 
eadem  villa. 

Rogerus  filius  Gileberti,  in  Helsingha[m]  ij  bovatas  terre. 

Willelmus  filius  Gileberti,  totam  terram  in  Suarthoved.  Rein- 
erus  dapifer,  ij  bovatas  terre  in  Rotingtuna.  Godardus  dapifer, 
ecclesias  de  Botle  et  de  Witingham  cum  tota  parochia  que  est 
inter  Esc  et  parochiam  de  Millum. 

Matildis  uxor  ejus,  villam  de  Amdeseta  cum  omnibus  que  ad 
earn  pertinent. 

Willelmus  filius  Dunecani,  libertatem  pannagiorum  et  salin- 
arum  infra  divisas  terre  que  pertinet  ad  ecclesiam  S.  Bege  et 
commune  foresti  sui  tarn  porcis  monachorum  quam  hominum 
suorum  et  terram  de  Hotkuech. 

Alanus  filius  Waldevi,  ij  bovatas  terre  in  Goseforda  et  xiiijcim 
salmones  unoquoque  anno  in  Quadragesima,  scilicet,  de  piscaria 
sua  de  Cochermutha. 

Randulphus  de  Lindeseia,  ecclesiam  de  Loueneswatar. 

X.  GRANT  TO  THE  PRIOR  OF  THE  HOSPITAL  OF  JERUSALEM 
IN  ENGLAND  TO  ADAM  CASSE  SON  OF  ROBERT  OF  LAND  CALLED 
DUBWRA,  WHICH  HAD  BEEN  GIVEN  TO  THE  BRETHREN  BY  ADAM 

1  This  schedule  of  possessions  had  been  recited  by  inspeximus  and  con- 
firmed by  Henry  II.  about  thirty  years  before.  The  textual  discrepancies 
between  the  two  confirmations  are  not  serious,  but  Regnaldus  faber  may  be 
compared  with  Romaldus  faber  as  the  grant  has  not  been  preserved  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  iii.  550). 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  535 

SON  OF  GAMEL  DE  EGGLESFELD.     [From  the  original  at  Hornby 
Chapel.] 

Omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  f rater  R.1  thesaurarius  fratrum  Hospitalis  Jerosol., 
prior  in  Anglia,  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  uestra  nos  de 
communi  consensu  et  consilio  fratrum  Capituli  nostri  concessisse 
et  presenti  carta  confirmasse  Ade  Casse  filio  Roberti  totam 
terram  de  Dubwra  quam  habemus  ex  donacione  Ade  filii  Gamelli 
de  Egglesfeld  per  subscriptas  diuisas,  scilicet,  a  Hwitestan  subtus 
molendinum  per  transuersam  moram  usque  ad  Cumelkeldefot 
et  ab  inde  usque  ad  Normanneskoende  :  et  inde  ex  transuerso 
usque  ad  predictum  Dubwra  :  et  ab  inde  sicut  idem  Dubwra 
diuidit  sursum  usque  ad  prefatum  Hwitestan.  Habendam  et 
tenendam  illi  et  heredibus  suis  inperpetuum  de  domo  nostra, 
libere  et  quiete  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis.  Reddendo  inde 
annuatim  domui  nostre  duodecim  denarios  ad  festum  sancti 
Michaelis  pro  omni  seruicio  et  exaccione  inde  ad  nos  pertinente. 
Ita  tamen  quod  in  obitu  suo  et  heredum  suorum  similiter  tercia 
pars  catallorum  suorum  domui  nostre  remanebit.  Quod  ut 
firmitatem  obtineat  huic  scripto  sigillum  curauimus  apponere. 
Hiis  testibus  fratre  Rogero,  fratre  Gilleberto  capellanis,  fratre 
Waltero  de  Stanford,  fratre  Johanne  Ruffo,  fratre  Eudone  de 
Bradele,  fratre  Alano  de  monte  sancti  Johannis,  Waltero  de 
Winton. 

XI.  GRANT  OF  THREE  TOFTS  OF  LAND  LYING  BETWEEN  WHICH- 
AM  AND  SlLECROFT  TO  THE  BRETHREN  OF  THE  HOSPITAL  OF 
JERUSALEM  BY  BENEDICT  SON  OF  RICHARD  DE  CROFTBATHOC. 
[From  the  original  at  Hornby  Chapel.] 

Sciant  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego,  Benedictus  films 
Ric[ardi]  de  Croftbathoc,  concessi  et  dedi  et  hac  presenti  carta 
mea  confirmavi  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  sancto  Johanni  Baptiste 
-et  sancto  Hospitali  lerlm.  tria  tofta  que  iacent  inter  Witingham  et 
Selecrotf,  scilicet,  Gillecroft,  et  Gillemihelecroft  et  croftum 
Ric[ardi]  quern  quondam  tenuit  de  Hospitali  lerlm.  et  terciam 
partem  de  Cregehoued,  cum  pratis  duobus  ad  predicta  tria  crofta 
pertinentibus,  libere  et  quiete  ab  omni  seculari  seruicio  et 
exaccione  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  liberis  communionibus 

1  Probably  Robert  de  Diva.  To  another  deed  in  the  same  collection  there 
is  attached  a  seal  of  green  wax  bearing  the  head  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  with 
the  legend  :  "  -!-  SI  GILL.  FRIS.  ROBERTI  DE  DIVE."  The  secretum  has 
the  Paschal  Lamb  in  a  centre  ring. 


536  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

et  liberis  consuetudinibus  et  aisiamentis  ad  uillam  de  Croftbathoc 
pertinentibus  in  singulis.  Ita  tamen  quod  ego  et  heredes  mei 
warantizabimus  totam  predictam  terram  sancto  Hospital!  lerlm. 
et  fratribus  eiusdem  contra  omnes  homines.  Hiis  testibus 
Willelmo  de  Boiuill,  Ricardo  Corbet,  Suano  clerico,  Willelmo  filio 
Ketelli,  Martino  capellano,  Gileberto  clerico,  Alano  filio  Willelmi, 
Willelmo  Todd'witte. 

XII.  GRANT  OF  THE  LAND  CALLED  DUBWRA  TO  ROGER  DB 
SETMURTHY  BY  THE  PRIOR  OF  THE  HOSPITAL  OF  ST.  JOHN  OF 
JERUSALEM  IN  ENGLAND.     [From  the  original  at  Hornby  Chapel.] 

Omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  presens  scriptum  uisuris  uel  audituris, 
frater  Elias  de  Scmyyetun  (Smethetun)  fratrum  Hospitalis  sancti 
Johannis  lerlem.  prior  humilis  in  Anglia,  salutem  in  domino. 
Nouerit  universitas  uestra  nos  de  communi  consilio  et  uoluntate 
fratrum  tocius  capituli  nostri  dedisse,  concessisse  et  presenti 
scripto  nostro  coniirmasse  Rogero  de  Satmurda  totam  terram 
nostram  de  Dubwra  quam  habemus  ex  donacione  Ade  filii  Gamelli 
de  Egclesfeld  per  diuisas  in  carta  eiusdem  nobis  tallata  contentas 
et  totam  terram  nostram  in  Baldeceldewra  quam  Johannes  de 
Boiuill  de  nobis  tenuit  per  diuisas  in  carta  feffatoris  nostri  con- 
tentas. Tenendas  et  habendas  sibi  et  heredibus  suis  cum  omni- 
bus pertinenciis  suis  libere  et  quiete,  pacifice  et  integre,  iure 
hereditario  in  perpetuum.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  nobis  et 
successoribus  nostris  quinque  solidos  sterlingorum  in  festo  sancti 
Bartholomei  pro  omni  seruicio  nobis  pertinente,  saluo  tamen  quod 
tercia  pars  omnium  catallorum  suorum  et  heredum  suorum 
similiter  et  tenencium  suorum  in  dicto  feodo  existencium  in  obitu 
eorum  domui  nostre  remaneat  sine  contradictione  aliqua.  Et  ut 
prescripta  firmitatis  perpetue  robur  optineant  presens  scriptum 
sigilli  nostri  munimine  roborauimus.  Hiis  testibus  fratre  Waltero 
filio  Pagani,  fratre  Willelmo  de  Hasseby,  fratre  Willelmo  de 
Nutstede,  fratre  Roberto  de  Eyham,  fratre  G.  Picat,  domino 
Guidone  de  Boyuill,  Rogero  de  Escheuil,  Waltero  filio  Simonis, 
Rogero  persona  de  Wittefeld,  Henrico  de  Nimet  clerico  et  aliis.1 

XIII.  GRANT  OF  BRACKENTHWAITE  BY  ALAN  SON  OF  WAL- 
DEVE  TO  WALDEVE  SON  OF  DOLFIN.     [From  an  early  copy  in  the 
muniment  room  of  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Alanus    filius    Waldevi    omnibus    amicis    et    hominibus    suis, 

1  The  deed  is  endorsed  "  Dubwraye  in  Coupland  iuxta  Gosford."  The  seal 
of  dark  green  wax  bears  the  legend  :  "-f  S.  ROG.  FIL.  WIL.,"  with  a  fleur- 
de-lis  in  the  field. 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  537 

Francis  et  Anglis,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  dedisse  et 
hac  mea  carta  confirmasse  Waldevo  filio  Dolfini  et  heredibus  suis, 
tenendam  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  in  feudo  et  hereditate,  Brank- 
anthwayt  per  istas  divisas,  scilicet,  de  terra  culta  de  Lorton  usque 
ad  Ravenerhals,  in  vasto  et  piano,  in  pratis  et  pascuis,  in  aquis  et 
viis,  et  in  semitis  et  in  omnibus  aliis  libertatibus,  salva  rm'hi 
venacione  mea  et  heredibus  meis  pro  homagio  et  servicio.  Quare 
volo  et  concede  quod  predictus  Waldevus  et  heredes  sui  hanc 
terram  habeant  et  teneant  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  hoc  servicium 
faciendo,  scilicet,  quod  homines  prenominati  Waldevi  et  heredum 
suorum  dabunt  pannagium  de  porcis  suis,  et  ipse  et  heredes  sui 
erunt  quieti  de  pannagio,  et  ipse  et  homines  sui  utentur  tota 
foresta  excepta  Borgordale  et  testimonium  invenient  forestariis 
meis  sicut  alii  vicini  sui  faciunt  et  quieti  erunt  ab  omni  alio 
servicio.  Testibus  hiis  Gamello  de  Penington,  Ketello  fratre 
eius,  Huctredo  filio  Vctredi,  Gamello  Brun,  Ayleward  filio  Dolfini, 
Gospatricio  fratre  eius,  Gamello  de  Ribeton,  Ketello  dapifero, 
Thoma  clerico,  et  multis  aliis. 

XIV.  CONFIRMATION  OF  BRACKENTHWAITE  BY  WILLIAM  EARL 
OF  ALBEMARLE  TO  HUGH  DE  MORICEBY.     [Ibid.] 

Sciant  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Willelmus  de  Fortibus, 
comes  Albemarle,  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi 
Hugoni  de  Moriceby  et  heredibus  suis  Bracanethuait  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis.  Tenendam  et  habendam  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis  prout  carta  Alani  filii  Waldefi  quam  inde  habet  testatur. 
Hiis  testibus  Gaufrido  de  Talentyre,  Alano  de  Caldebec,  Ricardo 
de  Alnebug',  Willelmo  de  Hothuait,  Willelmo  Maresc',  Ada  de 
Threplend,  Willelmo  le  Plumland  et  aliis. 

XV.  CONFIRMATION  BY  ALICE  DE  RUMELY  OF  SAME  TO  SAME. 
[Ibid.] 

Sciant  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Alicia  de  Rumely,  concessi 
et  hac  mea  presenti  carta  confirmavi  Hugoni  de  Moriceby  et  her- 
edibus suis,  tenendam  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  in  feudo  et  hered- 
itate, Bracanesuait  per  istas  divisas,  scilicet,  de  terra  culta  de 
Lorton  usque  ad  Ravenerhals,  in  bosco  et  piano,  in  pratis  et 
pascuis,  in  aquis  et  viis,  in  semitis  et  in  omnibus  aliis  libertatibus 
et  aisiamentis,  pro  homagio  et  servicio  suo,  salva  venacione  mini 
et  heredibus  meis.  Quare  volo  et  concede  quod  predictus  Hugo 
et  heredes  sui  hanc  terram  habeant  et  teneant  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis,  faciendo  hoc  servicium.  Si  quod  homines  prenominati 
Hugonis  et  heredum  suorum  dabunt  pannagium  de  porcis  suis 


538  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

•et  ipse  et  heredes  sui  erunt  quieti  de  pannagio.  Ipse  vero  et 
heredes  sui  et  homines  utuntur  tota  foresta  meam  (sic).  Et 
testimonium  invenient  forestariis  sicut  alii  vicini  sui  facient.  Et 
quieti  erunt  ab  omni  alio  servicio  et  consuetudine  et  demanda. 
Hiis  testibus  Willelmo  de  Percy  tune  temporis  senescallo,  Henrico 
de  Millum,  Willelmo  de  camera,  Willelmo  le  Harpeour,  et  multis 
.aliis. 

XVI.  GRANT  BY  ANSELM  DE  FURNESS  OF  AN  OXGANG  OF  LAND 
IN  DRIGG  TO  ALEXANDER  SON  OF  ULF  HIS  NEPHEW.     [Ancient 
Deed,  Lancaster,  469.] 

Sciant  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quam  futuri  (sic) 
quod  ego  Ansellus  de  Furnesia  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  presenti 
karta  mea  confirmavi  Alexandro,  nepoti  meo,  filio  Ulfi,  unam  bov- 
atam terre  in  villa  de  Dreg,  scilicet,  bovatam  propinquiorem  tofto 
Walteri  fabri,  quam  Johannes  bercarius  tenuit,  pro  humagio  et 
servicio  suo,  tenendam  et  habendam  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  sibi 
et  heredibus  suis  in  feudo  et  hereditate,  libere  et  quiete  et  honori- 
fice  cum  omnibus  cummunibus  aisiamentis  in  villa  de  Dreg, 
reddendo  inde  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  annuatim  duodecim  den- 
arios  duobus  terminis,  scilicet,  sex  denarios  ad  festum  sancti 
Martini  et  sex  ad  Pentecosten  pro  omni  servicio  mihi  et  heredibus 
meis  pertinenti,  faciendo  forinsecum  servicium,  quantum  pertinet 
ad  prefatam  bovatam  :  preterea  predictus  Alexander]  et  heredes 
sui  mol[abu]nt  ad  molendinum  meum  in  Dreg  usque  ad 
vicesimum  vas  et  inveniet  (sic)  unum  hominem  operantem  ad 
stagnum  predicti  molendini  tribus  diebus  per  annum  cum  opus 
fuerit.  Hiis  testibus  Alano  filio  Ketelli,  Henrico  filio  Willelmi, 
Michaele  filio  Ketelli,  Willelmi  filio  Hugonis,  Rogero  filio 
Ewardi,  Hugone  capellano,  Ada  preposito. 

XVII.  GRANT  OF  AN  OXGANG  OF  LAND  IN  DRIGG  BY  ALEX- 
ANDER DE  HYTON  TO  THOMAS  SON  OF  JOHN.     [Ancient  Deed, 
Lancaster,  470.] 

Sciant  omnes  tarn  futuri  quam  presentes  quod  ego  Alexander 
de  Hytona  relaxavi  et  quietum  omnino  clamavi  domino  Thome 
filio  Johannis  et  heredibus  suis  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  inper- 
petuum  totam  illam  bovatam  terre  quam  dominus  Anselmus 
pater  Ysabele  sponse  eiusdem  Thome  dedit  eidem  Alexandro  in 
territorio  de  Dreg,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis.  Et  ut  hec  mea 
relaxacio  et  quieta  clamacio  eidem  domino  Thome  et  heredibus 
suis  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  stabilis  perseveret  presentem  paginam 
sigilli  mei  impositione  roboravi.  Hiis  testibus  Michaele  de 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  539 

Furnesio,  Alano  de  Peningtona,  Willelmo  filio  Hugonis,  Rogero 
filio  Ewardi,  Roberto  filio  eius,  Ewardo  de  Cornay,  Johanne  filio 
.Thome,  et  aliis. 

XVIII.  GRANT  OF  AN  OXGANG  OF  LAND  BY  THOMAS  SON  OF 
JOHN  TO  THE  CHAPEL  OF  ST.  PETER,  DRiGG.     [Ancient  Deed, 
Lancaster,  471.] 

Omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens  carta 
pervenerit  Thomas  filius  Johannis  salutem  in  domino.  Noverit 
universitas  vestra  me,  divine  pietatis  intuitu  et  pro  salute  anime 
mee  et  pro  salute  omnium  antecessorum  et  successorum  meorum 
<et  specialiter  pro  salute  fidelis  uxoris  mee  Ysabel,  concessisse  et 
dedisse  Deo  et  capelle  beati  Petri  de  Dreg  unam  bovatam  terre, 
illam,  scilicet,  quam  emi  de  Alexandra  de  Hytun  infra  territorium 
de  Dreg,  cum  toftis  et  croftis  predicte  bovate  terre  adiacentibus, 
et  cum  omnibus  aliis  aisiamentis  et  libertatibus  infra  villam  et 
extra  predicte  bovate  terre  pertinentibus,  in  puram  et  perpetuam 
elemosinam,  sicut  aliqua  elemosina  liberius  vel  quiecius  concedi 
vel  dari  possit.  Ego  vero  et  heredes  mei  de  dominico  nostro 
predictam  bovatam  terre  adquietabimus  de  omni  forinseco  ser- 
vicio  quod  facere  consuevit  et  illam  Deo  et  predicte  capelle  beati 
Petri  contra  omnes  homines  et  feminas  warentizabimus  inperpet- 
uum.  Et  in  huius  rei  testimonium  presenti  carte  sigillum  meum 
apposui.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Kirkebi  tune  official! 
Rich,  et  Coupland,  domino  Willelmo  de  Wirkinton  tune  decano 
Coupland,  Randulfo  persona  de  Landplod,  Henrico  persona  de 
Hale,  Nicholao  persona  de  Cleterhe,  Henrico  capellano  de  Dreg, 
Ricardo  capellano  de  Mulecastre,  et  aliis. 

XIX.  GRANT  OF  WIRKINGTON  AND  LAMPLOGH  BY  WILLIAM 
DE  LANCASTER  TO  GOSPATRIC  SON  OF  ORM  IN  EXCHANGE  FOR 
MEDILTON  IN  LONESDALE.     [From  a  copy1  at  Workington  Hall.] 

Sciant  omnes  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego,  Willelmus 
de  Lancastra,  cum  consilio  et  consensu  et  concessione  Willelmi 
filii  et  heredis  mei,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea 
confirmavi  Cospatricio  filio  Orme  et  heredibus  suis,  tenendam  de 
me  et  de  heredibus  meis  in  feodo  et  hereditate,  totam  terram  suam 
de  Cauplandia  quam  de  me  tenet  sicut  ius  suum  [et]  hereditatem 
suam,  scilicet,  villam  de  Wirkington  cum  pertinenciis  suis  et 
villam  de  Lamplogh  cum  pertinenciis  suis  quam  dedi  in  excambio 
pro  villa  de  Medilton  in  Lonesdale  :  hanc  totam  predictam  terram 

1  For  an  account  of  the  condition  of  the  script,  see  V.  C.  H.  Cumberland, 
i.  323-4. 


54°  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

dedi  predicto  Cospatricio  et  heredibus  suis,  tenendam  de  me  et 
de  heredibus  meis  pro  homagio  suo,  libere  et  quiete  et  honorifice, 
in  bosco,  in  piano,  in  parcis,  in  pascuis,  in  viis,  in  semitis,  in  aquis, 
in  molendinis,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et  liberis  consuetudinibus, 
sicut  aliquis  miles  liberius  et  quietius  et  honorificensius  in  tota 
terra  mea  tenet.  Redendo  michi  annuatim  nova  calcaria  ad 
aurum  vel  sex  denarios  ad  Nundinas  Carliolii  et  faciendo  michi 
forense  servicium  apud  castellum  de  Egermundia.  Hiis  testibus 
Ketello  filio  Ulfe  et  aliis. 

XX.  GRANT  OF  AN  OXGANG  OF  LAND  IN  COUPLAND,  CALLED 

FOSS,  TO  THE  ABBEY  OF  FURNESS  BY  GODARD  DE  BOIVILL. 

[Ancient  Deed,  Ls.  131.] 

Omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  tarn  presentibus  quam  fut- 
uris,  Godardus  de  Boiuilla,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et 
dedisse  et  presenti  carta  connrmasse  deo  et  abbacie  sancte  Marie 
de  Furnesio  et  monachis  ibidem  deo  servientibus  pro  salute 
anime  mee  et  pro  animabus  antecessorum  meorum  et  successorum 
meorum  quandam  carrucatam  terre  in  Cauplandia,  Fossam 
nomine,  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  et  appendiciis  suis  in  puram 
et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  ab  omni  seruicio 
seculari  et  consuetudine  et  exaccione,  in  bosco  et  piano,  in  pratia 
et  paschuis,  in  moris  et  mariscis,  in  uiis  et  semitis,  et  omnibus 
aliis  aisiamentis  per  omnes  diuisas  sicut  unquam  melius  et  liberius 
earn  tenuit  pater  meus.  Hanc  terram  ego  et  heredes  mei  predictis 
monachis  contra  omnes  homines  warantizabimus  et  ab  omni 
seruicio  adquietabimus.  His  testibus  Ketello  de  Cauplandia, 
Ewardo  de  Cauplandia,  Rogero  de  Kirkebi,  Roberto  de  Boiuilla, 
Willelmo  clerico  de  Kertmel,  Ailwardo  de  Broctuna,  Dolfino  de- 
Kirkebi,  Benedicto  de  Penigtuna,  Rannulfo  de  Berdeseia,  Rann- 
ulfo  de  Penigtuna  et  multis  aliis. 

XXI.  GRANT    BY  WILLIAM   DE  BOIVILL  TO  THE  MONKS   OF 
FURNESS  OF  THE  LAND  AND  PASTURE  OF  MELES  IN  KIRKSANTON, 
[Ancient  Deed,  L.   160.] 

Sciant  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri  quod  ego,  Willelmus  de 
Boiuilla,  concessu  heredum  meorum,  dedi  et  concessi  et  hac  pre- 
senti carta  mea  confirmavi  deo  et  beate  Marie  de  Furnesio  et 
monachis  ibidem  deo  servientibus  totam  terram  et  pasturam  de 
Melis  in  Kirkesantan  per  istas  diuisas,  scilicet,  a  Sandscarth  super 
mare  usque  ad  sichet  in  Sleuenmire  et  sic  per  sichet  de  Sleuenmire 
usque  in  sichet  inter  duas  leiriggas  et  sic  per  eundem  sichet  usque 
in  Helupul  et  sic  per  nlum  aque  de  Helupul  descendendo  usque  in 


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mare,  cum  medietate  piscariarum  eiusdem  aque,  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  et  liberis  consuetudinibus  et  aisiamentis  que  infra 
predictas  diuisas  sunt  vel  fieri  possunt.  Tenendas  et  habendas 
<ie  me  et  heredibus  meis  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
liberam,  solutam  et  quietam  ab  omni  seruicio  et  exaccione  sicut 
ulla  elemosina  liberius  et  quiecius  potest  teneri.  Insuper  con- 
cessi  fratribus  infra  predictam  terrain  manentibus  ut  capiant  de 
bosco  meo  de  Kirkesantan  quantum  opus  habuerint  ad  proprios 
usus  et  quod  molent  ad  molendinum  meum  de  Kirkesantan  sine 
molitura.  Ego  vero  prefatus  W.  et  heredes  mei  omnia  prenom- 
inata  predictis  monachis  contra  omnes  calumpnias  et  calumpni- 
atores  et  contra  omnes  homines  warantizabimus  et  ab  omni  ser- 
uicio adquietabimus  in  perpetuum  et  prefatam  pasturam  ab 
aueriis  ad  ipsos  monachos  non  pertinentibus  defendemus.  Hiis 
testibus  Willelmo  filio  Michaelis,  Daniele  et  Jordano  fratribus  suis, 
Rogero  persona  de  Kirkebi,  Alano  de  Peningtona,  Rogero  filio 
Willelmi  de  Kirkebi,  Ricardo  de  Boiuilla,  Gilberto  de  Boiuilla, 
Roberto  de  Boiuilla,  Philippo  le  Noreis  et  multis  aliis. 

XXII.  CONFIRMATION  OF  AUESTWAIT,  AFTERWARDS  CALLED 
DALEGARTH,  BY  WILLIAM  SON  OF  HENRY  SON  OF  ARTHUR,  LORD 
OF  MILLOM,  TO  BENEDICT  SON  OF  KETEL.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby 
Hall :  seal  lost,  tag.] 

Sciant  omnes,  tarn  presentes  quam  futuri,  quod  ego,  Willelmus 
filius  Henrici  filii  Arturi,  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  con- 
firmavi  Benedicto  filio  Ketelli  et  heredibus  suis  terram  quam 
pater  meus  dedit  ei  pro  humagio  et  servicio  suo,  scilicet,  Auestwait, 
per  has  divisas  per  Bircherhebec  contra  montem  usque  ad  rivulum 
qui  descendit  de  musco  sub  Satgodard,  et  inde  usque  ad  alium 
rivulum  qui  cadit  de  eodem  musco  in  Duvokeswater  et  sicut 
Lindebec  cadit  de  Duvokeswater  usque  in  Esch  et  Esch  contra 
montem  usque  ad  Bircherhebec.  Hanc  terram  tenebit  ipse  et 
heredes  sui  de  me  et  de  heredibus  meis  libere  et  quiete  et  honori- 
fice,  reddendo  annuatim  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  decem  et  octo 
denarios,  dimidium  ad  festum  sancti  Michaelis  et  dimidium  ad 
Pascha.  Salvo  preterea  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  cervo  et  cerva 
et  apro  et  sue  silvestri  et  pannagio  porcorum  hominum  suorum 
qui  infra  has  divisas  manserint,  secundum  consuetudinem  patrie, 
scilicet,  vicesimum  porcum.  Hiis  testibus  Radulfo  Corbet, 
Willelmo  filio  Ketelli,  Ricardo  filio  Alani,  Willelmo  filio  Hugonis, 
Ricardo  de  Morthing,  Alexandra  filio  Ulfvi,  Willelmo  filio  Waldevi, 
et  multis  aliis. 


542  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

XXIII.  GRANT  BY  BENEDICT  DE  PENINGTUN  OF  THE  CHURCH 

OF  MOLECASTRE  AND  CHAPEL  OF  SAINT  ALDEBURGA  TO  THE 

HOSPITAL  OF  ST.  MARY  OF  CUNINGESHAL,  c.  1190.     [Anct.  D., 
L.  579-] 

Omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  tarn  presentibus  quam 
futuris,  B[enedictus]  de  Peningtun,  salutem.  Notum  sit  vobis- 
me  concessisse  et  hac  mea  carta  confirmasse,  concedente  Alano 
herede  meo,  hospitali  sancte  Marie  de  Cuningeshal  et  eiusdem  loci 
fratribus  ecclesiam  de  Molecastre  et  capellam  sancte  Aldeburge, 
cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam, 
pro  salute  anime  mee  et  uxoris  mee  Anneis  et  omnium  parentum 
nostrorum.  Hec  donacio  iacta  est  in  facie  tocius  capituli  Lan- 
castrie.  Hiis  testibus  magistro  Tebaldo  vice  archidiacono,  Ada 
decano,  Ada  de  Kirkebi  Lonesdale,  Achardo  de  Kirkebi-Kendale, 
Danielo  de  Aldingham,  Rogero  de  Kirkebi  Irlid,  Roberto  de 
Ulfestun,  Willelmo  de  Wartun,  Roberto  de  Prestun,  Rogero  de 
Heveresheim,  Radulfo  de  Hesheim,  Roberto  de  Gairstang. 

XXIV.  GRANT   BY  ALICE  DE  LUCY,   WIDOW    OF  ALAN   DE 

MULTON,  OF  LANDS  IN  GREAT  AND  LITTLE  GlLLECRUCE,  WITH  THE 
CHURCH  AND  ADVOWSON  OF  THE  CHURCH  OF  THAT  VILL,  IQ  MARCH, 

1272.     [Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit, 
Alicia  de  Lucy,  quondam  uxor  domini  Alani  de  Multon,  salutem 
in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me,  in  pura  viduitate  et 
legia  potestate  mea,  pro  salute  anime  mee,  viri  mei  defuncti, 
antecessorum  et  heredum  meorum,  concessisse  et  hoc  presenti 
scripto  meo  confirmasse,  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  inperpetuum, 
deo  et  beate  Marie  et  abbacie  de  Caldera  et  monachis  ibidem  deo 
servientibus,  omnes  terras  et  tenementa  que  habent  de  feodo  meo 
in  magna  Gillecruce  et  parva  Gillecruce,  cum  omnibus  pertinen- 
ciis, unacum  ecclesia  et  advocacione  ecclesie  eiusdem  ville,  in 
liberam  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  liberam  et  quietam  et  solutam 
ab  omnibus  serviciis,  consuetudinibus  et  demandis  mihi  et  hered- 
ibus meis  pertinentibus  :  illas,  videlicet,  terras  ac  tenementa  que 
habueruiit  quarto  decimo  kalendas  Aprilis,  anno  regni  regis 
Henrici  filii  regis  Johannis  quinquagesimo  sexto.  Faciendo  corn- 
agium  et  alia  servicia  que  debentur  domino  regi  de  dictis  terris  et 
tenementis.  Si  vero  contingat  dictum  cornagium  termino 
debito  non  esse  solutum,  licebit  ballivis  meis  et  heredum  meorum 
intrare  dictas  terras  et  tenementa  ad  faciendum  racionabiles 
districtiones  pro  dicto  cornagio.  Quo  soluto  non  licebit  mihi, 
heredibus  meis,  nee  dictis  ballivis,  dictas  terras  et  tenementa 


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intrare  nee  in  aliquo  se  intromittere  de  aliquo  alio  nisi  de  cornagio 
tantum.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium  presenti  scripto  in  modum 
cirografi  consueto  tarn  abbas  quam  ego  sigilla  nostra  alternatim 
apposuimus.  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Thoma  de  Lucy  filio  et  herede 
meo,  Ranulfo  de  Dacre,  Alano  de  Orreton,  Roberto  de  Mulkastre, 
militibus,  Roberto  de  Ulvelayk,  Ricardo  de  Gedeney  tune  ballivo 
de  Egremound,  Hugone  de  Cokermu  tune  constabulario  meo, 
Henrico  Marshal,  et  aliis. 

XXV.  CONFIRMATION  BY  HONORIUS,  ARCHDEACON  OF  RICH- 
MOND,  OF  THE  CHURCHES  OF  MOLECASTRE,   WHITEBEC  AND   PEN- 
IGTON  TO  THE  CANONS  OF  CONEGESHEVED,  FORMERLY  CONFIRMED- 
TO  THEM  BY  ARCHBISHOP   ROGER  OF  YORK,   C.    12 IO.       [Anct.    D., 

L.  291.] 

Universis  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presentes  littere  pervenerint, 
magister  H[onorius],  archidiaconus  Rich[emondie],  salutem  in 
domino.  Cura  suscepte  sollicitudinis  nos  admovet  subditorum 
utilitatibus  diligenter  providere  et  eorum  perfectibus  propensius 
prospicere  quos  contemplacionis  otium  evocavit  a  seculo  et  qui 
Christum  in  suis  membris  retinere  vigilanter  et  sustentare  non 
desistunt.  Quam  pium  igitur  est  illis  affectuosius  subvenire  qui 
circa  Christi  pauperes  copiose  caritatis  habundant  visceribus. 
Conversacionem  et  devocionem  dilectorum  in  Christo  fratrum 
canonicorum  de  Conegesh[eved]  pio  et  sincero  considerantes 
affectu,  inherentes  vestigiis  bone  memorie  R[ogeri]  Eboracensis 
archiepiscopi,  qui  eis  ecclesias  de  Molecastre  et  de  Whitebec  et 
de  Penigton  cum  pertinenciis  in  proprios  usus  confirmavit,  nos 
ecclesias  illas  eisdem  fratribus  in  proprios  et  perpetuos  usus  eorum 
ad  sustentacionem  hospitalitatis  domus  sue  eis  concedendas 
duximus  et  convertendas.  Salvis  in  omnibus  nobis  et  success- 
oribus  nostris  oneribus  debitis  et  consuetis.  Ut  autem  hec 
nostra  concessio  futuris  temporibus  inconcussa  perseveret,  presenti 
scripto  duximus  earn  connrmare.  Hiis  testibus  magistro  I[o- 
hanne]  omciali  nostro,  Ricardo  de  Marisco,  Rogero  de  Kirkebi, 
A.  de  Kirkh[am]  tune  decano,  Willelmo  de  Bidigden,  Daniel[o]  de 
Fornes,  Benedicto  capellano,  Anket[ino]  clerico,  et  multis  aliis. 

XXVI.  CONFORMATION    OF    CERTAIN    CHURCHES,    INCLUDING 

THOSE    OF    WORKINGTON    AND    BROMFIELD,    BY    GILBERT    SON    OF 

REINFRED  TO  THE  ABBEY  OF  ST.  MARY,  YORK,  c.  1200.  [Brit. 
Mus.,  Add.  Chart.  17, 153.] 

Omnibus  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis  ad  quos  presens  scriptum 
pervenerit,  Gilleb[ertus]  films  Reinfredi  et  Helewisa  uxor  eius, 


544  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

salutem  in  domino.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  intuitu  cari- 
tatis  concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  nostra  confirmasse  Deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Marie  Ebor[acensi]  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  ser- 
vientibus  ecclesias  de  Clapham  et  de  Kirkebi  in  Lonesdale,  de 
Burton  in  Kendale,  de  Biethum,  de  Euersheim,  de  Kirkebi  in 
Kendale,  de  Murlund,  de  Brunefeld,  et  ecclesiam  de  Wirkinton. 
Has  autem  predictas  ecclesias  confirmavimus  eis  cum  capellis, 
molendinis,  terris,  pasturis,  possessionibus,  libertatibus,  et  omni- 
bus aliis  pertinenciis  suis,  sicut  carte  antecessorum  nostrorum 
testantur.  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  de  Marisco,  Ada  de  Biethum, 
Rogero  de  Heueresheim,  Nicolao  de  Kendale,  Johanne  de  Lones- 
dale, Magistro  Hugone  Ruffo,  Gervasio  de  Aincurt,  Henrico  de 
Redeman,  Waltero  de  Bouinton,  Johanne  de  Heauerynton,  Petro 
Blafi,  Johanne  Blein,  Roberto  Blachel,  Magistro  Gregorio  de 
Ebor[aco],  Roberto  Lupe,  Johanne  et  Wald'  cocis,  Waltero  de 
Piscr',  Osb[erto]  janitore,  Turgisio  Cranetario,  Samsone  clerico 
ct  aliis  multis. 

XXVII-  AGREEMENT  BETWEEN  RICHARD  SON  OF  PETER  AND 
ROBERT  PRIOR  OF  ST.  BEES  TOUCHING  32  ACRES  OF  LAND  IN 
WHITER AVEN,  23  SEPTEMBER,  1202.  [Pedes  Finium,  p.  5,  Rec. 
Com.] 

Hec  finalis  concordia  facta  in  curia  domini  regis  apud  Karduil 
•die  Lune  proxima  post  festum  sancti  Mathei  anno  regni  regis 
Johannis  quarto,  coram  domino  Johanne  Norwicensi  episcopo, 
Hugone  Bardulf,  Johanne  de  Gestelinges,  magistro  Rogero  Arun- 
dell,  Willelmo  filio  Ricardi,  Hugone  de  Bobi,  justiciariis  et  aliis  fid- 
elibus  domini  regis  ibidem  presentibus.  Inter  Ricardum  nlium 
Petri,  petentem,  et  Robertum,  priorem  de  Sancta  Bega,  tenentem, 
de  xxxij  acris  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Hwithothehavene.  Unde 
assisa  de  morte  antecessoris  summonita  fuit  inter  eos  in  predicta 
curia,  scilicet,  quod  predictus  Ricardus  remisit  et  quietum  clam- 
avit  totum  jus  et  clameum  quod  habuit  in  predictis  xxxij  acris 
terre  cum  pertinenciis  de  se  et  heredibus  suis  predicto  Roberto 
priori  et  successoribus  suis  in  perpetuum.  Et  pro  hac  quieta  cla- 
mancia,  fine  et  concordia  Robertus  prior  dedit  predicto  Ricardo 
vj  marcas  argenti. 

XXVIII.  GRANT  BY  RICHARD  DE  LUCY  OF  ALL  MOSERTHE 
TO  ADAM  DE  MOSERTHE,  c.  1203.  [From  an  early  copy  in  the 
muniment  room  of  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Bundae  et  limites  de  Mosergh. 

Sciant  omnes  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Ricardus  de  Lucy, 
•concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Ade  de  Moserthe  et 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  545 

heredibus  suis  totam  Moserthe  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  per  istas 
divisas,  scilicet,  sicut  divise  inter  Perdishau  et  Moserthe  extund- 
untur  versus  orientem  usque  rivulum  qui  descendit  de  Ulnescarth 
et  ascendendo  per  eundem  rivulum  usque  ad  divisas  que  sunt 
inter  Thacthwayt  et  Moserthe  per  easdem  divisas  ad  capud  de 
Capeltrebek  et  inde  descendendo  de  Capeltrebek  usque  Lawes- 
watre.  Et  inde  ascendendo  per  Lausewatre  usque  in  Dubbes  et 
inde  ascendendo  ad  divisas  que  sunt  inter  Solrescales  et  Moserthe 
et  per  easdem  divisas  usque  ad  mussam  que  est  divisa  inter 
Perdishaw  et  Moserthe.  Et  quod  predictus  Adam  et  heredes  sui 
debent  colere  et  edificare  et  assartare  boscum,  atque  vendere  et 
donare,  inter  Raysethwaytbec  et  Perdishau  et  Ulnescarthbec. 
Ita  quod  predictus  Adam  et  heredes  sui  et  homines  eorum,  in  villa 
de  Moserthe  manentes,  infra  istas  divisas  colere,  assartare  et  edi- 
ncare,  vendere  atque  donare  debeant.  Predictus  Adam  et 
heredes  sui  et  homines  eorum  in  terra  de  Moserthe  manentes  non 
possunt  nee  debent  colere  aut  edificare  nee  in  bosco  capere 
qui  est  inter  Rayswaytbec  et  Capeltrebek,  sed  cum  averiis 
suis  tamen  pasturare,  ita  quod  nullus  alius  cum  eis  comm- 
municare  debent.  Si  vero  alii  infra  scriptas  divisas  presentis 
pagine  intraverint,  ego  et  heredes  mei  inde  capiemus  escapium. 
Et  quod  predictus  Adam  et  heredes  sui  et  homines  eorum  in  terra 
de  Moser'  manentes  debent  pasturare  subtus  Layrocsyk  usque 
Becsnari  extra  bladum  et  prata  illis  et  heredibus  suis.  Habendum 
et  tenendum  de  me  et  de  heredibus  meis  in  feodo  et  in  hereditate, 
libere,  quiete,  integre,  pacifice,  salvo  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  infra 
predictas  divisas  cervo  et  cerva,  apri,  leia,  et  aerio  ancipitris  qui 
ibi  erunt.  Et  faciendum  forinsecum  servicium  quantum  pertinet 
ad  terciam  partem  unius  ville  de  Caupeland.  Et  ferendum  mihi 
et  heredibus  meis  singulis  annis  unam  marcam  argenti  pro  omni 
servicio  ad  me  et  ad  heredes  meos  pertinente,  scilicet,  medietatem 
ad  festum  sancti  Martini  et  medietatem  ad  Pentecosten.  Preterea 
concessi  et  quietum  clamavi  de  me  et  de  heredibus  meis  predictos 
Adam  et  heredes  suos  et  homines  eorum  in  terra  predicta  manentes 
de  Durtol  et  de  pastu  forestariorum.  Homines  vero  Ade  predicti 
et  heredum  suorum  in  dicta  terra  manentes  invenire  debent 
testem  forestariis  meis  et  heredum  meorum  secundum  usum 
Caupeland  malefacta  testificanda  fore  quando  fuerint  inventa  de 
propinquiore  villa  et  prosequenda  donee  placita  in  curia  mea  sit 
finita  [et]  heredum  meorum  secundum  usum  Caupeland,  Hom- 
ines vero  predicti  Ade  et  heredum  suorum  in  predicta  [villa] 
manentes  debent  pascere  unum  landsergentem  et  virum  suum  et 
equum  suum  ad  tornum  suum  cum  communitate  feodi  mei  et 

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546  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

heredum  meorum  inter  Egre  et  Derewent  et  debent  invenire  pre- 
dicto  landsergenti  testem  usque  ad  proximam  villam  secundum 
usum  Caupeland  cum  omnibus  aliis  serviciis  ad  me  et  heredes 
meos  pertinentibus.  Homines  vero  predicti  Ade  et  heredum 
suorum  in  predictis  terris  manentes  debent  dare  mihi  et  heredibus 
meis  toloneum  de  omnibus  rebus  quas  vendunt  in  mercandiso. 
Hiis  testibus  Henrico  filio  Arturi,  Ricardo  filio  Alani,  Willelmo, 
Benedicto,  Michael!  filiis  Ketel,  Ada  de  Lamplo,  Gilberto  filio 
Gilberti,  Ada  de  Haverington,  Ada  filio  Michaelis,  et  multis  aliis.1 

XXIX.  PLEAS  TOUCHING  THE  CUSTOMS  AND  SERVICES  OF  THE 
BARONY  OF  COUPLAND,  1203.  [Abbreviatio  Placitorum,  p.  42, 
Rec.  Com.] 

Ricardus  de  Lucy  petit  versus  Adam  filium  Johannis  quod  faciat 
ei  servicia  et  consuetudines  quas  ei  facere  debet  de  libero  tenemento 
quod  de  eo  tenet  in  Breseko,  scilicet,  quod  debet  receptare  et 
hospitari  et  pascere  v  forestarios  suos  cum  ad  eum  venerint  et 
invenire  eis  sectam  ad  testandum  malefacta  foreste  sue.  Dicit 
etiam  quod  debet  habere  iiij  landservientes,  custodes,  scilicet, 
pacis  patrie,  duos,  scilicet,  ex  una  parte  aque  de  Egen'  et  duos  ex 
alia  parte  illius  aque  de  Egen',  et  illos  duos,  qui  erunt  ex  ilia  parte 
aque  ubi  ipse  manet,  debet  ipse  hospitari  et  pascere,  et  invenire 
eis  sectam  ad  testandum  malefacta  pacis.  Et  preterea  petit  de 
ipso  et  de  hominibus  terre  sue  de  omnibus  averiis  suis  et  universis 
rebus  unde  theolonium  debet  surgere  que  vendite  fuerunt  ubi- 
cunque  vendantur.  Ita  quod  theolonium  illud  portari  debet  ad 
castellum  suum  de  Egremunt  infra  diem  dominicam  proximam 
post  vendicionem  factam,  et  si  ultra  dominicam  detentum  fuerit 
ipsi  erunt  in  forisfactura  sua,  et  reddent  ei  theolonium.  Et 
Adam  venit  et  cognoscit  ei  servicia  et  consuetudines  que  terra 
sua  debet  et  debuit  a  conquestu  Anglic,  scilicet,  quod  ipse  debet 
esse  forestarius  suus  se  tercio  ex  feoffamento  antique  ad  custum 
suum  proprium,  et  debet  receptare  et  hospitari  et  pascere  unum 
landservientem  ex  una  parte  aque  in  communi,  sicut  ei  accident, 
scilicet,  ex  ilia  parte  aque  ubi  ipse  manet.  Cognoscit  etiam  quod 
de  hominibus  ejus  debet  ipse  habere  theolonium  de  omnibus 
rebus  suis  venditis  unde  theoloneum  surgere  debet,  sed  ipsemet 
de  omnibus  rebus  suis  propriis  venditis  quietus  esse  debet.  Et 

1  Richard  de  Lucy  son  of  Reginald  or  Reynold  de  Lucy  had  livery  of  Coup- 
land  in  1200  (Rot.  de  Oblat.  et  Fin.,  p.  45,  Rec.  Com.).  For  a  similar  grant 
by  Richard  de  Lucy  to  Reynold  son  of  Adam  of  Braithestaines,  illustrating 
the  feudal  services  due  by  Adam  de  Moserthe,  see  W.  Farrer's  paper  in  Tran- 
sactions of  Cumb.  and  Westmor.  Archceol.  Soc.  (new  series),  ii.  331-2. 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  547 

predictus  cognoscit  quod  debet  awaitam  maris  facere.  Et  ponit 
se  in  magnam  assisam  domini  regis,  etc.  Consideratum  est  quod 
magna  assisa  inde  fiat,  etc.,  Dies  datus  est  eis,  etc. 

Idem  Ricardus  petit  versus  Adam  de  Moserg'  omnes  consuet- 
udines  et  servicia  que  exegit  ab  alio  Adam  predicto  de  tenementis 
que  tenet  de  eo  in  Moserg',  et  ipse  venit  et  recognovit  omnes 
consuetudines  et  servicia  que  predictus  Adam  recognovit  preter- 
quam  awaitam  maris  quam  negavit,  et  simili  modo  posuit  se  in 
magnam  assisam  domini  regis,  etc.,  fiat,  etc. 

Idem  etiam  Ricardus  petit  versus  Adam  de  Lamplo  consuet- 
udines omnes  et  servicia  predicta  que  .  .  .  .  de  tenemento  quod  de 
eo  tenet  in  Morton.  Et  ipse  venit  et  dicit  quod  ....  net  terram 
suam  per  cornagium  et  non  per  sergantiam  Foreste  ....  etc. 

XXX.  CUSTOM  OF  OUTLAWRY  IN  THE  LIBERTY  OF  COUPLAND, 
1235-6.  [Bracton's  Note  Book,  No.  1154,  ed.  F.  W.  Maitland.] 

Libertas  de  Coplande. 

Loquendum  cum  Domino  Rege  de  libertate  de  Coplande  in  qua 
consuetude  talis  est  quod  si  aliquis  deliquerit  quod  debeat  secund- 
um  legem  terre  utlagari  ille  qui  utlagandus  est  interrogabitur  ad 
omnes  curias  quas  dominus  illius  libertatis  tenebit  quousque 
terminus  v.  comitatuum  preteriit  et  tune  presentabitur  loquela 
ilia  ad  comitatum  proximum  et  per  testimonium  eiusdem  curie 
ad  unicam  interrogacionem  utlagabitur. 

XXXb.  "  THE  COPIE  OF  ANE  AGREEMENT  MADE  IN  AUNCIENT 
TYME  BETWENE  THE  L[ORD]  OF  EGREMOND  AND  HIS  TENANTS 
OF  COUPLAND  TOCHING  THER  SUBIECTION  AND  GOVERMENT," 
c.  1280.  [Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Hoc  scriptum  testatur  quod  Thomas  filius  Lambarti  de  Multon 
conuenit    omnibus    hominibus    liberis    suis    in 
Coupland    et    eorum    tenentibus    quod    inter     servientes 
Darwent    et    Eygne    sit    vnus    seruiens    eques     inter  Darwent 
et  vnus  pedes  jurati,  et  vnus  garcio  non  iuratus     et  Eigne 
qui  nulla  faciat  atachiamenta  vel  sumoniciones 
aliquas.     Item,   inter  Eygne  et  Dodyn  sit  vt     Inter  Eygne 
supra,  sed  dicti  duo  eques  et  ij  pedites  iurati     et  Dodin 
omnia  facient  que  ad  ofncium  pertenent.     Con- 
cedit  etiam  dictis  hominibus  suis  et  eorum  ten- 
entibus   teolonium    debentibus    versus    forum 
vel  nundinas  proficiscentibus  cum  animalibus 
suis  extra  libertatem  fugentibus  cum  ad  mar-     Tolle 
catum   ems   libertatis   venerint   in   loco    certo 


548 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 


penes  teolonarium  vadium  ponant  et  in  red- 
iundo  pro  ammalibus  venditis  teolonium  solv- 
ant,  et  pro  non  venditis  vadium  resumant  sine 
impedimento.     Et  super  hoc  credatur  per  fidem 
suam.     Concedit    insuper    eisdem    hominibus 
suis  quod  sewakepeni  de  cetero  solvatur  prout     sewakepeni 
tempore    antiquo    solvabatur.     Item    concedit 
omnibus  hominibus  predictis  quod  cum  male- 
factor cum  manu  opere  captatus  vel  rectatus     Malefactores 
per  servientes  et  villatos  ductus  sit  ad  castrum     capti  cum 
de  Egremont,  ibi  recepietur  et  custodietur  et     manu 
sumptibus  ipsius  ad  Karliolum,  si  necesse  fu-     opere 
erit,    adducetur,    et    per    villatos    ibidem    de 
huiusmodi  capite  perficietur,  omnes  autem  per     Indictati 
ballivos  et  villatos  qui  indictati   sunt  coram     et 
Justiciariis  in  comitatu  Karlioli  vel  per  appro-     appellati 
batores  appellati  per   villatos   adducentur  ad 
prisonam    Karlioli.     Concessit    etiam    eisdem     Curia  de 
quod  habeant  curiam  suam   de  braciatoribus     Braciatoribus 
suis,   si  tempore  competente  veniant  informa 
debita  petant,  saluis  predicto  Thome  et  hered-     Saluis  ad 
ibus  suis  omnibus  que  ad  coronam  pertinent,     coronam 
In  cuius  rei  testimonium  et  modo  Sirographi     pertinentibus 
confect.  per  Thomam  de  Multon  pro  se  et  her- 
edibus  suis  sigillum  suum  apposuit,  et  Johannes  de  Hale,  Gilbertus 
de  Curwen,  Radulphus  de  Lamplogh,  Thomas  de  Cleter,  pro  se 
et  communitate  patrie,  alteri  parti  huius  scripti  sigilla  sua  appos- 
uerunt.     Hiis  testibus   Robarto   Mulcastre,  Alano   de  Archeton, 
Waltero    de  Wigton,    Johanne  de  Castell,   Robarto   de  la  ferte, 
Johanne    de   Tynyby,    Patricio   de   Holmesby,  militibus,  etc.1 

XXXc.  TOLL  OF  THE  LORD  OF  COUPLAND.  [MS.  in  Cocker- 
mouth  Castle.] 

De  theoloneo  domini  in  Cowpeland. 

Theoloneum  in  Cowpeland.  Imprimis  pro  vno  equo  ferrato, 
iiijd,  viz.,  de  vendente,  ijd,  et  de  emptore,  ijd. 

Pro  vno  equo  non  ferrato,  ijd,  viz.,  de  vendente,  jd,  et  de  emp- 
tore, jd. 

Pro  vno  bove,  ijd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  jd,  et  de  emptore,  jd. 

1  This  deed,  which  is  far  from  being  textually  exact,  was  "  copied  out  of  ane 
old  rolle  of  divers  evidences  of  the  manner  of  Egremond  in  parchment  which 
I  had  lent  me  to  peruse  by  Mr.  Stockdale,  my  lord  of  Northumberland  auditor 
....  per  me  Johannem  Carvile,  17  Feb.  1594,  anno  regni  Eliz.  regine  37." 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  549 

Pro  decem  bidentibus,  ijd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  jd,  et  de  emptore, 
3d- 

Pro  decem  porcis,  ijd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  jd,  et  de  emptore,  jd. 

Pro  vna  pacca  panni  lanuti,  iiijd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  ijd,  et  de 
emptore,  ijd. 

Pro  pacca  panni  linei,  jd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  ob.,  et  de  emptore, 
ob. 

Pro  vna  lasta  alexium  salsorum,  viijd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  iiijd 
et  de  emptore,  iiijd. 

Pro  vn.  dacr.  corriorum,  vjd,  viz.  de  venditore,  iijd,  et  de  emp- 
tore, iijd. 

Pro  vno  Bend,  ferri,  jd,  viz.,  de  venditore,  ob.,  et  de  emptore, 
ob. 

Pro  vna  selda  in  Foro  per  diem  mercati  apud  Egremond,  ob. 

Keltol  de  omnibus  portubus  in  Cowpeland  : 

Pro  qualibet  navi  habente  flotbote,  viijd. 

Pro  qualibet  batella  sine  flotbote,  iiijd. 

XXXI.     CONFIRMATION  BY  CICELY,  COUNTESS  OF  ALBEMARLE 

AND    LADY    OF    COUPLAND,    OF    CALDER,    BEMERTON,    HOLGATE,    A 
BURGAGE  IN  EGREMONT,  ETC.,  TO  THE  MONKS  OF  CALDER.       [From 

the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

C[ecilia]  comitissa  de  Alb[emarlia]  et  domina  de  Cauplanda 
omnibus  ministris  terre  sue  et  hominibus  suis  Francis  et  Anglis 
et  omnibus  fidelibus  suis,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concensu  et  con- 
silio  amicorum  meorum  dedisse  et  concessisse  et  hac  mea  carta 
confirmasse  Deo  et  sancte  Marie  et  domui  de  Chaldra  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  in  liberam,  puram  et  perpetuam  elemos- 
inam,  pro  anima  patris  mei  et  matris  mee,  et  regis  Henrici  et 
salute  mea  et  salute  omnium  fidelium,  Chaldram  cum  omnibus 
pertinenciis  suis,  et  Bemertonam  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis, 
et  Holegatam  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis,  in  siluis,  in  pascuis, 
et  unam  mansuram  in  burgo  de  Egremont  solam  et  quietam  ab 
omni  servicio,  et  duas  salinas  ad  Withoue,  et  piscariam  de  Der- 
uenta,  et  piscariam  de  Egre  et  pascuam  omnibus  animalibus  eorum 
in  foresta  mea  quantum  eis  opus  fuerit,  et  ea  que  necessaria 
fuerint  salinis  suis  et  piscariis  suis  et  edificiis  domorum  suarum, 
et  porcis  suis  sine  pannagio  per  totam  terram  meam  sicut  meis 
propriis.  Preterea  concede  eis  et  confirmo  predicte  sue  domui 
in  puram,  liberam  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  Stouenergam  cum 
omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  et  quicquid  eis  datum  est  in  elemosinam 
sicut  carte  et  cyrographa  donatorum  suorum  testantur.  Quare 
uolo  et  firmiter  precipio  ut  omnia  ista  teneant  in  pace,  bene, 


55O  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

libere,  honorifice,  integre  et  plenarie,  cum  socha  et  sacha  et  tol 
et  them  et  infangenthef  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  libertatibus  et 
libeiis  consuetudinibus  et  commoditatibus  que  de  predictis  terris 
proueniunt  vel  prouenire  possunt  et  quietanciis  suis  sicut  unquam 
melius  et  liberius  et  quietius  tempore  antecessorum  meorum 
tenuerunt  et  sicut  carte  eorum  testantur.  Hiis  testibus  Roberto 
constabulario,  Ysaac  de  Scheftling,  Symone  de  Scheftling,  Willelmo 
de  Chirtelig,  Willelmo  de  Scheftling,  Thoma  capellano  comitisse. 

XXXII.  GRANT  BY  WILLIAM  DE  ESSEBI  AND  HECTRED   HIS 
WIFE  OF  BECKERMET  WITH  THE  APPURTENANCES  TO  THE  ABBEY 
OF  CALDER.     [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

In  nomine  patris  et  filij  et  spiritus  sancti,  amen.  Ego,  Willel- 
mus  de  Essebi  et  uxor  mea  Hectred,  sancte  matris  ecclesie  filiis 
in  domino  salutem  et  sancti  spiritus  consolationem.  Utile  prorsus 
et  omnibus  Christianis  necessarium  est  inter  malicias  dierum 
istorum  et  molestias  temptationum  que  cotidie  pullulare  noscuntur 
aliquid  iusticie  in  hac  miserrima  uita  providere  quod  in  eterna 
vita  ad  redemptionem  peccatorum  suorum  ante  Dei  omnipotentis 
oculos  ualeat  subuenire.  Unde  ego  et  uxor  mea  pro  salute 
animarum  nostrarum  et  parentum  nostrorum,  et  pro  salute  domini 
nostri  Willelmi,  comitis  de  Albemar[lia],  et  uxoris  sue,  Cecilie 
comitisse  et  Ingelrami  fratris  predicti  comitis,  patrum  matrumque 
eorum,  donamus  et  concedimus  Deo  omnipotenti  et  sancte  Marie 
dulci  sue  matri  et  abbacie  de  Caldra,  Becheremet  et  omnia  ad 
earn  pertinencia  tarn  in  aquis  quam  in  pascuis,  et  molendinum  in 
eadem  uilla,  et  piscariam  in  Ehgena  ad  eandem  uillam  pertinent- 
em.  Quam  donationem  ita  liberam  et  ab  omni  seruicio  quietam, 
sicut  predictus  dominus  meus  Willelmus  comes  earn  mihi  pro 
seruicio  meo  litero  et  humagio  donavit,  et  prout  carta  ipsius 
testatur,  damus  et  concedimus  et  presenti  scripto  confirmamus 
predicte  abbacie  in  perpetuam  elemosinam  et  in  odorem  suauitatis. 
Quisquis  hanc  elemosinam  nostram  in  uera  caritate  manutenuerit, 
sit  illi  pax,  salus  et  benedictio.  Huius  donacionis  testes  sunt 
Ricardus  prior  de  sancta  Bega,  Robertus  presbiter  de  Puncunesbi, 
Rogerus  presbiter  de  Egremund,  Jurdanus  persona  de  Goseford, 
Ricardus  films  Osberti  de  sancta  Brigida,  et  Ricardus  eiusdem 
ecclesie  uicarius,  Ketel  rilius  Vlf. 

XXXIII.  CONFIRMATION    BY    ADAM    SON    OF    UHTRED    TO 
BEATRICE  HIS  NIECE  OF  5  OXGANGS  OF  LAND  IN  GILCRUX  GIVEN 

TO  HER  BY  HIS  NEPHEW  WlLLIAM  SON  OF  LlOLF  DE  MOLLE.        [From 

the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  551 

Adam  filius  Vhtredi  omnibus  amicis  suis  et  hominibus  tarn 
iuturis  quam  presentibus,  salutem.  Sciatis  me  concessisse  et  hac 
mea  karta  confirmasse  Beatrici  nepti  mee  quinque  bouatas  terre 
ex  dono  Willelmi  nepotis  mei  in  Killecruce,  sibi  et  filiis  et  filiabus 
suis,  ita  libere  et  quiete,  sicut  karta  Willelmi  nepotis  mei  filii 
Liolf  de  Molle  testatur.  Hiis  testibus  Cospatrico  filio  Orm  et 
Thoma  filio  eius,  Adam  clerico  filio  Cospatrici,  Patrick)  filio  Gamel, 
Gileberto  filio  Gileberti,  Adam  de  Toresbi,  Orm  filio  Ailfi,  Adam  de 
Bastunthuait,  Cospatrico  de  Plnmlund,  Alano  filio  Ketel,  Vhtredo 
filio  Ketel,  Thoma  filio  Ysaac,  Benedicto  sacerdote  de  Aspatric, 
Vhtredo  sacerdote  de  Crossebi,  Rogero  sacerdote  de  Irebi.  Valete. 

XXXIV.     GRANT  BY  RICHARD  DE  BOYVILL  OF  TEN  ACRES  OF 

LAND    IN    CULDERTON    TO    THE    ABBEY    OF    CALDER.       [From    the 

original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Ricardus  de  Boisuilla,  omnibus  amicis  suis,  Francis  et  Anglis, 
hasliteras  audientibusetuidentibus,  tarn  presentibus  quamfuturis, 
salutem.  Notum  sit  uobis  me  pro  salute  anime  mee,  et  pro  ani- 
mabus  patris  et  matris  mee,  necnon  et  amicorum  vel  parentum 
meorum,  concessisse  et  dedisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  con- 
firmasse Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  abbacie  de  Caldra  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  decem  achras  terre  infra  partem  meam  de 
Culdretun  cum  communi  pascuo  ad  predictam  terram  pertinente, 
in  liberam  et  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Tenendas  de  me 
et  heredibus  meis  ab  omni  seculari  seruicio  quietas.  Huius- 
donacionis  testes  sunt  Robertus  decanus,  Robertus  presbiter  de 
Punchunebi,  Robertus  presbiter  de  Egremund,  Ricardus  pres- 
biter de  Beccheremed,  Willelmus  de  Boisuilla,  Johannes  filius 
Ade,  Alexander  filius  Ade,  Gilebertus  frater  eius,  Gilebertus  de 
Boisuile,  Waldef  de  Beckirmeth,  Adam  filius  Ketelli,  Yuuain  de 
Hale  et  multi  alii. 

XXXIVb.  "  ANE  AGREMENT  BETWENE  THE  L[ORD]  OF 
EGREMOND  AND  THE  ABBAT  AND  COVENT  OF  CALDRE  TOCHINGE 
THE  FOREST  OF  CoupLAND,"  c.  12.82.  [MS.  in  Cockermouth 
Castle.] 

Convenit  inter  abbatem  et  conventum  de  Caldre  ex  vna  parte 
et  Thomam  filium  Lambarti  de  Multon  ex  altra  parte,  videlicet, 
quod  predicti  abbas  et  conventus  pro  se  et  successoribus  suis 
imperpetuum  concesserunt  quod  domus  et  clasure  et  foreste  de 
Coupland,  exceptis  Stodfold  et  Bladwynethawyt  ita  remaneant 
clausa  sicut  fuerunt  anno  regni  E.  decimo,  die  Annunciationis 
beate  Marie  virginis.  Ita  tamen  quod,  post  blada  et  lena  asport- 


552  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

ata,  omnes  predicte  clasure  aperiantur.  Ita  quod  averia  dictorum 
abbatis  et  conventus  et  successorum  suorum  libere  possint  intrare 
ad  pascendum  vsque  ad  tempus  quo  predicte  terre  alias  seminantur. 
Et  predictus  Thomas  concessit  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis  confirmavit 
predictis  abbati  et  conventui  et  successoribus  suis  quod  inperpet- 
uum  non  fient  aliquod  waunagium,  clasura  vel  edificium  in  toto 
residue  foreste  sue  de  Coupland  nisi  mesuagium  et  domus  de  av- 
eriis  suis  propriis,  sed  sit  tota  foresta  in  eodem  statu  in  quo  fuit 
anno  supradicto  in  confectione  ipsius  scripti.  Salvis  dicto  Thome 
et  heredibus  suis  omnibus  appruamentis  ad  mineras  plumbi  vel 
ferri  necessario  pertinentibus.  Et  quod  predicti  abbas  et  con- 
ventus et  successores  sui  habeant  legies  mobiles  in  tota  foresta 
predicta  vbicunque  voluerint  et  pasturam  et  communiam  ad  om- 
nia  animalia  sua  propria  per  to  tarn  foresta  m  predictam.  Con- 
cessit autem  et  confirmavit  predictus  Thomas,  pro  se  et  heredibus 
suis,  predictis  abbati  et  conventui  et  successoribus  suis  quod 
libere  et  sine  impedimento  et  sine  alicuius  contradictione  sumant 
racionabilia  estoveria  sua  de  bosco  foreste  sue  de  Coupland  ad 
omnes  vsus  suos  necessaries  de  Oxlesgate  versus  orientem  vsque 
ad  aquam  de  Eske  et  de  Auesthaitbrig  versus  boriam  vsque  ad 
rectas  divisas  inter  dictam  forestam  de  Coupland  et  de  Darwent 
Felles,  et  hoc  sine  venditione,  et  quod  libere  possint  succidere  et 
prosternere  ramos  arborum  per  omnes  boscos  dicte  foreste  ad 
pascua  animalium  suorum  in  hyeme  et  vere  vsque  ad  primum 
diem  Maii,  si  opus  habuerint.  Et  quod  omnes  tenentes  dictorum 
abbatis  et  conventus  et  successorum  suorum  imperpetuum  quieti 
sint  de  teolonio  per  totum  feodum  dicti  Thome  et  heredum 
suorum  in  Coupland,  exceptis  tenentibus  communiter  et  aperte 
marcandizam  facientibus,  et  si  aliquis  tenens  calumpniatus  fuerit 
super  teolonium  in  marcandiza,  det  fidem  quod  non  sit  in  marcan- 
diza  et  transiat  quietus.  Et  quod  predicti  abbas  et  conventus  et 
servientes  sui  adeo  libere,  plenarie  et  pacifice  habeant  piscariam 
suam  in  Eygne  sicut  vnquam  habuerint.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium 
etc.1 

XXXV.  GRANT  BY  CONSTANCE  DE  HALE,  LATE  THE  WIFE  OF 
WILLIAM  DE  PONSONBY,  OF  A  ROOD  OF  LAND  IN  HALE  WITH  THE 
ADVOWSON  OF  THE  CHURCH  OF  THAT  VILL  TO  THE  PRIORY  OF 
CONISHEAD.  [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.J 

1  This  deed,  the  text  of  which  is  not  faultless,  was  copied  by  John  Carvile 
on  17  Feb.  1594-5  from  "  ane  old  rolle  of  divers  evidences  of  the  manner  of 
Egremond  in  parchment."  The  title  is  also  from  Carvile's  pen.  See  note  on 
No.  XXXb. 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  553 

Omnibus  hoc  scriptum  uisuris  uel  audituris,  Custancia  de  Hale, 
quondam  uxor  Wilielmi  de  Punsunby,  salutem  in  domino  sempi- 
ternam.  Noveritis  me  in  pura  uiduitate  et  legia  potestate  mea 
remisisse,  relaxasse  et  omnino  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  imper- 
petuum  quietum  clamasse  Deo  et  beate  Marie  de  Conyngesheued 
et  Johanni  priori  eiusdem  et  canonicis  ibidem  Deo  seruientibus 
in  liberam,  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam,  totum  ius  et  clamium 
quod  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in  una  roda  terre  super 
Belhousbanckes  in  uilla  de  Hale  simul  cum  ecclesia  eiusdem  uille 
et  aduocacione  ecclesie  eiusdem.  Ita,  uidelicet,  quod  nee  ego  nee 
heredes  mei  nee  aliquis  alius  nomine  nostro  in  dictis  roda  terre  et 
.ecclesia,  uel  in  iure  patronatus  eiusdem,  aliquid  iuris  vel  clamii 
exigere  uel  uendicare  decetero  poterimus  quoquo  modo.  Et  ego 
uero  predicta  Custancia  et  heredes  mei  et  assignati  mei  predictas 
rodam  terre  et  ecclesiam,  ac  eciam  aduocacionem  eiusdem  pre- 
dictis  priori  et  canonicis  et  eorum  successoribus  contra  omnes 
homines  warantizabimus  et  imperpetuum  defendemus.  In 
cuius  rei  testimonium  huic  presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui. 
Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  fHemynge  milite,  Johanne  de 
Hodeleston,  Radulfo  de  Landploygh,  Ricardo  de  Cletergh,  Thoma 
de  ffrisyngton,  Alexandro  de  Punsunby  et  aliis. 

XXXVI.  QUIT-CLAIM  BY  WILLIAM  DE  HOLEGYLE  TO   JOHN 
CORBET  OF  ALL  HIS  LAND  OF  SATHERTUN  TO  BE  HELD  OF  THE 
HOSPITAL  OF  ST.  JOHN.     [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Willelmus  de  Holegyle,  salutem  in  domino 
sempiternam.  Noueritis  me  dedisse  ....  Johanni  Corbet  totam 
terram  meam  de  Sathertun  cum  toto  iure  meo  quod  tempore 
.confectionis  presentis  scripti  ad  me  et  heredes  meos  ibidem 
pertinuit  et  quod  in  posterum  potuit  pertinere.  Tenendam  .... 
dicto  Johanni  et  heredibus  suis  et  suis  assignatis  de  fratribus 
hospitalis  sancti  Johannis  ....  pro  octo  denariis  annuatim  pre- 
dictis  fratribus  ad  festum  sancti  Bartholomei  persoluendis  pro 
omnibus  aliis  seruiciis  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Johanne  de 
Hudlestun,  Willelmo  de  Morthyng,  Willelmo  de  Twaytis,  Willelmo 
de  Waythebutwayth,  Roberto  de  Camera,  Johanne  de  Laygate, 
Henrico  filio  Roberti,  Johanne  de  Hale  et  aliis. 

XXXVII.  QUIT-CLAIM  BY  AGNES  DAUGHTER  OF  ALEXANDER 
THE  TWO-FACED,   FORMERLY   THE   WIFE   OF  MlCHAEL   ROY,   TO 
WALTER  SON  OF  WILLIAM  ENGLISH  OF  SEVEN  ACRES  OF  LAND  IN 
THE  VILL  OF  CLIFTON.     [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Augneta  filia  Alexandri  ancipitis,  quondam  uxor 


554  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Michaelis  Roy,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me 
in  pura  uiduitate  mea  et  legia  potestate  mea  omnino  remissise  .... 
totum  ius  et  clameum  quod  habui  uel  aliquo  modo  habere  potui  in 
septem  acris  terre  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  in  uilla  de  Clifpton, 
quas  predictus  Michaelis  Roy  quondam  maritus  meus  et  ego  Aug- 
neta  habuimus  in  Clifpton,  Waltero,  scilicet,  filio  Willelmi  Anglici  et 
heredibus  uel  suis  assignatis.  Tenendas  ....  faciendo  forinsecum 
seruicium  quod  continetur  in  carta  confecta  inter  dictum  Mich- 
aelem  quondam  maritum  meum  et  Adam  Pygon  de  Cokermue. 
Ita,  scilicet,  nee  ego  predicta  Augneta  ....  decetero  nullum  mod- 
urn  iuris  ....  in  predictis  septem  acris  terre  ....  uendicare  pott- 
erimus.  In  cuius  rei  ....  Hiis  testibus  Ricardo  de  Geddeney 
tune  senescallo  de  Cokermue,  domino  Thoma  de  Derewenteswatre, 
domino  Thoma  de  Lucy,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Bramth',  Johanne 
de  Dene,  Thoma  de  Eglisfeld,  Ricardo  del  fitte,  Ben[edicto] 
de  Clifpton,  Gilberto  de  Hustwayt,  Willelmo  de  Dene,  Johanne 
de  Perdishaw  et  aliis. 

XXXVIII  GRANT  BY  STEPHEN  SON  OF  THOMAS  DE  HENSING- 
HAM  TO  BENEDICT  DE  EGLESFELD  OF  TWO  ACRES  OF  LAND  IN 
KIRKECLIFTON.  [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Stephanus  films  Thome  de  Hensingham, 
dedi  ....  Benedicto  de  Eglesfeld  duas  acras  terre  de  dominicis 
meis  in  territorio  de  Kirkeclifton  iacentes  in  locis  subscriptis, 
uidelicet,  unam  acram  super  Cliftonbanckes  et  dimidiam  acram 
in  Blawathbuetys,  vnam  rodam  super  Caldfitbanckes,  unam 
rodam  in  Scallardbuetys,  et  triginta  perticatas  terre  in  Laythild 
ex  parte  orientali  de  le  Haygate.  Tenendas  ....  Hiis  testibus- 
domino  Roberto  de  Bampton  milite,  Thoma  de  Musgraue,  Johanne 
de  Eglesfeld,  Stephano  de  Clifton,  Ricardo  le  sumpter  de  Cray- 
sothen,  Adam  filio  Alani,  Thoma  de  Braunthwayt  et  aliis. 

XXXIX.  HOMAGE  OF  WALTER  LE  HARPOUR  TO  THOMAS  DE 
IREBY  FOR  CERTAIN  TENEMENTS  IN  CLIFTON.  [From  the  original 
at  Hesleyside.] 

Pateat  universis  per  presentes  quod  cum  ego,  Thomas  de  Ireby, 
receperim  homagium  et  seruicia  Walteri  le  Harpour  de  quibus- 
dam  tenementis  in  Clifton  obligaui  me  ad  warantizandum  predicto 
Waltero  tenementa  predicta.  Et  concede  quod  liceat  eidem 
Waltero  dicta  tenementa  absque  impedimento  mei  uel  heredum 
meorum  dare,  uendere,  seu  cuicunque  alienare,  prout  sibi  melius 
viderit  expedire,  saluis  michi  seruiciis  inde  debitis  et  consuetis, 
et  aliis  quibuscumque  ad  dominium  meum  pertinentibus.  In 


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cuius  rei  .  .  .  .  Hits  testibus  dominis  Gilberto  de  Culewenne  tune 
uicecomite  Cumber[landie],  Willelmo  de  Mulcastre,  Alexandra  de 
Bastenthweyt,  militibus,  Johanne  de  Eglesfeld,  Thoma  de  Pardis- 
hou,  Alexandro  de  Ribton,  Nicholao  de  Popilton  et  aliis. 

XL.  GRANT  OF  KALDEFITE  IN  THE  VILL  OF  KIRKCLIFTON  BY 
STEPHEN  SON  OF  ADAM  SON  OF  ROGER  DE  CLIFTON  TO  ALEXANDER 
DE  RIBTON  AND  JOAN  HIS  WIFE.  [From  the  original  at  Hesley- 
side.] 

Omnibus  ....  Stephanus  films  Ade  filii  Rogeri  de  Cliffeton, 
salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noveritis  me  dedisse  .... 
Alexandro  de  Ribbeton  et  Johanne  uxori  eius  et  heredibus  de 
corpore  eorundem  legitime  procreatis  totam  terram  meam  cum 
pertinenciis  in  Kaldefite  in  uilla  de  Cirkecliffeton  sine  ullo  retine- 
mento.  Tenendam  et  habendam  dicto  Alexandro  et  Johanne  et 
heredibus  de  corpore  suo  legitime  procreatis  de  capitali  domino 
feodi  illius  per  seruicia  inde  debita  et  consueta  ....  Et  si  con- 
tingat  quod  predictus  Alexander  et  Johanna  uxor  eius  sine  herede 
de  corpore  suo  obierint,  uolo  quod  tota  terra  predicta  cum  pertin- 
enciis Willelmo  de  Eglesfeld  remaneat,  tenenda  et  habenda  dicto 
Willelmo  et  heredibus  de  corpore  suo  legitime  procreatis  de  cap- 
itali domino  feodi  illius  per  seruicia  inde  debita  et  consueta.  Et 
si  contingat  quod  dictus  Willelmus  sine  herede  de  corpore  suo 
legitime  procreatis  obierit,  uolo  quod  tota  terra  predicta  cum 
pertinenciis  Benedicto  de  Eglesfeld  remaneat.  Tenenda  .... 
Et  si  contingat  quod  predictus  Benedictus  sine  herede  de  corpore 
suo  legitime  procreato  obierit,  volo  quod  tota  terra  predicta  cum 
pertinenciis  rectis  heredibus  predicti  Alexandri  remaneat  inper- 
petuum.  Tenenda  ....  Hiis  [testibus]  dominis  Gilberto  de 
Culewenn,  Johanne  de  Lamplogh,  Roberto  de  Bampton,  militibus, 
Johanne  de  Eglesfeld,  Thoma  de  Musegrave,  Johanne  le  ffranceys, 
Thoma  de  Braunthwayt  et  aliis. 

XLI.  GRANT  OF  A  FULLING-MILL  WITH  A  TOFT  AND  AN  ACRE 
OF  LAND  IN  CLIFTON  BY  BENEDICT  SON  OF  THOMAS  DE  CLIFTON 
TO  THOMAS  DE  WESTON  AND  CRISTIANE  HIS  WIFE.  [From  the 
original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Benedictus  filius  Thome  de  Clifton, 
concessi  ....  Thome  de  Weston  et  Crestiane,  uxori  eius,  et  her- 
edibus dicti  Thome  totum  molendinum  fullonum  de  Clifton  cum 
tofto  proximo  adiacente  et  unam  acram  terre  mee  in  campo  de 
Milneholm  quorum  dimidia  acra  iacet  in  Milneholm  et  alia  dim- 
idia  acra  iacet  super  Cliftonbank  cum  suis  pertinenciis  sine  ullo 


556  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

retenemento.  Habendum  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  mihi 
et  heredibus  meis  imam  radicem  gyngiber'  ad  Natale  domini  pro 
omnibus  seruiciis,  consuetudinibus,  auxiliis,  sectis  curie  et  secu- 

laribus  demandis Hiis  testibus  Roberto  de  Braunthwayt, 

Adam  de  Morisseby,  Thoma  de  Ribbeton,  Roberto  de  Derham, 
Waltero  le  Harper,  Thoraldo  de  Wirkington,  Willelmo  le  venur 
de  Clifton,  Thoma  de  Eglesfeld  et  aliis. 

XLII.  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  COCKERMOUTH  BY  JOHN  SON  OF 
HUGH  DE  HALLESTEDE  TO  THOMAS  DE  WESTON  AND  CHRISTIANE 
HIS  WIFE.  [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  filius  Hugonis  de  Hallestede, 
dedi  ....  Thome  de  Weston  et  Christiane  uxori  eius  et  heredibus 
predict!  Thome  uel  assignatis  eorundem  totam  illam  terram  meam 
in  Cokermue  que  iacet  inter  terram  que  quondam  fuit  Roberti 
Tunnok  ex  una  parte  et  terram  luette  filie  Thome  de  Hale  ex 
altera,  et  totam  illam  terram  meam  que  iacet  inter  terram  Will- 
elmi  Wegge  ex  una  parte  et  terram  que  fuit  Thome  de  Hale  ex 
altera  :  quamquidem  terram  Emma  Terry  tenet  nomine  dotis  de 
terra  Alani  de  Hale  quondam  uiri  sui,  cum  edificiis  et  cum  omnibus 
aliis  pertinenciis  et  libertatibus  ad  predictas  terras  pertinentibus 
inperpetuum  sine  aliquo  retenemento.  Tenendam  ....  Reddendo 
inde  annuatim  michi  et  heredibus  meis  unam  clauem  gariofoli  ad 
Natale  domini  pro  omnibus  seruiciis  michi  et  heredibus  meis. 
Faciendo  attamen  predictis  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  seruicia  de 
predictis  tenementis  debita  et  consueta  ....  Hiis  testibus  Bene- 
dicto  le  Teynturer,  Ricardo  Bere,  Simone  filio  Ricardi,  Roberto 
Redhod,  Adam  de  Simonscales,  Waltero  Hardheued,  Adam 
Pygon,  Thoma  de  Cysillur,  Waltero  le  Fishere,  Roberto  del  Fel, 
Johanne  de  Kirkeby  clerico  et  aliis. 

XLIII.  GRANT  OF  SCALBERGH  IN  KIRKCLIFTON  BY  BENEDICT 
SON  OF  RICHARD  DE  KIRKCLIFTON  TO  JAMES  RECTOR  OF  DEAN. 
[From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Benedictus  filius  Ricardi  de  Kirkeclifton 
dedi  ....  Jacobo  rectori  ecclesie  de  Dene  et  heredibus  uel  assing- 
natis  suis  abscunque  quandocunque  et  vbicunque  assingnare 
voluerit,  pro  seruicio  suo  quatuor  acras,  dimidiam  perticatam  et 
octo  falles  vnius  perticate  terre  cum  pertinenciis  in  Kirkeclifton 
super  culturam  que  vocatur  Scalbergh  prout  iacent  per  partes 
in  eadem  cultura.  Tenendas  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim 
michi  et  heredibus  meis  infra  nundinas  Karlioli  vnum  denarium 
pro  omni  seculari  seruicio,  secta  curie,  exaccione  et  demanda, 


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saluo  forinseco  seruicio  domini  regis  ....  Hiis  testibus  Ada  filio 
Michaelis  de  Clifton,  Alexandra  Matefelun,  Ricardo  filio  Ade  de 
Clifton,  Rogero  filio  Willelmi,  Michaeli  de  Crosseby  et  aliis. 

XLIV.     GRANT  OF  A  GRANGE  AND  CERTAIN  LANDS  IN   GREY- 

SOUTHEN    BY    ADAM   SON    OF    EDA    DE   CRAYSOTHEN    TO    BENEDICT 

DE  EGLESFELD  AND  HIS  HEIRS.     [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Notum  sit  omnibus  quod  ego,  Adam  filius  Ede  de  Craysothen, 
dedi ....  Benedicto  de  Eglesfeld  et  heredibus  suis  vnam  grangiam 
cum  medietate  vnius  crofti  adiacentis,  et  vnam  acram  terre  et 
vnam  acram  et  vnam  rodam  prati  cum  suis  pertinenciis  in  Cray- 
sothen, videlicet,  illam  grangiam  cum  medietate  crofti  adiacentis, 
que  sita  est  inter  domum  Ricardi  le  Sumpter  ex  parte  vna  et  domum 
Johannis  filii  Cristiane  ex  altera,  et  illam  dimidiam  acram  terre 
iacentem  in  occidentali  parte  de  Milnebank  iuxta  terram  Ade 
filii  Cristiane,  et  illam  dimidiam  acram  terre  iacentem  in  la  Mose- 
londe  ex  parte  orientali  terre  Johannis  filii  Cristiane,  et  illam 
acram  et  illam  rodam  prati  iacentes  in  Halleker.  Ita  quod  si 
aliquid  deficiat  de  ilia  acra  et  ilia  roda  prati  in  Halleker,  uolo 
quod  impleatur  de  prato  meo  in  Crokelandemire.  Habendas 
....  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de  Eglesfeld,  Alexandro  de  Ribeton, 
Stephano  de  Clifton,  Johanne  de  Stanelawe,  Ada  filio  Alani  de 
Craysothen,  Ricardo  le  Sumpter  et  aliis. 

XLV.  GRANT  BY  THOMAS  SON  OF  JOHN  DE  IREBY  KNIGHT  OF 
ALL  HIS  LAND  IN  THE  VILL  OF  LITTLE  CLIFTON  TO  THOMAS  DE 
WESTON,  CLERK,  AND  CRISTIANE  HIS  WIFE  AND  THEIR  HEIRS. 
[From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Thomas  filius  et  heres  domini  Johannis  de  Ireby 
militis,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam.  Noverit  ....  me 
dedisse  ....  Thome  de  Weston  clerico  et  Cristiane  uxori  sue  et 
heredibus  dicti  Thome  vel  assignatis  totam  terram  meam  quam 
habui  vel  habere  pottui  in  uilla  de  parua  Clifpton  vna  cum  feodis, 
releuiis,  homagiis,  seruiciis,  wardis,  excaetis,  boscis,  aquis,  molend- 
inis  et  omnibus  aliis  rebus  sine  ullo  retenemento  inperpetuum. 
Tenendam  ....  Preterea  dedi  ....  predictis  Thome  de  Weston  et 
Cristiane  et  heredibus  dicti  Thome  uel  assignatis  dominium,  ius 
et  clameum  quod  habui,  habere  debui  uel  pottui,  in  uilla  de 
Gilcruce  ....  Reddendo  inde  michi  et  heredibus  meis  annuatim 
vnam  rosam  ad  Natiuitatem  sancti  Johannis  Baptiste  pro  omni 
seruicio  quocunque  michi  et  heredibus  meis  pertinente  ....  Hiis 
testibus  Willelmo  de  Marham  tune  constabulario  de  Cokermue, 
magistro  Roberto  de  Bramth',  Ada  de  Morisby,  Willelmo  de 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

Ulueleyck,  Johanne  de  Perdishow,  Benedicto  de  Clifpton,  Will- 
elmo  le  Hunter,  Ricardo  filio  Ran[ulfi]  de  Clifpton,  Elya  de  Cros- 
th[waite],  Waltero  le  Harpur  et  aliis. 

XL VI.  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  MILLOM  BY  JOHN  LE  FLAMANG 
AND  AMABEL  HIS  WIFE  TO  THE  ABBEY  OF  CALDER.  [From  the 
original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  le  Flamang  et  Amabilie  uxor 
mea  ....  dedimus  ....  Deo  et  beate  Marie  de  Caldra  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  seruientibus  totam  terram  illam  iuxta  terram  ipsorum 
monachorum  apud  Milnum  propinquiorem  terre  sue  infra  fossatum 
iuxta  Sewal  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  ....  Si  uero,  quod  absit, 
earn  aliquo  modo  warantizare  iamdictis  monachis  non  poterimus, 
dabimus  eis  eschambium  in  maiore  Beckyrmeth  ad  valenciam 
illius  terre  ubicunque  duxerint  eligendum,  et  hoc  tarn  ego  quam 
uxor  mea  pro  nobis  et  heredibus  nostris  inposterum  sacramento 
confirmauimus  et  sigillum  nostrum  apposuimus  in  testimonium. 
Testibus  Roberto  de  Wilton,  Rogero  filio  eius,  Ricardo  de  Pun- 
cunnesbi,  Alexandro  filio  eius,  Thoma  de  Botle,  Henrico  filio  eius, 
Ricardo  de  Hording,  Ada  de  Neutun,  Yuone  de  Seleker,  Alexandro 
filio  eius  et  aliis. 

XLVII.  GRANT  OF  A  CURTILAGE  BY  BEATRICE  DAUGHTER  OF 
HILDA  TO  THOMAS  DE  WESTON  AND  CRISTIANE  HIS  WIFE.  [From 
the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Beatricia  filia  Hilde,  salutem  in  domino  sempi- 
ternam.  Nouerit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  Thome  de  Weston  et 
Cristiane  uxori  sue  et  heredibus  eiusdem  Thome  illud  curtilagium 
meum  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  sicut  iacet  in.  longitudine 
<et  in  latitudine  inter  messuagium  Alani  de  Dystington  et  terram 
dicti  Thome.  Habendum  ....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  mihi  et 
heredibus  meis  vnum  clauum  gariofili  ad  Natale  domini  et  faci- 
endo  capitalibus  dominis  feodi  seruicia  inde  debita  et  consueta. 
....  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  le  Cysillour  tune  preposito  Burgi, 
Simone  filio  Ricardi,  Ricardo  de  Skocia,  Roberto  de  Wilton, 
Ricardo  de  Uluelayk  et  aliis. 

XL VIII.  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  CLIFTON  BY  THOMAS  SON  OF 
ALEXANDER  TO  ADAM  PIGHUN  AND  HIS  HEIRS.  [From  the  original 
at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Thomas  filius  Alexandra  Le  oyse'nt,  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Noueritis  me  concessisse  ....  Ade  Pighun 
et  heredibus  suis  uel  suis  assignatis  totam  illam  terram  cum  tofto 


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et  edificiis  et  cum  omnibus  pertinenciis  suis  in  uilla  de  Clifton 
quam  Christiana  mater  mea  dedit  Michaeli  de  Roy  cum  Agnete 
sorore  mea  in  liberum  maritagium.  Ita  scilicet  quod  ego,  dictus 
Thomas  et  heredes  mei  ....  defendemus.  Quod  si  contingat 
dictum  Michaelem  de  Roy  in  fata  decedere,  uiuente  Agnete  uxore 
sua,  dictus  Adam  Pighun  dabit  dicte  Agneti  sorori  mee  pro 
clamio  suo  dimidiam  marcam  argenti  sine  impedimento  et  sine 
omni  strepitu  iudiciario,  et  ad  hoc  faciendum  obligauit  se  dicta 
Agnes  soror  mea  per  donacionem  fidei  tactis  sacrosanctis  Evan- 

geliis Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de  Hengham  tune  constabulario 

de  Cokermue,  Thoma  de  Hothwayt,  Alexandra  de  Ribton,  Adam 
filio  Michaelis  de  Clifton,  Johanne  de  Dene,  Thoma  de  Brigham, 
Johanne  de  Maneriis,  Benedicto  filio  Thome  de  Clifton,  Ricardo 
filio  Ade  filii  Rannulphi  et  aliis. 

XLIX.     GRANT  OF  LANDS  AND   HOUSES  IN   LITTLE  CLIFTON 

AND    KlRKCLIFTON   BY    JAMES    DE  WlCTON,    RECTOR   OF  DENE,    TO 

THOMAS  DE  LANGECOST,  HIS  NEPHEW,  AND  HIS  HEIRS.  [From  the 
original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Jacobus  de  Wicton,  rector  ecclesie  de 
Dene,  dedi  ....  Thome  de  Langecost',  clerico,  nepoti  meo,  et 
heredibus  uel  assignatis  suis  omnes  terras  meas  cum  suis  pertin- 
enciis sine  alico  retenemento  quas  habui  in  parua  Clifton  et  in 
Kirkeclifton  et  in  Kirkeclifton  ....  Tenendas  ....  Faciendo  hide 
dominis  feodi  illud  idem  seruicium  quod  ego  temporibus  meis 
facere  consueui,  scilicet,  domino  Johanni  de  Ireby  et  heredibus 
suis  uel  eorum  assignatis  annuatim  ad  Assumpcionem  beate  Marie 
tres  denarios  et  unam  dimidiam  libram  cymini ;  Ricardo  filio 
Ade  de  Clifton  unum  denarium  ad  eundem  terminum  :  Hugoni 
de  Bramthuayt  unum  denarium  ad  predictum  terminum  :  et 
Willelmo  de  Neueton  unum  denarium  ad  predictum  teiminum, 
pro  omnibus  secularibus  seruiciis  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  G. 
de  Wirkington,  Johanne  de  Ireby,  Johanne  de  Camerton,  milit- 
ibus,  Alano  de  Ireby  tune  balliuo  de  Cokermue,  Johanne  de  Dene, 
Roberto  de  Bramthuayt,  Ranulpho  de  Lamplou,  Roberto  de 
Hauerington,  Thoma  de  Egelesfeld,  Ricardo  filio  Ade,  Hugone 
de  Bramthuayt,  Willelmo  de  Neueton,  Benedicto  de  Clifton, 
Thoraldo  de  Wirkington,  et  aliis. 

L.     GRANT  OF  LAND  NEAR  THE  CHAPEL  OF  ST.   LEONARD  IN 

COCKERMOUTH  BY  HENRY  CLERK  OF  THAT  PLACE  TO  THOMAS  DE 

WESTON  AND  CRISTIANE  HIS  WIFE.  [From  the  original  at  Hesley- 
side.] 


560  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Henricus  clericus  de  Cokermue,  dedi 
....  Thome  de  Weston  et  Cristiane  uxori  eius  et  heredibus  dicti 
Thome  totam  illam  terrain  meam  quam  habui  in  villa  de  Cokermue 
iacentem  inter  terrain  quam  (sic)  quondam  fuit  Ade  Pygon  et 
terram  quondam  Rad[ulfi]  pistoris  ad  caput  uille  uersus  capellam 
sancti  Leonardi  sine  aliquo  retenemento.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis 
testibus  Benedicto  tinctori  de  Cokermue,  Simone  filio  Ricardi, 
Ricardo  de  Scocia,  Ricardo  Pygon,  Thoma  le  .  .  .  clere,  Waltero 
Hardhewed,  Bertino  de  Huetretset,  Waldeuo  de  Salwayt,  Adam  de 
Simonscal'.  Willelmo  Bulli,  Ricardo  Blunde,  Adam  de  Dene, 
Ricardo  de  Vlleyck  et  aliis. 

LI.  GRANT  OF  THE  MANOR  OF  CLIFTON  BY  ADAM  DE  EGLES- 

FELD,    CLERK,    TO    BENEDICT    DE    EGLESFELD    HIS    BROTHER,    1313. 

[From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Adam  de  Eglesfeld,  clericus,  dedi,  con- 
cessi  et  hac  present!  carta  mea  confirmavi  Benedicto  de  Eglesfeld 
fratri  meo  manerium  meum  de  Clifton  et  omnes  terras  et  tene- 
menta  mea  cum  dominiis  liberorum  hominum,  stagnis,  molendinis, 
aquis,  boscis,  viis,  pascuis  et  pasturis  et  cum  omnibus  aliis  pertin- 
enciis  suis,  que  habui  vel  alico  modo  habere  potui  in  uilla  de 
Clifton  sine  ullo  retenemento.  Habendum  ....  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Roberto  de  Layburn  tune  custode  castri  et  honoris  de 
Cokermouth,  domino  Johanne  de  Lucy,  Alexandra  de  Basten- 
thwat,  Nicholao  de  Brawnthwat  et  aliis.  Datum  London,  decimo 
septimo  die  Julii  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Edwardi 
septimo. 

LII.  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  THE  VILL  OF  CLIFTON  BY  ADAM  SON 
OF  MICHAEL  DE  CLIFTON  TO  JOHN  DE  IREBY  AND  CRISTIANE  HIS 
WIFE.  [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Adam  firms  Michaelis  de  Clyfton,  salutem  in 
domino  sempiternam.  Nouerit  ....  me  dedisse  ....  domino 
Johanni  de  Yreby  et  domine  Cristiane  vxori  sue  et  heredibus 
suis  vel  suis  assignatis  totam  terram  meam  quam  habui  in  villa 
de  Clifton  ....  Tenendam  ....  Faciendo  ....  Preterea  dedi 
....  predictis  Johanni  et  Cristiane  et  heredibus  suis  .... 
totum  dominium,  ius  et  clameum  quod  habui,  habere  debui  uel 
potui,  in  uilla  de  Gillecruce  ....  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de 
Heigham  tune  balliuo  de  Cokermue,  Johanne  de  Dene,  Roberto 
de  Bramthuath,  Thoma  de  Cosforye,  Thoma  de  Egelsfeld, 
Johanni  de  Maneriis,  Benedicto  de  Cliftona,  Rogero  de  Sadmur- 
that,  Rogero  de  Wodehall,  Willelmo  de  Dene,  magistro  Petro 


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de  Holdernes,  tune  rectore    scolarum   de   Cokermue,    Benedicto 
tinctore,  Waltero  clerico  de  Crosseby  et  multis  aliis. 

LIII.  GIFT  OF  LAND  IN  CLIFTON  BY  THOMAS,  RECTOR  OF 
BRIGHAM,  TO  JOHN  DE  MANERES  AND  JULIANE  HIS  WIFE.  [From 
the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  rector  ecclesie  de  Brigham,  dedi 
....  Johanni  de  Maneres  et  Juliane  uxori  sue  et  heredibus  suis 
de  se  procreatis  uel  procreandis  duas  bouatas  terre  cum  pertin- 
enciis,  una  cum  quodam  tofto  et  crofto  in  uilla  de  Clifton  proxima 
uille  de  Staynborn  :  tres  eciam  acras  terre  in  eadem  uilla,  unam 
scilicet  in  Fitbrandan  et  unam  sub  Milneberch  et  unam  super 
Aynthorsin  pro  homagio  et  seruicio  suo  secundum  quod  testatur 
carta  Ade  filii  Michaelis  de  Clifton  quam  habui  inde.  Et  predicto 
Johanni  commissi  quasquidem  duas  bouatas  terre  cum  pertin- 
enciis  de  bonis  layci  feodi  mei  in  mea  ligea  potestate  conparaui 
de  predicto  Ada  de  Clifton.  Tenendas  ....  Et  in  omnibus  boscis 
uille  de  Clifton  pertinentibus  ad  edificandum  ibidem  racionabiliter 
per  uisum  domini  predicte  uille  de  Cliftona,  qui  pro  tempore 
fuerit  uel  sui  seruientis.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  domino  pre- 
dicte ville  de  Clifton  unum  denarium  in  die  Natalis  domini  pro 
omni  seculari  seruicio  ....  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  de  Camberton, 
Michaele  de  Hauirrington,  Michaele  de  Morisby,  Roberto  de 
Uluelayk,  Roberto  de  Braytthayt,  Johanne  de  Den,  Ada  de 
Brigham,  Thoma  filio  Ade  de  Brigham,  Alexandra  de  Rybton, 
Rogero  de  Staytmyryat,  Johanne  de  Moserue,  Ricardo  de  Trep- 
land  et  multis  aliis. 

LIV.  QUIT-CLAIM  OF  LANDS  IN  THE  VILL  OF  CLIFTON  BY  ALAN 
DE  ARKYLBY  TO  JOHN  DE  CAMBERTON  HIS  SON,  1361.  [From  the 
original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Pateat  ....  quod  ego,  Alanus  de  Arkylby,  remisi  ....  Johanni 
de  Camberton  filio  meo,  heredibus  et  assignatis  suis,  totum  ius  et 
clameum  quod  habeo,  habui  vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potero  in 
omnibus  terris  et  tenementis  cum  suis  pertinenciis  que  habui  ex 
concessione  Johannis  de  Dene  in  uilla  de  Clefton  :  que  terre  et 
tenementa  quondam  fuerunt  Johannis  del  Hefuing  consanguinij 
predicti  Johannis  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino  Gilberto  de  Colw[enne, 
]o  de  Malton,  militibus,  Johanne  de  Campton,  Thoma  de 

Hardegell,    Johanne    del   Woodhall, ossebergh   et   aliis. 

Datum  apud  Clefton  tercio  die  Octobris  anno  domini  m°  ccc° 

lx°  primo. 

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562  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

LV.  AGREEMENT  BETWEEN  BENEDICT  SON  OF  THOMAS  DE 
CLIFTON  AND  WALTER  LE  HARPUR  RESPECTING  THE  FULLING 
MILL  AND  CERTAIN  LANDS  IN  CLIFTON,  1282.  [From  the  original 
at  Hesleyside.] 

Anno  Incarnacionis  domini  m°  cc°  octogesimo  secundo  ad  fest- 
um  sancti  Martini  in  hyeme  facta  est  hec  convencio  inter  Bene- 
dictum  filium  Thome  de  Clifton  ex  una  parte  et  Walterum  le 
Harpur  ex  altera,  uidelicet,  quod  predictus  Benedictus  pro  se  et 
heredibus  suis  dimisit  et  concessit  predicto  Waltero  et  heredibus 
suis  uel  suis  assignatis  molendinum  suum  fullonum  de  Clifton 
et  domum  et  toftum  proximo  adiacentem  et  unam  acram  terre 
in  Milneholm  ultra  aquam  de  Meran  iacentem.  Tenendum  .... 
ad  terminum  uiginti  annorum  proximo  subsequencium  pro  qua- 
am  summa  pecunie  quam  idem  Walterus  dedit  premanibus  pre- 
dicto Benedicto  ....  nichil  inde  reddendo  uel  faciendo.  Et 
sciendum  est  quod  predictus  Benedictus  uel  heredes  sui  uel  sui 
assignati  dabunt  in  finem  termini  predicto  Waltero  et  heredibus 
suis  vel  suis  assignatis  pro  sumt>tibus  suis  ibidem  factis  vnam 
marcam  argenti.  Et  si  illud  facere  recusant,  predictus  Walterus 
uel  heredes  sui  uel  sui  assignati  dabunt  predicto  Benedicto  et 
heredibus  uel  assignatis  suis  unam  marcam  argenti  et  erunt 
feofati  inperpetuum  de  dicto  molendino,  domo,  tofto,  et  terra 
....  Hiis  testibus  Thoma  de  Weston  tune  balliuo  de  Cokermue, 
Thoma  de  Egelfeld,  Ricardo  del  fythe,  Thoma  filio  Gregorij, 
Henrico  fratre  eius,  Willelmo  uenatore,  Thoma  capellano  de 
Wirkington  et  multis  aliis. 

LVL     AGREEMENT   BETWEEN  ANTHONY  DE  LUCY,   LORD    OF 

COCKERMOUTH,    AND    THOMAS    DE    BURGH,    RECTOR    OF    BRIGHAM, 
TOUCHING    THE    ISSUES    OF    THE    FREE    CHAPEL    IN    THE    CASTLE    OF 

COCKERMOUTH,   10  DEC.   1330.     [Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Composicio  inter  dominum  de  Cokermoth  et  rectorem  de 
Brygham. 

In  dei  nomine,  amen.  Ad  perpetuam  rei  memoriam  et  omnium 
in  Christo  ndelium  noticiam  perveniat  quod  cum  nuper  quedam 
controuersia  suborta  fuisset  inter  nobilem  virum,  dominum 
Antonium  de  Lucy,  dominum  castri  et  honoris  de  Cokermouth, 
ex  parte  una,  et  discretum  virum,  dominum  Thomam  de  Burgh, 
rectorem  ecclesie  de  Brigham,  iurisdictioni  archidiaconi  Riche- 
mund  immediate  subiecte,  ex  parte  altera,  super  oblacionibus 
provenientibus  in  capella  castri  de  Cokermouth  et  decima  cuius- 
dam  molendini  aquatici  in  Cokermouth  existentibus  infra  limites 
parochie  ecclesie  parochialis  predicte.  Prefato  domino  Antonio 


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dictam  capellam  suam  auctoritate  sedis  apostolice  ab  antique 
liberam  esse  et  in  recompensacionem  decime  dicti  molendini 
quasdam  terras  ecclesie  predicte  per  antecessores  suos  collatas 
fuisse  antiquitus  proponente.  Ac  domino  rectore  pro  ecclesia 
memorata  diversis  argumentis  et  racionibus  contrarium  affirm  - 
ante.  Tandem  pacis  auctore  inspirante,  partes  predicte  pro  bono 
pacis  et  dubio  eventualiter  evitando  in  mine  modum  amicabiliter 
concordarunt,  videlicet,  quod  prefatus  dominus  Antonius  et  eius 
heredes,  domini  castri  et  honoris  predictorum,  reddant  singulis 
annis  deo  et  beato  Michaeli  archiangelo  et  ecclesie  predicte  necnon 
prefato  domino  Thome  et  eius  successoribus,  rectoribus  ibidem, 
xiijs.  iiijd.  percipiendos  de  molendino  predicto  pro  oblacionibus 
et  decimis  supradictis,  ad  terminos  Pasche  et  sancti  Michaelis 
per  equales  porciones.  Et  prefatus  dominus  Antonius  obligat  se 
et  heredes  suos  ac  molendinum  suum  predictum  ad  quorumcunque 
manus  devenerit  ad  solucionem  predictorum  tresdecim  solidorum 
et  quatuor  denariorum  deo  et  ecclesie  predicte  et  prefato  domino 
Thome  et  eius  successoribus  fideliter  faciendam  in  forma  predicta 
inperpetuum.  Concedit  eciam  idem  dominus  Thomas  quod  pre- 
dictus  dominus  Antonius  et  heredes  sui  habeant  cantariam  suam. 
in  capella  predicta  absque  contradictione  sui  uel  successorum 
suorum  inperpetuum.  Salvo  in  omnibus  aliis  oblacionibus  et 
decima  predictis  dumtaxat,  exceptis  iuribus  matris  ecclesie  ante- 
dicte.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium  predicti  Antonius  et  Thomas 
huic  concordie  sive  composicioni  ad  modum  cirografi  indentate 
sigilla  sua  mutuo  apposuerunt.  Hiis  testibus  fratre  Ricardo 
abbate  de  Caldra,  fratre  Johanne  priore  sancte  Bege,  dominis 
Willelmo  de  Aykheued  rectore  ecclesie  de  Wyrkyngton,  Gilberto 
de  Capella  rectore  ecclesie  de  Dene,  et  Roberto  de  Warthecoppe 
rectore  ecclesie  de  Distington,  dominis  Waltero  de  Kirkebrid  de 
Quynfell  et  Hugone  de  Moriceby  militibus,  Thoma  de  Hothwayt, 
Johanne  de  Eglesfeld  et  aliis.  Data  London  decimo  die  Decem- 
bris  anno  domini  millesimo  cccm°  tricesimo. 

LVII.  DEED  BETWEEN  ROBERT  DE  DEREHAM  AND  THOMAS 
DE  WESTON  AND  CHRISTIANS  HIS  WIFE  RESPECTING  six  OXGANGS 
OF  LAND  IN  DEARHAM,  1285.  [From  the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Omnibus  ....  Robertus  de  Dereham  salutem  in  domino.  Cum 
ego,  Robertus  de  Dereham,  nuper  feoffassem  Thomam  de  Weston, 
Chriatianam  uxorem  eius  et  beredes  ipsius  Thome  et  assignatos 
de  sex  bouatis  terre  cum  toftis  et  croftis  et  cum  omnibus  suis 
pertinenciis  in  uilla  de  Dereham,  prout  continetur  in  carta  in 
modum  cyrographi  confecta  eisdem  Thome  et  Christiana  et 


564  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

heredibus  ipsius  Thome  concessa  et  confirmata  die  Sabbati  in 
octabis  sancti  Michaelis,  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Hen- 
rici  terciodecimo,  pro  quibus  terris  et  tenementis  predict!  Thomas 
et  Christiana  et  heredes  vel  assignati  predict!  Thome  mihi  et 
heredibus  meis  annuatim  reddere  debent  per  nouemdecem  annos 
proximo  sequentes  plenarie  completes  unum  denarium.  Et  post 
terminum  nouemdecem  annorum  reddere  debent  sex  marcas  ar- 
genti  annuatim  :  de  quibus  predictis  sex  marcis  predictos  Thomam 
et  Christianam  et  heredes  uel  assignatos  predicti  Thome  acquieto, 
remitto  et  eciam  pro  me  et  heredibus  meis  inperpetuum  quietum 
clamo.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  unum 
denarium  ad  Natale  domini  pro  omnibus  secularibus  seruiciis, 
sectis  curie  et  demandis  mihi  et  heredibus  meis  quoquo  modo 
pertinentibus.  Faciendo  tamen  forinsecum  seruicium  quantum 
pertinet  ad  tantam  terram  in  eadam  uilla.  Et  predicti  Thomas 
et  Christiana  et  heredes  predicti  Thome  et  tenentes  predicti  tene- 
menti  molent  blada  sua  ad  molendinum  meum  de  Dereham  ad 
tricesimum  vas  et  quieti  erunt  de  cariagio  et  omnibus  aliis  operibus 
molendini  faciendis  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Thoma  de  Cule- 
wenn,  Roberto  de  Hawrington,  Waltero  de  Mulcastre,  Thoma  de 
Derewentewater,  militibus,  Petro  Deyncurt,  Thoma  de  Ribeton, 
Bertino  de  Huctreset,  Thoma  de  Louthre,  Waltero  le  Harpeour, 
Thoma  domino  de  Eglesfeud  et  multis  aliis. 

LVIII.  GRANT  BY  JOHN  DE  HUDLESTON  OF  PASTURE  IN 
MILLOM  TO  THE  ABBEY  OF  CALDER,  1287.  [From  the  original 
at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Johannes  de  Hudleston,  concessi  .... 
Deo  et  beate  Marie  de  Caldre  et  monachis  ibidem  Deo  seruientibus 
pasturam  sex  vaccis  cum  sequela  earum  unius  anni,  quatuor 
equis  et  quadraginta  ouibus  cum  sequela  earum  unius  anni  per 
totum  annum  in  communa  pasture  de  Milnum.  Ita  quod  decetero 
non  habeant  maiorem  numerum  vaccarum,  equorum  aut  ouium 
quam  in  hoc  scripto  continetur  ad  salinam  suam  de  Milnum 
appendencium,  saluis  sibi  cartis  antecessorum  meorum,  domin- 
orum  de  Milnum,  predictam  salinam  tangentibus  in  omnibus  aliis 
articulis  suis.  Concessi  eciam  prefatis  monachis  quod  habeant 
illam  placeam  suam  que  uocatur  Sandflos  in  quantitate  duarum 
acrarum  terre  et  illam  in  eadem  quantitate  in  posterum  contin- 
uent  ad  faciendum  de  sabulo  infra  ipsam  placeam  contento  omnia 
appruamenta,  que  exinde  eis  prouenire  poterunt  ad  dictum  sab- 
ulum  super  terram  prefate  saline  pertinentem  cariandum  et  sal 
uum  inde  sumendum  et  alia  necessaria  commoda  sua  inde  racion- 


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abiliter  facienda  sine  contradiccione  mei  uel  heredum  meorum 
inperpetuum.  Concessi  insuper  prefatis  monachis  quod  possint 
divertere  le  Rutandpull  de  predicta  placea  sicut  melius  potuerint 
ne  per  cursum  eiusdem  in  predicta  placea  dampnum  aliquod  uel 
iacturam  incurrant.  Hec  omnia  predicta  concessi  prefatis  mon- 
achis in  liberam,  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam  cum  omnibus 
communibus  aysiamentis  predicte  uille  de  Millnum,  libera,  quieta 
et  soluta  ab  omni  seculari  seruicio,  secta,  consuetudine  et  demanda 
sicut  sacrificium  altaris.  In  cuius  rei  ....  Hiis  testibus  domino 
Roberto  de  Hauerington,  Willelmo  de  Bethum,  Willelmo  de 
Thuaytes,  Johanne  Corbet,  Johanne  de  Morhdyng,  et  aliis. 
Datum  apud  Milnum  in  mense  Aprilis  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi 
filii  regis  Henrici  quintodecimo. 

LIX.     MANUMISSION  OF  A  SERF  BY  JOHN  SON  OF  JOHN   DE 

HUDLESTON  BY  SURETY  OF  THE  MONKS  OF  CALDER,   I2QI.       [From 

the  original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Sciant  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Johannes  nlius  Johannis 
de  Hodleston,  dedi  concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  quietum 
clamaui  Deo  et  beate  Marie  et  abbacie  de  Caldra  et  monachis 
ibidem  Deo  servientibus  Willelmum  filium  Ricardi  de  Loftscales 
quondam  natiuum  meum  cum  tota  sequela  sua  et  catallis  suis, 
Ita  quod  amodo  sint  liberi  et  quieti  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  ab 
omni  naiuitate  et  calumpnia  villenagii  imperpetuum  :  nee  liceat 
mini  nee  heredibus  meis  in  predictos  Willelmum,  sequelam  suam 
uel  catalla  aliquod  ius  uel  clamium  decetero  exigere  uel  uendicare. 
Et  predictus  Willelmus  obligauit  se  pro  tota  sequela  sua  predicte 
domui  de  Caldra  in  annuo  redditu  duorum  denariorum,  ubicunque 
fuerint  commorantes,  ad  festum  sancti  Petri  ad  uincula 
imperpetuum  singulis  annis  predicte  domui  fideliter  soluendorum 
in  recognicione  libertatis  predicte.  Et  ut  hec  donacio,  concessio 
et  quieta  clamacio  rata  et  firma  inperpetuum  perseueret,  presens 
scriptum  in  signum  et  firmitatem  libertatis  sue  eisdern  fieri  feci 
anno  regni  regis  E[dwardi]  vicesimo.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium 
presenti  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Hiis  testibus  Willelmo 
de  Warburthwait,  Willelmo  de  Thuaites,  Johanne  de  Mordhing, 
Johanne  Corbet,  Johanne  de  Hale  et  aliis. 

LX.  DEED  TOUCHING  THE  LAST  WILL  OF  ADAM  DE  EGLESFELD, 
1321.  [Original  at  Hesleyside.] 

Ceste  endenture  faite  entre  sires  Henri  de  Lutegarshale  & 
William  de  Muskham,  executours  du  testament  Sire  Adam  de 
Eglesfeld,  qi  dieux  assoille,  dune  part,  et  Beneit  de  Eglesfeld 


566  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

dautre  part,  tesmoigne  qe  come  meismes  ceux  executours  eussent 
porte  brief  de  dette  de  cinkante  marcs  vers  meisme  cell  Beneit 
pur  une  annuele  rente  de  dis  marcs  en  quei  le  manoir  de  Clifton 
fust  charge  au  dit  Sire  Adam  a  tote  sa  vie,  acouenu  est  entre  eux 
•en  ceste  fourme,  qe  le  dit  Beneit  acquitera  les  ditz  executours 
entre  ci  e  le  mois  de  Pask  prochein  auenir  de  vers  monsire  Alisandre 
de  Bastenthwait  de  dis  liures  en  partie  de  soute  des  deners,  qe  li 
sent  deuz  pur  le  dit  mort,  e  de  ce  lour  ferra  auoir  letre  daquitance 
du  dit  sire  Alisandre  deuant  le  mois  auantdit.  E  les  auantditz 
executours  grantent  qe  si  le  dit  Beneit  ce  face  deinz  le  terme 
desusdit,  qe  eux  ne  eient  mees  accion  vers  li  &  demander  les 
cinkante  marcs  desusnomees,  e  aussint  qe  eux  laquiteront  vers  le 
dit  monsire  Alisandre  de  touz  les  dene:  s  en  les  queux  le  dit  Beneit 
est  oblige  a  li  pur  une  letre  obligatoire  ensemblement  oue  le  dit 
mort  Johnne  de  Eglesfeld,  William  de  Eglesfeld  &  Thomas  de 
Pardishou  pa  le  mariage  du  fiz  le  dit  sire  Alisandre.  E  lauant  dit 
Beneit  graunte  qe  sil  faille  en  nul  point  du  couenant  desusdit 
soit  ceste  endenture  de  nule  value,  e  qe  les  ditz  executowrs  eient 
accion  de  recouerir  entierment  les  cinkante  marcs  desusdites. 
En  tesmoignance  de  queu  chose  les  parties  desusdites  a  ceste 
endenture  entiechangeablement  ount  mis  lowr  seaux.  Donne  a 
Londres  le  xxj  iour  de  ffeurier  Ian  du  regne  le  roi  E.  fuiz  du  roi 
E.  quatorzisme. 

LXL  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  INGILBERDHOP  BY  ROBERT  SON  OF 
ROBERT  FRANCEUS  TO  ROBERT  SON  OF  GODFRID  DE  WALTON. 
'[Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Omnibus  ....  Robertus  films  Roberti  Franceus,  salutem. 
Sciatis  me  dedisse  ....  Roberto  filio  Godefridi  de  Walton  vij 
acras  terre  et  j  pertacam  in  Ingilberdhop,  scilicet,  iijes  acras  et 
iij  pertacas  ad  viam,  ijas  acras  super  Sceloth  et  unam  acram  et 
dimidiam  ubi  Robertus  filius  Godefridi  manet  inter  raufam  et 
sepem,  in  liberum  maritagium  cum  Mariota,  sorore  mea,  illi  et 
heredibus  suis  quos  cum  eadem  genuerit.  Habendum  .  .  .  .  et 
tantum  spacium  loci  super  quod  valeat  edificare  j  horreurn  et 
aliam  domum  pariam  et  j  semitam  tendentem  ad  orreum  et  ad 
aliam  domum.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim,  ipse  et  heredes  sui, 
michi  et  heredibus  meis  quasdam  cirotecas  albas  die  Pasche,  vel 
,unum  nummum.  Preterea  sciendum  est  quod  si  predictus  Rob- 
ertus filius  Godefridi  vel  heredes  sui  forisfecerint  absque  effusione 
sanguinis  et  quieti  fuerint,  dabunt  pro  forisfacto  sex  denarios  : 
si  vero  sanguinem  effuderint  et  quieti  fuerint,  dabunt  de  foris- 
facto xij  denarios  ....  Hiis  testibus  Hugone  de  Moriceby, 


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Thoma  Marescall,  J.  filio  eius,  Willelmo  Marescald,  Michaele  de 
Clifton,  Clemente  de  Thacthuait,  David  de  Sancta  Bega,  Adam 
filio  Randulfi  et  aliis. 

LXII.  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  THAKTHUAYT  BY  ALEXANDER  SON 
OF  JOHN  DE  BAILLOL  TO  RANULF  DE  DAKER,  WHICH  LAND 
BELONGED  TO  THOMAS  SON  OF  ALAN  DE  MULTON  BUT  WAS  GIVEN 
TO  BAILLOL  BY  THE  KING  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  RECENT  WAR  IN 
ENGLAND,  15  MAY,  1267.  [Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Omnibus  hoc  scriptum  visuris  vel  audituris,  Alexander  films 
Jchannis  de  Baillol,  salutem  in  domino.  Noueritis  me  concessisse 
et  remisisse  domino  Ranulpho  de  Daker  totum  ius  et  clameum, 
quod  habui  in  terra  de  Thakthuayt  cum  pertinenciis,  que  fuit 
Thome  filii  Alani  de  Multon,  quam  dominus  rex  michi  dedederat 
racione  guerre  nuper  in  Anglia  habite.  Ita  quod  ego  nee  aliquis 
pro  me  decetero  aliquod  ius  vel  clameum  in  predicta  terra  cum 
pertinenciis  habere  vel  vendicare  poterimus.  In  cuius  rei  testi- 
monium  huic  scripto  sigillum  meum  apposui.  Data  apud  Stret- 
ford  die  lune  proxime  ante  festum  sancte  Potentiane  virginis 
anno  regni  regis  Henrici  filii  regis  Johannis  ljm°. 

LXIIL  GRANT  BY  JOHN,  PRIOR  OF  CARLISLE,  TO  HUCTRED 
SON  OF  ROBERT  DE  YNGILBERDHOP,  OF  LAND  IN  THE  TERRITORY 
OF  YNGILBERDHOP,  WHICH  MARIOTA,  WIFE  OF  ROBERT  DE  YNGIL- 
BERDHOP, HAD  CONFERRED  UPON  THE  CONVENT  IN  ALMS.  [Deed 

at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos  presens  scriptum  pervenerit, 
Johannes,  prior  Karlioli,  et  eiusdem  loci  conventus,  eternam  in 
domino  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  nos  de  communi 
consensu  et  assensu  nostro  dedisse,  concessisse  et  hac  present! 
carta  nostra  confirmasse  Huctredo  filio  Roberti  de  Yngilberdhop 
et  heredibus  suis  pro  homagio  et  servicio  suo  tres  acras  et  dimidiam 
in  territorio  de  Yngilberdhop,  cum  una  dimidia  acra  ad  superedi- 
ficandum,  quas  Mariota,  uxor  Roberti  de  Yngilberdhop  nobis 
contulit  in  puram  et  perpetuam  elemosinam.  Habendum  et 
tenendum  sibi  et  heredibus  suis  de  nobis  et  successoribus  nostris, 
libere,  quiete,  integre  et  pacifice,  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  et 
aisiamentis  predicte  terre  pertinentibus  infra  villam  de  Yngil- 
berdhop et  extra.  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  nobis  et  successori- 
bus nostris  unam  libram  cumini  ad  nundinas  Karlioli  [et]  faciendo 
tres  sectas  curie  per  annum  pro  omnibus.  Et  si  dictam  terram  vi 
vel  racione  amiserimus  nullum  ei  dabimus  inde  escambium.  In 
cuius  rei  testimonium  presenti  scripto  sigillum  capituli  nostri 


568  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

apposuimus.  Testibus  domino  Johanne  de  Ireby,  Ricardo 
Strye,  Ranulpho  de  Bliton,  Thoma  de  Gosseford,  Roberto  de 
Carleton,  Johanne  del  Styhille,  Alano  de  Coquina  et  aliis. 

LXIV.  GRANT  OF  A  RIGHT  OF  WAY  BETWEEN  COKIR  AND 
BECSNARRY  TO  CERTAIN  LIME-KILNS  BY  ALAN  DE  MULTON  TO 
NICHOLAS  DE  MORICEBY.  [Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle  ] 

Dominus  Alanus  de  Multon,  omnibus  has  literas  visuris  vel 
audituris,  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra  me  concessisse 
Nicholao  de  Moriceby  et  heredibus  suis  inter  Cokir  et  Becsnarry 
viam  illi  et  heredibus  suis  et  illorum  hominibus  pro  quibusdam 
calcariis.  Reddendo  annuatim  prefato  Alano  et  heredibus  suis 
vel  [suis  assignatis]  sex  denarios  ad  Assumpcionem  beate  Marie. 
Hiis  testibus  Patricio  filio  Thome,  Roberto  de  Landplogh,  Adam 
de  Haveryngton,  Robeito  de  Bramthuait,  Henrico  de  Dene. 

LXV  GRANT  OF  BRAKANSWAIT  BY  ALAN  DE  MULTON  TO 
NICHOLAS  DE  MORICEBY.  [Deed  at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

Sciant  presentes  et  futuri  quod  ego,  Alanus  de  Multon,  concessi 
et  hac  mea  present!  carta  confirmavi  Nicholao  de  Moriceby  et 
heredibus  suis  tenendum  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  in  feudo  et 
hereditate  Brakanswait  per  istas  divisas,  scilicet,  de  terra  culta 
de  Lorton  usque  ad  Ravenhals,  in  bosco  et  piano,  in  pratis  et 
pascuis,  in  aquis  et  viis,  in  semitis  et  in  omnibus  aliis  libertatibus 
et  aisiamentis  pro  homagio  et  servicio  suo,  salva  venacione  mihi 
et  heredibus  meis.  Quare  volo  et  concede  quod  predictus  Nicholas 
et  heredes  sui  hanc  terram  habeant  et  teneant  de  me  et  heredibus 
meis  faciendo  hoc  servicium,  scilicet,  quod  homines  predict! 
Nicholai  et  heredum  suorum  dabunt  pannagium  de  porcis  suis. 
Et  ipse  et  heredes  sui  erunt  quieti  de  pannagio.  Ipse  vero  et 
heredes  sui  et  homines  sui  utentur  tota  foresta  mea  et  testimonium 
inuenient  forestariis  sicut  alii  vicini  sui  faciunt,  et  quieti  erunt 
ab  omni  alio  servicio  et  consuetudine  et  demanda.  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Patricio  de  Wyrkington,  Adam  de  Haverhington,  Roberto 
de  Landplogh,  Roberto  de  Bramthuait,  Henrico  de  Dene  et 
multis  aliis. 

LXV  I.  LIBERTY  OF  ENCLOSING  A  PARK  AROUND  THE  MANOR 
OF  EMBILTON  GRANTED  TO  THOMAS  DE  IREBY,  c.  1285.  [Deed 
at  Cockermouth  Castle.] 

De  parco  de  Emylton. 

Omnibus  ....  Thomas  de  Lucy,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam. 
Noveritis  me  ,  .  .  .  concessisse  ....  Thome  de  Ireby  et  heredibus 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  569 

suis  vel  suis  assignatis  quod  dictus  Thomas  possit  includere  quern- 
dam  parcum  circa  manerium  suum  de  Embilton  in  foresta  mea  de 
Derewentfells  et  inclusum  tenere  qualicunque  claustura  voluerit 
sine  sautoure.  Et  non  licebit  dicto  Thome  de  Yreby,  heredibus 
suis  ....  plus  includere  decetero  quam  inclusum  fuit  die  confec- 
tionis  huius  scripti  sine  licencia  et  voluntate  dicti  Thome  de  Lucy 
vel  heredum  suorum  .  .  .  .  Et  pro  hac  concessione  et  confirmacione 
dictus  Thomas  de  Yreby  concessit,  pro  se  et  heredibus  suis  vel 
suis  assignatis,  quod  dictus  Thomas  de  Lucy  et  heredes  sui  .  .  .  . 
capient  quolibet  anno  duas  feras  in  dicto  parco,  videlicet,  unum 
damum  a  festo  Assumpcionis  beate  Marie  usque  [ad]  festum 
sancti  Michaelis,  quando  voluerit,  et  unam  damam  a  iesto  sancti 
Andree  apostoli  usque  ad  festum  sancti  Hillarii,  ut  dictum  est, 
de  damo  quocunque  ingenio  voluerit.  Et  si  contingat  quod  nulle 
dame  fuerint  in  dicto  parco  processu  temporis,  ita  quod  dictus 
Thomas  de  Lucy  nee  heredes  nee  sui  assignati  possint  capere 
bestias  suas  in  predicto  parco,  ut  predictum  est,  extunc  dictus 
Thomas  de  Ireby  et  heredes  sui  ve*l  sui  assignati  reddent  quatuor 
solidos  per  annum  pro  predicto  parco  Thome  de  Lucy  et  heredibus 
suis  vel  suis  assignatis  pro  omnibus  inperpetuum  ad  duos  anni 
terminos,  videlicet,  medietatem  ad  festum  sancti  Michaelis  arch- 
angeli  et  aliam  medietatem  ad  Pascha.  Et  si  contingat  dictum 
Thomam  de  Ireby  et  heredes  suos  vel  suos  assignatos  in  solucione 
dicte  firme  termino  elapso,  quod  absit,  defecerit  (sic),  obligat  se  et 
heredes  suos  vel  suos  assignatos  districtioni  dicti  Thome  de  Lucy 
et  heredum  vel  assignatorum  suorum  et  ballivorum  suorum,  quod 
possint  ipsos  et  tenentes  suos  distringere  per  omnia  bona  sua 
ubicunque  fuerint  inventa  infra  feodum  dicti  Thome  de  Lucy 
et  heredum  suorum  vel  assignatorum  ad  omnia  ista  fideliter 
observanda.  Huic  scripto  cyrografato  sigilla  sua  alternatim 
apposuerunt.  Hiis  testibus  domino  Michaele  de  Hardecla  tune 
vicecomite  Cumbrie,  domino  Waltero  de  Molecastre,  domino 
Thoma  de  Neuton,  domino  Johanne  de  Kirkepatrick,  Johanne  de 
Lucy,  Thoma  de  Ribeton,  Johanne  de  Lanploez,  Johanne  de 
Perdishow  et  aliis. 

LXVI1.     CONFIRMATION   BY  THOMAS    DE    IREBY   KNIGHT   OF 

THE  ENFEOFFMENT  OF  ROBERT   DE  CROSTWAYT  IN   HIS  TENEMENT 

IN  EMBLETON,  3  MAY,  1298.     [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Omnibus  ....  Thomas  de  Ireby,  miles,  salutem  in  domino. 
Noueritis  me  inspexisse  cartam  quam  Robertus  de  Crostwayt 
habet  de  feofamento  antecessorum  meorum  de  quodam  tene- 
mento  cum  suis  pertinenciis  in  Embelton.  Hinc  est  quod  noverint 


57°     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

universi  me  predictam  terrain  una  cum  aliis  terris  de  novo  de  me 
perquisitis,  cum  omnibus  suis  pertinenciis,  confirmasse  et  inper- 
petuum  per  presens  scriptum  eidem  Roberto  et  heredibus  suis 
vel  suis  assignatis  quietum  clamasse.  Ita  tamen  quod  predictus 
Robertus,  heredes  sui  et  sui  assignati,  predictam  terram  teneant 
de  me  et  heredibus  meis  adeo  libere  et  quiete  sicut  aliquis  ante- 
cessorum  suorum  earn  de  antecessoribus  meis  liberius  aliquo 
tempore  tenuerit.  Et  per  eadem  servicia  per  que  Simon  de 
Crostwate,  pater  predicti  Roberti,  et  antecessores  sui,  earn  de  me 
et  antecessoribus  meis  actenus  tenuerunt  ....  Hiis  testibus 
dominis  Thoma  de  Lucy,  Thoma  de  Derewentwater,  Johanne  de 
Lucy,  Alexandra  de  Bastuntwayt,  militibus,  Thoma  de  La  ... 
ch  .  .  .,  Radulfo  Daynkurt,  Ada  de  Coquina  et  aliis.  Data  apud 
Embelton  die  sabbati  in  festo  invencionis  sancte  crucis,  anno 
regni  regis  Edwardi  vicesimo  sexto. 

LXVIII.     RELEASE  BY  RICHARD  SON  OF  THOMAS  DE  HAUES- 

THWEYT    OF    HIS    INTEREST    IN    HAUESTHWEYT    IN    THE    VILL    OF 

MILLUM  TO  ADAM  SON  OF  THOMAS  DE  HAUESTHWEYT  HIS  BROTHER, 
9  DECEMBER,  1292.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Omnibus  ....  Ricardus  films  Thome  de  Hauesthweyt,  salutem 
eternam  in  domino.  Noueritis  me  remisisse  ....  Ade  filio  Thome 
de  Hauesthweyt,  fratri  meo,  totum  ius  et  clamium  quod  habui 
vel  aliquo  modo  habere  potui  seu  potero  in  omnibus  terris  et 
tenementis  que  vel  quas  habui  ex  dono  Thome  de  Hauesthweyt, 
patris  mei,  in  Hauesthweyt  in  villa  de  Millum,  videlicet,  infra  has 
divisas,  incipiendo  ad  aquam  que  uocatur  Birkerbeck,  et  sic 
descendendo  per  eandem  aquam  usque  in  Eske,  et  sic  descendendo 
per  Eske  usque  ad  quercum,  que  vocatur  Crossithake,  et  sic  ex 
transuerso  usque  Brindestub  ad  exteriorem  partem  de  Wynter- 
scalethayth,  et  sic  usque  in  aquam,  que  uocatur  Blakesyk,  usque 
in  sepem,  et  sic  de  ilia  sepe  usque  in  Berkerbeck,  una  cum  quadam 
mansione  apud  Birker  quam  Robertus  de  Birker  quondam  tenuit, 
cum  toto  clausu  pertinente  ad  eandem  mansionem  ....  Hiis 
testibus  Ricardo  de  Cleterne,  Roberto  de  Gosford,  Henrico  le 
Bouteler,  Johanne  de  Morthinge,  Johanne  de  Estholme,  Willelmo 
de  Weyburthweyt,  Johanne  de  Moriceby,  Roberto  de  Fresington, 
et  aliis.  Data  apud  Karliolum  die  Martis  proxime  post  festum 
sancti  Nycholai  in  itinere  Justiciariorum,  scilicet,  domini  H.  de 
Cress ingharn  et  J.  Lovel,  iusticiarorum  itinerancium  in  comitatu 
Cumberland,  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  regis  Henrici  vicesimo 
primo. 


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LXIX.  GRANT  OF  LANGFITE  IN  EMBELTON  BY  JOHN  SON  OF 
THOMAS  DE  YREBI  TO  UDARD  SON  OF  ADAM  DE  CROSTHWAT, 
c.  1  2  10.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Omnibus  ....  Johannes  filius  Thome  de  Yrebi,  militis.  Nov- 
•eritis  me  dedisse  ....  Vdardo  filio  Ade  de  Crosthwat  et  heredibus 
suis  vel  suo  atornato,  pro  humagio  et  servicio  suo,  quamdam 
partem  terre  mee  in  Embelton  in  Langfite,  scilicet,  inter  has 
divisas,  a  terra  ecclesie  sicut  tendit  ascendendo  usque  maugnam 
sepem,  que  circuit  villam,  et  per  sepem  usque  ad  fontem  Susanne, 
et  per  fontem  Susanne  descendendo  per  medium  magni  marisci 
usque  ad  Birchehevd,  et  ita  per  rivulum  de  Birchehevd  usque  ad 
predictam  terram  ecclesie.  Tenendam  ....  Reddendo  inde  annu- 
atim  michi  et  heredibus  duodecim  denarios  ad  duos  terminos, 
scilicet,  ad  Pentecosten  sex  denarios,  et  ad  festum  beati  Martini 
in  hyeme  sex  denarios  ....  Hiis  testibus  Galfrido  de  Talantire, 
Thoma  persona  de  Brigham,  Ada  persona  de  Crosthwait,  Simone 
de  Marton,  Thoma  de  Satmirdack,  Ada  de  Seizlermelerg(?), 
Ricardo  de  Bechockirke,  Willelmo  de  Moserg,  Simone  Serviont 
et  aliis. 

LXX.  GRANT  OF  LAND  IN  PONSONBY  BY  ALAN  DE  POUNCOUN- 
BI  TO  ADAM  THE  YOUNGER  OF  ESKEDAL,  29  JANUARY,  1285. 
[Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Notum  sit  omnibus  quod  ego,  Alanus  de  Pouncounbi,  dedi, 
concessi  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  Ade  le  younger  de 
Eskedal  et  heredibus  suis  et  assignatis  totam  terram  meam  quam 
habui  in  Elwenecroftt  in  villa  de  Pouncounbi  sine  aliquo  retene- 
mento.  Tenendam  ....  Hiis  testibus  Johanne  le  Flemyng, 
Eustacio  Boyvyll,  Roberto  de  Suenhowes,  Johanne  de  Irton, 
Rogero  de  Irton,  Willelmo  de  Brounfeld,  et  aliis.  Data  apud 
Pouncounbi  die  lune  proxime  post  festum  conversionis  sancti 
Pauli  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  terciodecimo. 

LXXI.     EXTRACTS  "  EX  LIBRO  AUTORIS  INCERTI  NOMINIS,  SED 

MONACHI    COENOBII    S.    MARIE    EBORACENSIS,    DE    ABBATIBUS    ET 

REBUS  IN  EO  GESTIS."     [Leland,  Collectanea,  i.  24-5.] 

Anno  domini  1303,   4  Cal.   Junii  combusta  fuit  dimidia  villa 

Karleoli  usque  ad  portam  de  Richardby. 

Anno  'domini    1312,    dominus   Joannes   de   Laneploch,    miles, 

fecit  homagium  priori  S.  Begae  pro  quodam  tenemento  in  Arlough- 


Anno  quo  supra  1312,  dominus  Robertus  le  Bruse  dictus  rex 
Scottorum  tributum  ei  tribui  [fecit]  sub  Anglicanis,  scilicet,  a 


572  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Northumbria,  Gilleslande,  Cumbrelande,  Alerdale,  Couplandia,  et 
exhibitum  fuit  per  comitatum  Carleoli. 

Anno  domini  1315,  Robertus  Brus  obsidebat  Carleolum.  Quo 
tempore  Jacobus  Duglas  multa  mala  fecit  apud  Egremont  et 
spoliavit  ecclesiam  S.  Begae,  ac  maneria  de  Cletter  et  Staineburne 
prioris  S.  Begae  combusserunt. 

Anno  domini  1324,  Joannes  de  Multon  habuit  ingressum  in 
castellum  de  Egremont  per  regem  pro  servicio  sibi  reddendo  ei 
annuatim  usque  ad  plenam  aetatem  410". 

Cellae  monasterii  S.  Marie  Eboracensis. 

Wederhal,  ubi  ecclesia  S.  Constantini. 

Richardus  de  Reme  primus  inter  priores  ibi  numeratus. 

S.  Bega. 

Robertus  prior  ejusdem,  ut  colligo,  primus. 

LXXII.     EXTRACT    FROM    THE    DiMissiON,1    BY    ARCHBISHOP 

ZOUCH,    OF    THE    ABBOT    AND    CONVENT    OF    ST.    MARY,    YORK,    IN 
RESPECT    OF    CERTAIN    TITHES    AND    PENSIONS    ISSUING    FROM    THE 

CELL  OF  ST.  BEES,  21  AUGUST,  1344.     [Dugdale,  Mon.,  in.  566-7.] 

In  Dei  nomine  Amen.  Cum  nos,  Willielmus,  permissione  divina 
Eboraci  archiepiscopus,  Angliae  primas,  sedis  apostolicae  legatus, 
in  nostrae  uisitationis  progressu,  quam  in  et  de  diocesi  nostra 
nuper  exercuimus,  et  adhuc  eandem  uisitationem  continuamus, 
comperimus  quod  religiosi  viri,  abbas  et  conventus  monasterii 
beatae  Mariae  Eboraci,  nostrae  diocesis,  ecclesias  parochiales  et 
capellas,  portiones,  et  pensiones,  et  decimas  parochiales  infras- 
criptas,  videlicet  ....  Item  in  archidiaconatu  Richemundiae 
cellam  S.  Begae  in  Coupland  cum  suis  juribus  et  appenditiis  .... 
In  Couplanda,  de  dominicis  domini  Couplandae  omnes  decimas 
per  totam  Couplandam.  Decimas  quas  hactenus  rector  ecclesiae 
de  Eggermond  percipere  consuevit,  duntaxat  exceptis  mortuariis 
in  Goderickby,  et  decimas  de  Holme,  et  de  piscariis  de  Egnore 
et  de  Eske.  Pensiones  autem  annuas  in  partibus  Richmundiae  : 
....  ultra  moras  (sic)  saepedicti  archidiaconatus,  de  ecclesia  de 
Whiteneham  decem  solidos,  de  Whitewikes  quinque  solidos,  de 
Botill  quatuor  solidos,  de  Corney  duos  solidos,  de  Egremounde 
viginti  duos  solidos,  de  Haverington  duos  solidos,  de  Wirkington 
quatuor  marcas,  de  capella  de  Clifton  duos  solidos,  .  .  .  fructus, 

1  On  21  Nov.  1392  Archbishop  Arundel  gave  the  abbot  and  convent  a  simi- 
lar dimission  for  the  same  issues  which  had  papal  recognition  on  4  Nov.  1396. 
In  their  petition  to  the  Pope  the  monks  stated  that  the  proofs  of  title  could 
not  be  submitted  without  great  labour,  danger  and  expense,  as  on  account  of 
their  great  age  the  seals  got  broken  and  the  writings  were  injured  in  their 
transfer  from  place  to  place  (Cal.  of  Pap.  Lett.,  v.  2-4). 


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prouentus  et  obventiones  de  ipsis  ecclesiis  et  capellis  provenientes 
de  facto  percipiunt,  et  de  eisdem  disponunt  pro  suae  libito  vol- 
untatis  ....  Datum  apud  Cawood,  xxj  die  mensis  August!  anno 
Domini  mcccxliiij  et  pontificatus  nostri  tertio. 

LXXIII.     AGREEMENT  BETWEEN  ALAN  SON  OF  RICHARD    DE 

COUPELAND  AND  THOMAS  SON  OF  ADAM  DE  AuiSTHUAYTE  TOUCH- 
ING THE  FISHING  IN  THE  WATER  OF  DUFFOCKISWATIR.  [Deed  at 

Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Convenit  inter  Alanum  filium  Ricardi  de  Coupeland,  ex  una 
parte,  et  Thomam  filium  Ade  de  Auisthuayte,  ex  altera,  super 
contencione  inter  eosdem  mota  de  piscacione  in  aqua  de  Duffock- 
iswatir,  videlicet,  quod  idem  Thomas  concessit  et  recognovit  pro 
se  et  heredibus  suis  totam  predictam  aquam  cum  piscacione  et 
omnibus  suis  pertinenciis  esse  ius  et  hereditatem  ipsius  Alani ;  et 
pro  hac  concessione  et  recognicione  concessit  idem  Alanus,  pro  se 
et  heredibus  suis,  quod  ipse  Thomas  et  heredes  sui  habeant 
quinque  recia  racionabilia  in  dicta  aqua  annuatim,  dum  quatra- 
gesima  durat,  utrum  idem  Alanus  et  sui  heredes  temporibus 
quatragesime  piscare  voluerint  vel  cessare  a  piscacione,  set  post 
quatragesimam  nullo  tempore  licebit  eidem  Thome  et  suis  hered- 
ibus aliquo  modo  piscare  in  dicta  aqua  nisi  quando  idem  Alanus 
et  heredes  sui  piscare  voluerint,  et  tune  pariter  cum  eis  idem 
Thomas  et  heredes  sui  in  dicta  aqua  licite  racionabiliter  piscabunt, 
si  voluerint  cum  dictis  quinque  retibus  sine  ulteriori  numero, 
nisi  licenciati  fuerint  per  ipsum  Alanum  et  suos  heredes.  Pre- 
terea  convenit  inter  eosdem  de  vallacione  ayguillarum  per  Linde- 
becke  exeuncium  de  eadem  aqua,  que  Lindebecke  est  divisa 
inter  pasturam  ipsius  Alani  de  le  Frithslake  et  pasturam  ipsius 
Thome  de  Auisthwayte,  ita,  videlicet,  quod  quedam  area  aygull- 
arum  construatur  et  susteneatur  ad  custum  utriusque  partis,  et 
piscis  equaliter  inter  partes  dividatur.  Et  si  altera  pars  predict- 
orum  de  reparacione  et  custu  piscarie  dicte  vallacionis  cessaverit, 
nichilominus  altera  pars  sustineat  custum  et  habeat  comodum 
quousque  ad  reparacionem  dictam  faciendam  reddire  voluerit. 
Et  ut  hec  omnia  predicta  ex  utraque  parte  robur  firmitatis  op- 
tiniant  inperpetuum,  alter  alterius  scriptum  ad  modum  cyro- 
grafphi  confectum  sigilli  sui  munimine  roboravit.  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Johanne  de  Cauncefeld,  domino  Ricardo  de  Brochton, 
Ade  de  Hoton,  Willelmo  de  Morthing,  Johanne  de  Thuaytis, 
Johanne  Corbet,  Johanne  filio  David,  Ricardo  de  Cornay,  Hen- 
rico  de  Botle,  Michaele  clerico  ut  multis  aliis. 


574  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

LXXIV.     APPOINTMENT   OF  TRUSTEES  BY  THOMAS  DE  Auis- 

THWAITH,   TOUCHING  THE  MANOR  OF  AUISTHWAITH  AND  LANDS   IN 

MEDILISH  IN  THE  VILL  OF  BRETBY,  28  DECEMBER,  1353.  [Deed 
at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Thomas  de  Auisthwaith,  dedi  ....  dom- 
inis  Nicholao,  rectori  ecclesie  de  Egremond,  et  Ricardo  de  Dregg, 
capellano,  manerium  de  Auisthwaith,  cum  pertinenciis,  et  omnes 
terras  et  tenementa  ....  que  vel  quas  habui  in  Medilish  in  villa 
de  Bretby.  Tenendum  ....  Hiis  testibus  dominis  Johanne  de 
Hodileston,  Gilberto  de  Culwen,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Rotyngton, 
tune  ballivo  libertatis  de  Egremond,  Willelmo  de  Morthyng, 
Ricardo  de  Cletergt,  Willelmo  de  Thwaites,  Jacobo  de  Waiberth- 
waith,  Johanne  de  Midilton,  et  aliis.  Data  apud  Auisthwaith 
die  dominica  proxime  ante  festum  Circumcisionis  domini  anno 
regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii  post  Conquestum  vicesimo  septimo. 

LXXV.     ENFEOFFMENT  FOR  LIFE  OF  THOMAS  DE  AUISTHWAITE 

OF  THE  MANOR  OF  AUISTHWAITE  AND  TENEMENTS  IN  THE  HAMLET 

OF  FORSH  IN  THE  VILL  OF  BRETBY,  WITH  REVERSION  TO  NICHOLAS 
SON  OF  JOHN  DE  STANLOWE  AND  CUSTANCE  DAUGHTER  OF  ADAM 
SON  OF  THOMAS  DE  AUISTHWAITE,  HIS  WIFE,  AND  THEIR  HEIRS, 
20  MAY,  1354.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Omnibus  ....  Nicholaus,  rector  ecclesie  de  Egremount,  et 
Ricardus,  capellanus  de  Dregg,  salutem  in  domino  sempiternam, 
Sciat  ....  nos  dedisse  ....  Thome  de  Auisthwaite  manerium  de 
Auisthwaite,  cum  pertinenciis,  et  eciam  omnes  terras  et  tenementa 
....  que  et  quas  habuimus  in  hameletto  de  Forsh  in  uilla  de 
Bretby,  de  dono  et  feofamento  predicti  Thome.  Tenendum 
.  .  .  .  Et  volumus  et  concedimus  quod  predictus  Thomas  habeat 
ad  totam  vitam  suam  unium  forgium  ad  ferrum  infra  manerium 
de  Auisthwaith,  ubicunque  voluerit,  capiendo,  uendendo,  et 
donando,  sindendo  et  prostruando  ad  voluntatem  suam,  sine 
contradictione  alicuius,  boscum  vivum  et  mortuum  pro  sustin- 
acione  forgii  predicti  et  aliorum  necessariorum  suorum.  Et  post 
mortem  predicti  Thome,  predictum  manerium  et  eciam  predicta 
terre  et  tenementa  in  Forsh,  cum  suis  pertinenciis,  integre  remane- 
ant  Nicholao  nlio  Johannis  de  Stanlowe  et  Custancie  filie  Ade 
rilii  Thome  de  Auisthwait,  uxori  eius,  et  heredibus  de  corporibus 
suis  legitime  procreatis.  Tenendum  ....  Et  si  contingat  quod 
predicti  Nicholaus  et  Custancia  sine  herede  de  corporibus  suis 
legitime  procreato  obierint,  tune  predictum  manerium,  cum  suis 
pertinenciis,  et  eciam  predicta  terre  et  tenementa,  cum  suis  per- 
tinenciis, in  Forsh  integre  remaneant  veris  et  rectis  heredibus  et 


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assignatis  predict!  Thome  in  perpetuum.  Tenendum  ....  Hiis 
testibus  dominis  Johanne  de  Hodilston,  Gilberto  de  Culwen, 
Henrico  de  Malton,  militibus,  Roberto  de  Rotyngton  tune  ballivo 
libertatis  de  Egremount,  Willelmo  de  Keldesek,  Ricardo  de 
Caupelland,  Nicholao  de  Yrton,  Johanne  de  Essyngton,  et  aliis. 
Data  apud  Auisthwait  vicesimo  die  Maii  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi 
tercii  post  Conquestum  vicesimo  octavo. 

LXXVI.    APPOINTMENT  OF  TRUSTEES  BY  NICHOLAS  DE  STAN- 

LAWE,  TOUCHING  AUESTHWAYTH  IN  THE  VILL  OF  MlLLUM  AND 
FORSSE  IN  THE  VILL  OF  BRETBY,  25  OCTOBER,  1367.  [Deed  at 

Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  ego,  Nicholaus  de  Stanlawe,  dedi  ....  domino 
Rogero  Bisschop,  capellano  parochiali  de  Irton,  et  domino  Thome 
de  Cokayn,  capellano  parochiali  de  Mulcastre,  omnes  terras  et 
tenementa  ....  que  et  quas  habui  in  Auesthwayth  in  villa  de 
Millum.  Dedi  eciam  ....  predictis  dominis  Rogero  et  Thome 
omnes  terras  et  tenementa  ....  que  et  quas  habui  in  Forsse  in 
villa  de  Bretby.  Tenendum  ....  Hiis  testibus  Cristofero  de 
Moriceby,  tune  ballivo  libertatis  de  Egrembnd,  Ricardo  de  Coup- 
land  avunculo,  Nicholao  de  Irton,  Willelmo  Boyvell,  Johanne  de 
Frissington  et  aliis.  Datum  apud  Auesthwayth  die  lune  proxime 
ante  festum  Omnium  Sanctorum  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  tercii 
post  Conquestum  quadragesimo  primo. 

LXXVII.     RELEASE  BY  JOHN  DE  PENYNGTON  KNIGHT  OF  ALL 

ACTIONS    AGAINST    NICHOLAS    DE    STANLAWE    SON    OF    THOMAS    DE 

STANLAWE,  20  JANUARY,  1425.     [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Pateat  ....  me,  Johannem  de  Penyngton  militem,  remisisse 
Nicholao  de  Stanlawe  filio  Thome  de  Stanlawe  omnimodas  actiones 
reales  et  personales,  quas  versus  eum  habeo,  occasione  cause  vel 
tituli  cuiuscumque  inter  nos  habite  vel  mote  a  principio  mundi 
usque  in  diem  confectionis  presencium  ....  Datum  apud  Mulcastre 
vicesimo  die  Januarii  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  sexti  post  con- 
questum  Anglie  tercio. 

LXXVIII.  INDENTURE  OF  THE  SALE  OF  TIMBER  BY  NICHOLL 
OF  STANELAW  TO  WILLIAM  DE  KENDALE,  10  FEBRUARY,  1432. 
[Mutilated  deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Thys  indenture  makes  mencion  at  I,  Nicholl  off  Stanelaw,  hase 
sewld  all  the  underwod  and  esshys  fra  Aystwhayt  bek  to  Byrker 
bek  to  William  de  Kendale,  sawand  ake  and  the  esshys  the  whylke 
was  takyn  owt  in  ...  andson  tyme  and  sawyn the  wandes 


REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

"bot  the  why  ....  sal  to  his  ane  use  and  the  sayde  Kendale  for 
to  have  s  .  .  .  es  .  .  .  Ro  .  .  .  withe  entre  ....  uschew.  And  the 
seyd  Kendale  ....  haue  croppys  iff  any  tre  be  fellyt  ....  Da[le- 
gajrthe,  and  for  to  have  a  damme  at  Byrker  ....  to  have  iij 
horsshys  and  iij  kys  in  Dal[egart]he  fra  seint  Wlfra  day  to  Myd- 
haver  ....  on  hys  terme  at  Candylmase  in  the  zere  off  the  reine 
off  Keng  Henry  sext  efter  the  Conquest  x  unto  the  hend  off  sex 
zere  next  sweng.  And  the  sayd  Kendale  ....  paye  xiijs  iiijd 
at  Whesonday  next  comane,  and  xiijs  iiijd  at  Myghelmase  next 
swand,  and  xxxiij5  iiijd  [at  W]hesonday  next  swynge,  and  xxxiij5 
iiijd  at  Myghelmase  next  swynge,  and  xxxiij  s  iiijd  at  Whesonday 
next  swynge,  and  xxxiij8  iiijd  at  Myghelmase  next  swyng,  and 
xxxiij s  iiijd  at  Whesonday  next  swyng,  and  xxiij5  iiijd  at  Myghel- 
mase next  swyng,  and  xxs  at  Whesonday  next  swyng,  and  [  ] 
at  Myghelmase  next  swyng  :  the  sowme,  xx  marke.  And  the 
tenauntes  for  to  have  resonebyll  howsebote  and  haybote  at  the 
syght  of  the  seyd  Kendale  and  the  lordes  baylef.  In  wytnes 
off  yis,  ayther  parte  hafe  sette  yaire  sele.  Yis  wytnes  Nicholl 
off  Troghton,  John  off  Bekers  the  eldyr,  John  Scharpe,  Richard 
Benson,  Wylliame  off  "Pele,  and  other.  Gewyne  the  tent  day 
of  Fewyryere  in  the  yere  off  the  reyne  off  Keng  Henry  the  sext 
efter  the  Conquest  tent. 

LXXIX.     APPOINTMENT  OF  TRUSTEES  BY  NICHOLAS  STANLOWE 

AND  ALICE  HIS  WIFE,  TOUCHING  LANDS  AND  TENEMENTS  IN  EMYL- 

TON  AND  AISTHWAITE,  2O  JUNE,  1438.     [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Sciant  ....  quod  nos,  Nicholaus  Stanlowe  et  Alicia,  uxor  eius- 
dem  Nicholai,  dedimus  ....  Willelmo  Kellet,  persone  ecclesie  de 
Whityngham,  Ade  de  Erghome  vicario  ecclesie  de  Millom,  et 
Ricardo  Marshall,  capellano,  omnia  messuagia,  terras  et  tene- 
menta  nostra  ....  in  Emylton,  necnon  omnia  messuagia,  terras 
et  tenementa  nostra  ....  que  Willelmus  Kendale,  Nicholaus 
Sharppe  senior,  Johannes  de  Penyngton  miles,  Johannes  Ruk- 
<:rofte,  et  Nicholaus  Sharppe  iunior  nuper  separatim  tenuerunt 
in  Aisthwaite,  aceciam  omnia  ilia  terras  et  tenementa  .... 
que  Willelmus  Diconson  et  Ricardus  Johnson  separatim  tenent 
ex  parte  orientali  de  Aisthwaite  bek  in  Aisthwaite  predicta. 
Habendum  ....  Datum  vicesimo  die  Junii  anno  regni  regis 
Henrici  sexti  post  Conquestum  Anglie  sexto  decimo.  . 

LXXX.  DEED  OF  SETTLEMENT  BY  JOHN  OF  WESSYNGTON  OF 
HOLHED  IN  KENDALE  IN  FAVOUR  OF  ALISON  HIS  WIFE  AND 
NICHOLAS  OF  STANLEY  OF  COWPELAND,  HIS  WIFE'S  FATHER, 
1 6  FEBRUARY,  1441.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  577 

This  endentur  berys  wyttenes  that  John  of  Wessyngton  of » 
Halhed  in  Kendale  gewys  and  grauntys  and  by  this  present 
endentur  has  confermit  to  Alison,  my  wife,  and  to  the  ayrys  of 
our  twa  bodys  laghfully  getyn,  and  to  Nicolas  of  Stanley  of 
Cowpeland,  hyr  f adyr,  all  the  landys,  tenementys,  wodys,  medowys. 
and  mossys,  pastours  and  wastys,  the  whilk  that  I  stand  in  poss- 
ession of  at  the  makyng  of  this  endentur,  that  is  to  say,  of  the 
landys,  tenementys,  wodys,  medowys,  mossis,  pastouris  and 
wastys,  the  qwhylk  that  I  hafe  in  Powlton  in  Loncastyr  schyr, 
and  all  the  landys,  tenementys,  wodys,  medowys,  mossys,  pastours- 
and  wastis  thin  Strikeland  Ketilt  in  Kendale,  and  all  the  landys, 
tenementys,  wodys,  medowys,  mossis,  pastouris  and  wastis  in 
Staveley  Godmound  in  Kendale,  and  all  the  landys,  tenementys, 
wodis,  medowys,  mossis,  pastouris  and  wastis  in  Crok  in  Kendale, 
and  all  the  landis  that  I  may  stand  in  possession  of  in  tym  to  com, 
to  the  term  of  lyfe  of  the  said  John  of  Wessyngton.  To  hafe  and 
to  hold  all  the  beforsaid  landis,  tenementis,  wodis,  medowis, 
mossis,  pastouris  and  wastys  withe  the  apurtenaunce  in  Powlton 
in  Loncastr  schir,  and  all  the  landis,  tenementis,  wodis,  medowis, 
mossis,  pastouris,  and  wastis  in  Strikeland  Ketilt  in  Kendale, 
all  the  landis,  tenementis,  wodis,  medowis,  mossis,  pastouris,  and 
wastis  in  Staveley  Godmound  in  Kendale,  and  all  the  landis, 
tenementis,  wodis,  medowis,  mossis,  pastouris  and  wastis  in  Crok 
in  Kendale  w*  all  the  apurtenaunces  that  langys  to  the  sayd  landis 
to  the  terme  of  the  life  of  the  said  John.  And  I,  the  said  John  of 
Wessyngton,  all  the  beforsaid  landys,  tenementis,  wodis,  medowis, 
mossis,  pastouris  and  wastis  w*  all  the  apurtenaunces  like  als 
thay  er  rehersit  be  for  in  the  forme  befor  said  agaynys  all  men 
salle  warant  and  defend.  Thes  wittenes  John  of  Penyngton, 
knight,  John  of  Lamplow  swyer,  William  of  Strikland,  John  of 
Strikland  and  Rawlyn  Godmound.  In  to  the  wittenes  of  this 
thyng  the  parties  be  for  said  to  the  partes  of  this  endentouris 
thaire  sealles  hav  sete.  Gefyn  in  Kendale  the  sexteyn  day  of 
the  monethe  of  Fewyryere  the  yere  of  the  regnyng  of  our  lege 
lord  Kyng  Henry  the  sext  the  nientenyt. 

LXXXI.     ARBITRATION  AND  AWARD   BY   JOHN  HODELESTON. 

OF     MlLLOM     BETWEEN     THOMAS     STANELOWE,     SON     OF    NlCHOLL 

STANELOW,   AND  OTHERS,   TOUCHING  LAND  BETWEEN   ESK  AND 
DODEN,  1 8  APRIL,  1459-     [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

To  all  cristyn  pepill  whilk  this  present  writyng  indentit  sail  see 
or  here,  John  Hodeleston  of  Millom,  squyer,  sendes  gretyng  in 
God  everlastyng.  And  for  als  mekyll  as  there  has  ben  controv- 

2  P 


REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

ercye,  discorde  &  variaunce  betwix  Thomas  Stanelowe,  son  and 
heir  to  Nicholl  Stanelowe,  squyer,  on  the  ton  partie,  and  Richard 
Gybson,  son  &  here  to  Wyllam  Gybson  &  Margaret  that  was  the 
wyf  of  Richard  Gybson,  graunsir  to  ye  said  Richard,  on  ye  toyer 
partie,  for  certen  landes  &  tenementis,  with  ye  appurtenaunce, 
whilk  late  wer  Thomas  Gybson,  fader  to  ye  said  Richard,  graunsir, 
and  the  whilk  the  same  Thomas  sumtime  had  of  the  gyft  & 
feffement  of  Thomas  Stanelowe,  graunsir  to  ye  said  Thomas 
Stanelowe  betwix  Esk  &  Doden  in  y*  countee  of  Cumbreland,  of 
the  whilk  als  wele  the  said  Thomas  the  son,  with  sufficeant  suretee 
with  hym,  as  the  said  Richard  ye  son,  with  sufficeant  suretee 
with  hym,  for  hym  and  the  said  Margarete  are  bunden  aithir  to 
othir  be  thair  severelle  obligacions  in  Cu  to  abide  &  fulfill  the 
ordynaunce,  dome  and  awarde  of  me  the  said  John,  arbitrour 
indifferently  chosen  be  the  said  parties.  Wete  ye  that  I,  the  said 
John,  ye  xviij  day  of  April  the  yere  of  the  reigne  of  Kynge  Henry 
ye  YJte^  Xxxvij,  at  Millom  takyng  apon  me  to  make  ordynaunce, 
dome  &  awarde  betwix  the  said  parties  in  ye  maters  beforesaid, 
callet  thaym  before  me  &  herd  thair  bothir,  compleyntes,  gre- 
feaunce,  answers  &  replicacons,  as  it  was  behovely  &  expedient 
in  that  partie,  the  whilk  be  me  conteynet,  herd  &  wele  understand, 
orden,  dome  &  awarde  the  said  Richard  ye  son  &  Margaret  to 
have  to  thaym,  the  heires  &  assignes  of  the  said  Richard  ye  son, 
all  the  landes  &  tenementes  abovesaid  with  ye  appurtenaunce, 
except  a  tenement  with  ye  appurtenaunce  called  Akyrlawe,  wen 
acre  of  land  byng  in  ye  holm  of  Wyll  Bytchym,  and  that  the  said 
Thomas  the  son  make  the  said  Richard  ye  son  &  Margaret  als 
sure  of  all  the  landes  &  tenementes  abovesaid  except  before, 
except  as  thay  can  be  made  be  the  avyce  of  thair  counsell  apon 
thair  awn  cost,  and  also  that  the  same  Thomas  Stanelowe  delyver 
or  make  to  be  delyveret  to  the  said  Richard  ye  son  or  his  assignes 
the  taill,  by  the  whilk  the  said  Thomas  the  son  claymes  the  said 
landes  furthwith,  or  w^n  xiiij  daies  next  after  this  myn  awarde 
gevene.  Also  I  orden,  dome  &  awarde  the  said  Thomas  Stane- 
lowe ye  son  to  have  to  hym,  his  heires  &  his  assignes  for  evermore, 
the  said  tenement  with  ye  appurtenaunce  callet  Akyrlawe,  with 
ye  said  acre  of  land,  and  that  the  said  Richard  ye  son  &  Margaret 
make  the  same  Thomas  als  sure  of  ye  same  tenement  as  he  can  be 
made  be  avyce  of  his  counsell  apon  his  awn  cost.  In  witness 
whereof  to  this  myn  awarde  I  have  set  my  sele.  Geven  the  day, 
yere  &  place  abouesaid. 

LXXXII.  DECLARATION  BY  NICHOLL  OF  STANLOW  THAT 
ELSABETH,  WIDOW  OF  RICHARD  OF  STANLOW,  HAS  REFUSED  TO 
MARRY  HIS  SON  AND  HEIR.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  579 

Be  yt  knawen  to  all  menner  of  men  at  I,  Nicholl  of  Stanlow,  has 
prefert  my  sonne  and  my  nayre  un  to  Elsabeth  at  was  the  wyfe 
of  Richard  of  Stanlow  and  scho  has  byddyn  me  mary  hym  qwhare 
ever  I  wyll,  for  scho  wyll  not  have  hym.  Ther  being  wytnes 
Syr  John  of  Penygton  knyght,  William  Flemyng,  John  of  Trogh- 
ton,  John  of  Webert,  Robyn  Dicson  of  Mytyrdale,  John  Nicholson, 
Richard  Nicholson,  Robert  Nicholson,  John  Scharpe  the  helder, 
John  Scharpe  the  yonger,  Nicholl  Scharp,  Richard  Scharp, 
William  Tyson,  William  Robynson,  William  Robynson  Dicson, 
William  of  the  Woodhend,  William  Jacson,  Nicholl  Dicson, 
William  of  Kendale,  Richard  of  Sekere,  John  Deconson,  Thomas 
of  Herlar,  William  Richardson,  Richard  of  Borowdall,  Richard 
Wilson,  Richard  Benson,  and  others. 

LXXXIII.  GRANT  OF  ALD  HYTON  BY  THOMAS  STANLAWE  OF 
THE  DALEGARTHE  TO  ALICE  STANLAWE  HIS  MOTHER,  10  NOV- 
EMBER, 1503.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Be  it  knawen  to  all  men  beyng  present  and  for  to  cume,  yat  I 
Thomas  Stanlawe  of  ye  Dale  garthe  hav  gyffyne,  grauntyd,  and, 
w1  yis  my  presente  wrytyng  indentyd,  hav  confermyd  to  my  moder 
Alice  Stanlawe  a  place  cald  Aid  Hyton  in  ye  perischyng  of  Botil  in 
ye  county  of  Cumbr[land],  w*  all  ye  appurtenaunce  to  y*  said 
place  belongyng,  to  have  &  to  hold  ye  said  place  w1  all  ye  appur- 
tenances therto  belongyng  to  ye  said  place  fore  ye  terme  of  hyre 
lyffe  naturell.  And  I  ye  said  Thomas  and  myn  heire  at  ye  forsad 
place,  wl  all  yc  appurtenence,  to  ye  said  Alice  my  moder,  duringe 
hyre  lyffe,  agayne  all  folke  sail  warante  and  defende  for  terme 
of  hyre  lyffe.  And  if  it  happyn  ye  said  Alice  to  leve  ye  said  place 
and  byde  not  full  upon  it,  yen  sche  graunted  yat  heire  son  Thomas 
sail  have  it  to  ferme  affore  any  oder,  paying  there  fore  to  hyre 
yerly  or  to  hyre  assignes  xxs  of  gud  &  lawfull  money  of  Ingland 
be  evyn  porcions,  yat  is  to  saie,  at  Martynemas  and  Whissonday. 
Witnes  here  off  Sr  Willm  Hotton,  dene  of  Coupland,  Sr  Ric. 
Benson  prest.  And  fore  ye  more  suryty,  ye  said  Thomas  &  his 
moder  to  yis  present  wrytyng  hav  interchaynged  yiere  seals. 
Gyffyn  ye  x  day  of  ye  moneth  of  Novembre  in  ye  yere  of  Kyng 
Kerry  ye  vijth  y«  xixth. 

LXXXIV.  REVOCATION  OF  LETTERS  PATENT,  DATED  28 
NOVEMBER,  1406,  GRANTING  TO  ROBERT  HUNTE  THE  WARDEN- 
SHIP  OF  THE  FREE  CHAPEL  OF  STAYNBURNE  FOR  LIFE,  30  APRIL, 

1407.     [Pat.  R.  8  Hen.  IV.,  pt.  n.  m.  21  :    Dudgale,  Monasticon, 
Hi.  578-1 


580  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Rex,  etc.  Sciatis  quod  cum  xxviij  die  Novembris1  proximo 
praeterito  dederimus  et  concesserimus  dilecto  nostro  Roberto 
Hunte  custodiam  liberae  capellae  de  Staynburne  tune  vacantis 
et  ad  nostram  donationem  spectantis,  habendam  ad  totam  vitam 
suam,  etc.  Ac  monstrante  nobis  Thoma  abbate  monasterii 
beatae  Mariae  Eboracensis,  quod  cum  tempore  H[enrici]  filii 
regis  Willelmi,  quondam  regis  Angliae,  progenitoris  nostri,  quidam 
Willelmus  Meschyn  filius  Ranulphi  Meschyn,  tune  dominus  de 
Coupeland,  per  cartam  suam  dedisset  et  confirmasset  predictae 
ecclesiae  beatae  Mariae  Eboracensis,  per  nomen  ecclesiae  sanctae 
Mariae  Eboracensis  coenobii,  ecclesiam  sanctae  Begae  in  Coupe- 
landia  ac  certas  terras  in  Coupelandia,  ad  intentionem  et  effectum 
quod  esset  ibidem  quaedam  cella  monachorum  Deo  servientium, 
prout  extat  in  praesenti.  Concedendo  etiam  per  eandem  cartam 
suam  predictae  ecclesiae  beatae  Mariae  Eboracensis  illud  donum 
quietum,  quod  quidam  Walthef  filius  Gospatricii,  per  nomen 
Wallef,  tantum  dedit  eidem  ecclesiae  beatae  Mariae  Eboraci, 
videlicet,  Staynburnam.  Postmodumque  dominus  Stephanus 
quondam  rex  Angliae,  progenitor  noster,  per  cartam  suam  recit- 
ando  in  eadem  quod  praefatus  Walthef  dedit  predictae  ecclesiae 
sancte  Mariae  Eboraci  ecclesiam  de  Brunield  et  corpus  ejusdem 
manerii  et  tres  carucatas  terrae  in  Stainburne,  hoc  est,  totam 
villam  in  Stainburne,  donationem  illam  confirmaverit.  Subse- 
quenterque  diversi  alii  progenitores  nostri,  quondam  reges 
Angliae,  donationes,  etc.,  predictas,  etc.,  confirmaverunt,  prout 
etc.  Virtute  quarum  donationum  etc.  prior  dictae  cellae  sanctae 
Begae,  pro  tempore  existens,  ut  in  jure  predictae  ecclesiae  beatae 
Mariae  Eboraci  ac  nominibus  abbatum  ejusdem,  pro  tempore 
existentium,  praedictam  villam  de  Staynburnam  ut  villam  suam 
propriam  a  tempore  earundem  donationum,  concessionum,  et 
confirmationum  semper  hactenus  tenuit  et  occupavit  pacifice 
et  quiete.  Et  licet  predicta  villa  de  Staynburne,  in  dictis  literis 
nostris  specificata,  ac  dicta  villa  de  Stainburne,  praedictaque 
villa  de  Staynburnam  una  et  eadem  villa  existant,  et  non  diverse, 
ac  aliqua  capella  libera  sive  alia  apud  villam  praedictam  pre- 
terquam  quoddam  oratorium  duntaxat,  ac  per  quendam  priorem 
cellae  praedictae,  pro  consolatione  spirituali  ipsius  nuper  prioris 
et  monachorum  suorum,  ex  ejus  pia  devotione  jam  tarde  erectum 
et  constructum  minime  fuerit  situata  sive  aliqualiter  fundata, 
prout  praefatus  nunc  abbas,  viis  et  modis  quibus  convenit, 

1  The  date  of  this  grant,  as  enrolled,  is  24  November,  1406  (Col.  of  Pat. 
1405-1408,  pp.  272,  294).  See  also  p.  316  of  the  same  Calendar  for  a  precis  of 
the  revocation. 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  581 

paratus  est  edocere.  Idem  tamen  nunc  abbas  per  praefatum 
Robertum  colore  dictarum  literarum  nostrarum  sibi  ut  prae- 
mittitur  confectarum  indebite  vexatus  et  inquietatus,  etc., 
existit,  etc.,  et  nobis  supplicante  ut  dictas  literas  nostras 
eidem  Roberto  sic  factas  revocari  et  adnullari  jubere  vellemus. 
Per  breve  nostrum  nostrum  praeceperimus  vicecomiti  nostro 
Cumbriae  quod  scire  faciat  praefato  Roberto  quod  esset  coram 
nobis  in  cancellaria  nostra  ad  certum  diern  jam  praeteritum 
aut  ubicunque  tune  foret,  ad  ostendum  si  quid  pro  nobis 
pro  seipso  haberet  vel  dicere  sciret,  quare  literae  nostrae  pre- 
dictae  sibi  ut  praemittitur  factae  revocari  et  adnullari  non  deber- 
ent  etc.  Ad  quern  diem  tarn  predictus  Robertus  etc.  quam  pre- 
dictus  nunc  abbas,  etc.  comparuerunt,  et  praedictus  Robertus 
Hunt  nichil  scivit  dicere  in  effectu,  quare  dictae  literae  nostrae, 
sibi  ut  praemittitur  factae,  revocari  et  adnullari  non  debeant  etc. 
Nos  volentes  consideracionem  praedictam  effectui  debito  manci- 
pari,  dictas  literas  nostras  praefato  Roberto  Hunte  ut  praemittitur 
factas,  tenore  presentium,  duximus  revocandas  etc.  Teste  rege 
apud  Westmonasterium  xxx  Aprilis  [anno  etc  8V°]. 

LXXXV.  CONFIRMATION  BY  HENRY,  EARL  OF  NORTHUMBER- 
LAND, OF  CERTAIN  GRANTS  OF  HIS  PREDECESSORS,  LORDS  OF 

ALLERDALE,  TO  THE  MONKS  OF  ST.  BEES,  1473.  [From  the 
original  at  Hesleyside.]  , 

Henricus,  comes  Northumbrie  et  dominus  honoris  de  Coker- 
mouthe,  universis  et  singulis  ad  quos  presentes  litere  nostre 
pervenerint,  salutem.  Et  quia  inspeximus  quamdam  cartam 
nobilis  antecessoris  nostri  Willelmi  de  ffort',  comitis  Albermerlie, 
de  diversis  concessionibus  et  donacionibus  deo  et  ecclesie  sancte 
Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  deo  servientibus  pro  salute 
anime  sue  et  antecessorum  suorum  cuius  tenor  sequitur  in  hec 
verba  :  Willelmus  de  ffort',  comes  Albermerlie,  omnibus  has 
literas  visuris  vel  audituris  salutem.  Noverit  universitas  vestra 
me  concessisse  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmasse  deo  et 
ecclesie  sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  deo  servi- 
entibus pro  salute  anime  mee  et  antecessorum  meorum  omnes 
donaciones  quas  habent  de  antecessoribus  meis  in  feodo  meo  de 
Allerdale  et  de  Coupland,  scilicet,  quatuordecim  salmones  quos 
habent  de  dono  Alani  filii  Waldelf  et  de  eadem  donacione  dimid- 
iam  carucatam  terre  in  villa  de  Aspatrich  et  sex  acras  in  alio  loco 
in  eadem  sicut  continetur  in  carta  ipsius  Alani.  Preterea  dedi 
et  concessi  eis  et  hac  presenti  carta  mea  confirmavi  sex  salmones 
et  unam  mansuram  in  villa  de  Cokermouth,  illam,  scilicet,  quam 


582  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

dudum  Huctredus  de  Derham  tenuit :  et  viginti  solidos  singulis 
annis  recipiendos  de  Willelmo  de  Ribbeton  de  firma  sua  tantum- 
modo,  scilicet,  decem  solidos  ad  Pascha  et  decem  solidos  ad 
festum  sancti  Michaelis,  salvo  servicio  et  homagio  predict!  Will- 
elmi  de  Ribbeton  et  heredum  suorum  michi  et  heredibus  meis  de 
tenemento  illius  toto  pertinente.  Volo  autem  hec  omnia  predicta 
habeant  de  me  et  heredibus  meis  libere  et  quiete  in  puram  et 
perpetuam  elemcsinam,  sicut  predictum  est,  Hiis  testibus 
domino  Gaufrido  de  Scaunden,  domino  Petro  Gillot  tune  constab- 
ulario  de  Cokermouthe,  domino  Thoma  filio  Johannis,  domino 
Willelmo  de  Yreby,  domino  Radulfo  de  fferitate,  domino  Gaufrido 
de  Talantir,  domino  Hugone  de  Moriceby  et  aliis.  Necnon 
inspeximus  literas  confirmatorias  antecessorum  ncstrorum  de  pre- 
missis  factas.  Sciatis  nos  ob  reverenciam  dei  et  intuitu  caritatis 
omnes  predictas  donaciones,  concessiones  et  confirmaciones 
ratificasse,  approbasse  et  quantum  in  nobis  est  confirmasse  deo 
et  abbati  monasterii  beate  Marie  iuxta  Eboracum  et  ecclesie 
sancte  Bege  de  Coupland  et  monachis  ibidem  deo  servientibus 
imperpetuum.  In  cuius  rei  testimonium  presentibus  sigillum 
nostrum  apposuimus.  Data  infra  dictum  monasterium  undecimo 
die  mensis  Septembris  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  quarti  post  con- 
questum  Anglic  terciodecimo. 

LXXXVI.  EXCHANGE  OF  LAND  BETWEEN  THE  PRIORIES  OF 
ST.  BEES  AND  CONISHEAD,  1489-90.  [Deed  at  Ponsonby  Hall.] 

Be  itt  knawyn  to  or  ryght  wyrschypff ull  maysterys  y*  a  exchange 
is  maide  be  ye  vice  of  iij  tenandis  of  certane  dallis  of  lande  whar 
itt  lygys  and  how  in  Bramra,  vj  akar  w*  two  akar  on  ye  hall  croft 
w*  vj  akar  in  langakaris  lygyng  in  Auedalis,  w1  oder  halfe  akar  on 
ye  cotteflat  w*  iij  rode  in  annye  ij  wynys.  Ye  some  of  ye  hale 
is  xvj  akarys  and  a  rode  of  ye  howse  of  Conynghed.  Be  ye  vice 
of  yis  iij  tenandis  ye  howse  of  Conynghed  is  contentte,  lande  for 
lande  and  grysse  for  grysse,  be  nethe  ye  he  gaytt  w*in  yamselff 
in  ye  west  partte  off  ye  felde  ye  gronde  called  langwelflatt.  Be 
ye  vice  off  ye  forsaid  tenandis  hase  schaned  certane  dallis  of  land 
off  ye  howse  off  Sant  Beys  w*  v  akar  and  iij  rod  in  ye  langcrofte, 
ye  some  xij  akaris,  save  a  rode  y*  layd  to  ye  howse  of  Santt  Beys. 
Ye  howse  of  Sant  Beys  is  contentte  as  mekyll  land,  lande  for 
lande  and  grysse  for  grysse,  be  nethe  he  gaytt  in  ye  sowthe  partt 
off  ye  felde.  Yis  land  is  changhed  be  tenand  and  tenande  w*  ye 
leyffe  off  ye  lordis  off  bothe  parttis  as  lange  as  yai  will  souded. 
The  for  said  tenandis  hase  changed  v  akaris  on  Dowghscotte  wfc 
two  akar  att  ye  Spetyll  thorne  :  ye  some  vij  akaris  of  ye  howse  of 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  583 

Conynghed.  The  howse  of  Conynghed  is  content!  of  as  mekyll 
lande  be  nethe  ye  he  gaytt  of  ye  place  lande  in  ye  medys  of  Pon- 
sonby  dwellynge  apon  John  Schepherde.  Wryttyne  in  ye  feyfte 
yere  of  ye  reyne  of  kynge  Henry  ye  vij. 

LXXXVII.     LETTER  OF  ROBERT  ALANBY,  PRIOR  OF  ST.  BEES, 

ANNOUNCING  THE  ARRIVAL  OF  SOME  SHIPS  WITHIN  VIEW  OF  THE 
COAST  OF  COUPLAND,  SUPPOSED  TO  BE  OF  THE  DUKE  OF  ALBANY'S 

FLEET,  18  OCTOBER,  1523.  [Additional  MS.  24,965,  fol.  96, 
now  fol.  1 88.] 

Copia.     My  right  honorable  and  most  speciall  good  lord,  in 
my  most  lawly  maner  I  recomende  me  unto  your  good  lordship, 
ever  more  beseking  our  lorde  god  to  rewarde  your  good  lordship 
for  me  at  all  tymes,  and  now  as  specially  os  I  can  think  I  besiche 
your  good  lordship  of  your  good  contynuaunce,  for  my  good  lord 
it  is  thus  of  Surtie  that  great  nombre  of  Schippis  ar  sene  upon 
this  Cost  both  upon  Fridaye  and  satturdaye  last  past,  and  we  have 
warnyng  that  they  ar  of  the  duke  of  Albanys  company  and  woll 
land  upon  us  here  in  Cowpland  and  destroye  us  utterly.     Wher- 
fore  my  speciall  good  lorde  I  besich  your  good  lordship  to  regard 
this    pour    coste    and    countrey,    whiche    belongeth    unto    your 
m[er]chies  and  undre  your  protection  and  is  not  accustomed 
with  ?uch  weres,  but  oonly  suche  certeyn  gentilmen  and  there 
company  as  your  said  lordship  hade  called  upon  hertofore  at  your 
tyme  of  nede,  that  ye  wol  be  so  good  lorde  now  as  to  assigne  and 
commande  Mr.  Christofer  Curwen  of  Wirkington  and  maister  John 
Lamplew,  leutenaunt  of  Cokermouth,  and  Mr.  Richard  Skelton 
of  Branthuate  to  gyve  attendaunce  with  the  help  and  aide  with 
the  hole  company  of  this  litle  angle  of  Cowpland  to  resiste  and 
defende  the  countrey  with  the  grace  of  god  and  prayer  of  his  holy 
Sainctes,  to  whome  your  lordship  now  maye  bynde  us  ever  more 
to  prey  for  your  good  preservacion  and  good  spede.     And  els  I 
cannot  see  but  this  countrey  shalbe  utterly  destroyed  for  ever, 
which  god  forbede  whome  I  hartely  besiche  to  preserve  and  pros- 
per your  good  lordship  with  all  goodnes  after  your  deasire.     Amen, 
scriblyd  in  hast  at  Sainct  bees  upon  Sainct  luke  daye  thevangelist 
by  your  awne  dayely  bedeman 
dan  Robt  Alanby,  prior  of  Sanct 
bees  aforsaid. 
[No  endorsement.] 

LXXXVIIL     LETTER    OF    LORD    DACRE    TO    THE    EARL    OF 
SURREY  WITH  THE  NEWS  OF  THE  SHIPS  NEAR  THE  COAST  OF  COUP- 


584  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

iAND,  AS  ANNOUNCED  BY  PRIOR  ALANBY  OF  ST.  BEES,  2O  OCTOBER, 

1523.     [Additional  MS.  24,965,  fol.  99,  now  fol.  190.] 

Copie  of  a  lettre  to  therle  of  Surrey,  treas.  etc. 

My  lord,  in  humble  wise  I  recommende  me  unto  your  good 
lordship  and  am  advertised  by  my  lover  dan  Robert  Alanby, 
som  tyme  prior  of  Wedrall,  here  late  prior  of  Saint  Mary  abbay 
besydes  York,  and  now  prior  of  Sainct  bees  in  Cowpland  that 
great  nombre  of  shipps  were  sene  upon  the  west  cost  bothe  on 
friday  and  satturdaye  last  as  mey  appere  by  his  lettre  herewith 
sent  to  me  delivered  this  instant  hour  of  one  of  the  clok  aftre  noon 
this  tewisdaye  be  twoo  men  dwelling  in  the  towne  of  Sainct  bees 
called  Nicholas  more  and  William  gryndale,  being  in  good  name 
and  men  of  reputacion,  whom  I  examyned  and  by  them  I  undre- 
stande  that  upon  Sondaye  was  sevinnight  the  said  William 
gryndale  servauntes,  called  Matho  laurence  and  Anthone  Kerry- 
son,  being  in  the  Isle  of  Man,  saw  xxx  sales  or  theiaboutes  nighe 
the  cost  of  Man,  upon  the  south  side  of  the  Isle  of  the  same  betwene 
it  and  Irland,  riding  and  saleing  which  fraied  the  countrey  of 
of  Man  and  the  west  cost  of  this  realme  and  enforced  them  to 
kepe  watche  all  that  daye,  night  and  mondaye  till  noon.  The 
said  Nicholas  and  William  doth  also  shewe  me  there  was  two 
great  shipps  sene  upon  fridaye,  and  they  saw  oon  ship  on  settur- 
daye  last  sale  and  ride  allong  the  cost  of  the  seid  west  see  frome 
saincte  bees  hede  unto  Ravinglas  being  x  myles  soundry  (sic) 
and  so  southwarde  along  the  said  cost  of  this  realme  which  has 
put  them  in  greate  feare,  forasmuche  as  they  beleve  they  shuld 
be  parcell  of  the  duke  of  Albany  companye  awayting  and  watch- 
ing upon  odre  helpe  that  by  liklyhode  shulde  cum  and  land  upon 
the  same  cost  siche  tyme  as  the  duke  shulde  entir.  As  yet  my 
nighburs  of  Ann[an]dale  foragainst  me  Scottes  men  meves  nor 
makes  any  stir  but  remayneth  still  at  home  in  their  habitations. 
Othre  newes  at  this  tyme  worthy  advertisment  I  have  noon  etc. 
At  the  Kinges  Castell  of  Carlisle,  the  xx  daye  of  Octobre  anno 
xv  H[enrici]  viij. 

[No  endorsement.] 

LXXXIX.  LETTER  OF  WILLIAM,  ABBOT  OF  ST.  MARY'S,  YORK, 
TO  CROMWELL  ABOUT  THE  PRIOR  OF  ST.  BEES,  n  DECEMBER, 
1531.  [Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII.,  vol.  v.  578.] 

Ryght  honorable  in  my  mooste  feithfull  maner  I  comend  me 
unto  you  withe  like  thankes  for  yor  gentell  letter,  nott  onelye  as 
concernyng  the  prior  of  saynte  Bees  butt  also  for  all  yor  pleasoyr 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  585 

ande  gudnes  shewede  unto  me  ande  our  monasterye,  the  ccn- 
tenewaunce  wheroff  mooste  faithfullye  I  desyere.  Syr,  whereas 
ye  of  yor  gudnes  hath  opteigned  the  kynges  mooste  gracicus 
pardon  for  myn  apperrannyc  at  the  nexte  parlement  I  aim  in 
doubte  off  other  processe,  whych  by  the  ordor  of  hys  moost  drade 
lawes  may  come  in  dyscharge  theroff,  oneles  that  by  yor  favor 
and  off  yor  gudnes  ye  doo  consydre  the  longe  jornaye  and  season 
of  the  yeare,  and  yet  uppone  yor  pleasor  herein  knawne  unto  thys 
berrer  I  shalbe  redye  wyth  all  hys  moost  honorable  consell  as  to 
my  verraye  dewtye  apperteyneth  in  every  byhalff,  whych  I 
remytt  hollye  to  yor  gudnes.  And  by  thys  berror  my  servant  I 
doo  sende  yow  a  poure  tokyng  whych  I  besych  yow  take  in  gude 
worth  unto  suche  tyme  I  be  more  able  to  make  amendes  And 
thus  I  besyche  Jhesu  contenewe  you  long  in  honor.  Scrybled 
in  haiste  att  or  monasterye  off  Sayntmaryabbey  thys  xjth  day 
of  December  by  yor  humble  oretor 

Willm  abbot  of  the  savm 
[Addressed] 

To  the  ryght  honorable  and  my  syngler  goode  frende  Maistre 
Cromewell  yeve  thys 

XC  LETTER  OF  WILLIAM,  ABBOT  OF  ST.  MARY'S,  YORK,  TO 
CROMWELL,  TOUCHING  THE  PRIORY  OF  ST.  BEES,  i  JULY,  1533. 
[Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII.  vol.  vj.  746.] 

Ryght  Honorable  in  my  most  herte  maner  I  recommende  me 
unto  yor  masterschipe  with  Faithfull  thankes  for  yor  manyfold 
goodnesys  to  me  and  to  or  monastery  at  all  tymes  shewid  and  of 
yor  conty nuance  I  hertely  pra  yow.  Pleas  it  yow  to  understond 
that  I  have  sent  yow  by  thys  berer  the  lees  mayde  unto  Thomas 
Whalley  and  John  Redman  of  or  parsonage  of  Rudston  accordyng 
unto  my  promes  affore  mayde  and  also  I  send  yow  by  this  berer 
x!i,  whereof  v11  is  for  yor  half  yeres  Fee  and  the  other  v'1  I  send 
yow  for  a  poore  rewarde  for  yor  goodnes  to  me  shewyd  concernyng 
my  discherge  for  my  apperaunce  at  London  this  coronacion  which 
I  require  yow  to  accept  and  heireafter  when  I  am  of  more  abilite 
and  substance  I  shall  make  yow  a  ferthei  recompence.  Also  I 
ressavyd  yor  letters  concernyng  the  graunt  of  or  priore  of  Seynt 
Beys  to  the  Prior  there  now  beyng  to  haue  to  hym  for  terme  of 
his  lyf  under  or  Convent  seall.  Syr,  I  am  so  moch  boundon  to 
yow  in  all  my  causes  that  I  must  nedes  accompleshe  yo1  requestes, 
consideryng  that  yow  will  require  nothyng  of  me  and  my  brether- 
yng  bot  such  thynges  that  is  not  agaynst  the  will,  profett  or  hurt 
of  or  house.  Syr,  this  man  in  whos  favo1  ye  writ  to  me  of  hayth 


586  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

beyn  Prior  at  Lincolne  and  at  Seynt  Martyns,  parcell  of  or  mon- 
astere,  who  alwey  hayth  beyn  of  such  ordre,  condicions  and 
liberalte  that  he  thereby  brought  or  house  to  great  dettes  and 
other  Cherges  and  vexacions  which  this  berer  can  shew  unto  yow 
more  at  large,  to  whome  I  pra  yow  gyf  credence  intendyng  never 
to  put  hym  from  the  same  upon  his  good  goveinaunce,  bot  onely 
to  thentent  that  he  may  look  of  hym  self  the  better  to  the  honor 
of  God  and  well  of  or  house  as  knowes  God  who  ever  preserve 
yow  in  honor  to  the  plesure  of  God.  From  York  the  Fyrst  dey 
of  July 

Yowr  dayly  bedmane  William 

abbot  of  ye  sayme 
[Addressed] 

To  the  right  honorable  Master 

Thomas  Cromwell,  one  of  the 

kynges  most  honorable  counsell, 

this  bill  be  delyveryd. 

XCI.  LETTER  OF  SIR  GEORGE  LAWSON  TO  CROMWELL  ABOUT 
THE  PRIORY  OF  ST.  BEES,  28  OCTOBER,  1533.  [Letters  and 
Papers  of  Henry  VIII.  vol.  vi.  1359.] 

Right  worchipfull  Sir,  after  my  full  hertiest  recommendacion, 
and  as  I  am  enformed  ther  hathe  bene  pursuit  and  labor  maid 
unto  you  of  late  in  the  favo1  of  Dan  John  Mathew,  late  prior  of 
Saynt  Bees,  to  haue  the  same  in  perpetuite  undir  the  covent 
seale  of  Saynt  Mary  abbey,  the  whiche  dan  John,  I  assure  yow, 
is  a  verey  yll  Husband  as  hathe  bene  well  proved  at  Lincoln, 
Saynt  Martyns  and  Seynt  Bees,  where  he  hathe  bene  prior  :  And 
now  of  late  gret  complayntes  cumyng  of  extorcion  and  other  gret 
urgent  wronges  done  at  Saynt  Bees  to  the  Tenantes  and  inhabit- 
antes  ther.  Wherapon  on  Saynt  Calixt  daye  last  (14  Oct.,  1533) 
at  the  generall  chapiter  yerely  holden  at  Saynt  Mary  abbey,  as 
the  usuall  custume  is,  where  all  the  priours  of  the  Celles  and  other 
hede  officers  of  the  said  Monastierie  dothe  assemble  to  see  and 
aview  thestate  and  acomptes  of  the  same,  knowing  the  demeanor 
and  yll  Husbandrye  of  the  said  Dan  John  exchanged  and  revoked 
hym  from  Saynt  Bees.  And  yete  where  he  shuld  haue  bene  a 
conventuall,  for  your  sake  and  favor  of  your  former  letter,  named 
hym  to  be  priour  of  Saynt  Martynes,  a  propir  Celle  nye  unto 
Richemond  and  a  resonable  good  lifting.  Whiche  he  cold  never 
optayne  but  in  your  favour.  And  now  it  is  reported  unto  you 
that  he  shuld  be  otherwise  entreated,  which  of  a  surtie  is  not  so, 
but  my  Lord  abbott  doth  and  woll  do  at  your  complentacion  all- 


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that  reasonably  is  to  be  done.  And  yete  his  brethren  and  covent 
is  fore  sett  against  the  said  dan  John  Mathew  for  his  mysde- 
meanour  many  wayes.  And  it  hath  not  bene  sene  that  any  per- 
petuite  hath  bene  graunted  undir  covent  scale  to  such  like  person 
w*out  a  speciall  and  urgent  cause  and  a  man  proved  of  good 
demeanor  and  husbandrye  for  the  well  of  his  house.  Wherfore 
I  hertly  pray  you  to  take  this  mater  as  it  is  in  dede,  and  to  con- 
tynue  your  good  frendship  to  my  said  Lord  abbot,  whom  I  assure 
you  is  all  yours  and  at  your  commaundment  in  that  thing  that 
he  can  or  may  do.  And  that  it  may  please  you  to  geve  no  credens 
to  any  person  that  shall  make  suite  or  labo*  agaynst  my  said  Lord 
abbott.  Wherin  if  any  suche  shalbe,  I  doubt  nott  but  he  woll 
make  you  suche  aunsuer  as  shall  stand  w*  reason  and  content 
yor  mynde  at  all  tymes,  whiche  he  moche  desireth  to  do  that  thing 
that  may  be  to  yor  pleasur  .... 

At  Yorke  this  xxviij*11  day  of  Octobr 

Yor  own  ever  hertly 

George  Lawson 

[Addressed] 

To  my  right  worshipfull 
Maister  Cromwell  of  the 
kynges  most  honorable 
counsell  be  this  geven. 

XCII.  LETTER  OF  ROBERT  COKETT  TO  CROMWELL  COMPLAIN- 
ING OF  THE  ABBOT  OF  YORK'S  TREATMENT  OF  HIS  KINSMAN,  THE 
PRIOR  OF  ST.  BEES,  1534.  [Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII. 
vol.  vi j.  295.] 

Right  wirshipefull  sir,  in  my  moste  hartelyst  maner  I  recom- 
mende  me  unto  yor  Mastershype,  desyrynge  ever  more  for  to  heir 
of  your  good  helth  and  welfare.  Sir,  I  haue  send  up  unto  you 
by  my  servand  the  ferme  of  Wheytwhange  w*  all  the  members 
yerto  belongynge  :  ye  some  yerof  drawyth  thre  score  pownd  and 
thre  xiiij8  vijd  of  money,  besydes  yer  bylles  of  allowance,  besekynge 
your  Mastershype  for  to  remember  to  gett  ye  fermold  of  ye  same, 
w*  all  ye  members,  by  the  old  ferme  and  ye  shalbe  in  chose  whether 
ze  will  have  x1  powndes  at  ye  first  day  of  my  entre  or  ze  will  haue 
xx11  nowbilles  by  yere. 

Sir,  where  as  I  haue  leveryd  yor  letter  to  ye  abbott  of  santt 
Mary  abbay,  he  hath  handyllyth  ye  prior  so  yll  as  no  mane  wold 
do  unto  syche  a  mane  yff  ze  knew  hyme,  for  he  had  disschargyd 
hyme  of  ye  priorshipe  of  santt  Bees  or  your  letter  war  delyvered, 


588  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

and  yen  by  cawse  he  myghtt  nott  for  shame,  by  cawse  he  cowld 
fynde  no  matter  of  trewth,  make  hym  a  closter  monke  he  gayffe 
hyme  for  to  stoppe  hym  wi  all  ye  Priore  of  santt  Martyns,  and 
was  bownd  theder  and  as  sone  as  he  dyd  see  your  letter  he  was 
dischargyd  yerof  and  makyth  hyme  as  a  closter  monke  w*  ye 
worst,  wiche  grewith  me  sore,  seinge  I  haue  no  mo  kynsmene 
alyve  beyng  preist  but  hym  :  yerfore  I  wold  beseke  you  for  to 
gett  ye  kynges  letter  specyall  y*  he  myghtt  be  restoryd  unto  the 
Priore  of  santt  Bees  for  hys  lyffe.  I  shall  gyffe  you  xxtl  markes 
and  ye  kynge  x1  pownde  as  sone  as  he  is  mayer  sure  yerof.  More 
over  yff  it  shall  soo  chans  y*  ye  abbott  shall  lay  ony  thynge  unto 
his  charge  as  extorcione  or  oppression  don  to  ony  of  hys  tenandes 
it  shall  not  be  pervyd  to  byid  for,  and  y*  he  reporttes  hym  to  ye 
gentyllmen  and  yomen  in  ye  cowntre  w*  all  ye  honest  men  yeiin. 
But  be  cawse  ye  abbot  can  nott  gett  owt  nothynge  accordyng  to 
hys  mynde  yl  yis  labour  come  of  hyme  and  not  of  me  by  hys 
provocacion,  he  has  mayd  one  of  his  brether  a  fals  harlott  to 
cause  dyvers  fraward  fellows  to  say  y*  I  gard  yem  pay  more  yau 
yai  shuld  pay,  I  shall  make  good  be  fore  ye  kynge  and  hys  cownsell 
y4 1  never  toke  penny  of  no  tennand  more  yen  my  dowty  and  nott 
soo  muche.  Allsoo  yf  ye  abbott  say  y*  hys  brether  was  not 
contentt  w*  hyme,  it  shalbe  prevyd  contrare,  for  ye  abbott  send 
theeer  the  Prior  of  the  monastery  and  Bachyller  Elemar  of 
visitacione,  and  thai  then  nether  cowd  nor  dyd  lay  nothynge  to 
hys  charge  bott  by  fals  provocacione  as  is  rehersyd,  and  yf  he 
wer  amonges  them  ye  trewth  than  shuld  sone  be  knowne  to  theire 
rebuke  and  shame.  No  more  unto  yow,  but  Ihesu  haue  yow  in 
hys  kepynge. 

By  your  dayly  bedman 

Robert  Cokett. 
[Addressed] 

To  the  ryghtt  wirshipfull  Master 

Cromwell,  one  of  the  kynges  cownsell, 

be  yis  byll  delyvered. 

XCIII.  LETTER  OF  WILLIAM,  ABBOT  OF  ST  MARY'S,  YORK,  TO 
CROMWELL,  ABOUT  THE  PRIOR  OF  ST.  BEES,  18  JANUARY,  1537. 
[Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII.  vol.  xn.  132.] 

Ryghte  honorable  and  my  singuler  good  lorde  in  my  moste 
humble  maner  I  recomend  me  to  yor  lordschype  desiringe  yowe 
for  the  love  of  God  to  be  good  lord  to  me  and  this  ye  kinges 
monastery  as  yowe  haue  euer  been  and  to  accept  me  in  yor 
lawefulle  favore  as  yowe  have  ever  doon,  for  of  my  fidelite  I  ame 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  589 

hathe  been  and  shalbe  the  kinges  trewe  sugget  and  yor  beadman 
and  at  this  tyme  I  send  yowe  a  poore  tokyn  her  inclosid,  desiring 
yowe  to  take  my  poor  herte  and  as  I  have  been  usid  in  this  dan- 
gerows  tyme  w*  diverse  persons  the  contie  can  testifie  and  as  I 
have  used  me  that  I  did  was  for  feer  and  o'the  utter  destruccon 
of  this  monastery  as  I  shalbe  ever  abyed  prove,  when  the  kinges 
grace,  yowe,  or  other  of  his  nobille  cowncelle  shalle  caulle  me  to 
examinacons  and  that  it  may  pleas  yowe  to  give  credence  to  the 
oerrer  her  of  and  inesspecialle  as  toching  ye  prior  of  saint  Bees 
and  ye  Holie  Trinite  preserve  yor  lordschipe  in  moche  honor. 
Frome  Overtone  this  xviijth  day  of  January 

Yowre  humble  beadman 

Willm  abbotte  of  York 
[Addressed] 

To  the  righte  honorable  and  his  singuler  good  lord  my  lord 
privie  Seall  yeve  this. 
[Endorsed] 

The  abbot  of  Yorke  the  xviij  day  of  January  desiringe  favor 
for  the  monastery. 

XCIV.  LETTER  OF  WILLIAM,  ABBOT  OF  ST.  MARY'S,  YORK,  TO 
CROMWELL,  ABOUT  "  DAN  ROBERT  PADDY,  PRIOR  OF  THE  CEALLE 
OF  SANCTE  BEES,"  18  JANUARY,  1537.  [Letters  and  Papers 
of  Henry  VIII.  vol.  xij.  133.] 

Pleasithe  yor  good  lordshipe  to  be  advertised  that  wher  accord- 
ing to  the  comandment  of  my  lorde  of  northfolkes  grace  and  you 
in  ye  favor  of  dan  Robert  Paddy  prior  of  the  cealle  of  Sancte 
Bees  I  dyde  sende  hym  from  this  monasterye  to  the  saide  celle 
and  as  it  is  surmised  he  sholde  be  lettyd  by  ye  comons  in  thes 
perties  in  his  rydyng  theder  un  knowlege  or  wityng  to  me  as  I 
take  God  to  my  jugge  and  as  I  have  dewlye  proued  by  honeste 
personages  as  yor  good  lordshipe  may  parceive  the  names  send 
to  you  by  this  berrer  and  as  glaide  ys  and  shalbe  to  observe  yor 
comandment  in  that  and  all  other  thinges  as  any  man  leveyng  in 
this  worlde.  Wherfor  it  maye  plese  yor  good  lordeshipe  to  geve 
no  credaunce  to  lyght  persones  in  the  reporte  of  me  contrarye  to 
righte  and  my  good  herte  and  will  towardes  yo1  lordshipe  whiche 
I  am  bownde  to  owe  unto  you  and  shall  dooe  during  my  liffe. 
And  as  I  have  writyn  unto  you  of  late  in  my  letter  delyverid  unto 
William  Manscell  to  be  send  to  yor  lordeshipe  with  a  poore  tokyn 
yerin.  And  assuridlye  ye  shalbe  of  my  poor  herte  and  dailye 
praer  with  all  my  brethren  as  God  knowith  who  ever  preserve  yor 


5QO  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

good  lordshipe  in  honor  and  prosperite  to  yor  hertes  comforthe 
From  Yorke  this  xviijth  daye  of  Januarye. 

Yowre  humble  beadmane 

Willm  abbot  ther 
[Addressed] 

To  the  right  honorable  and  his  singuler  good  lorde  my  lord 
prevaye  sealle  yeve  this 
[Endorsed] 

The  abbot  of  saynt  Mary 

abbey  in  Yorke  the 

xviijth  of  January 

XCV.  LETTER  OF  WILLIAM,  ABBOT  OF  ST.  MARY'S,  YORK,  TO 
CROMWELL,  ABOUT  THE  PRIOR  OF  ST.  BEES,  12  MARCH,  1537. 
[Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII.  vol.  xij.  640.] 

Pleaseth  it  yor  lordshipe  to  be  advertysed  that  upon  the  syght 
of  yor  ryght  honorable  and  lovyng  lettres  to  me  directyde  I  was 
contentyd  to  send  the  pryor  of  sancte  Bees  to  hys  rowme  there 
with  all  diligence  in  that  behalfe  of  me  requyred,  and  by  thys 
berar  my  servant  I  send  yor  sayd  lordshipe  a  poore  tokyn  whiche 
I  beseyche  you  take  in  worthe.  Trustyng  in  the  contynuance 
of  yor  goodnesse  towardes  me  and  my  poore  brethern  as  we  ar 
alwayes  at  yor  comandment  with  or  assured  daly  prayers  for  the 
kynges  hyghnes  and  yor  good  lordshipe  acordyng  to  or  bounden 
dewties  evermore  to  be  had  in  memorye.  And  or  lord  God  ever 
preserve  yor  good  lordshipe  in  myche  honor  to  yor  most  harties 
desyre.  At  sancte  Marye  Abbey  of  York  this  xij  day  of  March 

Youre  humble  beadman 

Willm  abbot  ther 
[Addressed] 

To  the  ryght  honorable 

and  my  most  especyall 

good  lorde  my  lord 

pryvye  scale 
[Endorsed] 

Thabbot  of  saint  Maries  in  Yorke. 
The  abbot  of  Saint  Marie  abbey  in  Yorke. 

XCVI.  LETTER  OF  WILLIAM,  ABBOT  OF  ST.  MARY'S,  YORK,  TO 
CROMWELL,  TOUCHING  THE  HAWKS  HE  WAS  SENDING  HIM  FROM 
ST.  BEES,  4  JULY,  1538.  [Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII. 
vol.  xnj.  1325.] 

Pleas  it  yor  honorable  lordeship  to  be  advertised  at  this  tyme 
I  do  send  to  you  the  hawkes  that  were  at  seynt  Bees  with  yor 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  5QI 

servant  Stephen  Foxe  and  one  Roger  Sandes.  The  cause  of  their 
so  longe  tarieng  was  the  unstablenes  of  the  weder  in  this  countree. 
Pleas  it  yor  honorable  lordeship  there  was  one  Roger  Paddye 
which  was  besye  in  takyng  the  said  hawkes  sayeng  it  was  yor 
lordeship  pleasour  he  shuld  so  do,  but  for  so  much  he  cowde  shew 
no  such  comaundement  I  discarged  hym  of  the  same  and  delivered 
them  to  this  yor  servant  accordyng  to  yor  honorable  comaunde- 
ment. And  if  it  pleas  yor  lordeship  to  comaunde  this  man  which 
at  this  tyme  dothe  accompany  yor  said  servant  to  do  his  diligence 
yerely  for  takyng  the  said  hawkes  I  shall  see  yor  honorable 
pleasure  Shalbe  therin  surely  accomplysshed,  and  that  they  shalbe 
taken  branchers.  And  also  that  he  shall  yerely  convey  them  up 
to  yor  lordeshipp  if  it  stand  w4  yor  goode  pleasure  or  els  whom  so 
ever  it  shall  pleas  yo1  honorable  lordeshipp  to  appoynt  or  send. 
But  trewthe  is  I  know  no  man  so  convenient  as  this  man,  for  he 
dwelleth  nighe  them  and  they  buyld  upon  his  fermhold,  and  he 
dothe  yerely  watche  them  to  such  tyme  they  be  taken.  Desiryng 
yor  honorable  lordeship  the  same  to  give  ferther  credence  to  the 
berer  herof.  And  not  only  in  this  poore  thyng  but  in  all  other 
to  the  utterest  of  my  litill  power  I  shalbe  glad  to  accomplyshe 
yor  honorable  pleasour  to  my  lives  end  as  knowith  the  holy 
Trinite  who  ever  preserve  yor  lordeship  in  muche  honor  to  his 
most  highe  pleasure.  From  Yorke  this  iiijth  day  of  July 
Yowre  honorable  lordschypes 

humble  beadmane 

Wittm  abbot  ther 
[Addressed] 

To  the  right  honorable  and 

singuler  goode  lord,,  my  lord 

prive  Seall  to  the  kynges  highenes 
[Endorsed] 

Thabbot  of  Saint  Mare 

toching  hawkes  be  syde 

sant  Bees.     July  iiij° 

XCVII.  LETTER  OF  SIR  THOMAS  CURWEN  TO  SIR  THOMAS 
WHARTON  ON  THE  UNSETTLED  CONDITION  OF  WEST  CUMBERLAND 
IN  1537.  [Letters  and  Papers  of  Henry  VIII.  vol.  xij.  part  i. 

185-] 

Broder   In  my  most  hertly  maner  I  recomende  me  to  you,  a: 
as  my  most  assewrede  tryst  ys  in  you  to  shew  the  kyngys  hyghnes 
or  hys  most  honorable  consell  the  stayte  of  thes  weste  partes  01 
Comberlande  of  my  informacion  to  you  by  thes  letter,  wyche  ys 


592  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

all  trewe.  The  west  partes  of  Comberlande  from  Plomlonde  to 
Mongcaster  ys  all  on  flowghter,  ande  mor  rebelles  then  euer  thay 
war,  bothe  in  thare  wordes  and  dedys,  nothyng  regardyng  the 
kynges  most  gracius  pardon  wythe  hyegh  wordes  of  yt.  On 
Setter  day  beyng  the  xiij  day  of  Jeneware  a  sarvande  of  Docter 
Lees  callede  Robert  Wetlay  ded  come  to  Mongcastar  and  logede 
at  Roger  Fylbeces  howse,  and  Parson  Wodall  w*  hym,  and  on 
the  morow  comyng  hon  hys  way,  all  the  holl  centre  thareabowte 
to  the  nomber  of  fyfe  honderethe  men  ded  ryse  on  hym  ande 
towke  hym  ande  browghte  hym  to  Agremonde,  whethr  he  was- 
watchede  lyke  a  theffe  all  ye  neyght,  and  so  kepede  hym  to 
Monday  ande  browght  hym  to  Cokkarmowthe  in  to  the  market, 
where  dede  assembyll  all  the  holle  centre  of  comonte.  Som 
sayde,  "  stryke  of  hys  hede,"  and  sayde,  "  steke  hym."  Throthe 
was  he  was  serchede  yf  he  hayde  browght  onye  letteres  frome  the 
kynge  to  oney  gentyllman  in  the  centre,  and  thare  wase  fownde 
hone  hym  dyveres  letteres  sent  frome  Docter  Lee  to  gentyllmen 
and  nothyng  in  thayme  consernyng  the  kynges  hyeghnes  nor  the 
comens,  but  all  thay  holle  conclewdede  to  pute  hym  to  dethe, 
sayng  that  no  letters  shwllde  be  browght  in  to  the  centre  frome 
the  kyng,  but  he  that  suche  browght  showllde  be  pute  to  dethe. 
By  the  menes  of  yong  Johan  Swenbwrne  hys  lyfe  was  saved  for 
that  day,  on  hys  promys  to  bryng  hyme  to  the  hopen  market 
at  Cokarmothe  the  next  monday  and  thare  to  be  tryede  by  xxiiij 
men  wheder  he  dede  bryng  any  oder  letturs  as  to  the  herle  of 
Ccmberlande,  you  or  me.  Yff  thay  can  prove  honae  lettures  or 
masuges  frome  the  kyng  or  hys  consell  browght  by  hym,  thay 
ar  conclewdede  to  put  hym  to  dethe,  and  for  to  make  serche  thay 
haue  mayde  men  in  to  all  places  as  he  come  so  fare  as  Skypton  to 
inquere  what  he  haithe  done  by  the  way.  What  shall  become  off 
hym  Gode  knowes.  On  Thwrsday  beyng  the  xviijth  day  of  thys 
monethe,  comonte  dede  assemble  sertayne  towneshypes  in  every 
quarter  and  ded  spole  all  ye  tethe  barnes  on  the  west  syde  of 
Darwent :  the  same  Thursday,  beyng  xviij  day  of  thys  monethe, 
at  Lanslot  Hemares  howse  was  the  holde  wyffe  put  forthe  of  hyr 
possescion  by  Hyymar  that  makes  tytyll  to  the  lande.  All  the 
contrarye  part  dede  assembyll  w1  all  thar  partlakeres  and  all 
Heyghmer  f rends  dyd  assemble  in  lyke  case,  so  that  a  gret  fray 
wase  lyke  [to]  grow.  What  shal  become  of  all  thys  I  shall  sende 
you  worde  as  sone  as  I  knowe,  for  at  my  comyng  away  in  to 
Yorkshyer  wase  all  thys  in  honde.  The  cawse  of  my  comynge 
in  to  Yorkshyer  was  I  hayde  war[ning]  by  dyveres  that  the 
comons  ded  assembyll,  on  Fryday  the  xiiij  thys  monthe,  at 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  593 

Mewthow  purposly  oder  to  sett  on  Carlell  or  hels  to  take  me  and 
make  me  swere  to  take  thare  part  or  elles  to  pute  m[e]  to  dethe, 
wyche  I  haide  rather  sofer  then  to  be  hontrew  to  hys  hyeghnes. 
My  lyfe  shall  ende  in  hys  trew  servyse.  Broder,  beyng  alone, 
and  no  gentyllmen  abowte  me  to  tryst  on,  I  am  comen  into 
Yorkeshyer  to  Sherofhoton  where  I  have  spoken  wythe  the 
Kynges  tenandes,  who  haithe  fully  promysede  me  to  take  my 
part  in  the  kynges  qwarelys  aganste  hony  that  wyll  rysse.  I 
trwst  to  Gode  to  do  the  kyng  goode  servyse  in  thys  partes.  At 
my  comyng  to  Rychmonde  and  logede  at  [Ralwfe  Gowares  howse, 
thare  come  a  byll  to  the  towne  of  Rychmonde,  [th]e  pertyclys 
of  the  same  byll  I  do  sende  you  her  inclosede.  Dyverse  of  thaym 
ys  sent  abrode  as  Dorem  and  Barna  Castell  ande  fere  in  to  Com- 
berlande  and  Westmerlande.  I  beseche  you  make  my  lorde  of 
Northefolke  grace  and  my  lorde  admyrall  prevay  to  all  thes. 
I  have  browght  yor  broder  in  to  Yorkshyer  w*  me,  for  yf  he  be 
in  Cokermowthe,  to  Gode  sende  a  better  stay,  yt  wyll  cost  hym 
hys  lyfe,  albet  the  towne  of  Cokermowthe  ys  gode  and  trew 
subiectes  to  the  kyng  as  yet.  I  have  ben  w*  thaym  dyverse 
tymes,  parswadede  thame  to  the  best  of  my  power,  wyche  haithe 
as  yet  folowde  my  power  adwyse.  [There]  ys  no  way  to  stay 
Comberlande,  as  I  thynke,  but  houle  garesons  ....  will  pese 
thaym  nor  nothyng  but  cwrrecion  :  thay  wyll  here  nor  trwst  no 
man  that  spekes  contrary  thayme.  I  tr[wst  in]  Gode  yet  to  se 
a  better  worlde.  The  cawse  I  dede  no  sonar  sende  known  .... 
to  you  to  informe  the  kynges  hyeghnes  as  I  wase  lade  for  in  every 
qwarter  of  the  centre  that  I  shwllde  not  depart  nor  send  no  letteres 
forth  to  no  man,  so  that  I  ded  not  wryte  to  come  at  Yorke.  What 
shal  become  of  my  wyfe  and  chylder  Gode  knowes  :  thay  war 
in  gode  helthe  at  the  makyng  herof.  All  the  comonte  dothe 
thenke  yi  my  lorde  of  [N]orthefolke  wyll  not  come  in  to  thes 
northe  partes,  wyche  makes  all  thys  :  yt  ys  brewted  and  spred 
abrode  amonges  the  comons  that  ye  kyng  ys  in  dysplesure  w* 
my  lorde  of  Northefolke.  I  have  shewede  the  contrary  throwght 
all  the  centre.  Some  gyfys  credens  to  me  and  some  sayede  I  do 
but  desave  thayme.  Goode  broder,  do  in  all  thys  as  yor  wisdom 
shall  thynke  goode.  At  Yorke,  thys  xxj  day  of  Janeware,  your 
asswrede  broder  Thomas  Curwen 

[Addressed] 

To  my  broder  Sr 

Thomas  Wharton 
[Endorsed] 

Thomas  [Curwen  to] 

Tho.  Wharton 

against  Rebells  ,    2  Q 


594  REGISTRUM    PRIORATUS    DE    SANCTA   BEGA 

XCVIII.  ABSTRACT  OF  THE  TOTAL  REVENUES,  SPIRITUAL 
(INCLUDING  PENSIONS)  AND  TEMPORAL,  OF  THE  PRIORY  OF  ST. 
BEES  ACCORDING  TO  THE  OLD  (I2Q2)  AND  THE  NEW  (1334)  TAX- 
ATIONS. [Taxatio  Ecclesiastica  P.  Nicholai  iv.  pp.  328-9,  Rec. 
Com.] 

Decanatus  Coupland. 

Spiritualia. 
Antiqua  taxatio  Nova  taxatio 

(1292)  (1334) 

Ecclesia  Sancte  Bege  £66  13  4  £1000 

Pensiones  in  Decanatu  Coupland  remanent  sub 

antiqua  taxatione 

Pensio  Prioris  Sancte  Bege  in  ecclesia  de  Wythyngham     £o  10     o 
Pensio  ejusdem  in  ecclesia  de  Egremund  120 

Pensio  ejusdem  in  ecclesia  de  Botill  040 

Pensio  ejusdem  in  ecclesia  de  Wirkyngton  2   15     4 

Pensio  ejusdem  in  ecclesia  de  Whitebeck  050 

Temporalia. 

Antiqua  taxatio  Nova  taxatio 

Prior  de  Sancta  Bega  ^1293  ^3^8 

XCIX.     REGISTRUM    PARTICULARIUM    PROCURATIONUM,     DEN- 

ARIORUM    BEATI    PETRI    ET    SYNODALIUM    SINGULIS    ANNIS    ARCHI- 

DIACONO    RICHMONDIE    CUM    PENSiONiBUS.     [Registrum   Honoris 
de  Richmond,  App.  pp.  72,  77,  ed.  Gale.] 

Decanatus  Coupland. 

Denarii 
Ecclesia        Procurationes        S.  Peiri     Synodalia          Pensiones 

non  dantur 

S.  Begae  xxs.  in  vs.  vjs  viijd. 

Cowpland  ad  festuin 

allocantur  S.  Martini 

hae  procurationes  pro  carter, 

pro  esculentis  et  vel  conduct, 

poculis  cum  venit  ad  aquam, 

ibi  Archidiaconus  si  necesse 

sit. 

C.     VALUATION   OF  THE  CELL  OF   ST.    BEES,   MADE  IN    1535 

UNDER    THE    AUTHORITY    OF    26    HEN.    VIII.    CAP.    3,    WHICH    GAVE 

THE  FIRST  FRUITS  AND  TENTHS  TO  THE  KING.     [Valor  Ecclesi- 
asticus,  v.  ii,  Rec.  Com.] 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS 


595 


d. 


Ixij  vij  xob. 


Com.  Cumbr. 
Cella  Sancte  Bege  in  Com.  Cumbr. 

Johannes  Poule  incumbens 

Temporalia  valent  in 

Scit.  celle  predict,  valet  in  terr.  dnic.  cum  claus. 
ibm.  per  annum 

Libis.  firm.  divs.  liborum.  tenencium  in  divs.  dniis. 
et  villat.  subscript,  viz.,  in  villat.  de  Homsyngham, 
xxiiijs  :  Rybton  cum  ptin.  per  annum,  xxs  :  Harras 
per  annum,  xvd  :  et  pro  divs.  terr.  inter  aquas  de 
Eske  et  Dodyn,  Ixxij8  iijd.  Et  reddit.  et  firm.  divs. 
dnior.  terr.  et  tentor.  tenencium  ad  volunt.  dni.  per 
annum,  viz.,  manerium  de  Stanburne  cum  ptin. 
per  annum,  xi1*  vijs  xd  :  Kyrkeby  Becok  cum  mol- 
endino  et  pratis,  xv11  ijs  iiijd  ;  Lowkerige  per  annum 
vj8  vijd  ob.  :  Wodend  per  annum  x«  :  Catgill  per 
annum  xviijd  :  Wray  per  annum  ijs  :  Walton  cum 
ptin.  per  annum  xxxs  :  Sandwatth  cum  ptin.  per 
annum  vij1*  xjs  iijd  :  Rotyngton  cum  ptin.  per 
annum  vij8  iiijd  :  Preston  Howse  cum  ptin.  per  t  /  s 
annum  xxiiij5  :  Whi  thane  wod  per  annum  xiijs  iiijd  : 
Rescow  Parke  per  annum  xs  :  Aiathuayte  cum  ptin. 
per  annum  xxxiiijs  :  Whithaven  cum  ptin.  per 
annum  liiij3  :  Flatt  cum  ptin.  per  annum  xxvjs 
viijd  :  Blakenthuayte  per  annum  viijs  :  Corkgill 
per  annum  iiijs  :  Hensyngham  cum  ptin.  xxxvj8 
viijd  :  Wynder  et  Rowray  cum  ptin.  per  annum 
Ixxvij3  viijd  :  Clifton  cum  ptin.  iijs  :  Wyrkyngton 
cum  ptin.  per  annum  xxj  s  :  Cokermouth  xv8  : 
Talantyre  cum  ptin.  ixs  :  Aspatry  cum  ptin.  per 
annum  viij8  viijd  :  Whynbanke  cum  ptin.  per  an- 
num vjs  vjd  :  molendin.  bladal.  xls.  In  toto  per 
annum 

Westrnl. 

Temporalia  val.  in 
Reddit.  et  firm,  de  una  claus.  in  Kendale  per  annum 

Cumbr. 

Spual.  val.  in 

Exit,  et  pfic.  decim.  garbar.  et  feni  ac  aliar.  decim-"j 
abil.  et  oblac.  ecclie.  See.  Bege  et  de  capellis  infra  [     £     s.      d, 
parochiam   ibm.    viz.,    de    capellis    de    Lowswater,  f  Ixx    v 
Ennerdale,  Esshdale  et  Wasdall  coibus.  annis 
Perquis.  cur.  ibm.  singulis  annis  -  xxvj  viij 


d. 


596     REGISTRUM  PRIORATUS  DE  SANCTA  BEGA 

£       s.      d. 
cxlix  xix     vj  ob. 

£      s.      d. 
Sma  valoris  hujus  celle  cxlix  xix    vj  ob. 

De  quibus 
Repris. 
Feod.  videlt. 

Johi   Lamplough  militi  senio  terr.  "I 

celle  pdict.  -xxvj  viij 

Cristofero    Culwen    militi    sen10   de 
Stanburne  -   xx     - 

Rico.  Orfer  sen10  cur.  cell,  pdict.  -   xx     - 

Johi.  Nicholson  ballio.  de  Kyrkeby- 
becok  -   xx      -     (•    ». 

Willmo.  Poule  rec.  pecun.  ibm.  -  xxvj  viii 

Et  tribus  ballivis  de  Coupeland  in 
feod.  viz.,  Johi.  Ponsonby,  iijs  iiijd, 
Antonio  Patriksoniijsiiijd,et  Thome        -     x       - 
Tobson  iijs  iiijd  per  annum. 
In  toto 

Sma.  repris.  patet  supra 

£      s.     d. 

Et  val.  clare  cxliij    xvi     ij     ob. 

Xma  pars  inde  xiiij    vij    vij    ob. 

CI.     VALUATION  OF  THE  CELL  OF  ST.  BEES  BEFORE  THE  DIS- 
SOLUTION.    [Cotton  MS.  Cleopatra  E.  iv.  f.  346b.] 

Religious   Howses  under  the   valew  of   aoo/.   per  annum  in 
Hen.  8  time. 


Com.  Ebor. 

Cella  sancte  Bege  in  Com.  Cumbr.     cxliii11  xvjs  ijd  ob. 

OIL    ACCOUNT  OF  THE  BISHOP  OF  DOVER'S  VISIT  TO  CALDER 
AND  ST.  BEES.     [Harl.  MS.  604,  ff.  124-5.] 

Progressus  domini  suffraganei 


Copland.  Item,  to  Cawdre  off  ye  Cysterciences,  off  ye  furst 
fundacon  off  lord  Raynalld  Meschynne  than  lord  of  Copland  y* 
was  in  ye  yeer  off  our  lord  a  m°  c°  xxxiiij0  in  Henrye  ye  furst 
tyme,  xix  mylys  from  ye  for  sayd  place. 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS 

Copland.  Item,  to  Seynt  Bees,  monkes  off  ye  order  of  Seynt 
Benet,  off  ye  fundacon  off  ye  for  sayd  lord  Meschynne,  v  mylys 
from  ye  other 


In  all  theys  wee  have  been  in,  be  syd 
dyversse  other  mo  bothe  in  Durham 
byschopryke  and  allso  Carlyell  w* 
many  good  townnes  and  villagys  as 
wele  in  my  lordys  grace  lybertes  as 
in  others,  and  thus  Chrest  preserve 
your  masterscheppe. 

CIII.  EXTRACT  FROM  THE  "  COMPENDIUM  COMPERTORUM  PER 
DOCTOREM  LAYTON  ET  DOCTOREM  LEGH  IN  VISITACIONE  REGIA 
PROVINCIA  EBORACENSI  AC  EPISCOPATU  COVEN.  ET  LICHFELDEN.," 
OR  "  CLEANE  BOOK  OF  COMPERTES,"  AS  ARRANGED  BY  JOHN  AP 
RICE,  so  FAR  AS  IT  RELATES  TO  ST.  BEES,  1536.  [Letters  and 
Papers  of  Hen.  VIII.  vol.  x.  364  :  Cotton  MS.  Cleop.  E.  iv.  147  : 
Landsdowne  MS.  988,  f.  i.] 

Sancte  Bege  alias  Saynct  Bee 
Sodom.        f  Johannes  Clyffton    j  per  voluntariam 

(Johannes  Fullscroft)  pollucionem 

Fundator  dominus  Rex. 
Redditus  annuus  cxliiji'. 

CIV.  SURVEY  OF  THE  PRIORY  OF  ST.  BEES  MADE  AT  THE  TIME 
OF  THE  DISSOLUTION.1  [Augmentation  Office,  Miscellaneous 
Book,  399,  ff.  105-7.] 

Com.  Cumbr.  et  infra  Arch'onat.  Richemond. 

Monasterium  de  Sea.  Bega 

In  [libro]  superius  Super  dissolucionem  dicti  nuper  monasterii 
inter  alia  continetur,  prout  postea  patet, 

The  Demanez 

First  the  scite  of  the  late  hous  with  a  Towre  kovert  with  lead 
called  the  Yatehouse  and  other  Edifices  with  Garthnges  lienge 
within  the  Utter  Walles  contenynge  one  acre  di.  &  is  worth  by 
the  yere  over  &  above  the  Reparacons,  w*  one  Dufe  Cote  w^n 
the  same  scite  .  .  .  .  vs  vjd 

1  There  is  no  date  to  the  survey  of  St.  Bees.  The  surveys  of  the  other 
religious  houses  in  Cumberland  recorded  in  this  Book  are  dated  as  follows  : 
Holmcultram  (ff.  49-89),  6  March,  1538  :  Calder  (ff.  95-100,  121-3),  1537-8  : 
Armathwaite  (ff.  109-115),  31  July,  1537:  Seton  (ff.  117-8),  24  June,  1536: 
Wetheral  (ff.  125-6),  31  December,  1538  :  Lanercost  (ff.  129-134),  l6  Julv»- 
1536. 


59^  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

Item  ther  is  a  Close  callid  Holme  lyenge  nere  the  Seebanks 
contenyng  xvi  acrez,  xvjs.  A  close  of  medoo  callyd  Sikerre  con- 
tenyng  xij  acrez,  xijs.  A  close  callyd  the  Milneflatte  contenynge 
xxiiij  acrez,  xxiiij*.  A  close  callyd  Pete  Groves  cont[enyng]  viij 
acrez,  viij  .  A  close  callyd  Middellwallflatt  cont.  by  estimacon 
xx  acrez,  xxs.  A  close  callyd  Grenehowflatt  contenyng  by 
estimacon  xxx  acrez,  xxx5.  A  close  callyd  Swarthow  &  Hye 
Demane  cont.  L  acrez,  LS.  A  close  callyd  Benehowe  cont.  v  acrez, 
vs.  A  close  callyd  Park  Pastor  w*  xiiij  acrez  medoo  ther  con- 
tenyng in  all  xxx  acrez,  xlvs  iiijd.  A  close  of  Woodd  callyd 
Stanylathe  sett  w*  okez  &  underwod  cont.  by  estimacon  Ixx  acrez, 
the  herbage  wherof  is  worth  by  yere  xs.  A  medoo  lyenge  nere 
the  bridge  contenyng  by  estimacon  ix  acrez,  xiiij5  vjd.  A  close 
callyd  Wraybank  cont.  by  estimacon  vj  acrez,  xs  in  all  by  the 
yere xij11  iiijs  xd 

Item  a  pasture  for  shepe  upon  the  morez  or  hefe  callyd  Sand- 
with  Marshe,  xs.     A  shepe  pasture  upon  the  morez  at  Lowsewater, 
xs,  in  all,  late  in  the  hands  of  the  same  lat  monastery  ....  xx8 
Demanez  and  Graunges 

Item  ther  is  a  graunge  callyd  Salter  Graunge  with  landes, 
medoos  and  pastours  therunto  belonging  and  the  pannage  for 
swyne  within  the  wodd  of  the  sayd  graunge  late  in  the  hands  of 
the  sade  late  monastery  and  is  worth  by  the  yere  ....  cxiiij8 

Summa  xix11  iijs  xd 
Kirkeby  beycok  Rectoria 

Item  the  Tythe  Cornez,  hey,  wolle  and  lambe  with  all  other 
minute  Tythes  and  offrynges  of  the  hole  parishe  of  Kirkeby 
beycok  with  all  maner  of  profetts  belonginge  unto  the  same 
parsonage  and  with  the  profetts  of  the  chapelles  of  Lowsewater, 
Ennerdalle,  Eshedalle  and  Wasedale,  with  all  maner  of  profetts 
therto  belonginge,  late  in  the  handes  of  tl^e  same  late  monastery 

and  be  worth  by  the  yere Ixxix11  vijs 

Summa  totalis  pcell.   predict,     xcviij1'  xjs  viijd 
Exr  per  me  Jacobum  Rokeby  auditorem. 

CV.  LEASE  OF  THE  POSSESSIONS  OF  THE  DISSOLVED  PRIORY 
OF  ST.  BEES  TO  THOMAS  LEIGHE,  21  Nov.  1540.  [Augmentation 
Book,  213,  fols.  75b.  76.] 

Hec  indentura,  facta  inter  excellentisimum  principem  et 
dominum,  dominum  Henricum  octavum,  dei  gracia,  etc.,  ex  una 
parte,  et  Thomam  Leighe,  armigerum,  ex  altera  parte,  testatur 
quod  idem  dominus  rex,  per  advisamentum  consilii  Curie  Aug- 
mentacionum  revencionum  Corone  sue,  tradidit,  concessit,  et  ad 


ILLUSTRATIVE    DOCUMENTS  599 

firmam  dimisit  prefato  Thome  Leighe  domum  et  scitum  nuper 
monasterii  sancte  Bege  in  comitatu  Cumbrie  et  infra  archidi- 
aconatum  Richmondie  modo  dissoluti,  unacum  uno  turre  plumbo 
cooperto,  vocato  le  Yatehouse,  ac  cum  omnibus  aliis  domibus, 
edificiis,  oreis,  stabulis,  columbariis,  ortis,  pomariis,  gardinis! 
terra  et  solo  infra  scitum,  ambitum,  circuitum  et  precinctum  dicti 
nuper  monasterii  existentibus,  continentibus  per  estimacionem 
imam  acram  et  dimidiam  :  necnon  unum  clausum  terre,  vocatum 
fiolme,  continens  per  estimacionem  sexdecim  acras  iacentes 
iuxta  littus  maris  :  unum  clausum  prati,  vocatum  Sykerre, 
continens  per  estimacionem  duodecim  acras :  unum  clausum 
terre,  vocatum  Mylneflatte,  continens  per  estimacionem  viginti 
quatuor  acras  :  unum  clausum  terre,  vocatum  Pete  Groves,  con- 
tinens per  estimacionem  octo  acras  :  unum  clausum  terre,  voc- 
atum Middell  Walle  flatt,  continens  per  estimacionem  viginti 
acras  :  unum  clausum  terre,  vocatum  Grenhow  flatte,  continens 
per  estimacionem  triginti  acras  :  unum  clausum  terre,  uocatum 
Swarthowe  et  Hye  Demane,  continens  per  estimacionem  quin- 
quaginta  acras  :  unum  clausum  terre,  uocatum  Benehowe,  con- 
tinens per  estimacionem  quinque  acras  :  unum  clausum  terre 
uocatum  Parke  pasture,  cum  quatucrdecim  acris  prati  ibidem, 
continens  per  estimacionem  in  toto  triginta  acras  :  necnon 
herbagium  unius  clausi  bosci,  uocati  Stany  lathe,  continentis  per 
estimacionem  septuaginta  acras  :  unum  pratum  prope  pontem 
ibidem  continens  per  estimacionem  novem  acras  :  unum  clausum 
terre,  uocatum  Wraye  banke,  continens  per  estimacionem  sex 
acras  :  ac  unam  pasturam  pro  ovibus  super  moras  vel  le  hefe, 
uocatam  Sandwyth  mershe  :  ac  aliam  pasturam  pro  ovibus  super 
moras  apud  Lowsewater  :  necnon  unam  grangiam,  vocatam 
Salter  grange,  unacum  omnibus  domibus,  edificiis,  terris,  pratis, 
pascuis  et  pasturis  eedem  grangie  pertinentibus  sive  spectantibus 
vel  cum  eadem  occupatis  :  ac  eciam  panagium  porcorum  infra 
boscum  eiusdem  grangie.  Quequidem  omnia  et  singula  premissa 
superius  expressa  et  specificata  iacent  et  existunt  in  parochia  de 
Kyrkebyecok  in  dicto  comitatu  Cumbrie,  et  dicto  nuper  monas- 
terio  dudum  spectabant  et  pertinebant,  ac  in  manibus  et  occu- 
pacione  propria  nuper  prioris  et  conventus  dicti  nuper  monas- 
terii ante  et  usque  tempus  dissolucionis  inde  ad  usum  hospicii 
reservata  et  occupata  fuerunt.  Tradidit  ulterius  dictus  dominus 
rex  et  per  presentes  ad  firmam  dimisit  prefato  Thome  Leighe 
rectoriam  de  Kyrkeby  beycoke  cum  pertinenciis  ac  capellas  de 
I!owsewater,  Ennerdale,  Eshedale,  et  Wasedale  cum  suis  pertin- 
enciis in  comitatu  predicto  dicto  nuper  monasterio  dudum 


600  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

spectantes  et  pertinentes,  unacurn  omnibus  et  omnimodis  decimis 
granorum,  feni,  lane  et  agnellorum,  et  aliis  decimis,  oblacionibus, 
proficuis,  obvencionibus  et  emoluments  quibuscunque  dictis 
rectorie  et  capellis  quoquomodo  spectantibus  sive  pertinentibus. 
Exceptis  tamen  semper  et  dicto  domino  regi,  heredibus  et  success- 
oribus  suis  omnimodo  reservatis,  omnibus  grossis  arboribus  et 
boscis  de  et  super  premissis  crescentibus  et  existentibus,  ac 
advocatione  vicarie  ecclesie  parochial  is  de  Kyrkeby  beycoke 
predicte,  necnon  omnibus  talibus  et  huiusmodi  edificiis  infra 
scitum  et  precinctum  dicti  nuper  monasterii  que  dominus  dictus 
rex  ibidem  imposterum  prosterni  et  auferri  mandaverit.  Hab- 
endum  et  tenendum  ....  per  terminum  uiginti  et  unius  annorum 
....  Reddendo  inde  annuatim  dicto  domino  regi,  heredibus  et 
successoribus  suis,  nonaginta  et  octo  libras,  undecim  solidos,  et 
octo  denarios  legalis  monete  Anglie  ....  Data  apud  Westmon- 
asterium  vicesimo  primo  die  Novemnris,  anno  regni  dicti  domini 
regis  tricesimo  secundo. 

CVI.  LORD  WHARTON  TO  THE  LORD  CHANCELLOR  COMMEND- 
ING WILLIAM  SANDE  OF  ST.  BEES  WITH  A  GIFT  OF  HAWKS  TO  THE 
QUEEN,  7  AUGUST,  1544.  [B.M.  Add.  MS.  32655.  f.  142.] 

Pleaside  youre  honorable  lordshipe  to  be  advertised  that  where 
one  Williame  Sande,  father  to  this  berer,  William  Sande,  have 
yearlie  gottene  upon  his  grounde  certaine  haukes  breding  in  a 
rook  beside  a  Selle  callid  Saynt  Bees  in  the  countie  of  Cumbre- 
lande  whiche  belongid  to  the  lait  monesterie  of  Saynt  Maries 
beside  York.  And  his  said  father  hadd  yearlie  of  the  lait  abbotte 
for  the  same  haukis  a  certaine  fee  and  office  of  the  said  sell  to 
his  grete  commoditie.  And  therfore  the  lait  Abbote  presented 
yearlie  the  haukis  to  the  kinges  Matie  as  of  thare  gift.  Ande  this 
yere  this  berer  haithe  requyrid  my  poore  advise  howe  he  shuld 
use  thes  caste  of  faucons  ande  a  tercell  whiche  he  this  yeare  haith 
gottene  ther.  I  thought  most  meit  and  convenyent  to  sende 
hyme  w*  the  same  haukes  to  be  presentid  unto  the  Quene  hir 
grace  as  yor  lordshipe  woll  commaunde  whiche  he  willinglie 
obeyed.  Humble  beseeching  yor  lordshipe  to  be  goode  lorde 
unto  hyme  that  he  may  have  yor  favorable  goodnes  for  the 
taking  and  bringinge  of  the  haukes  accordinglie  to  his  more 
helpe  and  commoditie.  And  that  yor  lordshipe  wilbe  his  goode 
lorde  the  rather  at  my  poore  Sute.  I  ame  the  more  bolde  to 
write  to  yor  lordshipe  in  his  favo1'  for  that  he  haithe  honestlie 
servyde  the  Kinges  Matie  at  all  tymes  where  I  have  commaundid 


ILLUSTRATIVE   DOCUMENTS  6oi 

being  w*in  the  office  I  have  under  his  highnes  upone  these  West 
Marchies. 

Laulie  advertising  yor  lordshipe  that  albeit  I  have  of  long 
tyme  ande  yet  do  remane  in  servys  of  the  Kinges  Matie  in  ane 
outwarde  and  extreme  part  of  the  reallme  frome  his  highnes 
presence  ande  frome  yor  lordshipe,  myne  affyaunce  is  that  youre 
lordshipe  contenewithe  my  goode  lord  as  alwayes  I  have  founde 
whiche  to  knowe  shalbe  to  my  contenewall  comfort.  Ande  my 
poore  servys  I  trust  haith  beyne  and  shalbe  to  the  Kinges  highnes 
honor  and  at  yor  lordshipis  honorable  commaundment  during 
my  life  as  I  am  boundene  and  that  Almightie  Gode  knowithe  who 
ever  preserve  yor  lordshipe  w1  long  lif  and  asmuch  increse  of 
honor  as  yor  noble  hart  can  desire. 

At  Carlisle  the  vijth  of  August 

Your  lordshipes  serv4 

att  command  &c. 

Thomas  Whartton 
[Addressed] 

To  the  right  honorable  ande  my  synguler  good  lorde  my  Lorde 
Chancelor 
[Endorsed] 

The  lord  Wharton  to  the  lord  Chauncellor  vij°  August  1544. 


6O2 


APPENDIX 


A  LIST  OF  THE  PRIORS  OF  ST.  BEES. 

1.  Robert  is  said  by  Leland  to  have  been  the  first  prior  of 
St.   Bees  so  far  as  he  could  find — "  S.   Bega  :    Robertus  Prior 
ejusdem,  ut  colligo,  primus  "  (Collectanea,  i.  25).     In  point  of  date, 
a  Robert  is  the  first  prior  whose  name  appears  in  the  Register  : 
he  is  witness  of  a  charter  of  Alice  de  Rumelli,  daughter  of  William 
Meschin,   the  founder  of  the  priory,   and  wife  of  William  fitz 
Duncan  (Register,  pp.  43-4).     One  of  his  co-witnesses  was  Osbert 
the  archdeacon  who  may  perhaps  be  identified  with  Osbert  de 
Baines,  archdeacon  of  York,  1140-54  (Le  Neve,  iii.  131).     Robert's 
date  would  therefore  appear  to  be  in  the  second  quarter  of  the 
twelfth  century. 

2.  Richard  is  the  first  witness  of  a  grant  made  to  the  abbey 
of  Caldra  by  William  de  Essebi  and  Hectred  his  wife  for  the 
health  of  William  earl  of  Albemarle  and  the  Countess  Cicely  his 
wife  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxxij.).     As  this  Earl  died  in  1179  (Benedict 
Abbas,  i.  243)  and  as  the  phraseology  of  the  grant  presupposes 
that  he  was  then  alive,  the  date  of  Prior  Richard  must  fall  before 
1179.     William  de  Essebi  must  have  married  Hectred,  who  was 
widow  of  Ranulf  de  Lyndesey  and  a  daughter  of  Waldeve,  lord 
of  Allerdale  (Register,  pp.  57,  493),  before  1158  when  his  name 
first  appears  in  the  Pipe  Rolls  of  Cumberland.     From  this  circum- 
stance among  others  it  may  be  taken -that  the  floruit  of  Prior 
Richard  was  not  long  after  the  middle  of  the  twelfth  century. 

3.  William  was  prior  when  Godred  father  of  Olave,  king  of 
the  Isles,  gave  certain  lands  in  the  Isle  of  Man  to  the  monks  of 
St.  Bees  (Register,  p.  489).     The  deed  of  gift,  which  is  preserved 
in  the  Register  (pp.  72-3),  is  witnessed  by  G[amaliel],  Bishop  [of 
the  Isles].     As  King  Godred's  reign  lay  between  1154  and  1187 
and  as  Gamaliel's  consecration  took  place  between  1154  and  1161, 
.an  equation  may  be  struck  and  William's  priorate  set  down  about 
1170. 

4.  Deodatus   is   authenticated   by   a   single   mention   in   the 
Register  (p.   137),  when  he  witnessed  a  grant  of  the  chapel  of 
Clifton  to  Walthef,  son  of  Thomas   clerk   of   Dene,   by   Abbot 
•Clement   of    York    (1161-84).     Among   the   other   witnesses  are 


APPENDIX 


603 

William,   prior  of  Wederale,   who  is  not  found  elsewhere    and 
ierbert  de  Thibei,  who  succeeded  to  his  land  in  Tibei  in' 1178 
(Pipe  Rolls,  ed.  Hinde,  p.  164).     The  date  of  this  prior  will  there- 
fore, fall  between  1178  and  1184. 

5-  Waleran,  according  to  Dugdale  (Mon.,  iii.  574)(  occurs  as 
prior  of  St.  Bees  about  1197,  but  his  name  has  not  been  found 
elsewhere.  About  this  date  there  was  a  Walrann  prior  of 
Neddrum  in  Strangford  Lough,  an  affiliation  of  St.  Bees  (Illus. 
Doc.  No.  ij.  6,  7).  The  suggestion,  therefore,  is  not  improbable. 

6.  Robert,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  made  an  agreement  with  Richard 
son  of  Peter  touching  32  acres  of  land  in  Hwithothehavene  on 
23  September,  1202  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  xxvij.),  and  about  the  same 
date   he   witnessed   the  foundation  charter  of  the  borough  of 
Egremont  given  by  Richard  de  Lucy  (Transactions  of  the  C.  &  W. 
Archaeol.  Soc.,  i.  284).     There  are  in  this  Register  (pp.  94-5,  195) 
two  charters  given  by  this  prior  Robert,  which,  from  the  evidence 
of  the  witnesses,  confirm  the  above  date. 

7.  John,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  made  an  agreement  with  Ranulf  de 
Rotington  touching  the  mill  pool  between  Kirkeby  and  Rotington 
in  the  year  when  Odo,  king  of  Germany,  came  to  England  (Reg- 
ister, pp.  428-30).     This  incident  settles  Prior  John's  date  about 
1207  (Walter  of  Coventry,  ii.  199  :    Rotuli  de  Finibus,  pp.  384-5, 
Rec.  Com.). 

8.  Daniel,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  had  a  lease  of  the  multure  of 
Rotington  mill  for  three  years  from  Ranulf  de  Rotington,  the 
lease   bearing   date   on   the  feast  of  the   Purification  after  the 
Christmas  which  King  John  celebrated  at  York  (Register,  pp. 
435-6).     As  the  king  was  at  York  at  Christmas  1210  (Matthew 
Paris,  Chron.  Majora,  ii.  531),  the  date  of  the  transaction  at  St. 
Bees  was  on  2  February,  1211. 

9.  Ralf,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  made  an  exchange  of  lands  with 
Richard  son  of  John  de  Punchunby,  the  official  witnesses  to  which 
show  that  the  date  cannot  be  much  later  than  1220  (Register, 

PP-   303-4)- 

10.  Wydo,  Gwydo  or  Guy,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  was  witness  to  a 
grant  of  land  to  his  priory  by  Thomas  de  Neuton,  having  William 
parson  of  Workington  as  one  of  his  co-witnesses  :  he  also  granted 
a  lease  of  land  in  Neuton  tg  one  of  his  tenants  (Register,  pp.  104-5, 
159-60).     With  Priors  Ralf  of  Carlisle,  William  Rundel  of  Weder- 
hal  and  Robert  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  Prior  Guido  of  St.  Bees  wit- 
nessed a  deed  preserved  in  the  Register  of  Wetherhal,  pp.  344-5. 
The  official  witnesses  here  suggest  a  date  about  1230  or  not  long 
after. 


604  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA   BEGA 

11.  John  de  Lestingham,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  had  an  agreement 
on  31  August,   1254,  with  Robert  de  Brainthwait  touching  the 
moor  of  Hensingham.     As  Prior  John  he  is  a  witness  to  a  deed 
of  gift  by  Robert  de  Hothwait  to  Gilbert  his  brother.     Both 
charters  are  in  this  Register  (pp.  178,  255-6). 

12.  William  de  Rothewel,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  made  an  agree- 
ment with  John  de  Langliver  touching  a  right  of  turbary  on  the 
moor  of  Hensingham,  bearing  date  on  26  May,  1256.     As  Prior 
William  he  leased  half  an  acre  of  land  in  Botel  to  one  of  his  tenants 
and  purchased  a  sheepgate  for  seven  years,  beginning  at  Whitsun- 
tide, 1256,  from  Benedict  son  of  Benedict  de  Rotington  (Register, 
pp.  257-8,  282-3,  425). 

13.  Nicholas  de  Langton,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  is  represented  by 
numerous  charters  in  this  Register,  for  references  to  which,  see 
the  index.     Several  of  his  acts  are  dated,  a  feature  which  makes 
the  chronology  of  his  priorate  comparatively  easy.     One  of  the 
earliest  of  his  recorded  acts  is  dated  on  25  April,  1258  (Register, 
pp.  1 80-8 1 )  and  one  of  the  latest  on  14  September  1282  (Ibid., 
p.  410).     This  period  probably  covers  the  whole  of  his  priorate. 
See  the  previous  and  following  priors. 

14.  Benedict,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  renewed  a  lease  of  some  land 
in  Milnethorp  to  Roger  Croyser  on  11  November,  1282,  and  had 
an  agreement  with  Thomas  de  Lucy,  son  of  Alan  de  Multon, 
touching  an  encroachment  on  the  land  of  the  monks  at  Lowswater 
on    10   May,    1286    (Register,   pp.    144-6,    409-10).     There  is   no 
certain  evidence  at  present  known  to  identify  this  prior  with 
Benedict  de  Malton  who  became  abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  in  1296, 
but  as  he  had  been  prior  of  St.  Mary's  at  the  time  of  his  election 
(Cal.  of  Pat.,  1292-1301,  p.  193),  the  inference  is  probable. 

15.  Absalon,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  with  the  priors  of  Lancaster 
and  Cartmel,   as  commissaries  of  Pope  Honorius  IV.    (1285-7), 
confirmed   a   composition   between   the   abbot   and   convent   of 
Furness  and  the  vicars  of  Dalton  and  Urswick  relating  to  the 
chapel  of  Hawkshead  (Anct.  D.,  L.  No.  282).     Prior  Absalon's 
seal  is  attached  to  the  deed  :    a  pointed  oval  showing  the  Lamb 
of  God  with  the  legend,  +  SIGILL :  FRIS :  ABSALON :  PRIORIS  : 
DE  :  BIGEE.     A  picture   of  this   seal  has  been   given  by  the 
present  writer  in   Victoria  Hist,  of  Cumberland,  ii.  130.     As  the 
formation  of  the  place-name  on  the  seal  is  somewhat  curious,  it 
may  be  illustrated  by  other  examples.     In  1445  the  inhabitants 
of  the  valley  of  Eschdale  sent  a  memorial  to  Pope  Eugenius  IV., 
alleging  that  the  houses  they  inhabited  were  ten  miles  or  more 
distant  from  the  parish  church  of  S.  Bigia  (sancte  Bigie)  in  the 


APPENDIX  605 

deanery  of  Coupland  (Cal.  of  Papal  Letters,  ix.  480),  and  in  the 
ecclesiastical  valuation  of  the  priory  of  nuns  of  Seton  in  1535,  it 
is  stated  that  an  ancient  pension  of  xijd.  was  payable  to  the  prior 
sancti  (sic)  Bigge  by  their  house  (Valor  Eccles.,  v.  265).  At  the 
British  Museum  (Seals,  3953)  there  is  a  cast  of  an  indistinct  seal 
of  St.  Bees,  showing  what  appears  to  be  an  ornamental  cross, 
the  legend  of  which  is  defaced. 

1 6.  William  de  Dereby,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  is  mentioned  in  this 
Register  in  dated  deeds  between  1288  and  1295.     On  1 1  November, 
1288,   Prior  William  had  an  agreement  with  William  Boyville, 
knight,  touching  the  manor  of  Kirkesanton  (pp.  436-7)  and  as 
William  de  Derby,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  he  witnessed  a  charter  given 
at  Distinton  on  10  March,  1295  (PP-  101-2).     William  de  Dereby, 
prior  of  St.  Bees,  purchased  some  tenements  in  Talentire  (p.  405), 
and  as  Prior  William  issued  a  lease  of  land  in  1290  (p.  4ion.). 

17.  Hugh  de  Cumpton,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  was  appointed  one 
of  the  attorneys  of  Abbot  Benedict  of  York  to  give  seisin  of 
certain  land  to  William  de  Walton,  clerk.     The  deed  of  deputation 
is  dated  on  21  November,  1301  (Register,  pp.  260-1).     As  Hugh, 
prior  of  St.  Bees,  he  witnessed  a  charter  relating  to  land  in  Gosford 
(Ibid.,  pp.  325-6). 

1 8.  Alan  de  Nesse,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  is  witness  to  a  deed  of 
gift  by  Robert  de  Qwenby  to  Henry  his  son  (Register,  p.  275)  and  . 
he  was  prior  when  Robert  son  of  William  son  of  Roger  de  Gosford 
quit-claimed  certain  property  in  Gosford  to  J[ohn  de  Gylling], 
abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  and  Brother  Alan  de  Nesse,  prior  of 
St.  Bees  (Ibid.,  p.  326).     As  John  de  Gylling  was  abbot  of  St. 
Mary's  from   1303  to   1313,   Alan's  priorate  must  fall  between 
these  years.     But  as  Alan  had  been  prior  of  St.  Mary's  when  he 
was  elected  in  1313  to  succeed  John  de  Gylling  in  that  house 
(Cal.  of  Pat.,  1313-7,     pp.  2,  13),  the  date  of  his  priorate  at  St. 
Bees  cannot  be  much  later  than  1310. 

19.  John,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  witnessed  a  composition,  dated 
at  London  on  10  December,   1330,  between  Anthony  de  Lucy, 
lord  of  Cockermouth,  and  Thomas  de  Burgh,  rector  of  Brigham, 
touching  the  oblations  in  the  chapel  of  Cockermouth  Castle  and 
the  tithe  of  a  water-mill  in  Cockermouth,  both  being  within  the 
bounds  of  his  parochial  church  (Illus.  Doc.  No.  LVJ.). 

20.  William  de  Seynesbury,  on  27  June,  1360,  had  papal  con- 
firmation of  the  collation,  by  authority  of  the  ordinary,  of 
priory  of  S.  Bega,  a  dependent  of  St.  Mary's,  York    (Cal.  of  Papal 
Petitions,  i.  315-6,  357-8)-     Though  the  papal  confirmation  i 
imply  a  collation  made  several  years  before,  there 

interval  between  Seynesbury  and  the  previous  prior. 


606  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS    DE   SANCTA    BEGA 

21.  Thomas  de  Brignal,  prior  of  the  cell  of  S.  Bega,  was  a  party 
to  two  indentures  relating  to  a  moiety  of  the  manor  of  Walton, 
the  first  of  which  is  dated  on  21  September,  1370,  and  the  second 
on  3  February,  1371  (Register,  pp.  263-6). 

22.  Thomas  de  Cotingham,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  is  authenticated 
by  three  deeds  in  the  Register  (pp.  268-9,  276-7),  all  dated  in 
1379.     For  his  grave-cover  and  the  inscription  thereon,  see  the 
note  on  p.  269. 

23.  Nicholas  de  Warthill,  prior  of  the  cell  of  S.  Bega  in  Coup- 
land,  acted  as  proctor  for  St.  Mary's,  York,  in  the  autumn  of 
1387,    in    the    adjudication    of    a    dispute    with    the    canons    of 
Conyngeshed  touching  a  pension  due  from  the  parish  church  of 
Whytebec  (Register,  pp.  124-8). 

24.  Roger    Kirkeby,    prior   of    Seynt   Beys,    was   required   in 
May,  1434,  to  take  the  oath  enjoined  by  Act  of  Parliament  not 
to  maintain  peace  breakers  referred  to  in  the  said  Act  (Cal.  of 
Pat.,  1429-36,  p.  383).     He  remained  prior  of  St.  Bees  till  he  was 
elected  to  be  abbot  of  St.   Mary's,  York,   early  in  1437  (Ibid., 
1436-41,  pp.  56,   71).     "  Dom.   Rog.   Kyrkeby,  monachus  "  was 
admitted  a  brother  of  the  Guild  of  Corpus  Christi  in  the  City 
of  York  in  1417-8  (Surtees  Soc.  No.  57,  p.  19). 

25.  Doctor    Stanlaw,    prior    of    St.    Bees,    acted    with    John 
Hudelston,  knight,  William  Martindale,  knight,  Master  Thomas 
Eglisfeld,  parson  of  Dean,  Christopher  Culwen  of  Workington, 
Richard  Eglisfeld  and  Robert  Lamplwgh,  esquires,  in  settling  a 
dispute  between  John  of  Penyngton,  knight,  and  Thomas  Lamp- 
lwgh  knight.     The   award,    ordinance   and   "  doome  "   is   dated 
12  March,  1465  (Hist.  MSS.  Com.  Rep.  x.  App.  pt.  iv.  227,  Lord 
Muncaster's  MSS.).     This  prior  may  be  alluded  to  in  the  obscure 
marginal  note  found  in  the  Register  of  St.  Bees,  p.  42  8n,  though 
it  would  be  hazardous  to  identify  him  with  the  Thomas  Stanley 
who  was  prior  of  Wedirhill  in   1434  and  the  contemporary  of 
Roger  Kirkeby,  prior  of  St.  Bees  (Cal.  of  Pal.,  1429-36,  p.  383), 

26.  John  Warde,  prior  of  S.  Bega,  was  admitted  a  brother  of 
the  guild  of  Corpus  Christi,  York,  in  1473  (Surtees  Soc.,  No.  57, 
p.  84),  and  on  26  October,   1474,  an  award  was  made  between 
him  and  Christopher  Sandz,  free  tenant  of  Rodyngton,   which 
defined  the  territorial  bounds  between  them  (Register  of  St.  Bees, 
pp.  484-5)- 

27.  Roger  Armyn,  prior  of  St.  Bees  in  Coupland,  gave  a  receipt, 
dated  on   10  December,   1485,   to  William  Haryngton  for  eight 
shillings,  an  ancient  rent  charge  due  to  the  priory  from  the  manor 
of  Aldingham  (Register,  pp.  485-6). 


APPENDIX  607 

28.  Edmund  Thornton,  prior  oi  the  cell  of  S.  Bega,  had  a  dis- 
pute with  Christopher  Sandes  in  1496  about  the  hawks  on  St. 
Bees  Head,  and  on  6  July  of  that  year  Christopher  produced  his 
evidences  in  the  camera  of  the  Prior  of  St.  Bees  in  support  of  his 
claim  (Register,  pp.  193-4)-     In  a  duplicate  of  this  deed  in  the 
Register  (p.  449),  this  prior  appears  under  the  name  of  Edmund 
Smyth.     As  Edmund  Thornton,  he  was  confirmed  abbot  of  St. 
Mary's,  York,  on  6  May,  and  received  the  temporalities  on  28 
May,  1507  (Dugdale,  Mon.,  iii.  539),  but  it  is  doubtful  that  he  was 
prior  of  St.  Bees  at  the  time  of  his  election. 

29.  Thomas  Barwyke,  custos  of  the  cell  of  S.  Bega,  had  an 
agreement  in  1498  with  William  son  of  Christopher  Sandes  about 
a  piece  of  land  on  the  boundary  between  the  franchise  of  St.  Bees 
and  the  land  of  Rodington.  (Register,  p.  449).     From  this  deed 
it  would  appear  that  the  priory  was  vacant  in  1498  or  that  Edmund 
Thornton,  the  prior,  had  extended  leave  of  absence  from  the 
house. 

30.  Edmund,  prior  of  St.   Bees,  was  a  party  with  Richard, 
prior  of  St.  Martin's  near  Richmond,  to  an  indenture,  dated  21 
February,   1517,  with  John  Heron  relating  to  money  connected 
with  the  government  of  the  Border  (L.  &  P.  of  Henry  VIII.,  vol. 
iv.  2216).     This  prior  is  identical  with  Edmund  Whalley  who  was 
elected  abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  York,  early  in  1521  (Dugdale,  Mon., 
iii.    539).     On   16   July,    1526,    Edmund  Whalley,  abbot  of  St. 
Mary's,  had  an  acquittance  of  certain  monies,  one  sum  of  which 
he  had  received  when  he  was  prior  of  St.  Bees  (Ibid.,  iv.  2322). 

31.  Dan  Robert  Alanby,  prior  of  Sainct  Bees,  scriblyd  in  hast 
at  Sainct  Bees  upon  Sainct  Luke  day  the  evangelist,  1523,  a  letter 
to  Lord  Dacre  reporting  the  appearance  of  hostile  ships  on  the 
coast  supposed  to  be  of  the  Duke  of  Albany's  company  (Illus. 
Doc.  No.  LXXXVIJ.).     On  20  October  following,  Dacre,  in  forward- 
ing Alanby's  report  to  the  Earl  of  Surrey,  described  him  as  Robert 
Alanby,  prior  of  St.  Bees  in  Cowpland,  late  prior  of  Wedrall  and 
of  St.  Mary's,  York  (Ibid.,  No.  LXXXVIIJ.).     He  had  been  prior 
of  Wetheral  about  1494  (Reg.  of  Wethevhal,  p.  511). 

32.  Dan  John  Mathew,  prior  of  St.  Bees,  was  removed  from 
his  priorate  by  the  general  chapter,  held  at  the  abbey  of  St.  Mary, 
York,  on  14  October,  1533,  upon  "  gret  complayntes  cumyng  of 
extorcion  and  other  gret  urgent  wronges  done  at  Saynt  Bees  to 
the  tenauntes  and  inhabitantes  ther."     The  charges  and  defence 
will  be  seen  at  length  in  Illus.  Doc.  Nos.  xc.,  xcj.     It  is  probable 
that  it  was  about  Prior  Mathew  that  Cromwell  wrote  to  Abbot 
William  of  York  in  1531  (State  Papers,  Henry  VIII.,  vol.  v.  578). 


608  REGISTRUM   PRIORATUS   DE   SANCTA  BEGA 

At  the  dissolution  of  St.  Mary's,  the  name  of  John  Mathew, 
priest,  appears  as  a  member  of  that  house,  to  whom  a  yearly 
pension  of  vj!i  xiijs  iiijd  was  given  on  29  November,  1539  (Dugdale, 
Mon.,  iii.  569.) 

33.  John  Poule  is  returned  as  incumbent  (incumbens)  of  the 
cell  of  St.  Bees  in  the  ecclesiastical  valuation  of  1535  (Valor  Eccles., 
v.  1  1)  .    No  doubt  he  was  the  lawful  prior,  for  the  same  designation 
is  given  in  the  valuation  to  Richard  Wederhall,  who  is  known  from 
other  sources  to  have  been  prior  of  the  cell  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
of  Wederhall  (Reg.  of  Wetherhal,  p.  511.). 

34.  Dan  Robert  Paddy  was  the  last  of  the  priors  of  St.  Bees. 
In  January,  1537,  when  the  northern  counties  were  seething  in 
rebellion,  Abbot  William  of  York  reported  to  Cromwell  that  Dan 
Robert  Paddy,  prior  of  the  cell  of  St.  Bees,  had  been  sent  to  his 
room  and  as  it  was  surmised  "  he  should  be  lettyd  by  ye  commons 
in  these  parts  in  his  riding  thither  un  knowledge  or  writing  to 
me"   (State  Papers,  Henry  VIII.,  vol.  xij    (i),   133,  640).     On 
29  September,  1538,  he  had  a  settlement  with  Christopher  Lyster, 
one  of  the  tenants  of  the  priory,  and  gave  him  a  discharge  "  for 
all  maner  [of]  labor,  dettes,  paymentes,  waigyth,  covenaunces 
fro  me  ye  begynnyng  off  ye  worlde  to  this  present  day  "  (Register, 
p.  486).     At  the  dissolution  of  the  priory,  a  yearly  pension  of 
^40  was  assigned  to  him  on  3  June,  1538  (Augmentation  Book, 
ccxxxiij.  f.  I46b). 

Approximate 

A  list  of  Priors.  Dates. 

1.  Robert  .  .             ..             ..  ..  .  .  II45 

2.  Richard                 ..              ..  ..  ..  Il6o 

3.  William                 ..             ..  ..  ..  II7O 

4.  Deodatus              ..             ..  ..  tm  Il8l 

5.  Waleran                ..              ..  ..  _  II9? 

6.  Robert  .  .              .  .              .  .  .  .  .  .  I2O2 

7-     Mn      ..........        I20?      . 


9-  ..........         I220 


-•  ......        1230 

11.  John  de  Lestingham  ..  ..  I254 

12.  William  de  Rothewel  ..  ..  ""        I256 
13-     Nicholas  de  Langton  .  .  1258-82 

'«•     Benedict  .-  ..  .'.'        1282-86 

15.  Absalon                 .  .  .  .  1/>g 

16.  William  de  Dereby  ..  [[  ^88 
Hugh  de  Cumpton  .  .  .  .  I3OI 


APPENDIX  609 

Approximate 

A  list  of  Priors.  Dates. 

18.  Alan  de  Nesse      ..              ..  ..  ..  1310 

19.  John      . .              . .              . .  . .  . .  1330 

20.  William  de  Seynesbury       ..  ..  ..  1360 

21.  Thomas  de  Brignal              . .  . .  .  .  1370-71 

22.  Thomas  de  Cotingham        ..  ..  ..  1379 

23.  Nicholas  de  Warthill           ..  ..  ..  1387 

24.  Roger  Kirkeby     .  .               .  .  .  .  .  .  1434-7 

25.  Doctor  Stanlaw    .  .              . .  . .  .  .  1465 

26.  John  Warde          . .              . .  . .  . .  1473-4 

27.  Roger  Armyn       .  .               .  .  .  .  .  .  1485 

28.  Edmund  Thornton              . .  . .  .  .  1496 

29.  Thomas  Barwyke,  custos    . .  . .  . .  1498 

30.  Edmund  [Whalley]              ..  ..  ..  1517 

31.  Robert  Alanby     ..              ..  ..  ..  1523 

32.  John  Mathew       . .              . .  . .  . .  1533 

33.  John  Poule,  incumbens       . .  . .  . .  1535 

34.  Robert  Paddy,  last  prior    . .  . .  . .  1537-8 


2  R 


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GENERAL  INDEX. 


The  letter  c  attached  to  a  number  is  a  sign  that  the  name  occurs  in  the 

title  of  a  charter  and  n  indicates  that  it  will  be  found  in  the  note.     As  the 

forms  of  names  vary  greatly  in  the   Register,   only   a   few   variants    are 

given  in  the  Indexes. 


Acconeuez,  a  territorial  service,  xxvij. 

73-4- 

Acconos,  monastery  of,  507-8. 
Acrimonte,  466*1,  see  Egremont. 
Acris  (Neuton  in  Gosford),  162. 
Advocatus,  a  patron,  313*1. 
Agemundrenesse      (  Amounderness ), 

440*1,  526. 

Agincourt,  battle  of,  243*1. 
Ainstable  (Eistapelith,  etc.),  86,  31 8n. 
Akyrlaw  (Millom),  578. 
Aldegail  (Ponsonby),  304. 
Aldingham,    4,    98*1,    99-100,    457*1, 

485-6*1. 

Manor  of,  99-100,  606. 

Allhallows,  see  Ukmanby. 

Alne,  water  of,  8571. 

Alneburgh  (Ellen borough,  Maryport), 

4,  84-5. 
Alnetum  (Ponsonby),  an  aldergrove, 

306*1. 
Airedale,  Alnerdale,  2,  29,  42  i,  47-50, 

72*1,  334*1,  482,  492,  494-6,  527-8, 

531-3,    572,    581  :     fief    of,    viii.  : 

caput  of  barony  of,  451  n  :   forest 

of,  257,  449*1,  494  :   summoner  in, 

374^,  493- 

Altar,  as  free  as  the  sacrifice  of  the,s65. 
Alumpnus,  a  step-son,  311,  312*1. 
Annan,  19,  77,  353  :  hospital  of,  354. 
Annandale  (Scotland),  viii.,  93*1,  9574, 

584- 
Annaside  (Aynerset,  etc.),  3,  19,  69- 

71,  107*1,  353-5,  534  :  identification 

of,  6gn. 

Anneys,  6gn,  363*1,  see  Annaside. 
Apiltrewah  (Ponsonby),  304. 


Appleby,  272*1:  area  duelli  at,  439**. 
Applethwaite,  493. 
Appleton,  492. 

Appreciamenta,  signification  of,  207*1. 
Appruare,  meaning  of,  254*1. 
Archtdiaconalia,  xxx.,  147*1,  236. 
Archiepiscopal  documents,  xxix. 
Ardekin  (Ponsonby),  303. 
Arkelflat  (Talentire),  401-2,  404. 
Arlecdon  (Arlokdene),  3,  55,  63,  199, 

571  :   church  of,  I47». 
Arlokdenbek,  487. 
Armategill  (near  Workington),   341, 

346-7. 

Armathwaite,  nunnery  of,  86*1 :  sur- 
vey of,  597*t. 
Armilla  beate  Bege,  xxxiij.,  96,  105*1, 

314,    469,    480,    500,    509,    513-5  : 

probable  origin  of,  xxxiv. 
Arnolfby,  Arnolby,  Arnaby  (Millom), 

316*1. 

Arnulfpule,  88. 
Aroherlandes    (Talentire),    see    Strir- 

land. 

Arras  Parke,  see  Harras  Parke. 
Arrows,  Scots  afraid  of,  510. 
Arrowthwaite  (Whitehaven),  see  Ayr- 

ingthwaite. 
Arthington  (Yorkshire),  nunnery  of, 

xiv. 

Arthuret,  57*1. 
Askham,  parish  of,  355*1. 
Asmundertoftes  (Isle  of  Man),  3,  4, 

73-8,  488-90. 
Aspatrik,  2,  47-53,  374",  493-4,  581, 

595  :  advowson  of  the  church  of, 

493-4,  531. 


GENERAL   INDEX 


611 


Aspelgile  (Westmorland),  41 3n. 

Astinhole  (St.  Bees  Head),  xxxvj., 
427-8. 

Auesthwaite  (now  Dalegarth),  etc., 
332W,  570,  574-6  :  grant  of,  541^  : 
beck,  576  :  brig,  552. 

Avedalis,  582. 

Avelori  (Ulster),  church  of,  522. 

Avenacroftes  (Stainburn),  336. 

Avenderdala,  see  Ennerdale. 

Awaita  maris,  547-8. 

Ayketon,  447^. 

Aykstubbes  (Strickland),  413,  4150. 

Aylewardby  (Allerby),  532. 

Aylficroft  (Ravenglass),  47771. 

Aynerset,  etc.,  see  Ann  aside. 

Aynthorsin  (Clifton),  561. 

Ayringthwait,  etc.  (Whitehaven),  10- 
12,  204-10,  212-6,  219-22,  224,  227, 
230-3,  595  :  manor  of,  225-7  :  stone 
quarry  at,  229  :  coal  at,  229. 

Baldeceldewra  (Coupland),  536. 
Balichatlan  (Ulster),  522. 
Balidergan  (Ulster),  522. 
Balimor  (Ulster),  church  of,  525. 
Baligavan  (Ulster),  526. 
Bane,  le  (Whitehaven),  223. 
Bankes  (Talentire),  397,  401-2,  404. 
Banklandes  (Workington),  25. 
Barcaria,     sheepcote,    23,    25,    419, 

429. 

Barkerhals  (Millom),  15,  298,  3637*. 
Barna  Castell,  593. 
Barons'  letter  to  the  Pope,  363**. 
Barton    (Westmorland),    parish    of, 

45  8n. 

Barth,  cloven,  Baruth,  see  Berge. 
Bastinthwait,  493,  531  :    deed  dated 

at,  276.      , 

Bayeuz  (Normandy),  27«. 
Beckermet,  42671,  ssoc  :   Great,  558  : 

tithes  of,  6  :   mill  of,  550  :   church 

of  St.   John  of,   131-3  :    parish  of 

St.  Brigid  of,  13171. 
Bee  stanez,  le,  368. 
Beetham,  church  of,  544. 
Bega,  life  and  miracles  of  S.,  vi.,  vii., 

xxj.,    xxij.,    497-520  :     inscription 

on  her  tomb,  508. 


Beginning  of  the  world,  xxviii,  486, 

575- 

Beksnari,  545,  568. 
Bek  Troyte,  527. 
Bemerton,  549. 
Benda  of  iron,  xxv.,  549. 
Benehowe  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 
Bennington  (Yorkshire),  39471. 
Berge,  lez  (St.  Bees  Heads),  xxxvj., 

193,     427-8  :      place    names    on, 

xxxvj. 

Berkelund  (near  Eaglesfield),  37871. 
Bernardhou  (St.  Bees),  416. 
Berretseige,  526. 
Beverley,    church    of    St.    John    of, 

xxviij,  473. 

Bigbere  (Stainburn).  335. 
Bighou,    Biggehou    (Talentire),    396- 

404. 

Bighusthwait  (Bootle),  281. 
Bigrig,  254. 
Bigryggyll,  368. 
Bincheham,  46. 
Birchehevd  (Embleton),  571. 
Bircherhebec,  541,  570,  575. 
Birker  (Eskdale),  570,  576. 
Blaakepot  (Talentire),  397. 
Blabec  (Bootle),  281. 
Blackacre,  le  (Seton),  28071. 
Blada  yemalia,  349. 
Bladwynethawyt,  551. 
Blakenthuayte,  595. 
Blakesyk  (Eskdale),  570. 
Blawath  (Rainpatrik),  94*1. 
Blawathbuetys  (Clifton),  554. 
Blencoghou,  52,  492. 
Blencrake,  493. 
Blenecarun,  31874. 
Blenerhasset,  57n,  493. 
Bleng,  river,  2897*. 
Blenkerpot  (Talentire),  398. 
Blindbec,  289. 

Blomelands  (WThitehaven),  191-2. 
Blood-letting,  566. 
Bochardeby,  530. 
Bode,  a  service  in  Coupland,   3637*, 

374W- 

Bolton  (Allerdale),  493,  531. 
Bolton  (Craven),  priory  of,  3171. 
Bolton  (Furness),  43171. 


612 


GENERAL   INDEX 


Bolton,  Bothilton,  etc.  (Gosford),  13, 
15,  nsn,  ism,  i72n,  251-2,  272, 
279,  287,  288c,  289-94,  297,  305, 
3o8n,  309,  319^  386n,  43in,  43^n, 
465n :  partition  of,  2gon :  High, 
25 in  :  Hali,  25 in. 

Boltonheued,  298. 

Boon  service,  338. 

Bootle,  Bodele,  Botlia,  etc.,  14,  29, 
87n,  ig8n,  27gc,  280-3,  296,  2g8n, 
31  in,  362-3,  36sn,  431  n,  438»,  442n, 
526,  579,  604  :  partition  of,  294n  : 
church  of,  iii.,  5,  29,  31,  33,  35,  37-8, 
106-7,  146,  234,  534  :  pension  of 
church  of,  572,  594. 

Borch,  526. 

Borgordale,  537. 

Boroughbridge  (Pons  Burgi),  445. 

Borthhevid  (Gosford),  290,  292. 

Botherulkill  (Eskdale),  363^  374n. 

Bothil  (Torpenhow),  492. 

Bounwath  (Westmorland),  41 3n. 

Bowaldef,  493. 

Bowes,  castle  of,  97n. 

Bracanslate  (Eaglesfield),  378*1. 

Brackenthwaite  (Whitehaven),  4in, 
368,  37m. 

Bradeheng,  le,  n,  211-2,  217-8,  222. 

Braithemire,  Brayzemyre  (Clifton), 
356-7,  359- 

Braithestaines  (near  Whitehaven), 
374n,  see  Brighestaynes. 

Braithwaite  (Keswick),  le  chanche  in, 
i59n  :  mill  of,  45  on. 

Brakanberscahe  (Stainburn),  336. 

Brakanthweit,  xx.,  loin,  145,  481*4, 
493,  536c-7,  568. 

Bramham  Moor,  battle  of,  388n. 

Bramra,  582. 

Branstibec,  185-6,  189. 

Bransty,  i74n,  371  :  railway  station, 
368n. 

Branthwayt,  township  of,  255n,  492. 

Brasewykegyll,  368. 

Brathaurane  (Gosford),  163. 

Brawron  (Talentire),  397. 

Brayheron  (Talentire),  4O7n,  408. 

Braytton  (Talentire),  407. 

Bray  ton  (near  Aspatria),  4O7n. 

Breseko  (Egremont),  374n,  546. 


Brezhou  (St.  Bees),  416. 
Bretteby  (Birkby),  285,  574-5. 
Bride,  see  Kirkbride  (Isle  of  Man). 
Bridekirk,   229**,    396n,   407**,   48m, 

492  :    advowson  of  church  of,  492. 
Briga,  a  dispute,  131,  134,  238. 
Briggethorfin,     Bridgefoot    (Clifton), 

357»,  377»- 
Brigham,  church  of,  78n,  493  :  parish 

of,  i42n,  492,  562-3  :    famous  par- 
son of,  78^. 
Brighestaynes    (Whitehaven),    191-2, 

see  Braithestaines. 
Brindestub  (Eskdale),  570. 
Brindisi  (Italy),  449n. 
Britollium  (Normandy),  284. 
Brotis,  le  (Seton),  2  Son  :  Blakakir  in, 

45  3«- 
Broughton,  48iw,  493  :    Little,  48in, 

493- 
Brounfeld,  vill  of,  493,  531  :    church 

of,   xx.,   12,   149,  233-4,  493,   53i, 

543-4,  580. 
Brundehole,    Brunildhole    (St.    Bees 

Head),  xxxvj.,  427-8. 
Brunrig,    54-5,    243,    487 :     identifi- 
cation of,  54n. 
Brus  charters,  93»,  95**. 
Burgh  iuxta  le  Sands,  24,  57*1,  446- 

8,:    moor  in   territory  of,   447-8  : 

barony  of,  446,  492. 
Burton,    Annas    (near    Bridlington), 

220. 

Burton  in  Kendale,  church  of,  544. 
Butoft  (Gosford),  297. 
Buttes,  27gn,  359. 
Byland,  abbey  of,  64*1. 

Caerlaverock,  siege  of,  363^. 

Calcaria,  Helcacester,  506. 

Caldebec,  49,  25 in,  255*1,  527  :  forest 
of,  25 7n. 

Calder,  9,  32n,  150,  154,  161,  166-7, 
J95-8,  549C  :  abbey  of,  xxvij.,  64n, 
8sn,  129-34,  3o6n,  31  in,  542^,  549- 
5ic,  558,  565,  596  :  date  of  found- 
ation of  abbey  of,  v.,  32n  :  advow- 
son of,  vi.,  vij.  :  survey  of,  597*1  : 
abbot's  mill  of,  306*1 :  demesne  cf, 
195  :  grange  by  the  sea,  166-7  : 


GENERAL   INDEX 


6I3 


river  of,  soon,  306**  :  file  of  river 
of,  soon. 

Calderbank  (Ponsonby),  304. 

Calderdale  (Ponsonby),  306*1. 

Caldfitbanckes  (Clifton),  554-5. 

Cale  (France),  monastery  of,  505. 

Calfhull  (Eaglesfield),  378*1. 

Caltre,  river  of,  401*1,  492. 

Calva  Hill  (Eaglesfield),  378*1. 

Camerton,  492  :  salmon  fishery  at, 
xxiv. 

Canche,  Chance,  le  (Gosford),  158-9, 
323:  (Braithwaite),  i59n:  (Esk- 
dale),  159*1:  explanation  of,  159*1. 

Canterbury,  xij.,  518. 

Capellanus  conducticius,  stipendiary 
chaplain,  389. 

Capeltrebek,  545. 

Capherou  (Eaglesfield),  378  :  possible 
identification  of,  378*1. 

Capons,  a  rent,  449. 

Carlatone,  492. 

Carlisle,  i.,  viii.,  21,  69,  78*1,  79,  93*4, 
98*1,  201,  257*1,  366,  376,  396,  4ioc, 
4",  57o,  572,  584,  593,  601  : 
county  of,  572  :  forest  of,  528 : 
priory  of,  sow,  117*1,  3*7w,  493, 
529:  endowment  of,  3i7n:  gift 
of  Holy  Rood  to,  493,  531  :  found- 
ation of  See  of,  i.  :  prison,  548  : 
fair,  556  :  burnt,  571  :  garrison, 
220*1,  436*1  :  King  David  resides 
and  dies  at,  6gn :  Rickergate  in, 
57i. 

Carnforth,  see  Spitelflat. 

Cartheu  (Dalston),  527. 

Cartmell,  deanery  of,  128**. 

Castebryge,  see  Castlerig. 

Castlehill  Point  (Galloway),  92*1. 

Castlerig  (Keswick),  401*1,  492. 

Castlesowerby,  see  Soureby. 

Catgill,  595- 

Caulegile,  see  Kaulegile. 

Cawood,  deed  dated  at,  573. 

Cenobium,  30,  33. 

Censare,  possible  meaning  of,  62*1. 

Census,  31,  33,  35,  62*1,  305. 

Ceroferaria,  a  light,  417,  422. 

Chaitdunegalheg  (Santon),  433-4. 

Chaitmegalheg  (Santon),  431. 


Chapelsucken,  44in. 

Chapels,  ecclesiastical  status  of,  xxiii., 
xxiv.,  394n. 

Chechel,  see  Keekel. 

Chellet,  see  Overkelet. 

Cherchebi,  see  Kirkeby. 

Chester,  grant  of  county  of,  492. 

Chilvestrevic,  526. 

Chiwiinium,  width  of,  83. 

Chirnaby,  70  :  identification  of,  70*1  : 
iron  mine  at,  70. 

Chronicon  Cumbrie,  491-6  :  origin 
and  historical  value  of,  xviij.-xx. 

Clandestine  Instances  in  history,  xix.- 
xxj. 

Clapham,  church  of,  544. 

Claudere,  meaning  of,  62*1. 

Clenelhirech  (Ulster),  525. 

Clenelperth  (Ulster),  525. 

Cleter,  Cletergh,  10,  202-4,  254**,  368, 
386*1:  manor  burnt  by  Douglas,  572. 

Clifton,  19,  358-60,  553C,  595  :  vill 
of  355C,  357,  554,  559-6i  :  territory 
of,  356-7  :  manor  of,  355*1,  560, 
566  :  fulling  mill  of,  5550,  562  : 
Great,  High  or  Kirk,  355*1,  492, 
554C,  555C-6,  559  :  Little  or  Low, 
355*1,  492,  557,  559  :  chapel  of,  6, 
134-7,  146,  238,  355«,  361  :  ad- 
vowson  of  chapel  of,  361*1 :  pen- 
sion of  chapel  of,  572  :  banckes, 
554-5- 

Clifton  (Westmorland),  church  of, 
361*1. 

Cliverton,  526. 

Coal  Mining,  xxiv.,  207,  210,  229. 

Cocker,  river,  45 in,  492,  568. 

Cockermouth,  Chokirmuhe,  etc.,  2, 
24,  42*1,  47-8,  142*1,  218,  3i7n, 
332*1,  450-53C,  556,  560,  581,  592- 
3,  595  :  fief  of,  viii.  :  liberty  of, 
494-6  :  honor  of,  355*1,  388w,  451*1, 
532,  560  :  devolution  of,  533 : 
forest  of,  257*1 :  mill  of,  563,  605  : 
fulling  mill  at,  2,  48-9,  449C,  450  : 
school  of,  561  :  market  of,  xxv  : 
salmon  at,  xxiv.,  45 ic,  534  :  chapel 
in  the  castle  of,  562-3,  605  :•  chan- 
try in  castle  of,  563  :  chapel  of  St. 
Leonard  in,  559^-60. 


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GENERAL   INDEX 


Collactaneus,  meaning  of,  73W. 

Coltman  Crosse,  368. 
— Kylne,  368. 

Colvend,  see  Culwen. 

Combat,  judicial,  at  Appleby,  439^- 

Combetheyfoch  (Dalston),  52?- 

Conchau  (Isle  of  Man),  74*». 

Coneyside,  see  Cuningishou. 

Conishead  (Conyngesheved,  etc.),  pri- 
ory of,  Syn,  IIQW,  120-8,  5820 : 
hospital  of,  n6n,  ngn,  300*1  : 
deeds  of,  280*1. 

Conquest  of  England,  546. 

Consuetude  patrie,  311. 

Copsiholm  (Bootle),  11271,  442*1. 

Cordamoss  (Cordhou),  27911. 

Corkekyll  (Egremont),  331. 
— (Whitehaven),  371. 
— (Gosford),  see  Growcorgill. 

Corna  (Isle  of  Man),  port  of,  74,  73. 

Coinage,  374-5,  529-32,  542,  see 
Nowtgeld. 

Corney,  74n,  2577* :  great  road 
( magnum  iter )  towards,  281: 
church  of,  5,  in-6,  146:  founder 
and  foundation  of,  xxii.,  112,  115  : 
pension  of,  572. 

Cors  presant,  a  mortuary,  531. 

Cotteflat,  582. 

Couperacre,  le  (Bolton  Head),  298. 

Coupland,  1-4,  etc.  :  demesne  of,  1-2, 
etc.  :  lordship  of,  i.,  ii.,  v.,  27*1, 
etc.  :  devolution  of,  533  :  forest 
of,  37-8,  55ic,  552:  Fells,  369*1: 
ports,  xxv.,  549  :  rough  climate  of, 
xxix.,  147*1 :  feudal  system  in,  ii.  : 
outlawry  in,  547c :  toll  of,  546-9, 
552  :  Keltol  in  ports  of,  549  :  torn 
of,  545-9  :  services  in,  363*1,  545-9  : 
use  of,  374»,  545-9  :  landsergeants 
of,  545-9;  measures  in,  549:  dean- 
ery of,  in-2,  128*1,  147*1,  594: 
chapter  of,  xxxj.,  114-5  :  ecclesi- 
astical privileges  of,  147*1 :  tithes 
of,  572  :  freedom  from  Peter  Pence, 
i47n,  594. 

Court  Christian,  36m. 

Craikhow,  Craika,  367,  395*1. 

Craiksothen,  see  Greysouthen. 

Cregehoued  (near  Whicham),  535. 


Cribla  frumenti,  xxv.,  99,  100. 

Criffel,  gin,  93*1. 

Crocland  (Ponsonby),  soon,  304. 

Croftbathoc,  536. 

Croft  morez,  487. 

Crok  (Kendal),  577- 

Crokeland  (Dearham),  395. 

Crokelandemire  (Greysouthen),  557. 

Crosrig  (Westmorland),  21,  413^, 
414. 

Cross,  Coltman,  368  :  Jordan's,  368  : 
Ellerbec,  367 :  Stainraise  (Gos- 
ford), 153,  322-3  :  Stainburn,  336  : 
sculptured,  xxviii.,  367-8  ;  Crossi- 
thake  (Eskdale),  an  oak  called,  570. 

Crossbarrow,  339**. 

Crosby,  High,  493,  531  :  church  of, 
493,  531  :  Little,  Son,  493. 

Crosshow,  395**. 

Crosthwaite  (Keswick),  68w,  492. 

Crounk,  le  (Lamplugh),  470. 

Culdirton,  82-3,  311*1,  367,  55ic  : 
identification  of,  367*1. 

Culgaythe,  vill  of,  220*1. 

Culwen  (Galloway),  4,  91-2  :  lordship 
of,  x.,  xxxvij.  :  castle  of,  92  :  salt- 
pan at,  xxxvij.,  91-2. 

Cumbria,  ancient,  ii. 

Cumelkeldefot  (Eaglesfield  ?),  535. 

Cumin,  render  of,  357*t,  559,  567. 

Cuningishou,  38,  40,  43,  45,  83  : 
identification  of,  38*1,  82*1. 

Curia,  inclosed  site  of  medieval  home- 
stead, 365*1,  434. 

Cut  Stone  (near  Workington),  342*1. 

Cynus,  hawthorn,  156-7. 

Dacra  of  hides,  xxv.,  549. 
Dalegarth,     332*1,     576,    see    Aues- 

thwaite. 

Dalstone,  barony  of,  492. 
Daltune,  526,  533. 
Dapifer,  meaning  of,  2971. 
Dene,    20,    i4on,    255*1,    382*:,    492  : 

church    of,    135-6,    140-41,    361** : 

dead  of  Clifton   buried   at,  135-6, 

140-41. 

Dent,  Dinet  (Cleter),  202-3. 
Derham,   20,   24,    394C,   396*1,   407w, 

452-3C,    563 :     moieties    of,    493  : 


GENERAL  INDEX 


mill  of,  395,  564  :  rectory  of  church 
of,  394*1. 

Derwent,  river,  i.,  3,  27,  40-41,  44-5, 
58-9,  236,  451*1,  492,  516,  531, 
546-9,  592  :  net  on,  3,  65-6  : 
fishery  on,  xxiv.,  549. 

Derwentfelles,  552,  569. 

Derwent  water,  lake  of,  531  :  manor 
court  of,  40  1  n. 

Dexter  a  Salvatoris,  xxvij.,  124. 

Distington,  14,  41*1,  102-3,  272,  277C, 
279,  344«,  487,  605  :  manor  of, 
256*1:  advowson  of  church  of,  344*1. 

Distingtonmore,  4in,  174. 

Doddekere  (Kirkby  on  the  Moor, 
Yorks.),  445. 

Dolphin's  Well  (Aspatria),  sin. 

Domesday  Book,  quoted,  329*1,  526. 

Dondraft,  see  Dundraw. 

Donwaldef,  493. 

Dower  house  of  the  Stanleys,  332*1. 

Dower  land,  438,  481. 

Dowghscotte,  582. 

Downpatrick,  see  Dun. 

Drengage,  a  mode  of  tenure,  xxvi., 
248,  249n,  48ic. 

Dreg  (Drigg),  7,  24-5,  165-6,  456-63*:, 
538-9  :  manor  of,  45671  :  tenure  of, 
456*1  :  land  in,  372*1,  458  :  mill  of, 
538  :  advowson  and  probable 
founder  of  chapel  of,  461*1  :  chapel 
of  St.  Peter  of,  xxiii.,  372*1,  461*1, 
539C. 

Driffeld,  48. 

Dub  hec,  Dubbes,  see  Dupwath. 

Dubwra  (Eaglesfield),  535-6. 

Duden,  Auden,  river  or  sands  of,  i., 
2,  27,  53-4,  88,  106,  283*1,  364,  455n, 
492,  547,  577-8,  595  :  dangers  of, 


Duelli  area,  439*1. 

Duffockiswatir,  541,  573. 

Duffran  (Ulster),  524. 

Dufpol  (Culwen  in  Galloway),  92. 

Dun  (Downpatrick),  church  of  Holy 

Trinity  of  523  :   suburb  of,  xij. 
Dundraynan,  abbey  of,  72*1. 
Dundraw,     Dondraft,     344*1,     492  : 

chapel  or  chantry  of,  148*4. 
Dunseford  (Ulster),  church  of,  522. 


Dupwath  (Lowswater),  145,  545. 
Durham,    593  :     beadroll    of,    27*1  : 

charter  dated  at,  489. 
Durtol,  toll  of  passage,  545. 

Eden,  river,  98*1. 

Edenhall,  70*4,  527. 

Ederlangebeck,  159*1:   le  cance  near, 


Editheknot  (Ravenglass),  477*1. 

Eel  fishery,  573. 

Eghen,  Egre,  Ehen,  river,  29-30,  33- 
4,  82*1,  132,  202-3,  546-7  :  fishery 
in,  549-50,  572. 

Eglesfeld,  -20,  83*1,  377c,  378082^, 
492  :  mill  of,  535. 

Egremont,  5,  25,  29,  33,  70*1,  81-2/1, 
!05-7,  131,  142*1,  14.4*1,  189,  191, 
246,  254*1,  298,  331,  367-8,  375, 
438*1,  446w,  463-4,  495,  532,  534, 
5/2,  592  :  castle  of,  106*1,  107**, 
329*1,  446*1,  456*1,  540,  546-8,  572  : 
relations  with  priory,  vij.  :  munitio 
of,  512  :  legendary  founder  of, 
466*1  :  baronial  seat  of,  iv.,  viii.  : 
devolution  of  lordship  of,  533  : 
borough  of,  94*1,  466*1,  549,  603  : 
market  of,  xxv.,  549  :  mill  of,  2, 
41,  44-5,  48,  54-5  :  park  of,  129, 
131-3  :  barony  of,  i.,  494  :  chapel 
of,  i,  28-30,  33,  35-8  :  pension  of, 
572,  594  :  charter  of,  xxxj.,  115  : 
tithes  of,  572. 

Eikescoc,  206. 

Eistapelith,  see  Ainstable. 

Ellen,  river,  see  Alne. 

Ellenborough,  85*1,  see  Alneburgh. 

Ellerbank,  15,  2851;  :  identification 
of,  285*1. 

Ellerbeck,  285*1,  341,  345-8,  367  : 
cross,  367. 

Ellergill,  367. 

Elwenecroftt  (Ponsonby),  330*1,  571. 

Embsay,  Emmesey  (Skipton),  priory 
of,  iii.,  31*1. 

Embleton,  332*1,  449*i,  57*,  576  : 
deer  park  of,  568-9  :  church  of, 
571  :  Susanna's  Well  in,  571  : 
great  marsh  of,  571  :  Stanlawe 
hall  in,  332*1. 


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GENERAL   INDEX 


English  Letter  of  Gospatrik,   374«, 

526-7. 

Ennerdale,  Avenderdale,  iv.,  2,  534 : 
manor  of,  i,  37-8,  39^,  369^ :  vill 
of,  369  :  chapel  of,  xxiij.,  3697*, 
370,  595,  598-9 :  chapel  made 
parochial,  369-70. 

Enresate,  Eneresciset,  etc.,  see  Anna- 
side. 

Episcopalia,  xxix,.  xxx.,  io8n,  109- 
iii,  139,  236. 

Esc,  Hesk,  river,  2,  3,  40,  44-5,  53-4, 
58-9,  g6n,  io6w,  ii2»,  283*1,  285*1, 
364,  475«,  534,  541,  552,  570,  577- 
8>  595  :  fisheries  of,  572  :  file  of 
northern  Esk,  94*1. 

Eschedale  (Isle  of  Man),  3,  72-3,  488- 
90  :  identification  of,  73*1. 

Eskdale,  74*4,  159;*,  33O*»,  332n : 
valley  of,  369^,  604-5  :  chapel  of 
St.  Catherine  of,  xxiij.,  3697*,  595, 
598-9:  chapel  made  parochial, 
369*. 

Eskmeals,  362*1. 

Esterholme,  Hestholm,  493,  531. 

Estuveria,  205,  298**,  324,  552. 

Evastad  (Isle  of  Man),  73  :  church  of 
St.  Olave  in,  73. 

Fairs  in  Coupland,  xxv. 

Falaise,  abbey  of  St.  Jean  de,  329**. 

Fallatum,  208. 

Fensare  vel  fossare,  449,  see  tensata. 

Fenton,   see    Campion   in    Index   of 

personal  names. 

Feudal  land  measurements,  491. 
Fine,  early,  109*1. 
Fisheries,  29-30,  33,  35-42,  58,  66,  80 

139,  etc. 

Fitbrandan,  see  Sitbrandan. 
Flat,  del  (Whitehaven),  q,  i9i-2,  373) 

595  :    T.  Den  ton's  description  of' 

373W. 
Fleminghal    (Gosford),    i5IM, 

172-3,  3i7n. 

Fleswick  Bay,  74n,  i93w. 
Fletehoumire  (Talentire),  398. 
Fleteland  (Bolton  Head)    298* 
Flimby,  n7n,  465Mj 
Flotbote,  549. 


Fordebodele,  526. 
Foreland  closs  (Talentire),  400*1. 
Forescales,  see  Sosgill. 
Forest,  sergeantry  of,  545-7. 
Forfar,  King  Alexander  at,  xj. 
Forinsec  (forinseum,  forense)  service, 
nature  of,  59*4,  303,  338,  371,  373, 
382,  395*t,  etc.,  482*:,  etc. 
Fornset,  see  Setforn. 
Fors,  Forsh  (Birkby),  22,  362-3,  438*1, 

574-5  :  identification  of,  362*1. 
Forth,  Firth  of,  363*1. 
Fossa  (near  Bootle),  107*1,  54oc. 
Fossa,  a  dyke  or  bank,  348,  349*1. 
Fossare,  .meaning  of,  62*1. 
Fossatum,  a  ditch,  306*1,  348. 
Fostering,  early  example  of,  73**. 
Foulknot  (Whitehaven),  le,  218. 
Foulsike  (Whitehaven),  le,  222. 
Fountains,  abbey  of,  45on. 
Fovea,  155,  289. 

Friday  landes  (Rotirigton),  416. 
Friesland,  73*1. 
Frithebek  (Ponsonby),  306**. 
Frizington,    Frisinton,    385-6 :     regia 

strata  to  Kelton,  385. 
Frothou  (Distington),  487. 
Frussare,  meaning  of,  254n. 
Furnandum  et  Brasiandum,  217-8. 
Furness,  385 »,  489,  533  :   deanery  of, 
i28»  :  abbey  of,  xij.,  xv.,  74*1,  87n, 
9QM,   98»,   307»,   439»,   455«,   533, 
540  :    possessions  in  Isle  of  Man, 
XVM  :    secular  infirmary  of,    299*1, 
439W-'    right  of  burial  in  church- 
yard of  abbey  of,  3o7n. 
Furness  Fells,  division  of,  56n. 

Gail,  del  (Eaglesfield),  378w,  379,  38i. 
Galloway,  lordship  of,   viij.,   x.,   71 

9iw  :  insurrection  in,  x. 
Gamel,   Gamlin   (near  Workington), 

105. 

Gamelesby,  530. 
Garebrad  (Rotington),  416. 
Garendon,  abbey  of,  47n. 
Gatelandes  (Whitehaven),  191-2. 
Gate.sgarth,  289^ 
Gatesrighou,  289*1. 
Gerleworde,  526. 


GENERAL   INDEX 


6l7 


Gersuma,  meaning  of,  2 sin. 

Gilcruce,  492,  542,  550-10,  557,  560: 
advowson  of  church  of,  542. 

Gilderschoh  (Windscales),  348  :  iden- 
tification of,  34QW. 

Gilgarran  (Distington),  487. 

Gillibanc  (Gosford),  320-21. 

Gillebec  (Gosford),  320. 

Gillecroft,  Gillemihelecroft  (near 
Whicham),  535. 

Gillesland,  82n,  3i8w,  329**,  572  : 
barony  of,  492  :  facsimile  of 
charters  of,  32 gn. 

Gillyflower,  a  clove  of,  556,  558. 

Gilmoreboug  (Stainburn),  335. 

Ginger,  a  root  of,  556. 

Glassaneby,  530. 

Glassertun,  526. 

Gledemerthueit  (Lamplugh),  466. 

Gloves,  a  pair  of,  31  in,  460,  470. 

Godrickeby,  Guderby,  254-5,  368, 
572. 

Gosetern,  368  :  modern  name  of, 
368n. 

Gosford,  7,  16-7,  86w,  151-4,  162-3, 
165-7,  25™,  272«,  279,  304W,  317-8, 
319-31,  386w,  43*w,  438n,  45i«, 
534,  605  :  cross  in,  322-3  :  St. 
Helen's  well  in,  330  :  high  moor  of, 
324  :  church  of,  55,  146,  150,  1547* : 
church  of  St.  Mary  of,  151-4,  161, 
323  :  advowson  of  church  of,  vi.  : 
deeds  relating  to  parish  of,  1517*. 

Gospels,  touching,  with  right  hand, 
xxvij.,  239-40,  314,  559. 

Grafstaneslete  (Ravenglass),  478,  see 
Grastamflet. 

Graistane  (Windscales),  341,  345-8. 

Grarig  (Westmorland),  4ogw. 

Grastamflet  (Ravenglass),  477n. 

Greatgate,  28gn. 

Green  gate,  2897*. 

Grenecaphou,  418. 

Grenehowflatt  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 

Grenehougap  (St.  Bees),  418,  427-8, 
485. 

Gressholmes  (Bootle),  19,  364-5  : 
identification  of,  3657*. 

Greta,  river,  401^,  492. 

Gretigate  (Gosford),  158-60,  289. 


Grey  Abbey  (Ulster),  xii.,  xiii.,  41  in. 
Greysouthen,  Craiksothen,  332n,  492- 

3,  557- 

Greystan,  see  Neuton  in  Gosford. 
Groshoucsic  (Westmorland),  41  3». 
Growcorgill,   Grucorgilbec  (Gosford), 

17,    152-4,    161,    165-7,    324,    327, 


Guderby,  see  Godrickby. 

Guisbro'  priory  of,  sow,  407?*  :  chart- 

ulary  of,  40471,  407^. 
Gylderstainflatt    (Workington),    341, 

345-7- 

Hagwrinron  (Talentire),  397,  404. 

Haigescoc,  206. 

Hairingthwait,  see  Ayringthwait. 

Hale,  16,  311-3,  315-6,  sign,  373«, 
386n,  55203:  manor  of,  3i3n: 
mill  of,  316  :  mill  bridge  in,  3i6w: 
church  of,  313,  553  :  advowson  of, 
313-4^,  552-3C;  church  appropri- 
ated, 314^. 

Halhed,  see  Holehed. 

Hall  Bolton,  i72w. 

Halleslac,  Hallesalc  (Gosford),  163. 

Hallebanck  (Seton),  279M. 

Halleker  (Greysouthen),  557. 

Hall  Foss,  362*1. 

Hall  Senna,  i72n. 

Hallwhynnes  (Talentire),  4oon. 

Hames  Hill,  229W. 

Hand,  the  dead,  xxviii.,  337. 

Harkylflat,  see  Arkelflat. 

Harras,  175,  482-3,  595  :  close,  483  : 
howe,  4iw,  487  :  parke,  i74«,  368. 

Harrington,  Halfrington,  etc.,  n6n, 
386w  :  estates,  485*1  :  church  of, 
3,  5,  6ic,  630,  6sc-6c,  1170,  146  : 
pension  of  church  of,  572. 

Harthkyn  (Ponsonby),  307. 

Haukesker  (Ponsonby),  soon. 

Haverigg,  23,  54,  438-41. 

Hawks,  on  St.  Bees  Head,  xxxvj., 
193-4,  449,  590-91,  600-1  :  at 
Crosthwaite,  492. 

Hawkshead,  chapel  of,  604. 

Hay  a,  a  fence,  i77n,  3o6n. 

Hayberhe  (Derham),  396,  3g6w. 

Haygate,  le  (Clifton),  554. 


6i8 


GENERAL   INDEX 


Hayhusbanc,    Hayusbanc    (Gosford), 

162,  164. 

Hayton  (Brampton),  322W,  493. 
Hayuirig  (Ponsonby),  301. 
Helepul,    Hclevepul,   etc.    (Duddon), 

15,  88w,  298,  439«,  54°- 
Helewynberge  (Gosford),  330. 
Helkokmire,     Helkacamur     (White- 
haven).  8,  181-4. 
Helton  (Flecket),  355W. 
Hensingham,    12-3,    3iw,    39,    115^, 
n8n,  i48n,  177,  247-50,  254,  257, 
259^,    37i,    386,    43in,    534,    595  : 
manor  of,   256^:    mill  of,   251-2: 
moor  of,  255C,  256-7,  604. 
Heriteseia  (Hartlepool),  505. 
Hert,  526. 

Hesleyside  (Northumberland),  chart- 
ers at,  i37». 

Hesilgile  (Gosford),  cross  at,  154,  160. 
Heversham,  21,  409C,  4ioc:    church. 

of,  544- 
Hexham,  priory  of,  5  on,  Son :   Abp. 

John  le  Romeyn  at,  xxx. 
Heyriding  (Ravenglass),  477-8. 
Hilda,  Bede's  Life  of,  xxi. 
Hilderflath  (near  Talentire),  396. 
Holegate,  549. 
Holegate  (Ponsonby),  3o6n. 
Holegill  Bridge  (near  Bootle),  362*1. 
Holegyll  (Whitehaven),  206. 
Holehed  Hall,  (Kendal),  576-7. 
Holgate  (Windscales),  348. 
Hollegill  (Eskdale),  i^gn. 
Holmcultram,  abbey  ot,  ix.,  x.,  xiij., 
Son,  64»,  Sow,  87n,  93w,  494,  497^, 
5i8,  533  :  survey  of  5977*. 
Holme,  tithes  of,  572,  598-9. 
Holmigham  (Whitehaven),  223. 
Holyrood,  abbey  of,  ix. 
Hormeshon,  see  Ormeshan. 
Horngeld,  374w,  see  Nowtgeld. 
Horrum,  439%. 
Hothaches  (Clifton),  358-9. 
Hothekeld  (Windscales),  348. 
Hothwait,     Hosvait,     etc.     (White- 
haven),  8,  9,  40-1,  43-5,  104,  174. 
89,  192,  368,  371,  387,  534  :   iden- 
tification of,  4iw. 
Hoton  (in  the  Forest),  528. 


Hougun,  named  in  Domesday  Book, 

io6n,  44Q«,  526. 
Houtbergh,    Howtbirwe    (St.    Bees), 

22,  I93«,  417^,  4i8c,  419,  421. 
Houberghe  (Millom),  455«. 
Houthunhou     (Bolton    in    Gosford), 

287-9. 

Hwsgiles  (Drigg),  458. 
Hubbryghtby,  492. 
Hulotbec  (Ravenglass).  477»- 
Hungerig  (Hunday  near  Workington), 

341-2,  345. 

Hycemoor  (near  Seton),  2 Sow. 
Hye  Demane  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 
Hyton,  23-4,  279™,  28ow,  4381*,  44ic- 

4,  526  :   Old,  87w,  44iw,  579. 

Ignarium,  51. 

Imparcamentum,  244. 

Incense,  143-4,  461. 

Indefensum,  349. 

Ines,  Inch  (Ulster),  abbey  of,  xij. 

Infeld,  see  Owtfeld. 

Ingilberdhop  (Lorton),  566-7. 

Inglewood,  forset  of,  533. 

Insignia  of  a  parish  church,  $6gn. 

Inwrigh  (Distington),  487. 

Ireby,     High,     493  :      advowson     of 

church  of,  494,  532. 
Ireland,  land  in,  7iw. 
Iron,  mines  of,  xxiv.,  42,  70  :  forge, 

574- 

Irt,  river,  isgw,  475«. 
Irton,  sign,  325 n. 
Islekirk  (Westward),  533. 
Issel,  493. 
Jerusalem,  hospital  of,  330,  358,  see 

Index  of  Personal  Names. 

Jordan's  Cross,  368. 
Jubilate,  singing  of,  236. 

Kaldir,  see  Calder. 

Kareswath,  4,  82  :    identification  of, 

82W. 

Karleton,  529. 

Kaulegile    (near    Workington),    341, 

346-7  :   identification  of,  342W. 
Keekle,   Chechel,   etc.,   river,    29-30, 

33-4,  4iw.  103,  368,  487. 


GENERAL   INDEX 


619 


Keldelands,  Kellancl,  le,  etc.,  5,  14, 
101,  274C,  275-7. 

Keldhows,  le,  14,  277^. 

Keldsyke  (Derham),  395. 

Keltol  in  Coupland,  549. 

Kelton,  25,  385,  386n,  464-70  :  regia 
strata  to,  385  :  chapel  of,  62. 

Kendal,  see  Kirkby  Kendal. 

Kenelflat  (Rotington),  416. 

Kerlingsek  (Gosford),  292. 

Keswick,  market  of,  xxv. 

Kildwick  (Craven),  37671. 

King's  mails,  horses  for  the,  48271. 

Kirkandres  (Galloway),  4,  gjc  :  mill 
of,  98,  44871 :  cell  of,  9871 :  iden- 
tification of,  x.,  xj. 

Kirkandres  iuxta  Burgh,  4487*. 

Kirkbampton,  church  of,  26271. 

Kirkeby,  Chercheby  (St.  Bees),  L,  iv., 

2C,    27,    8271,    83,    104,    21 1-8,    222-3, 
225,     227,     273,     386,     429-30,     509, 

603  :   church  of,  i.,  iv.  :   parish  of, 

i,   28,   598  :    extent  of  parish  of, 

iv.  :   rectory  of,  579. 
Kirkebybecoc,  Kirkeboghok,  etc.,  iv., 

v.,  i,  12,  27,  215,  219-25,  228-33, 

245-6,  262-72,  278-9,  509,  534,  595- 

6  :  meaning  of,  iv.,  2771. 
Kirkeby  Sancte  Bege,  vill  of,  221. 
Kirkebergh  (Ponsonby),  304, 
Kirkbride  (Isle  of  Man),  7471. 
Kirkbride,  492. 
Kirkham,  monastery  of,  514. 
Kirkhaven,     Kyrkbyhavyn,     xxxvj., 

22,  42171,  426c,  427,  4280. 
Kirkland  (Lamplugh),  46571. 
Kirkeland  (St.  Bees),  416. 
Kirkeland  (East  Cumb.),  7071. 
Kirkeheved  (Lowswater),  146. 
Kirklinton,  41  ITI,  492. 
Kirkbistal,  Kirkbyskales,  254,  368. 
Kirkbycrossan,  Kyrcross,  etc.,  18,  68, 

I05,   339C :    perhaps  a  chapel  at, 

339*»- 
Kirkby   Kendal,   2771,   31,   50,   23471, 

576,   595  :     King  John  at,   47571  : 

church  of,  544. 
Kirkby  Lonsdale,  27*1,  272*1,  41 2ti  : 

church  of,  544. 
Kirkby  Stephen,  2771. 


Kirkby  on  the  Moor  (Yorks.),  24, 
444C,  445. 

Kirkesanton,  Santacherche,  etc.,  23, 
54,  7471,  29871,  385n,  438040^  44in, 
540-41  :  manor  of,  23,  436c-7,  605  : 
burnt  by  the  Scots,  4367* :  mill  of, 
29871,  436c,  541  :  chapel  of,  xxiij., 
44171. 

Kirksti  (Ravenglass),  477*1. 

Knaphou,  22,  42 in,  427,  428^,  485, 
see  Litilknaphou  and  Michelknap- 
hou. 

Knot,  signification  of,  28871. 

Korkegyll,  see  Corkekyll. 

Kulwen,  see  Culwen. 

Kylnebank  (Gosford),'  150. 

Kyrcros,  see  Kirkbycrossan. 

Kyrkecroft  (Eaglesfield),  380. 

Kyrketoft  (Eaglesfield),  377. 

Labote  (Hyton),  4417*. 
Laicalis  insolentia,  vij. 
Lairpul  (Duddon),  88w. 
Lancaster,  deeds  of  Duchy  of,  35 571, 

38171. 
Landplou,  Lamplugh,  10,  6on,  J48n, 

199-202,    244,    3867*,    465**.    539  • 

King  David  at,  5771 :   advowson  of 

church  of,  26271. 
Lanercost,  survey  of  priory  of,  59771 : 

forcibly  seized  by  lay  patron,  vij. 
Langakyrs  (Ponsonby),  333,  582. 
Langcrofte,  582. 
Langfite  (Embleton),  571. 
Lan glands  (Ponsonby),  304. 
Langley,  letters  patent  dated  at,  338. 
Langliferga   (Langley,   near   Bootle), 

xxxj.,  ii27i,  25771:  Bp.  Richard  of 

Sodor  died  at,  11271. 
Langrig  (Bromfield),  493. 

(Ponsonby),  333. 

Langwathby,  7071. 
Langwelflatt,  582. 
Lasta  of  herrings,  xxv.,  549. 
Lastrikhouhe  (Eaglesfield),  377. 
Lateran,  see  Rome. 
Lauerdeshou  (Ponsonby),  304. 
Layrocsyk  (Mosser),  545. 
Laythild  (Clifton),  554. 
Lechayel  (Ulster),  521. 


620 


GENERAL  INDEX 


Leiriggas  (Millom),  439^.  540. 
Lekelay   (Seton),    nunnery   of,    87*1, 
279*1,  45  3» :  land  in,  470*1 :  survey 
of,  597»>  605. 
Lesagh,  river,  159**. 
Leseschalis   (Sf.ascale),    86,  see    Ses- 

chalis. 

Lesmochan  (Ulster),  525. 
Levedibuthes  (Talentire),  396. 
Levericpule  (Bootle),  281. 
Levinton,  see  Kirklinton. 
Lez,  great,  368. 

Lickebuske  (Gosford),  164,  165*1. 
Lies,  526. 
Likokeriding  (Ravenglass),  25,  477C, 

478. 

Likrestinge  (Ponsonby),  304. 
Limekilns,  568. 

Lincoln,  parliament  at,  337  :  letters 
patent  dated  at,  338*1 :  priory  of, 
586. 

Lindebecke  (Eskdale),  573. 
Linflat  (Ponsonby),  306. 
Lindsay,  27*1. 

Lingbanke  (Gosford),  15311. 
Linstoc,  xxx.,  529. 
Litilknaphou,  23,  434. 
Lochwene  (Ulster),  names  of  islands 

in,  524. 

Loisura  (Eaglesfield),  379. 
Lorton,  4,  57*,  83-5,  355*1,  537,  568. 
Losca  (Gosford),  290*1. 
Lostric,    341,    342*1,    346-7:     beck, 

377«. 

Louetsche  (Gosford),  290. 
Loughe,  la   (Whitehaven),    191,   see 

Terne. 
Lound,  chantry  or  chapel  of,  xxxij., 

6,  147-9. 
Lowkerige,  595. 

Lowkesk  (Gosford),  290*1,  291-2. 
Lowswater,  2,  3,  5,  6,  57-8,  '140*1, 
:44,  545,  598-9,  604  :  new  park  of, 
145:  high  and  low  park,  145*1; 
chapel  of,  xxiij.,  55C,  56-7,  105-6: 
J45-6,  387-94,  534,  595,  598-9: 
mandate  for  its  consecration,  xxx., 
387n:  actual  dedication,  389- 
ecclesiastical  apparatus  of,  389-93  :' 
raised  to  parochial  status,  387-94  : 


liability  of  inhabitants,  387-94 : 
burial  of  dead  in  chapelyard,  389- 
94  :  pension  reserved  to  St.  Bees, 
389-92  :  repairs  of  choir  and  nave, 
393-4  :  appointment  of  incumbent, 
391- 

Lowther,  Abp.  John  le  Romeyn  at, 
xxx. 

Lydal,  barony  of,  456*1. 

Lynthwaite,  368 :  identification  of, 
368*1. 

Lyons,  council  of,  112*1. 

Malpase  (Seton),  279*1. 

Man,  Isle  of,  3,  J2c-gc,  116,  584,  602  : 
charters  touching,  xiv.-xviij.  :  ac- 
quisition by  Scotland,  xvj.-xviij.  : 
battle  of  Ronaldsway  in,  xvj.-xvij. 

Manerium,  early  mention  of,  ij. 

Manrigthwait  (near  Waberthwaite), 
285. 

Mansura  terre,  450. 

Markets  in  Coupland,  xxv. 

Marriage,  land  given  in,  293,  296**, 
297,  302*1,  307*1,  343,  400-1,  405, 
470*1,  476,  479-8i,  556,  559,  566, 
see  Dower. 

Marron,  river,  377*1,  562. 

Maryport,  cemetery  of,  80*1. 

Medilish  (Eskdale),  574. 

Medilton  (Lonsdale),  6o*t,  539. 

Meleberg  (Clifton),  357*1. 

Mdioraciones,  386. 

Melis  (Kirksanton),  298*1,  439*1,  540. 

Melmerby,  7ow. 

Meretun,  526. 

Meschin,  meaning  of,  27*1. 

Meterdale,  15911. 

Mewthow,  593. 

Meysigwra  (Rotington),  416. 

Michelknaphou  (St.  Bees  Head),  419. 

Meddellwallflatt  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 

Mighet,  river,  475*1. 

Millom,  viii.,  4,  19,  24,  29*1,  54,  70*1, 
71*1,  87-90,  112*1,  298,  363*1,  364*1, 
366c,  374*1,  439M,  44o»,  5 34,  558, 
564-5,  570,  575,  578  :  liberties  of, 
xxvi.,  364 :  feudal  services  in,  363*1  : 
lordship  of,  iii.,  106*1,  283*1,  364*1  : 
court  of,  363*1 :  grant  of  a  market 


GENERAL   INDEX 


621 


and  fair,  xxv.,  283*1,  364*1 :  salt- 
pans at,  87-8,  454-5  :  sewal  at, 
558  :  church  of  Holy  Trinity  of, 
8771,  f)on,  44o-iw,  455W  :  advowson 
of  the  church  of,  36471 :  tithes  of, 
454C-6  :  Millom  Above,  3i6n. 

Milnbek  (Eaglesfield),  379. 

Milnebank  (Greysouthen),  557. 

Milneberch  (Clifton),  561. 

Milneflatte  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 

Milneholm  (Clifton),  555,  562. 

Milnthorp  (Westmorland),  409-10, 
604. 

Mine  (Whitehaven),  208,  412^,  see 
iron  mines. 

Mines  of  lead  and  iron,  552. 

Miracles  of  S.  Bega,  xxij.,  509-20. 

Mithekunre  (Bolton),  287. 

Molkerkyn,  Molcorkilne,  6,  139^-41, 
466n  :  city  and  castle  of,  140**. 

Monk  Foss,  3&2n. 

Moresby,  etc.,  4iw,  loin,  103-4,  221, 
386**,  487  :  manor  of,  4&3W :  free 
warren  in,  22ow :  origin  of  name 
of,  487*1. 

Moreton  (Murton),  6,  10,  20,  n8c, 
148,  201,  243,  374",  547- 

Morethweyt,  287,  296  :  identification 
of,  287«,  2g6n  :  beck,  16,  299. 

Moriceby  more,  4iw,  104,  174. 

Morlund  (  Westmorland  ),  4  o  9  n  : 
church  of,  12,  233-4,  544. 

Morplath  (Clifton),  359. 

Mortuaries,  572. 

Moselond,  la  (Greysouthen),  557. 

Moserge,  142**,  143-4,  544^,  545,  547  : 
customs  of,  374». 

Mosethueytbec  (Santon),  434. 

Moshouflat  (Ponsonby),  soon,  304. 

Mulcaster,  nzn,  241  n,  575,  592  : 
manor  of,  xxi.,  241**,  533  :  free 
warren  in,  24111 :  bridge  of,  2857*  : 
church  of,  542-3  :  chapel  of  St. 
Aldeburga,  542. 

Musselburgh,  77n. 

Namiare,  354. 
Native,  nief,  see  serf. 
Neddrum    (Ulster),    priory   of,    xiij., 
520-6. 


Nederhall  (Kirkcudbright),  xj.,  g8n. 

Nets,  fishing,  66,  80-1,  573. 

Nethergwhynbank  (Gosford),  153**. 

Neutun,  526. 

Neuton  (Aspatria),  148*1,  493. 

Neuton  (Reigny),  528. 

Neuton    (Gosford),    6-8,    150,    15 in, 

I52C-73C,     323,     3866,     603  :      St. 

Helen's  Well  in,  152,  154,  160-61, 

33on :     Graestan    in,    152-3,    160, 

162,  164  :    beck  in,  162  :    mill  in, 

7,  155,  166-7,  169. 
Newby  (Furness),  307*1. 
Nith,  river,  93**. 
Norfolk,  shire  of,  329*1. 
Normanneskoende       (Eaglesfield?), 

535- 

Northampton,  27«,  71**,  93*1. 
Northschoh  (Ponsonby),  304. 
Northumbria,  572. 
Nowtgeld,  Nautegild,  xxij.,  xxvj.,  2, 

46c,  I05W,  382*1,  383,  514. 
Nummus,  361. 
Nunnington,  no. 

Oak,  as  boundary,  88. 

Ormeshan,  Onchan  (Isle  of  Man),  3, 

74c,  77c  :   identification  of,  74*1. 
Orton  (Westmorland),  Abp.  John  le 

Romeyn  at,  xxx. 
Ouregrive,  526. 
Ousby,  see  Ulnesby. 
Overkelet  (Lanes.),  26,  453^,  482C. 
Overtone,  589. 
Owtfield,  Infield,  400*1. 
Owirthgate,     Ovirgate     (Stainburn), 

1 8,  335- 

Oxgang,  extent  of,  39611. 
Oxlesgate,  552. 
Oysters,  a  rent  of,  45  3 n, 

Pacca  of  linen,  xxv.,  549. 

Palmcastre  (Old  Carlisle),  394. 

Panis  immolaticius,  xxvij.  394. 

Papcastle,  229*1,  45i». 

Par  chum  racionabilem,  255. 

Paria  caligarum  et  sotularium,  264. 

Parish  churches,  held  in  moiety,  xxiij. 
109-11  :  chapels  made  into,  369- 
70  :  foundation  and  endowment  of, 


622 


GENERAL  INDEX 


xxij.,  xxiij.,  1 1 1-2,  538-9  :  insignia 
of,  369*1 :  extensive  parishes,  xxii., 
27«. 

Park  Bridge  (Lowswater),  I45W. 

Parkhouse  Gill,  3687*. 

Park  Pastor  (St.  Bees),  598-9- 

Partition  of  lands,  29071,  29471. 

Patrick,  Life  of  St.,  xij.,  xiij. 

Patrick    Brumpton     (near    Bedale), 

267». 

Pattering  Hole,  see  Poteruns. 
Pecunia,    archaic   meaning  of,    3171, 

37-8,  73. 
Pekmyln  (Rotington),  watermill,  22, 

423-4. 

Pennigetun,  Pennington,  526 :  church 
of,  542. 

Penwortham  (Lanes.),  45 3n. 

Peplum  of  holy  bracelet,  xxxij.,  515. 

Perdishou,  545. 

Peterborough,  737*. 

Peter  Pence,  xxxi.,  594. 

Petgrofl'es  (St.  Bees),  449,  485,  598-9. 

Pilgrimage,  return  from,  43971. 

Plantains,  erected,  307. 

Plough,  upcast  of,  485. 

Plumbland,  148?*,  150,  592. 

Plumpton,  park  of,  483n,  528. 

Pol  (Whitehaven),  191,  206  :  valley 
of,  25 8n. 

Pomerium,  88,  174. 

Ponsonby,  Punchunby,  Punzunby,  8, 
16-7,  11671,  301-2,  30671,  307-9, 
330  n,  333-4,  38671,  571,  583: 
manor  of,  30011,  303,  3327* :  aula 
of,  304  :  Old  Hall  of,  304n  :  stone- 
bridge  at,  30071 :  church  of,  30071, 
301  :  churchyard  fence  of,  30071  : 
land  of  the  church  of,  300*1. 

Pontefract,  2871. 

Port  Corna,  see  Corna. 

Ports  in  Coupland,  xxv. 

Poteruns,  Pottrun,  Pattering  Hole 
(St.  Bees  Head),  xxxvj.,  22,  419, 
42  ic. 

Potronkirke  (St.  Bees  Head),  427-8. 

Poulton  (Lanes.),  465,  577. 

Pow,  valley  of,  see  Pol. 

Precaria,  boon  service,  179^  206. 

Prestgyll,  5,  102-3,  368,  487. 


Preston,    Presthon   (Rainpatrick),   4, 

92-4  :   salt  pan  at,  93. 
Preston  (Whitehaven),  39,  234**,  371, 

386  :    grant  of,  iii.,  29,  31,  33,  35, 

37-8,  104,  24871,  534. 
Preston  (Westmorland),  41277,  4157?  : 

mill  of,  41571. 
Preston  Howse,  595. 
Prestongile,  55. 
Preston    Patrick,   23471,   see    Preston 

(Westmorland). 

Priest  How  (Lamplugh),  46571. 
Prior atus  Hibernensis,  xij. 
Priorhouue,   Prior  How,   (Stainburn) 

335- 

Priory,  power  of  lay  patron  in  a,  vij. 
Provincia,  a  district,  349. 
Punchunby,  see   Ponsonby. 
Purgatory,  pains  of,  xxviii.,  333. 

Quinhou  (Drigg),  24,  459. 
Quinque  Ville,  see  Towns,  Five. 

Racton  (Dalston),  528. 

Rainpatrick  (Scotland),  4,  93-4  : 
church  of,  94» :  saltpan  at,  94-5. 

Ran,  rean  (Gosford),  164 :  paved 
with  stones,  164. 

(St.  Bees  Head),  419,  485. 

Ranglas,  Reyneglas,  etc.,  25,  82», 
460,  46671,  474c-8oc,  584  :  grant  of 
market  and  fair,  xxv.,  4757*  :  cross 
of,  475  :  estuary  of,  47571 :  strata 
regia  at,  47771 :  evolution  of  name, 
478n. 

Rauthethuait  (near  Eaglesfield),  37871. 

Ravelsaye  Tarn,  36871. 

Ravenerhals,  537,  568. 

Ravenewyc,  530. 

Rayse  (St.  Bees),  427-8,  485. 

Raysethwaytbec,  545. 

Redkirk  Point,  9471. 

Register,  see  St.  Bees. 

Religious  phrases,  xxvij.,  xxviii. 

Remedio,  pro,  30,  34-5,  365. 

Rere  Crosse  (Stainmore),  531. 

Rescow  Parke,  595. 

Rheims,  2871. 

Ribelton,  Ribton,  2,  26,  47c,  481^, 
595- 


GENERAL   INDEX 


623 


Richmond,  town  of,  593  :  castle  of, 
gjn :  archdeaconry  of,  240,  369, 
599,  etc.  :  pensions  of,  572  :  be- 
yond the  moors,  572. 

Rievaulx,  foundation  of  abbey  of,  514. 

Ring,  gold,  given  in  marriage,  307*1. 

Ringa  avcne,  xxv.,  36711. 

Ripley  (Harrowgate),  98*1. 

Rocheland,  Rotheland  (Clifton),  19, 
355,  357,  359- 

Rochester,  abbot  of  York  consecrated 
bishop  of,  390*1. 

Roda  de  borata,  197. 

Rome,  papal  bull  dated  at,  135  : 
Lateran,  143. 

Rondebank  Closse  (Talentire),  4Oon, 

Rose  Castle,  archives  of,  137*1. 

Rose,  render  of  a,  265,  277,  280*1,  557. 

Rosse,  526. 

Rotington,  Rodinton,  etc.,  22-3,  29, 
3i,  33,  35,  37-8,  104,  193-4,  361*, 
386,  4150,  416-26,  428,  430,  435C, 
449,  484,  534,  595,  603,  606  :  man- 
or of,  426*1,  430*1,  607  :  mill  of,  22, 
423,  429^,  430,  435,  603  :  mill 
stream  of,  423-4 :  mill  pool  of, 
423,  430,  603  :  chapel  of  St. 
Michael  of,  420  :  Hall  of,  420. 

Routheland,  Rowmoor.  Row  Beck, 
396,  see  Rocheland. 

Rndestone,  495-6  :  parsonage  of,  585. 

Rughtwate,  493. 

Rukwra  (Rowrah),  10,  199*1,  595  : 
bane,  10  :  bek,  igQC. 

Rulandes  (Eaglesfield),  379. 

Ruschin  (Isle  of  Man),  77-8  :  abbey 
of,  75C-6,  8771:  'church  of  St. 
Lupus  or  Leu,  xvij.,  488  :  church 
of  Holy  Trinity,  488*1. 

Rutandpul,  le  (Millom),  565. 

Rutgart,  5,  105. 

St.  Albans,  battle  of,  388*1. 

St.  Bees,  parish  of,  28,  30,  33,  38, 
130,  369,  see  Kirkeby  and  Kirke- 
bybecoc  :  bounds  of  parish,  9,  29- 
31,  33-4,  367-8  :  cross  of  the  fran- 
chise of,  367  :  vill  of,  82**,  273-4, 
277  :  mill  of,  419,  424,  429^  430, 
435  :  land  of,  xxxvj.,  23  :  Heads, 
xxx vj.,  416**,  427*1,  584,  600,  see 


Berge  :  hawks  on,  607,  see  Hawks  : 
hostile  ships  near,  583-4,  607  : 
parish  church  of,  i.,  iv.,  xxxiv.,  28, 
124,  130-1,  369,  454C,  572  :  church 
of,  i,  30-1,  33-4.  147,  302,  580 : 
privileges  of  church  of,  147*1  : 
priory  of,  84**,  138*1:  cell  of  St. 
Mary's,  York,  iv.  :  date  of  found- 
ation, iv.  :  influences  causing 
foundation,  iii.,  iv.  :  patrons  and 
advowson  of,  vj.,  vij.  :  number  of 
monks,  iv.,  29,  31  :  priory  church 
of,  xxxiv.,  493  :  burial  of  lords  of 
Egremont  in,  vij.,  302  :  besieged 
and  spoiled,  xxvi.,  571-2  :  relics 
in,  xxxij.,  xxxiij.,  98,  417*1 :  relics 
of  S.  Bega,  346,  360,  403  :  armilla 
S.  Begc,  see  Armilla  :  image  of  S. 
Bega,  xxxij.,  417,  422  :  signutn  of 
S.  Bega  sculptured  in  stone,  368  : 
altars  in  priory  church,  xxxj., 
xxxij.  :  great  altar,  354,  417,  422  : 
altar  of  B.V.M.,  185-6,  413-4,  462^, 
463  :  altar  of  S.  Bega,  62,  119, 
384:  lights  in,  9,  68,  107,  151-2, 
154,  185-6,  286,  306,  413-4,  417, 
462-3  :  light  day  and  night  before 
the  relics,  98,  417*1 .-  house  (domus) 
of  S.  Bega,  382  :  chape)  of  S.  Bega, 
xxxij.,  68,  151-2  :  feast  or  day  of 
S.  Bega  (31  October),  v.,  vj.,  143-4, 
251-2,  311,  316,  354,  422,  459C, 
468,  497*1,  508  :  dedication  of 
priory  church,  iii.,  30,  33,  107 : 
ecclesiastical  visitations  of,  xxx.  : 
isolation  of,  xxix.  :  local  charters 
of,  viij.  :  surrender  of,  xxxiv.  : 
value  of  revenues  of,  vij.,  xxxv., 
594-8  :  Gatehouse  of,  xxxiv.,  597, 
599  :  Dovecote  of,  597  :  pax  sanote 
Bege,  xxvi.,  xxviij.,  497-520  :  prob- 
able privilege  of  sanctuary  in, 
xxviij.  :  vicissitudes  of  Register 
of,  xxxvij.  :  seal  of,  xxxviij.  : 
arms  of,  xxxviij.  :  barony  of,  in 
Isle  of  Man,  xv.  :  port  of,  xxv. 

St.  Martin's  (Richmond),  priory  of, 
586,  588. 

St.  Sanctan,  church  (Kirksanton)  of, 
44in. 


624 


GENERAL   INDEX 


Saithegile  (Ponsonby), 

Salmon,  fisheries  or  gifts  of,  xxiv.,  2, 

42,    47-9,    64-8,    236,    45 ic,    581  : 

coops  (cupe),  xxiv. 
Saltergh,    3,    20,    55,    S9c-6?c,    37™, 

373-5,  383C,  384-6,  534  :    mill  of, 

38406  :    grange  of,  598-9- 
Saltom  Bay,  205*1. 
Saltpans,  xxiv.,  4,  etc.,  40,  42-3,  45, 

87-95,  205,  207,  210,  564. 
Sanctuary,  probable  right  of,  in  St. 

Bees,    xxviii.-xxix. :    right   of,   in 

Wetheral,  xxviii.,  xxix. 
Sandlandis  (Drigg),  462. 
Sandflos  (Millom),  564. 
Sandrig  (Talentire),  396,  407-8. 
Sandscarth  (Kirksanton),  439»,  540. 
Sandwath,  104,  386,  484,  595  :  marsh, 

I93»,  598-9- 

Santacherche,  526,  see  Kirksanton. 
Santon  (Irton),  23,  3i8w,  325-6,  43ic, 

432C,  433  :  mill  of,  13,  252-3. 
Sarcellus,  a  ring-fence,  296. 
Sartum,  assart,  301. 
Satgodard,  541. 
Sathertun,  553. 
Sathou  (Scallow),  199,  199^. 
Saulhill  (Salkeld),  530. 
Sautheberch  (Eaglesfield),  378w. 
Sautoure,  deer-leap,  569. 
Scadbeck  (Maryport),  Sow. 
Scadebuas,  4,  80  :   ship  and  fishing 

at,  80. 
Scalderscogh   (Ponsonby),  brook  of, 

3o6n. 

Scaleberg  (Clifton),  357**,  556. 
Scallardbuetys  (Clifton),  554. 
Scargill  (Windscales),  io$n. 
Scart  (Scargreen,  Ponsonby),  303. 
Scarthgate  (Ponsonby),  333. 
Scaw   (Windscales),  High  and  Low, 

349"- 

Sceloth  (Lorton),  566. 
Schoose  (Windscales),  34gn. 
Scortgayle  (Eaglesfield),  380. 
Scraithegil,  257. 
Sculptured  stone,  368. 
Seascale  Hall,  i72n,  194?*. 
Seaweed,  as  manure,  xxxvj.,  434. 
Seberth  (St.  Bees),  416. 


Seecote,  le  (St.  Bees),  484. 
Seglandes  (Clifton),  355,  357-9- 
Selecrotf  (Silecroft),  535. 
Selekere,  10,  198  :   Selkir  Bay,  ig8n. 
Selis,  a  strip  in  open  field,  396,  3g6w. 
Sepes  petrosa,   a  stone  fence,   158-9, 

367- 
Serf,  sale  or  manumission  of,  xxvij., 

12,  241-2,  395",  424C,  445-6,  565^. 
Sergeants'  food,  374-5- 
Services  in  Coupland,  xxvj.,  xxvij. 
Seschalis,  Seascale,  4,  85-6,  26ow. 
Seteknoc,    Setikonoc    (Bolton),    288, 

294- 

Setforn  (Waberthwaite),  285. 
Setmurthy,  379«. 
Seton  (Workington),  64»,  237n,  493  : 

grant  of  market,  xxv. 
(Bootle),    25,    199,   27gn,    28on, 

43iw,  453n,  470-71  :    nunnery  of, 

see  Lekelay. 

Sewakepeni,  see  awaita  maris. 
Shauk,  river,  527. 
Sherofhoton,  593. 
Sikerre,  598-9. 

Sitbrandan  (Stainburn),  343,  561. 
Skalegyll,  368. 
Skeldhou,  n6w. 
Skellerah,  (Corney)  ig8w. 
Skipton,   592  :    honor  of,  iii.,   384n, 

494-5,  532  :   devolution  of,  533. 
Skirbeck  (Lincoln),  44871. 
Skyrefathe  (Hyton),  2 Sow. 
Slepul  (Duddon),  88,  90. 
Sleuenmire  (Millom),  439W,  540. 
Sneckgate,  28gw. 

Snelehou    Whynnys,    367 :     identifi- 
cation of,  3&7W. 
Sorachegil,  etc.,  Sosgill,  6,  I39C-4IC, 

256-7,  466w,  545. 
Sothfeld  (Talentire),  4OOW. 
Sourebi  (Lanes.),  526. 
Soureby,  church  of,  7871 :   manor  of, 

492. 

Southwick  (Scotland),  river,  93w. 
Sow  with  five  pigs,  a  measurement, 

xxiv.,  xxvw. 
Spetyllthorne,  582. 
Spina,  a  thorn  as  boundary,  178,  180. 
Spitelflat  (Carnforth),  26,  482W. 


GENERAL   INDEX 


625 


Spring  Hill,  loin,  see  Keldlandes. 

Spurs,  new  gilt,  a  service,  540. 

Sputekeld  (Lamplugh),  467. 

Stainbrigge  (Bootle),  279*^. 

Stainburn,  17-9,  31,  138*1,  148,  334-9, 
341-52,  355W,  366-7,  492-3,  561, 
595-6  :  grant  of,  29,  31,  33,  35,  37- 
8,  534:  organization  of,  334**: 
mill  of,  334,  367  :  gates  of  vill  of, 
334» :  extent  of  vill,  352*1 :  ear- 
liest owners  of,  352*1 :  cross  in, 
336  :  Owirthgate  in,  335  :  manor 
of,  burnt  by  Scots,  334**,  572  : 
salmon  pool  of,  xxiv.  :  chapel  or 
oratory  of,  148**,  339**,  579^  580. 

Staincroft  (Hytun),  442. 

Stainhoudale  (Derham),  395. 

Stainhous  (Drigg),  24,  461. 

Stainknoc  (Bolton),  288. 

Stainraise  (Gosford),  152  :  cross  at, 
153,  160. 

Stainton,  492. 

Stanbanckclosse  (Talentire),  400**. 

Standing  Stones,  41*1. 

Stanlawehall  (Embleton),  332**. 

Stanylathe  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 

Staveley  Godmound,  577. 

Staynpik  (Ponsonby),  306*1. 

Steleirun  (Gosford),  152-3,  160,  162-3, 
l65-6,  330  :  bank,  150. 

Steyntun,  526. 

Stirkland  (Westmorland),  21-2,  4120- 
5c- 

Ketilt,  577. 

Stirling,  King  Alexander  at,  xj. 

Stiveton,  Steeton  (Craven),  manor  of, 
376n. 

Stockbriggil  (Whitehaven),  185-6, 
189. 

Stockbrigholm  (near  Bootle),  19,  3626- 
3,  438*1 :  bridge  of,  362. 

Stockbridge  (Eskmeals),  362*1. 

Stodfold,  551. 

Stoke,  monastery  of  St.  Andrew  of,  xiv. 

Stone  wall,  158-9,  367. 

Stouenergh,  549. 

Strangford  Lough,  xij.,  xiij.,  603. 

Strettes,  meaning  of,  486*1. 

Strirland,  Strherland  ( Talentire ), 
407*1,  408. 


Strivland  (Gosford),  293. 

Stubscales  (Distington),  344,  487. 

Suahowes  (Talentire),  399,  see  Thua- 
hovel. 

Sulcus  made  by  the  plough,  362. 

Sulewaht  (Solway),  531. 

Summoner,  374*1,  375. 

Sunken  Kirk,  441*1. 

Suntun,  526. 

Suremire,  (Hale)  316. 

Swartahof,  i,  31,  34-5,  37-8,  sgc,  40, 
248*1,  259C,  534,  598-9  :  identifi- 
cation of,  3 in. 

Swinebechan  (Hyton),  442. 

Swynesat,  manor  of,  438*1. 

Sygiswych,  415**. 

Talghenter,  21,  395^,  395-4O8,  595, 
605  :  mill  of,  396  :  chapel  of  Holy 
Trinity  of,  397,  397*1 :  road  to 
chapel,  397. 

Tensare,  tassare,  meaning  of,  62 nf 
i77«,  349W- 

Tens ala  vel  fossata,  i77*t,  see  f en- 
sure. 

Terne,  le  (Whitehaven),  218,  227,  see 
Lough. 

Ternmeran,  Thermeran,  140*1. 

Territorium,  country,  334*1. 

Thakthwayt,  6,  I42C-4C,  545,  567. 

Thirnby,  Thornley,  see  Chirnaby. 

Thorfinesakyr  (Talentire),  397. 

Thornbank,  Thornborhe,  Thornheved 
(Gosford),  290,  292. 

Thorpmorken,  see  Molkerkyn. 

Threpeland,  493. 

Thrimby,  see  Chirnaby. 

Thuahovel  (Talentire),  396,  399-400. 

Thweites,  23,  54,  439*1,  441. 

Thursby,  493. 

Thweth  (Ulster),  525. 

Thwitengales,  etc.  (Santon),  431-2,. 
434- 

Tibei,  Tebay,  603. 

Tiberglorie  (Ulster),  priory  of,  xij. 

Tolfat,  meaning  of,  xxv.,  367,  367*1. 

Todheleriding  (Raven glass),  478. 

Tolloney,  78. 

Torntheyt  (Derwent  Fells),  68n  .* 
foundation  of  chapel  of,  68w. 

2  S 


626 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Torpenhow,  ix.,  493,  529  •'  advowson 
of  church  of,  ix.,  493. 

Tostelterun  (Lamplugh),  467. 

Towns,  Five,  355**,  37$n,  45 in,  492. 

Tractus  unius  archus,  bowshot,  103. 

Traneberimos  (near  Workington), 
341,  345-6. 

Tree  as  boundary,  434. 

Tuahoues,  see  Thuahovel. 

Tunica  cum  capucio,  264. 

Turellum,  Thurallum,  174-5  :  ex- 
planation of,  I74»,  516. 

Tyne,  river,  505. 

Tynemouth,  518:  church  of  St. 
Oswin,  518. 

Tynwald  Court  (Isle  of  Man),  xv. 

Ukmanby,  57^,  493  :  chapel  of,  137;*. 

Uldale,  492. 

Ulfel  (near  Eaglesfield),  378. 

Ulfhou  (Santon),  434. 

(Whitehaven),  191-2. 

Ulnescarth  ( Mosser ),  545  :  bee, 
545- 

Ulster,  520-6  :  monasteries  in  (St. 
Thomas  of  Tiberglorie,  Grey  Abbey, 
Inch,  and  Neddrum),  xij.  :  king- 
dom of,  xiij. 

Ulvesby  (Ousby),  367w  :  mill  of, 
367*. 

Ulvescrophe  (Ponsonby),  301,  303. 

Ulverston,  Olvestona,  533. 

Unanimamus,  34671. 

Urr,  river,  gin,  93n. 

Vallibus  (Normandy),  land  and  fee 

de,  32 gn. 

Vestura,  crop,  118,  168,  255. 
Village,  adjuncts  of  a,  334*1. 
Visum  vicinorum,  255,  313. 
Visum  patrie,  313,  see  consuetude. 

Wafyr,  river,  527. 

Waitcroft  (Flimby),  465». 

Waiteboc,  see  Wetteberch. 

Walletun,  526. 

Walton,  13-4,  194,  248^-50,  258c-6oc, 
261,  273,  368,  595  :  manor  of,  13-4, 
262-72,  606  :  High  and  Low,  ztfn 
368n. 


Wanabilis  terra,  378n. 
Wardun,  abbey  of,  514. 
Warte,  526. 

Wartheholis,  Warthole,  Ward  Hall 
(Plumbland),  396,  399-400,  402, 
404. 

Wasdale,  chapel  of,  595,  598-9. 
Wassewater,  i59». 

Watelandes  (Ravenglass),  477n. 

Waterfal,  le  (Whitehaven),  208-9. 

Wathenpole,  Wampool,  stream  of, 
i.,  492,  527,  531. 

Watridding  (Ravenglass),  476. 

Watsadding  (Ravenglass),  476. 

Waverton,  492. 

Wayburthwayt,  285,  474n. 

Weddaker,  6,  nSc-gc,  487:  chapel 
of,  xxiij.,  146. 

Wedirhale,  Wetheral,  216-7  :  priory 
of,  i.,  ii.,  27«  :  church  of  St.  Con- 
stantine  of,  572  :  survey  of,  5971*  : 
gateway  of,  xxxv.  :  liberty  of  sanc- 
tuary in,  xxviii.,  xxix. 

Welangside,  del  (Eaglesfield),  378^. 

Wellimour,  Welmire  (in  territorio  de 
Fors),  363,  423. 

Welingmora,  Wythemire,  etc.,  5,  8, 
20,  22,  41,  44-5,  54,  I03C-4,  174-6, 
256-7,  368,  386c,  387,  483  :  bounds 
of,  487c :  identification  of,  4in. 

Westmorland,  6iw  :  casles  and  lands 
in,  97»,  404n. 

Westwra  (Eaglesfield),  378^. 

Wetteberch,  Waitboc,  Wetebanc 
(Gosford),  152,  154,  160,  163. 

Wheles,  le,  rings  called,  4iw,  487^. 

Wheytwhange,  ferm  of,  587. 

Whicham,  Witingham,  etc.,  372*1, 
526,  535  :  estovers  in  wood  of, 
472W  :  church  of,  hi.,  5,  29,  31,  33, 
35,  37-8,  106-11,  146,  234n,  472», 
534,  594  :  held  in  moiety,  xxiij., 
io8n,  no-iii  :  pension  of,  572, 
594- 

Whitbec,  Quitebec,  etc.,  6g«,  8711, 
ii4w,  120-8,  28ow,  2g6n,  36211, 
36471,  438w;  church  of,  6,  120-28, 
M6,  543,  606  :  pension  of,  572, 
594,  606. 

Whitby  (Streneshalch),  506,  508. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


627 


Whitehaven,  Whitofthaven,  Wita- 
hova,  etc.,  9-12,  20,  29-31,  33-4,  39, 
4iw,  94«,  loin,  104,  189-92,  210-8, 
220-33,  2460,  368,  371,  373,  386-7, 
412,  544^,  595,  603  :  port  of,  xxv., 
41-2,  3.7itt  :  pool  of,  208-9  :  castle 
of,  ig2w :  bounds  of,  37ic:  an 
early  territorial  unit,  371^  :  grant 
of  a  market  to,  xxv.  :  places  in, 
High  Staith,  2o6w,  George  Street 
and  Bransty,  41  n,  Pow  Street, 
ao6n. 

Whitekelde  (Ponsonby),  304. 

Whitemoss,  264. 

Whithanewod,  595. 

Whithern,  bishopric  of,  ix. 

Whitinton   (Westmorland),  412^. 

Whitrais  (Gosford),  290,  292. 

Widkeldflatt,  Owhitekeldflat,  etc., 
16,  3ooc,  301. 

Wigton,  barony  of,  492,  531  :  found- 
ation of  church  of,  492,  531  :  Five 
Towns  of,  492. 

Wilton  (Hale),  373*1,  386;*. 

Winderge,  Winder,  etc.,  3,  20,  590, 
iggn,  3710,  373-6,  595- 

Windgate,  28gn. 

Windsor,  97^. 

Winnebanc,  Qwhynnybank,  18,  34oc, 
344,  595  :  identification  of,  344^. 

Withemire,  see  Welingmora. 

Withoue  (Whitehaven),  549. 

Wittnesman,  see  Wyttenesman. 

Withun,  see  Wythun. 

Wodend,  595. 

Woodplumpton  (Lanes).,  87*1. 

Workington,  Wirkinton,  Wirchinghe- 
tona,  etc.,  i,  3,  6,  18,  32M,  60-1,  67- 
8,  xosn,  235-7,  334«,  336,  341-2, 
345-9,  355W,  516,  539,  595  :  fief  of 
viii.  :  hall  of,  68n,  92*1,  236,  237^  : 


salmon  at,  xxiv.,  12,  64,  68,  139  : 
mill  of,  i,  3,  2gw,  32,  61,  63-6,  68, 
13811,  534  :  cell  in,  i  :  church  of, 
3,  6,  12,  29,  32,  61,  63-6,  i28w,  135- 
9,  146,  233-40,  534,  543-4  :  church 
of  St.  Mary  of,  66,  138^:  church 
of  St.  Michael  of,  66n :  pension  of 
church  of,  572,  594. 

Wray,  595. 

Wraybank  (St.  Bees),  598-9. 

Wrek  mar  is  y  78. 

Wrengis  (Haverig),  23,  438^. 

Wyndscales,  18-9,  105^,  339,  341, 
345,  347,  348c,  349  :  Little,  357. 

Wynewell,  367. 

Wynnefoth  (Rotington),  416. 

Wynsath,    Little    (Clifton),    19,    355, 

358-9. 

Wyntersalethayth  (Eskdale),  570. 
Wytebuttes  (Clifton),  356-9. 
Wytheschape,  133. 
Wythoverlepe,  132-3. 
Wythun,  Wyttun,  15  :   mill  of,  286  : 

possible  identification  of,  28611. 
Wyttenesman,  a  service  in  Coupland, 

363",  374-5,  537-8,  568. 

Yavenwyth  (Barton),  45 8». 

Ynescuscre  (Strangford  Lough),  island 
of,  xij. 

York,  g8n,  129,  134,  231,  261,  269, 
273,  305,  365,  435-6,  593,  603: 
church  of  St.  Peter  of,  473  :  fabric 
of,  315  :  great  church  of,  143-4  : 
abbey  of,  31,  34,  129-34,  273,  382, 
543C,  572C  :  cells  of  the  abbey  of, 
572  :  fabric  of  monastery  of,  B.V. 
M.,  120. 

Yorkshire,  knights  of,  219-20. 

Ysacby,  532. 

Yuinhat  (Santon),  434. 


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INDEX  OF  PERSONAL  NAMES. 


Attention  is  directed  to  official  descriptions  for  the  names  of  kings  and 
ecclesiastics,  and  to  patronymics  when   no    territorial    or    other   surname 

exists. 

The  letter  c  after  a  numeral  indicates,  as   a  rule,  that  the  name  appears 
in  the  title  of  the  charter,  and  the  letter  «  indicates  that  it  appears  in 
a  note. 


A.,  Al.  s.  of,  454- 

Abbendon,  John  de,  SIM:   Agnes  w. 

of,  5i»,  53  :   Ada  and   Christiane 

d.'s  of,  5iw. 
Abbot,  Godefrid,  446. 
Abirford,  John  s.  of  Richard  the  ma- 
son, of,  47oc :  Eda  w.  of  (d.  of  Ives 

de  Ranglas),  479. 
Acarsan  (Okarefair),  Maurice,  bailiff 

of  Man,  xvij.,  489. 
Acca,  reeve  of  Wirchinton,  see  Work- 

ington. 

Acke,  Michael  s.  of,  65,  67. 

Adam  the  smith,  359  :    Adam  s.  of, 

24i»  :  Alan  s.  of,  431-2  :  Benedict 

brother  of,  359. 
Alexanders,  of,  72,  551  :  Gilbert 

s.  of,  551,  see  Kellet :   Hud[ard]  s. 

of,  445  '•   John  s.  of,  551  :   John  s. 

of  Robert  s.  of,  308,  see  Riche  : 

Richard  s.  of,  318,  559:    William 

s.  of,  9,  43,  igsc,  482. 

the  doorkeeper,  58,  60,  523. 

the  great,  398,  $g8n,  404. 

the  chamberlain,  521,  523. 

— the  reeve,  430,  538. 

the  cook,  530. 

Adelwald,    Athelwald,    clerk,    81, 

317. 

Afirington,  see  Harrington. 
Aictun,  Rainer  de,  60. 
Aidan,  St.,  504-5. 
Ailf,  Orm  s.  of,  551. 
Ailmer,  clerk,  50. 


Ailmer,  Gilbert,  s.  of,  340. 

Ailward,  Dolfin  s.  of,  3i7«,  493,  see 
Dolfin  :  Maud  (d.  of  Earl  Gospat- 
ric)  w.  of  Dolfin,  3i7«. 

Ainstapeleth,  nuns  of,  86. 

Airmine,  W.  de,  86. 

Alan,  50,  248-9  :  Adam  s.  of,  43,  436, 
530,  554  :  Henry  s.  of,  207  :  Rich- 
ard s.  of,  88,  541,  see  Coupland  : 
Rodbert  s.  of,  84. 

son  of  the  Count,  bailift  of  Man, 

xvij. 

the  knight,  115. 

chaplain,  445. 

miller,  334. 

reeve,  361. 

brother  of  Roger  parson  of  Kirk- 

by  Trlid,  see  Kirkby  Ireleth. 

Alard,  Richard  s.  of,  259. 

Albanach,  Gillemure,  ix. 

Albany,  Duke  of,  583-4,  607. 

Albart,  master,  458. 

Albemarle,  William  le  Gross,  earl  of, 
2,  13,  20,  4608,  54w,  249C,  250,  382, 
494-5,  532,  550,  602:  Ciceley 
countess  of,  2,  13,  53C-6,  85*1,  I54n, 
25oc,  382*1,  439n,  44on,  4&5W,  494-5, 
532,  549c,  550,  602  :  Hawise  d.  of 
Earl  William,  47?!,  464*1,  494-5, 
532. 

Ingelram  brother  of  Earl  Wil- 
liam, 550. 

Geoffrey  s.  of  Earl  William,  55, 

250. 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


629 


Albemarle,  William  de  Fortibus,  earl 
of,  2,  46n,  470-9,  lom,  257n,  36iM, 
40iw,  494-5,  532,  537,  581  :  Ave- 
lina  de  Fortibus  w.  of  Prince 
Edmund,  494-5,  532. 

countess  of,  57^. 

William  Teronis,  495. 

pedigree  of,  533. 

Aldburgh,  Richard  de,  201. 

Aldelin,  William  s.  of,  xxvij.,  24, 
444C,  445c  :  Eustachia  dc  Curtelun 
w.  of,  445. 

Aldingham,  Daniel  parson  of,  ggn, 
542  :  the  lady  of,  457^. 

Aldyche,  Benedict  s.  of,  472. 

Alef,  Jordan  s.  of,  207. 

Alemann,  John,  446  :  Ralf,  445  : 
Walter,  445-6  :  William,  445. 

Alexander,  Robert  s.  of,  528  :    Tho- 
mas s.  of,  558c:  Christiane  mother 
of  Thomas,  559. 
— anceps,  Agnes  d.  of,  553C,  559. 

clerk,  117. 

deacon,  457. 

dispensator,  286. 

Alice,  widow,  468. 

Alneburg,  Alnebrig,  Aldeburgh,  etc., 
Peter  de,  57,  65,  67,  207,  250 : 
Richard  de,  13,  140,  254C,  348,  385, 
395,  397-8,  537  :  Thomas  de,  254*1  : 
Thomas  s.  of  William  de,  348. 

Airedale,  Hugh  s.  of  Eda  d.  of  Walter 
de,  45  2  c,  see  Hoby. 

Alrington,  Adam  de,  289. 

Alteneia,  William  de,  457. 

Amchorie,  Henry  de,  155. 

Anglicus,  see  English. 

Angulo,  Gocelin  de,  523. 

Anketin,  clerk,  543. 

Annes,  Abraham  de,  108. 

Appleby,  Apilby,  Adam  de,  official 
of  Carlisle,  see  Carlisle  :  Gamel  de, 
50  :  Thomas  de  Brunby,  vicar  of 
St.  Laurence  of  ,271-2, 277, 2780,328. 

Applethwaite,  Apelthueit,  William 
de,  482. 

Appleton,  Robert  de,  458. 

Archeton,  Alan  de,  548. 

Archille,  Lucian  de,  98  :  Michael  and 
William  sons  of,  207,  430. 


Archille,  seneschal,  234. 

Archis,  William  de,  33,  37,  39. 

Ards  (in  Arce  or  Arte)  in  Ulster,  E. 
prior  of  St.  Andrews,  523. 

Arkylby  Alan  de,  56 ic. 

Arlauchdene,  Arlochdene,  etc.,  Gille- 
michael  parson  of,  108,  112,  114, 
iigc,  see  under  Gillemichael  and 
Conishead. 

Armagh,  Eugene  archbishop  of,  523C  : 
Thomas  abp.  of,  5230. 

Arthur,  Henry  s.  of,  see  Millom. 

Arundel,  Osbert,  250  :  Roger,  itin- 
erant justice,  544:  Walter,  in. 

William  earl  of,  286w 

Asch,  Walter  de,  161. 

Aseby,  John  de,  305. 

Askeby,  chaplain,  Richard  de,  238. 

Asmi,  380. 

Asmunderlaw,  see  Osmunderlaw. 

Aspatrik,  Ada  d.  of  Agnes  d.  of 
Dolfin  de,  51-3  :  Christiane  sister 
of,  2,  53C  :  Alexander  s.  of  Ralf 
de,  5 in  :  Agnes  de,  5iw  :  Alice  de, 
SIM.-  Emma  de,  sin:  Benedict 
priest  (sacerdos)  of,  551. 

Athelwald,  see  Adelwald. 

Attington,  Ranulf  de,  58. 

Auffred,  chaplain  of  Abp.  Thurstin, 
iii.,  30,  32,  34-5- 

Aumeric,  450. 

Austhwait,  see  Aysthwait. 

Averi,  Ralf  de,  46. 

Averton,  Aimer  de,  58. 

Aylemer,  Walter  s.  of,  335,  see  Ailmer. 

Aymer,  Haymer,  301. 

Aynerset,  Ainresete,  etc.,  Benedict 
de,  28ow,  281-2  :  Symon  de,  119, 
280,  355M :  William  de,  a  serf,  425  : 
offspring  of,  425. 

Aynthorn,  Henry  de,  300  :  Peter  s. 
of,  324- 

Ayringthwaite,  Margaret  d.  of  Nigel 
de,  10,  ii,  214^,  2i5c,  2i7c,  22ic, 
2230-4,  226,  232  :  Moris  de,  179  : 
Reynold  s.  of  Moris,  10,  207-8, 
2ogc :  Nigel  de,  2iiw,  213,  221, 
226,  260,  262,  470. 

Aysthwait,  Austhwait,  etc.,  Adam  de, 
434,  480 :  Benedict  de,  128 : 


630 


INDEX   OF  PERSONAL   NAMES 


Thomas  s.  of  Adam  de,  573^  •' 
Thomas  de,  3326,  481,  57oc,  574^: 
Adam  s.  of  Thomas  de,  332«,  57oc, 
574C  :  Constance  d.  of  Adam,  332W> 
574c:  Richard  s.  of  Thomas  de, 
57oc. 

Bachel,  Robert,  522. 

Badde,  Mariota  w.  of  Alan,  320**. 

Baines,  Osbert  de,  see  York. 

Balistarius  (Bowman),  William,  ii.,  i, 
28. 

Baldwin,  525. 

Balliol,  John,  72»,  283*  :  Devorguil 
w.  of,  72w :  Alexander  s.  of  John 
de,  567*;. 

Bampton,  John  de,  122  :  Robert  de, 
201,  229,  233,  244,  262-3,  266-8, 
270,  276,  284,  327,  331-2,  350-1, 
411,  554-5  :  Robert  s.  of  Robert  de, 
284  :  William  de,  351. 

Bangor,  Maurice  abbot  of,  521  :  ab- 
bot of,  xv. 

Bank,  John  del,  chaplain,  277,  298  : 
Waldeve  de,  358  :  William  del,  100. 

Bardulf,  Hugh,  itinerant  justice,  544. 

Bastunthwait,  Adam  de,  551  :  Alex- 
ander de,  405,  555,  560,  566,  570  : 
Robert  de,  197,  302 n  :  Godyt  wife 
of,  302n. 

Batwrikth  of  Ranglas,  Richard  le, 
46oc,  477C,  488. 

Beauchamp  of  Kelton,  John,  201. 

Bechockirke,  Richard  de,  571. 

Beckirmeth,  Beckermet,  Waldef  de, 
551  :  Richard  chaplain  of,  386, 
parson  (persona)  of,  112,  114-5, 
550,  priest  (presbiter)  of,  108,  551  : 
William  rector  of  St.  John  the 
Baptist  of,  i3iw:  parishioners  of, 
133. 

Bede,  the  venerable,  xxi.,  497. 

Beghu,  St.,  xxi.,  505-8. 

Bek,  Anthony,  see  Durham. 

Bekers,  John  of,  the  elder,  576. 

Belficz,  Simon,  248. 

Bell,  Randulf,  chaplain,  17,  128,  298, 
327,  328c,  33ic. 

Bello  Campo,  Belcamp,  Reynold  de, 
63,  384 :  Richard  de,  92,  318 : 


Roger  de,  4,  64*1,  67«,  8sc,  86  : 
Grace  w.  of,  64*1,  67?*,  see  Beau- 
champ. 

Belnag,  W.  de,  46. 

Belton,  William  de,  261. 

Benedict,  Alan  s.  of,  58,  60,  65,  67, 
nitt,  H3-4,  259  :  Alexander  s.  of 
inn:  Adam  s.  of  Alan  s.  of,  58, 
60.  See  Pennington. 

chaplain,  543. 

brother  of  Adam  the  smith,  359. 

Beningburg,  Theobald  de,  457. 

Benson,  Richard,  576,  579- 

Beny,  Gille  s.  of,  207. 

Bercarius,  Benedict,  306  :  John,  538. 

Berdeseia,  Ranulf  de,  540. 

Bere,  Richard,  556. 

Bernard,  ix. 

William  s.  of,  529. 

Berningham,  John  de,  285. 

Bernulf,  Roger,  in,  113-4. 

• Gernolf,  Orm  s.  of,  454  :  Gilbert 

s.  of  Adam  s.  of,  454«. 

Bertha,  Richard,  ix. 

Berwys,  Barwise,  Alan  de,  411  : 
Anthony,  229«. 

Betun,  Bethun,  Bezun,  Baldwin  de, 
47»  :  Fulk  de,  84  :  Adam  de,  544  : 
Ralf  de,  92,  166-7,  169-70,  183, 
198,  208,  210,  242,  252,  313*1,  362, 
383,  425,  432-3,  438,  442,  453,  468, 
472»,  480-1  :  William  de,  100,  437, 
565. 

Beverley,  Roger  de,  450,  457. 

Bidigden,  William  de,  543. 

Birker,  Robert  de,  570. 

Birstede,  Wisted,  etc.,   Richard  de, 

2O8,  2IO-II,  213-5,  219,  222,  224-8, 

246  :  Walter  de,  195  :  William  de, 

216-7,  224. 

Bisschop,  Roger,  chaplain,  276-7. 
Blachel,  Robert,  544. 
Black,  see  Niger. 
Blan',  Peter,  544. 

Bland,  Elias  s.  of  Thorsun  de,  378*1. 
Blaunchard,  John,  see  Workington. 
Blein,  John,  544. 
Blencogo,  Blenecoghow,   Roger  s.  of 

Tunny  de,  52  :    Christiane  w.  of, 

52. 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL    NAMES 


631 


Bliton,  Ranulf  de,  568. 

Blunde,  Richard,  560. 

Bobi,  Hugh  de,  itinerant  justice,  544. 

Bochardby,  Thomas  de,  284  :  Wil- 
liam s.  of  Odo  de,  530. 

Bogas,  Adam,  358-9. 

Bollethor,  Henry  de,  337. 

Bolt,  Thomas,  211-2,  222. 

Bolton  (Yorks),  William  prior  of,  114. 

Bonchil,  Robert  de,  250,  395. 

Bonville,  William  lord,  4$5n  :  Cicely 
d.  of  (w.  of  Thpmas  Grey),  4857*. 

Bootle,  Botle,  Botyl,  etc.,  Henry  de, 
282,  425,  429,  481,  573  :  Henry  s. 
of  Thomas  de,  14,  199,  28oc-ic, 
558  :  Christiane  mother  of  Henry, 
281  :  Thomas  de,  304,  386,  558  : 
John  de,  136  :  William  s.  of  John 
de,  88. 

Gilbert  rector  of,  199,  296,  423, 

459,  478  :  Henry  s.  of  Thomas, 
parson  of,  28oc,  281,  see  Henry  s. 
of  Thomas  de  :  John  parson  of,  60, 
117,  251,  372-3  :  Thomas  parson  of, 
299,  386n,  442M  :  Robert  de  Bever- 
laco  parson  of,  453?*,  47ic :  Peter 
de  Okeham,  chaplain  of,  472. 

Bording,  William  de,  250. 

Borgand,  William,  33. 

Borowdale,  Richard  of,  579. 

Bosco,  Richard  de,  95  :   Turstan  de, 

439"- 

Bouteler,  Henry  le,  570. 

Bovyngton,  etc.,  John  de,  clerk,  136  : 
Walter  de,  139,  235,  522,  544. 

Bowland,  Thomas,  clerk,  128. 

Bowman,  see  Balistarius. 

Boyvill,  etc.,  Godard  de,  29*1,  71 », 
io6-8n,  234W,  zgon,  362 w,  54oc,  see 
Godard  dapifer  :  Gilbert  de,  250, 
439w,  440,  54i,  55i  :  Guy  de,  283, 
295,  313-4,  323,  362,  422,  425,  438, 
536:  Edmund  de,  436n :  Henry 
de,  438c :,  Agnes  w.  of  Henry  de 
438c:  John  de,  155,  159-60,  179, 
200,  205,  280,  294-5,  297,  299,  313-4 
319,  322-3,  346,  362,  379,  381,  422, 
424,  436w,  438,  471,  536  :  Elen  w. 
of  John  de,  43871 :  Ralf  de,  299n, 
439« :  Richard  de,  82,  99,  in, 


113-4,  123,  sun,  436,  439M,  440, 
492,  529,  541,  55ic:  Robert  de, 
67,  88n,  108,  2g8w,  307*1,  43871, 
439W,  440,  540-1  :  Margaret  w.  of 
Robert  de,  307?! :  Simon  de,  354  : 
William  de,  20,  23,  43,  54,  57-8,  60, 
67,  95,  99,  195,  250,  265-8,  270-4, 
285,  298,  30iw,  327-8,  33i,  372-3, 
3840-5,  436c,  437w,  438c,  439", 
440C,  443,  467,  536,  540C,  551,  575, 
605  :  Robert  s.  of  William  de,  467  : 
W.  de,  436  :  Eustace,  571. 

Brackenthuerth,  Bracken  thwaite, 
John  de,  151,  153-4. 

Braithwaite,  Nicholas  de,  i59w: 
Robert  de,  561. 

Bransti,  Hugh  de,  182,  340,  386  : 
Swain  de,  182. 

Branthwait,  Brounntweth,  etc.,  Ger- 
ard de,  58,  60,  209,  255»,  285,  482  : 
Hugh  de,  559  :  R.  de,  13,  103  : 
Robert  de,  105,  169,  176-7,  180-1, 
183,  189,  192,  200,  205,  2550,  256, 
258,  289,  292,  297,  303,  309,  321-3, 
335-7,  339,  341-3,  346,  348,  350, 
356-7,  359-6o,  362,  377-8,  380,  406, 
416-8,  421,  423-4,  427-8,  464,  475, 
479,  554,  556-7,  559-6o,  568,  604  : 
Robert  s.  of  Robert  de,  25671,  337  : 
Nicholas  de,  560  :  Robert  s.  of 
Adam  de,  35771  .'  Thomas  de,  2567$, 

554-5- 

Braystans,  Bradestanes,  etc.,  Richard 
de,  265-6,  270-1,  273-4,  278-9,  332, 
422  :  Richard  s.  of  Adam  de,  54671. 

Bray  ton,  Alan  de,  494  :  John  de,  531. 

Brewhouse,  William  del,  264-6,  267^, 
285. 

Bride  (Isle  of  Man),  Laurence  parson 
of  St.,  74M. 

Bridekirke,  John  de,  14,  269,  270^, 
271,  274,  2770  :  William  de,  395. 

Bridmotith,  Randulf,  212,  222. 

Brigham,  Bricham,  etc.,  Adam  de, 
397,  400-3,  405,  407-8,  561  :  Tho- 
mas s.  of  Adam  de,  561  :  John  de, 
49,  378K,  379,  409  :  Thomas  de, 
343,  38o,  399,  400,  405,  409,  559  : 
Walter  de,  440  :  Thomas  rector  of, 
108,  143-4,  37871,  379,  381,  56ic, 


632 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


571  :  Walthef,  parson  of,  no,  113, 
137  :  Thomas  de  Burgh  rector  of, 
562C,  605  :  R.  proctor  of  the  rec- 
tor of,  144  :  T.  clerk  of,  142. 

Bristold,  Roger,  533- 

Brocton,  Ail  ward  de,  540  :  Richard 
de,  89,  91,  roo,  170,  364,  444,  573  : 
Symon  de,  57 :  William  s.  of 
Stephen  de,  408. 

Brokholebanc,  Michael  de,  17,  327^, 
328c. 

Brokylbank,  William  de,  see  Corney. 

Brotis,  Ellota  de  les,  453  :  William 
del,  2 Son  :  John  del,  2 Sow. 

Broun,  John,  274,  279  :    Robert,   u, 

213,  221,  226-7,  228C. 

Brum',  R.  de,  103. 

Brun,  Gamel  s.  of,  492-3,  537- 
— Patric,  95,  451,  482  :  Ranulf, 
482  :  Richard  le,  82,  158,  289,  201, 
297,  302«,  321,  379,  38i,  397-8  : 
William  le,  of  Gedling,  434  :  dom- 
inus  le,  160. 

Brunby,  Thomas  de,  271,  see  Appleby, 

Brundas,  Turgis,  grantee  of  Lydel, 
45 7n,  528. 

Bruning,  184,  186-7,  189. 

Brunnefeld,  Thomas  de,  139,  482  : 
William  de,  221,  225,  571. 

Brus,  Hugh  de,  94  :  Peter  de,  528  : 
Robert  de,  69,  94,  243*1,  334*1, 
527  :  William  de,  g^n. 

Brutwald,  William.  259. 

Brydekirk,  see  Bride  (Isle  of  Man). 

Buche,  Buc,  Richard,  57,  250. 

Bulli,  William,  560. 

Buzavant,  Eadwyn,  458. 

Byland,  monks  of,  394». 

Bytchym,  Wyll,  578. 

Cacson  of  Cotun,  Thomas  de,  284. 

Cady,  John,  279,  328. 

Cailli,  Chailli,  Ralf  de,  384%. 

Caldebec,  Alan  de,  537  :  Alexander 
de,  92  :  Alan  parson  of,  49. 

Calder,  Kaldir,  Caldra,  Adam  s.  of 
Richard  de,  195-6,  298*;,  see  Richer : 
Godenild  w.  of  Adam,  195-6  :  Alex- 
ander de,  310,  466  :  Godfrid  de, 
195  :  Godric  de,  196  :  Godiva  d. 


of  Godric,  9,  1970-8  :  John  de,  285  : 
Robert  de,  9,  196  :  William  s.  of 
Richard  de,  324-sc  :  Jollan  abbot 
of,  3o6w  :  G.  abbot  of  ,301  :  Nich- 
olas abbot  of,  295,  296w  :  Richard 
abbot  of,  563  :  Walter  abbot  of, 
440  :  abbot  and  convent  of,  6, 
I29C,  1300,  131-4,  279-80,  2g8n, 
3iiM,  333,  3&3«,  369,  45809,  55ic- 
2,  558,  564C-5C. 

Calewar,  John,  158-9- 

Calixtus,  Pope,  28w. 

Camberton,  Alan  de,  72,  92,  378n, 
482  :  Gilbert  de,  92  :  John  de, 
5i-3,  237,  335-6,  350,  358-6o,  398- 
404,  407-8,  421,  559,  5610  :  Thomas 
de,  35  7»  :  T.  de,  137  :  Dolfin 
priest  (presbiter)  of,  62,  64  :  Adam 
clerk  of,  440. 

Camera,  Herbert  de,  57  :  Robert  de, 
553  :  William  de,  538. 

Campion  of  Fenton,  Campyn,  Rich- 
ard, 365. 

Campton,  John  de,  561. 

Cantuln,  Rodbert  de,  259. 

Canus,  Gilbert,  196. 

Cape,  Richard,  484  :   John,  484. 

Cardino,  see  Gardino. 

Carell,  Clarell,  William,  445-6. 

Carlaton,  Carleton,  Robert  de,  397, 
403,  568  :  Geoffrey  s.  of  Baldwin 
de,  45  gn  :  Henry  s.  of  Odard  de, 
459»- 

Carlisle,  Karliolo,  Adam  de,  453  : 
Odard  de,  30,  32,  34-6  :  Adelulf 
bishop  of,  i49»:  Bernard  bp.  of, 
i49«:  Walter  bp.  of,  31  8n:  Rob- 
ert bp.  of,  i36w,  36iw:  William 
Barrow  bp.  of,  1  377*  :  William 
Senos  bp.  of,  194  :  bp.  of,  vij., 
149-50  :  Walter  prior  of,  81,  317  : 
Prior  Walter's  ancestry  and  con- 
nexions, 31  7»  :  Gospatric  brother 
of  Prior  Walter,  317  :  Ralf  prior 
of,  isgn:  John  prior  of,  5670: 
canons  of,  57»,  Son,  117  "n  :  Adam 
de  Apilby,  official  of,  216-7  : 
William  de  Ulvesby,  official  of, 


Carneto,  Patric  de,  78. 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


633 


Cartmell,  Kertmel,  prior  of,  xxxv., 
404  :  William  clerk  of,  540. 

Casse,  Adam  and  Robert,  534-5. 

Castell,  John  de,  548. 

Castello,  Roger  clerk  de,  no. 

Castellomilch,  John  parson  of,  354. 

Catgyll,  Adam  de,  375  :  Cristiane  w. 
of  Adam  de,  375. 

Caude  Campania,  Randulf  de,  72. 

Cauncefeld,  Alyne  de,  4,  ggn,  ggc, 
100,  486*4  :  Richard  de,  99*1  :  John 
s.  of  Richard  de,  4,  xooc  :  John  de, 
573  :  Walter  de,  100  :  William  de, 
ioo« :  Agnes  sister  of  William  de, 
IOOM. 

Cauplandia,  Ketel  de,  251  n,  540  : 
Eward  de,  540.  See  Coupland. 

Cellar,  Robert  de,  213,  216-9,  222  : 
Turgis  de,  no. 

Cestria,  Helias  de,  525  :  Roger  de, 
52i,  523- 

Challoner,  Sir  Thomas,  xxxvj., 
424*1. 

Champaine,  Bertram  de,  98. 

Chandener,  see  Scaunden. 

Chapell,  Thomas  de  la,  377. 

Chetell,  Cetel,  Ketel  s.  of  Eldred,  ii., 
12,  28-38,  107,  138*1,  149*1,  233C, 
234W,  235*1,  248*1,  534  :  Christiana 
w.  of,  is8n,  234  :  William  s.  of, 
13871,  234,  248n:  Orm  s.  of,  493  : 
William,  Gilbert,  Robert  sons  of, 
2487* :  descendants  of,  6on,  248**  : 
see  Gospatric,  Workington  and 
Culwen. 
— Getel,  s.-of  Ulf,  see  Ulf. 

Chening,  William  s.  of,  33. 

Chichester,  Jocelyn  archdeacon  of, 
109. 

Chirif,  William  de,  56. 

Chirtelig,  William  de,  550. 

Cissor  of  Carlisle,  Henry,  411. 

Clapham,  William  de,  245-6. 

Clarke,  Oderd  le,  492. 

Clavill,  Michael  de,  139,  235. 

Claxton,  A.  de,  143  :   Roger  de,  95. 

Clement,  clerk,  237,  283,  341,  414, 
425  :  parson's  clerk  of  Wytoft- 
havene,  179  :  deacon,  422. 

Clerembald,  Clerenbald,  Philip  s.  of, 


33  :  William  s.  of,  384*1,  see 
Frumbald. 

Cleter,  Cletergh,  etc.,  Henry  de,  416  : 
Richard  de,  83,  104,  119,  146,  151, 
153,  155,  157-8,  164,  171,  175,  178, 
180-1,  183-4,  187-9,  200-3,  205, 
229,  233,  246,  253,  255,  260,  262, 
275,  302,  304,  307-8,  310,  312-4, 
322-3,  327,  342,  344,  350-1,  418, 
420-1,  426-8,  437,  444,  460-1,  463, 
469-70,  553,  570,  574  :  Robert  de, 
213-5,  219-24,  226,  228,  230,  314*1  : 
Robert  s.  of  Sir  Richard,  311*1: 
Agnes  w.  of  Robert  de,  314*1  : 
Thomas  de,  156,  163,  167-70,  183, 
185,  192,  198,  202n,  242,  252,  254*1, 
294,  309,  315,  343,  376-7,  383,  398» 
416,  433,  453,  468,  548  :  William 
de,  262-3,  265-8,  276,  308,  327 : 
Nicholas  parson  of,  202*1,  203,  539  : 
William  chaplain  of,  114-5-  See 
Durand  the  knight. 

Clifford,  Roger,  the  younger,  4,  96^, 
97  :  Isabel  w.  of,  96-7. 

Clifton,  Adam  de,  19,  339,  343,  356c  • 
Adam  s.  of  Michael  de,  19,  356**, 
357C,  358c,  360*1,  557,  559,  56001  : 
Adam  s.  of  Ranulf  de,  19,  356, 
358c  :  Richard  s.  of  Adam  de,  557, 
559  :  Richard  s.  of  Ranulf  de,  558  : 
Richard  s.  of  Adam  s.  of  Ranulf  de, 
559  :  Benedict  de,  335,  378*1,  403, 
554,  558-60  :  Gamel  de,  136,  355*1  : 
Michael  de,  19,  342,  348,  355C,  567  : 
Michael  s.  of  Gamaliel  de,  355  : 
Patric  de,  357W  :  Richard  de,  441, 
458  :  Stephen  de,  554,  557 : 
Thomas  de,  359  :  Benedict  s.  of 
Thomas  de,  555C,  559,  5620 :  Wal- 
theve  de,  342  :  Stephen  s.  of  Adam 
s.  of  Roger  de,  555  :  William  le 
venur  de,  556. 

Cockersand,  monks  of,  415*1. 

Cokermue,  Hugh  de,  543  :  Henry 
clerk  of,  559060. 

Cokett,  Robert,  587-8. 

Collan,  Richard,  82,  302  :  Thomas  s. 
of  Richard,  8,  i75c,  i7/c. 

Colevill,  Thomas  de,  constable  of 
Dumfries,  91. 


634 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL    NAMES 


Conan  the  knight,  Henry  s.  of,  404  : 
Juliana  w.  of,  4047* :  ancestry  of, 

Coningburc,  William  de,  91. 

Conishead,  Kuningeshoved,  etc.,  Au- 
gustine prior  of,  301  :  Gillemichael 
prior  (?)  of,  xxxij.,  119  :  John  prior 
of,  i23«,  2 Sow,  46 in,  552  :  Thomas 
prior  of,  123^:  prior  of,  333,  442, 
477  :  canons  of,  3O2n,  3i4n,  461?*, 
543C,  582C,  606  :  Nicholas  de 
Wassington,  canon  of,  124,  126-7 ' 
convent  of,  6,  ii2»,  n6n,  119, 

I2OC-3C,   606. 

Copsi,  lord  of  Corney  and  founder  of 
the  church,  xxij.,  inn,  112,  115  : 
Roger  s.  of,  5,  me,  112-3,  JI5  : 
Horms.  of  Rogers,  of,  5,  1130,  114  : 
Christiane  d.  of  Copsi  (w.  of  Wal- 
deve), mw,  use,  see  Coupland. 
Coquina,  Alan  de,  568  :  Adam  de, 

570. 

Corbet,  Corbed,  etc.,  Benedict,  362  : 
Hugh,  362  :  John,  252-3,  553,  565, 
573  :  Ralf,  5,  60,  io8c,  109,  372-3, 
385,  467,  54i  :  Richard,  536  : 
Thomas,  299,  438,  442  :  William, 
5.  io7c,  108,  229,  233,  246,  250, 
3o7n  :  Denise  w.  of  William,  io7c, 
1 08  :  Richard,  clerk,  s.  of  William, 
109-110. 

Coremac,  see  Gille  becoc. 
Corney,  Kornay,  Agnes  d.  of  Michael 
de,  23,  ii4n,  363,  442*::    Amabel 
s.  of. Agnes,  23,  ii4w,  443*::    Ed- 
ward de,  seneschal  of  Millom,  88, 
114,    255,    280,    2g6n,    299,    442W 
470-1,  476,  539  ;    Cicely  w.  of  Ed- 
ward,   ii4n,    296^:     Suward    de, 
442,  see  Edward  :  Richard  de,  242, 
246,  425,  432,  472,  573  :   John  de, 
ii4H,   2g6n:     Michael   de,    438^: 
Ives  s.  of  Arthur  de,  i  i4n  :  William 
de  Brokylbank  rector  of,  484. 
Corni,  Richard  s.  of,  reeve,  237. 
Cornyburgh,   Ingeram  de,   20,   3940, 
452c:     Mabel    widow    of,    394n  : 
William  de,  39471. 
Corri,  Korri,  Hugh  de,  95. 
Cosforye,  Thomas  de,  560. 


Coupland,     Cauplandia,     Ketel     de, 
29ow,  540  :   Edward  de,  29on,  540  : 
Alan  de,  13,  23,  83,  100,  119,  242, 
252C,  265-6,  271-2,  277,  279,  28ow, 
298,    308,    327-8,    33i,    364,    43ic, 
433C,  453W,  459,  480  :    Alan  s.  of 
Richard  de,  vj.,  13,  15,  25ic,  253, 
294C,   43in-3,   573C :     Cristine   de, 
5,  i  TIW,  ii3c:    Waldeve  husband 
of  Cristiane,  113,  113?*,  see  Penn- 
ington  :    Christopher,    332  :    John 
de,    173  :     Richard   de,    15,    25 in, 
255,  263,  287^,  293,  298,  302W,  432- 
4,  575  :    Richard  s.  of  Alan  de,  23, 
88,   25iw,   279»,  287H,  431*:,  546  : 
William   de,   441,    524  :    origin  of 
family  of,  25171,  2go»  :    Adam  de 
Haverington    dean    of,    200,    237, 
359:     Ives    dean    of,    no,    ii6n: 
William   dean   of,    335,    347,    378, 
464  :    Robert  dean  of,  136-7,  551  : 
Roger  dean  of,    113-4  •    Waldeve 
dean  of,  99,  251  :    Adam  dean  of, 
542:    chapter  of,   114-5:    Robert 
chaplain  of,  113-4  :    Alan  clerk  of, 
no-iii  :   Elias,  seneschal  or  bailiff 
of,  237,  312,  418.     See  Cauplandia. 
Crakplace,  Henry  de,  331. 
Craneford,  Richard  de,  206. 
Craysothen,  see  Greysouthen. 
Cressingham,   Hugh  de,  justice  itin- 
erant, 1 1 8,  570. 
Crofell,  Reynold  de,  354. 
Croft,     Roger    de,    213,    226,    525  : 

Gilbert  de,  286,  525. 
Croftbathoc,  Benedict  s.  of  Richard 

de,  535C. 

Crofton,  Gilbert  de,  62,  64. 
Croke,  Michael,  459. 
Cromwell,  Thomas,  584-91,  600,  607- 

8. 

Crosdale,  Roger  de,  434. 
Croseby,  Alan  de,  403,  407  :    Michael 
de,  557  :    Uhtred  priest  (sacerdos) 
of,  55i  :  Walter  clerk  of,  561. 
Crosthwaite,    Adam    de,    clerk,    43, 
398  :    Elyas  de,  558  :    Robert  de, 
56gc :    Simon,   570 :    Udard  s.   of 
Adam  de,  571^ :   Adam  parson  of, 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL    NAMES 


635 


Croump  de  Hibernia,  Simon,  10,  213, 
2140,  2i6c,  229,  232. 

Croyser,  Roger,  409-10,  604. 

Cuglepem,  Robert,  303. 

Culwen,  Corwen,  Curwen, Christopher, 
I73>  583,  596,  606  :  Gilbert  de,  201, 
229,  233,  244,  267-8,  275-6,  331, 
350-1,  364*1,  548,  555,  561,  574-5  : 
Thomas  de,  102,  104,  119,  146,  253, 
405-6,  437,  484,  564,  59ic-3 : 
William  de,  270-2,  277,  279,  328, 
332  :  John  Christian,  349*1 :  Henry 
knight,  19371:  pedigree  of,  343*1. 
See  Workington. 

Cumquintyn,  Edmund  de,  216-7. 

Curci,  John  de,  xj.,  xij.-xiv.,  520-6  : 
Jurdan  de,  xiij.,  521-6  :  William 
de,  xiv.  :  Avicia  de  Rumelli 
mother  of  William,  xiv. 

Curtelun,  Eustachia  de,  see  Aldelin. 

Curtenai,  Robert  de,  24,  449^,  494, 
532-3  :  Alice  de  Rumelli  w.  of, 
449-50,  494,  532-3,  see  Rumelli  : 
William  de,  450. 

Cwiton,  Cuton,  Robert  de,  189**,  190, 
236,  305. 

Cysillur,  Thomas  le,  556,  558. 

Dacre,  Ranulf  de,  2O2n,  376-7,  543, 
567  :  Lord,  583-4,  607. 

Dalnard  (Conor),  Reynold  bp.  of, 
52i,  523. 

Dalton    (in    Furness),    John    Sharp 

vicar  of,  297c-8,  3310,  332  :  vicar  of, 
604. 

Danby,  Thomas  de,  see  York  (St. 
Mary's). 

Daniel,  Walter  s.  of,  84. 

Daunaie,  Henry,  405. 

David,  Richards,  of,  185-7,  189,  414, 
463  :  John  s.  of,  308,  481,  573  : 
carpenter,  524 :  reeve,  161  :  ser- 
geant, 385. 

Dayncourt,  Peter,  399-402,  405,  408- 
9,  532,  564  :  Gervaise,  544  :  Wal- 
ter, see  Plumland  :  Ralf,  41  4*1, 
57o. 

Dehe,  Adam  s.  of,  19,  360^:  Cicely 
w.  of,  360. 

Delamore,  John,  294*?.,  295,  411. 


Dene,  Adam  s.  of,  350,  see  Dehe. 

Dene,  Dean,  Henry  de,  335-6,  341-2, 
357M,  379,  568  :  John  de,  355*1, 
482,  554,  559-61  :  William  de,  380, 
554,  560  :  Roger  de,  357*1 :  Adam 
de,  560  :  R.  rector  of,  140-2  :  Tho- 
mas rector  of,  19,  108,  112,  114-5, 
I35-7,  36oc,  361*1:  Waldef  parson 
of,  117  :  Gilbert  de  Capella  rector 
of,  563  :  James  parson  of,  136**, 
361*1,  5560:  James  de  Wicton 
rector  of,  5590  :  Thomas  Eglisfeld 
parson  of,  606  :  Walthef,  s.  of 
Thomas  clerk  of,  137,  602. 

Denhi,  William,  296. 

Derernan,  William  s.  of,  479,  481. 

Derham,  Adam  de,  398  :  John  de,  21, 
400-3,  405,  407-8  :  Henry  s.  of 
John  de,  406-74; :  Richard  s.  of 
John  s.  of  Richard  de,  21,  398^, 
399^,  4ooc,  402C-6c,  407-8  :  Eda  w. 
of  Richard,  404-5*; :  Huctred  de, 
47,  49,  450,  582  :  Robert  de,  405, 
556,  563^ :  William  de,  395,  482  : 
Gospatric,  clerk  of,  84. 

Dermot,  Dermicius,  Reynold  s.  of, 
74,  206,  2o8c. 

Derwent,  William  de,  284. 

Derwentwater,  Thomas  de,  398,  401*1- 

2,  404-6,     409,     554,     564,     57o : 
William  de,  401  :   Adam  de,  401*1  : 
Adam   s.    of    William    de,    401*1  : 
William  s.  of  Adam  de,  401*1 :  John 

3.  of  Thomas  de,  404*1 :    Margaret 
w.  of  John,  404*1 :  family  of,  401*1- 

2W. 

Despencer,  see  Spanser. 
Dicson  of   Mytyrdale,    Robyn,   579  : 
Nicholl,  579  :    William  Robynson, 

579- 

Difford,  John  de,  clerk,  239. 
Dikinson,    Dykonson,    Thomas,  268, 

271,    276,    284 :      William,    576 ; 

John,  579. 

Disert  (Down),  F.  abbot  of,  524. 
Distincton,  John  de,  262  :    Alan  de, 

558c :     Robert    de    Warthecoppe, 

rector  of,  563. 
Dolfin,  Ailward  s.  of,   81,  317,  452, 

537  :    Dolfin  of  s.  Ailward,   zoin, 


636 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


3i7»:  Maud  w.  of  Dolfin,  ioi«, 
3174:  Gospatric  s.  of,  81,  317**, 
452,  537  :  Orm  s.  of,  258,  317^, 
452  :  Thomas  s.  of,  105,  336,  339, 
356,  358  :  Waldeve  s.  of,  xx.,  loin, 
31 7n,  452,  48i»,  493,  536c,  5370: 
Emma  and  Alice  d.'s  of,  SIM. 
Dorset,  Thomas  Grey  marquess  of, 

xxxviij.i  485**- 

Douglas  (Isle  of  Man),  prioress  of,  xv. 
Dover,  Bishop  of,  5g6c. 
Dreg,  Alice  d.  of  Benedict  Overhaier 
de,  24,  4600  :  John  de,  103,  291-2, 
297,  321,  335,  348 :  Jordan  de, 
xxxij.,  25,  82,  88,  151,  153,  155, 
289,  291-3,  300,  303,  320-1,  378, 
459C,  46204,  467,  475,  477,  479: 
Jordan  s.  of  Ketel  Portjoie  de,  24, 
45  8c,  4.6zn :  Richard  s.  of  Jordan 
de,  24,  46oc :  Henry  chaplain  of, 
46i,  539  :  John  b.  of  Jordan  clerk 
of,  289,  291,  304,  307,  319,  464$: 
Richard  chaplain  of,  574^:  Ralf 
de  Kircosewald  chaplain  of,  458. 
Dreghailitill,  Robert  s.  of  Thomas  de, 

19,  359C,  36o«. 
Driffeld,    William    de,    seneschal    of 

Cockermouth,  49,  122,  379. 
Drogo,  master,  44. 
Duffeld,  Herbert  de,  236. 
Duglas,  James,  572^. 
Dumvilla,  Gerard  de,  84. 
Dun  (Down),   Malachy  bp.  of,  520, 
522c,    523-4 :     R.    bp.    of,    523  : 
Consuer  of  St.  John  of,  523. 
Dunadag,  Gillemichael  s.  of,  71,  353*1. 
Duncan,  William  s.  of,  see  Scots. 
Dundragh,   Gilbert   de,    i48w,    344n, 
436  :  Gilbert  s.  of  Gilbert  de,  344*1. 
Dune,  William  s.  of,  297. 
Dunfermelin,  Geoffrey  abbot  of,  ix. 
Dunseforthe,   Roger  de,   5210,   523: 

Thomas  s.  of,  522. 

Durand  the  knight,  69,  202*1  :  Anche- 
tin,  Anketin,  etc.,  s.  of,  10,  55, 
202C,  2o3c,  204,  301-2,  304/310' 
386,  457,  467:  Echtred  w.  of 
Anchetin,  202,  204:  Nicholas  s. 
*  Anketin,  310  :  Richard  s  of 
Anchetin,  Asketill,  82,  202-3  386 


466**  :  Agnes  and  Susanna  daugh- 
ters of  Anchetin,  203.  See  Cleter. 

Durand,  clerk,  93. 

Durbug,  Thomas,  284. 

Durham,  Anthony  Bek  bp.  of,  xvij., 
xviij.,  4,  76,  780,  488. 

Dyer  (Tinctor),  Benedict,  560-1. 

Dyghton,  Stephen,  487. 

Dykes,  family  of,  396. 

E.,  chancellor,  524. 
Eadread,  527. 

Eboraco,  William  de,  justice  itiner- 
ant, 366. 

master  Gregory  de,  544. 

Ebraucus,     legendary     founder     of 

Egremont,  466*1. 
Edgar,  Adam,  196. 

Edward,  king  of  England,  see  Eng- 
land. 

Edward  b.  of  Horme,  50. 
Efward,  Eward,  Roger  and  Alex- 
ander brothers  of,  294  :  Hugh  s. 
of,  25,  n6n,  290»,  293,  297,  307*1, 
464C,  465*:,  466n,  see  Waybyr- 
thueit  :  William  s.  ot  Hugh  s.  of, 
25,  290**,  474*»  ;  Agnes  d.  of  Hugh, 
465  :  Roger  s.  of,  15,  60,  285c,  302, 
372n,  373,  385,  466w,  474^  476-7, 
480-1,  538-9  :  Robert  s.  of  Roger, 
539  :  Alan  s.  of  Roger,  s.  of  475c, 
476,  48oc,  481  :  Alexander  s.  of 
Roger  s.  of,  25,  475*;,  478*:,  4800, 
481  :  Alice  cognata  of  Alan  s.  of 
Roger  s.  of,  476. 

Ulf  s.  of  466. 

chaplain,  41. 

chamberlain,  42,  44. 

Eglesfeld,  Adam  s.  of  Walter  s.  of 
Trotan  de,  20,  377^,  3787*  :  Robert 
s.  of  Walter  de,  20,  3780,  379*1  ; 
Benedict  de,  554-5,  557,  560,  565  : 
Henry  de,  380-1  :  John  de,  200, 
350,  379,  554-5,  557>  563>  566 . 
Michael  de,  379-80*1 :  Michael  s.  of 
Adam  de,  20,  380^:  Robert  de, 
378w,  38o»,  381  :  Robert  s.  of 
Robert  de,  20,  tfgc :  Thomas  de, 
4I5W,  484,  554,  556,  559-6o,  562, 
564  :  Thomas  s.  of  Henry  de,  20, 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


637 


38oc :  Trotan  de,  377n :  Walter  s. 
of  Trotan  de,  381  :  William  de, 
555,  ?66  :  Adam  s.  of  Gamel  de, 
534-6  :  Adam  de,  clerk,  5600,  5650: 
Richard,  606  :  pedigree  of,  377n. 

Egremont,  Echermund,  etc.,  El  win 
de,  65,  67 :  Hawise  de,  464 : 
Robert  de,  195-6 :  William  the 
Boy  of,  brother  of  Cicely  countess 
of  Albemarle,  55-6,  i54»,  195,  1967*, 
46471,  494,  522  :  William  de,  560, 
i95c,  4&4»  :  William  de,  who  lived 
in  Rayneglas,  479-81  :  Richard  [de 
Lucy]  de,  464*1 :  Elias  steward, 
bailiff,  clerk  of,  162,  165,  176-81, 
187,  189-90,  258,  282-3,  340,  344, 
350,  417-8,  420-3,  425,  428  :  John 
marshal  of,  464  :  Ranulf  seneschal 
of,  209,  see  Forset :  Nicholas  rec- 
tor of,  5740  :  Thomas  de  Gosford, 
rector  of,  334  :  Roger  priest  (pres- 
biter]  of,  108,  550 :  William  de, 
dean  of  Furness  and  Coupland,  128 : 
William  the  dean,  parson  of,  295-6  : 
rector  of,  572  :  Michael  chaplain  of, 
203  :  Robert  chaplain  of,  440,  466  : 
Robert  priest  (presbiter)  of,  551  : 
chapter  of,  xxxi.,  use:  burgesses 
of,  466n. 

Elemar,  Bachyller,  588. 

Elena,  called  la  loughe,  191. 

Elias  prior,  see  Neddrum. 

Elmeswell,  Helmeswell,  Alan  de,  441, 
458. 

Elsi,  see  Helsi. 

Ely,  Rigan  de,  204. 

Engaine,  Gilbert,  61,  64  :  Thomas, 
65,  67  :  William,  61,  64,  80  :  Ralf, 
36i»,  493. 

England,  Kings  and  Queens  of : — 
Henry  I.,  i.-iii.,  v.,  xxviii.,  27*1,  30, 
32,  34-6,  55,  7on,  472,  527-30,  533, 
580  :  Maud  w.  of,  v.,  30,  32,  34-6, 
55  :  William  s.  of,  v.,  30,  32,  34-5  : 
Stephen,iii.,xxj.,69»,  352^472, 531, 
533C,  580  :  Henry  II.,  v.,  29^,  55, 
6gn,  Jin,  Son,  93W,  i49«,  23374, 
329W,  472,  494,  527-30,  532,  549  : 
Eleanor  w.  of,  523  :  Maud  the 
empress,  55,  32 gn,  531  :  Henry 


fitz  Empress,  195  :  Henry  iii.  , 
xvi.,  15,  283C  :  Henry  VIII.,  5g8c  : 
Edward  I.,  76*1,  77M,  78w,  247,  337  : 
Margaret  w.  of,  337  :  Edward  II., 
22ow,  337c  :  Edward  III.,  10,  12, 
20ic,  244C  :  Richard  I.,  v.,  29*1, 
233?*,  286w,  46sn,  530,  532  :  John, 
xx,  7in,  286«,  329n,  430^,  46s»», 
475^,  530,  532  :  held  his  Christmas 
at  York,  436,  603  :  William  the 
Conqueror,  491,  531  :  William 
Rufus,  472. 

English,  Anglicus,  Walter  s.  of  Wil- 
liam, 553C-4- 

Ernisius,  Edward  s.  of,  207  :  Siward 
s.  of,  248-9. 

Eschalers,  Brien  de,  522C,  524  : 
William  s.  of,  522. 

Eschevil,  Roger  de,  536. 

Eskdale,  Adam  le  younger  of,  3  sow, 


Espec,  see  Spec. 

Esseby,  Esseville,  Savilla,  William  de, 
4,  5,  48,  57w,  83c,  840,  85**,  1050, 
106,  n6n,  248-9,  38in,  382,  5500, 
602  :  Hectreda  w.  of,  4,  57*1,  83-4, 
85«,  1  06,  ssoc,  602  :  Goditha  w.  of, 
38iw  :  Symon,  heir  of  William, 
83-4. 

Essyngton,  John  de,  575. 

Estholm,  John  s.  of  Agnes  de,  32OW  : 
John  de,  570. 

Esward,  Hugh  s.  of,  92  :  William  s. 
of  Hugh  s.  of,  92.  See  Edward. 

-  (Poulton,    Lanes.),   Hugh  s.   of, 
465M  :   Maud  d.  of,  4657*. 

Esyngwald,  Adam  de,  100. 
Ethmund,  Waldeve  s.  of,  3O7». 
Eugenius,  Pope,  439W,  604. 
Eustace,  Richard  s.  of,  138,  441,  522. 
Eward,  Roger  s.  of,  see  Ranard  and 
Edward. 

-  Ulf  s.  of,  see  Edward. 

Falchamb,  Peter  de,  46. 

Falconer,  Faukenere,  le,  Benedict, 
297,  320M  :  Geoffrey,  17,  197,  293, 
297,  300-1,  319^-23,  385-6,  462  : 
Grace  w.  of,  17,  320-1  :  John  s.  of 
Geoffrey,  293,  320  :  John,  17,  I54W, 


638 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


164,  197,  297,  308,  315,  320»,  323C, 
324-5,  432,  468,  478  :    Robert,  310, 
see  Gosford  :  family  of,  320^. 
Fastlun,  Roger,  44. 
Fell,  Robert  del,  556. 
Fergus,  lord  of  Galloway,  ix.  :  Uctred 
s.  of,  ix  ,  72n,  93«,  493  :  charter  of 
Uctred,  ix  :    Gunnild  w.  of  Uctred, 
ix.,  72^,  493  :    Malcolm  nephew  of 
Uctred,   ix.,    72^,    493  :     Malcolm 
nephew  of  Uctred,  ix.  :    Lochlan 
heir  of  Uctred,  ix.  :    Roland  s.  of 
Uctred,  ix.,  x.,  4,  Jin,  91-3  :    Gil- 
bert s.  of  Fergus,  yin :   Alan  s.  of 
Roland,  x.,  3,  jic,  jzn :   Alan  the 
great,  Jin :  Alan  de  Galeweya,  x.  : 
Devorguil  d.  of,  72^. 
Feritate,  Ralf  de,  48,  86,  152-4,  161, 

302»,  398,  582  ;   Gilbert  de,  302». 
Ferom,  William,  284. 
Ferte,  Robert  de  la,  548. 
Finthor,  Phintor,  dapifer,  317,  317;*. 
Fishere,  Walter  le,  556. 
Fitte,  Richard  del,  554,  562. 
Flandrigena,  Walter,  71,  see  Fleming. 
Flaxton,  William  de,  14,  27ic. 
Fleming,    Flammaunk,    Flandrensis, 
Christopher,  334  :    Hugh,  13,  201, 
229,  233,  244,  262C,  263-5^  273  : 
Cristiane  w.  of,  262-3,  273  :   Maud 
d.  of,  263  :   Emma  d.  of,  13,  266c, 
267c:     John,    157-8     201,    213-5, 
220-4,  226,  228,  230,  244,  260,  262, 
3oi,  327,  470,  553,  558c:   Amabel 
w.  of,  558c:    Rainer,  426*1,  430^, 
see  Rainer  and  Rotington  :    John 
s.  of  Rainer,  426*1 :    Richard,  51-3, 
83,  89,  91,  zoo,  146,  163,  165-6,  168- 
7i,  176-8,  183,  192,  197-8,  208,  210, 
252,  256,  258,  265-7,  276,  294,  298, 
308-10,  312,  315-6,  327,  364,  376-7, 
398,   426,   432-4,   437,   443.4>   453> 
460,    463,    468-9,    477-8:     Walter 
nepos  of  William,  258:    Michael, 
98n-9n,  457^,  533  :    William  s.  of, 
98»,  541  :  Anselm,  s.  of  g8n,  45  jn  • 
Daniel  s.  of,  g8n,  541  :   Marsilius  s'. 
of,  g8« :    Jordan  s.  of,  98«,  54i  • 
Goditha  d.  of,  98w  :   Daniel  grand- 
son of  Michael,  99«  .-   Alyne  sister 


of  Michael,  ggn :  William,  579: 
family  of,  46 in  :  Daniel,  parson  of 
Aldingham  and  Furnes,  see  Alding- 
ham. 

Flint,  Thomas,  of  Dreg,  460. 
Foliot,  Henry,  46. 
Foresta,  Ingeram  de,  285. 
Forester,  John,  285. 
Forn,  Ives  s.  of,  234.     See  Siolf. 
Forset,  G.  de,  dean,  122  :   G.  s.  of  G. 
de,  122. 

Ralf  de,  seneschal  of  Egremont, 

Coupland,  82,  io2M,  103,  289,  291- 
2,  319,  321,  347. 

Robert  de,  342. 

Fortibus,  see  Albemarle. 

Fountains,    Adam   abbot    of,    i^gw: 

monks  of,  40 in. 
Foxe,  Stephen,  591. 
Francigena,   Franceys,  Gilbert  s.  of 
Richard  de,  25,  4680  •  Walter  de, 
41-3  :    William  de,  dapifer,  41-3. 
John  le,   555,   571  :     Robert  s.  of 
Robert,   5660 :     Mariota  sister  of 
Robert,  5660. 
Frawak,  William,  479. 
Freeman,  Adam  s.  of  William,  51  : 

William,  51. 
Freitha,  virgin,  508. 
Fresere,  John,  78. 
Fribois,  Ralf  de,  55. 
Frisington,    Henry    de,    385-6,    436, 
467  '•  John  de,  213,  222,  266-7,  272, 
276,    278,    328,    331  :     John   s.    of 
Thomas   de,   24,   444c :     Ralf  de, 
215,  218-21,   224,   228,   230,   275  : 
Richard  de,  84  :    Robert  de,  157, 
184,  208,  210,  377,  437,  443. 4>  46i, 
469,  57o  :    Thomas  de,  201,  244, 
553- 

Frithslake,  Alan  de  le,  573^. 
Frumbald  the  knight,  63,  84,  384. 
Fulford,  Thomas  clerk  of,  458. 
Fulk,  uncle  of  William  Meschin,  32, 

37,  39- 

Furmery,  John  de,  397. 
Furnes,  Anselm  de,  25,  372^,  381^, 
439^,  442,  456w,  4610,  538c  :    Jor- 
dan b.  of  Anselm,   462™  :    Daniel 
de,  440,  543  :    Daniel  s.  of  Daniel 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


639 


de,  4,  g8c,  38 in  :  Michael  de,  83, 
9871,  99,  252,  538-9  :  Goditha  d.  of, 
w.  of  William  de  Esseby,  20,  8311, 
38ic :  Marsilius  b.  of  Goditha, 
38m,  382  :  William  de,  99,  4617* : 
•Joan  w.  of  William  de,  99  :  Gilbert 
de,  524.  See  Fleming. 

Furnes,  Robert  abbot  of,  9071,  455*1  : 
abbot  of,  xv.,  15971,  454c:  monks 
of,  xxi.,  24111,  2987*,  30771,  3i6n, 
36271,  363n,  37474,  4397*,  44071,  442*1, 
454-5,  604. 

Fychebote,  James,  chaplain,  128. 

Fylbec,  Roger,  592. 

Fytzwatre,  Lord  (of  Egremont), 
xxxviij. 

Gad',  John  de,  224. 
Gairstang,  Robert  (parson)  of,  542. 
Galeweya,  Alan  de,  see  Fergus. 
Galloway,  Roland  s.  of  Uctred,  prince 

of,  see  Fergus. 
Galway,  Richard  de,  10,  n,  2ioc-i3, 

219,    22I-3C,    232  :     Isolda   w.   of, 

2II-2,  222. 

Gamel,  Benedict  s.  of,  65,  67,  259  : 
Jordan  s.  of,  99  :  Alan  s.  of  Bene- 
dict, 65,  nsn,  462,  466n,  see  Bene- 
dict and  Pennington. 

Patric  s.  of,  551. 

527. 

dean,  361  •  dapifer  of  Aspatric, 

50  :  reeve,  84. 

Gardino,  Humphrey  de,  78. 

Garneto,  see  Carneto. 

Garth,  Joan  w.  of  Adam  de,  32071. 

Gascoigne,  William  de,  chaplain,  272, 
277-8,  328. 

Gattehil,  Ralf  de,  445. 

Gedenay,  Vegedenay,  etc.,  John  de, 
184,  310,  325  :  Richard  de,  bailiff 
of  Coupland,  156,  163,  543,  554. 

Geoffrey  s.  of  the  Earl,  see  Albe- 
marle. 

Geoffrey,  Roger  s.  of,  94. 

priest  (presbiter),  33,  39  :  porter, 

no,  138,  352,  458. 

Gerard,  258. 

Uctred  s.  of,  3957*. 

Germanus,  bp.  of  Autun,  500. 


Germany,  Odo  king  of,  429**,  430,  603. 

Gernet,  Adam,  454. 

Gernolf,  see  Bernulf. 

Gernun,  Richard,  447,  528  :  Joan  de 
Morvill,  w.  of,  44 yn. 

Gervase,  constable,  no,  138. 

Gestelinges,  John  de,  itinerant  jus- 
tice, 544. 

Getell,  priest  (presbiter),  452. 

Gibwin,  William,  450. 

Gilbert,  46,  315- 

Alexander,  s.  of  175  :  Gibert  s. 

of,  182,  344C,  41271,  46671,  482,  546, 
551  :  Gilbert  s.  of  Gilbert  s.  of,  344, 
see  Serlo :  Robert  s.  of,  258 : 
Roger  s.  of,  Sigerid  his  wife,  Robert 
s.  of  Roger  s.  of,  William  s.  of, 
William  s.  of  William  s.  of,  see 
Lancaster. 

Patric  s.  of,  see  Workington. 

le  masun,  162,  164,  166  :  reeve, 

302  :  clerk,  536  :  serjeant,  345. 

Gilcruce,  Walter  de,  3957*,  402  :  Wal- 
ter s.  of,  400,  402,  405  :  Hamelin 
b.  of,  400,  see  Gillecrouhit. 

Gilemin,  Waldeve  s.  of,  48171,  493. 

Gill,  Adam  s.  of  Richard  de,  17,  324^, 
see  Richer. 

Gillanhari,  520. 

Gilleandreas,  priest,  115. 

Gille  becoc,  Coremac,  iv.,  28. 

Gillecrouhit,  Hamelin  de,  395,  399- 
400,  402,  405. 

Gillemichael,  priest,  xxxij.,  6,  84,  115, 
452. 

Gille  Mighelbrother,  181-3. 

Gillemihall,  Williams,  of,  196. 

Gillesland,  lord  of,  in  1524,  vij.  : 
family  of  Vallibus  of,  31871. 

Gilling,  William  de,  170,  453,  461, 
469. 

Gillot,  Peter,  constable  of  Cocker- 
mouth,  48,  482. 

Girinbald,  259,  384,  see  Frumbald. 

Gisburne,  canons  of,  39471 :  prior  of, 
407,  492. 

Glanvill,  Ranulf  de,  109. 

Glestona,  Hugh  de,  100. 

Gocellin,  Thomas  s.  of,  84  :  Savaric 
s.  of,  84. 


640 


INDEX   OF  PERSONAL   NAMES 


Godard  dapifer,  ij.,  iij.,  vij.,  5,  28-9, 
30-40,  69-70,  io6c,  io7»,  512,  534  : 
keeper  of  the  castle  of  Eggremonte, 
512:  his  descent,  87^:  Mahald, 
Matildis,  wife  of,  69-71,  107**,  534  : 
Herturg  (Arthur),  s.  of,  see  Millom. 

Godenay,  see  Gedenay. 

Godenild,  Alexander  s.  of,  330. 

Godethwaite,  Walter  de,  179. 

Godmound,  Rawlin,  577- 

Godrigby,  Thomas  de,  268. 

Goky,  Roger,  hermit  of  Islekirk,  533. 

Goscelin,  chaplain,  352. 

Gosford,  John  de,  159-60,  162,  165, 
171,  185,  295,  312,  316,  32ow,  337, 
418,  423,  427-8,  463,  469  :  Robert 
de,  104,  119,  146,  157-8,  253,  310, 
32on,  325^-7,  443-4,  461,  57o: 
heirs  of  Robert  de,  32o»,  3257*  : 
Grace  w.  of  Robert,  17,  32  ic,  3220, 
3290 :  Geoffrey  de,  see  Falconer. 

Robert  s.  of  William  s.  of  Roger 

de,  32on,  325*1,  326*;,  605. 

Thomas  de,  568. 

Eliseus  parson  of,  181,  183,  324  : 

John  rector  of,  461  n :  Ralf  serviens 
of  John  rector  of,  156-7,  162,  164, 
171  :  Thomas  de  Whiterik  parson 
of,  279  :  Jurdan  parson  of,  550  : 
Andrew  chaplain  of,  7,  1550 : 
Jordan  clerk  of,  no. 
Gospatric  s.of  Orms.  of  Chetell,  xxxij., 
3,  20,  32n,  55,  6oc-3C,  65,  69,  81, 
ii5n,  ii7»,  i38n,  235%,  249**,  250, 
259W,  3i7,  37iw,  383*:,  384, 452,465n, 
493,  534,  539C,  55  *  :  Egeliva  w.  of, 
62-4,  384  :  Ebrea  mother  of  Gos- 
patric, 62-4 :  Thomas  s.  of,  x., 
xxxvij.,  3,  4,  56,  62-7c,  920,  117^, 
J38-9,  235-6,  3i8»,  384,  465,  482, 
55i  :  Grace  w.  of  Thomas,  64n, 
67n :  Thomas  s.  of  Thomas  s.  of, 
J39,  235  :  Adam  s.  of,  62,  65,  67, 
250,  55i  :  Alan  s.  of,  63,  65-6,  384  : 
Gilbert  s.  of,  72,  91,  92*1,  93 : 
Michael  brother  of,  63,  384 : 
Robert  s.  of  Orm,  b.  of  Michael,  61  \ 
Alexander  and  Gilbert  sons  of,  92*4  : 
Thomas  and  William  sons  of  the 
said  Gilbert,  g2n  :  Thomas  founder 


of  the  abbey  of  Shap,  64n :   pedi- 
gree of  Gospatric,  6in.     See  Che- 
tell,  Orm  and  Workington. 
Gospatric,    Earl,    loiw,    31 7n,    374n, 
526c,  530,  see  Waldeve. 

Dolfm  s.  of,  493. 

bastard  b.  of  Waldeve,  531. 

priest  (sacerdos),  64. 

Gowar,  Rawfe,  593. 

Gramario,  Ralf  de,  95. 

Gregory,  Pope,  239,  526*1. 

Thomas  and  Henry  sons  of,  562. 

Greysouthen,  Craysothen,  Graicsu- 
then,  etc.,  Adam  s.  of  Cristiane  de, 
557  :  Adam  s.  of  Eda  de,  557c  : 
Adam  s.  of  Alan  de,  557  :  John  s. 
of  Cristiane  de,  557  :  Henry  de, 
*4»  275-60 :  John  Huchonson  de, 
see  Huchonson  :  William  de,  335-6, 
358-9 :  Richard  le  sumpter  de, 
554,  557- 

Gret,  Adam  le,  see  Adam. 

Greystoke,  William  s.  of  Thomas  de, 
45 7» :  William  s.  of  Ranulf  de, 
45 7n,  462,  528  :  Helewise  de  Stute- 
vill  w.  of  William,  45  yn,  46211: 
Thomas  s.  of  William  de,  457«, 
46in. 

Grimbald,  see  Girinbald. 

Gross,  Adam,  see  Adam  the  great. 

Grundy,  Adam,  467. 

Gryndale,  William,  584. 

Gunnild,  grandmother  of  Thomas  s. 
of  Roger  de  Seton,  see  Seton. 

Gurdune,  William  de,  304. 

Guy  (Wydo),  the  hunter,  530. 

Gwhytsyd,  see  Whiteside. 

Gybson,  James,  334  :  Richard,  578  : 
Margaret  w.  of  Richard,  578 : 
Wyllam,  578 :  Thomas,  578 : 
Nicholas  of  Kyrkebeghoc,  331. 

Gy sebum,  see  Gisburne. 

Habrake,  William  s.  of,  43 8n. 

Hac,  Michael  s.  of,  345. 

Hagthorpe,  Robert  de,  286. 

Hairinthwaite,  see  Ayringthwaite. 

Hale,  Adam  de,  313-4,  3i6w :  Alan 
de,  556  :  Emma  Terry  w.  of  Alan, 
556  :  Alexander  de,  310,  313-4  : 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


641 


Agnes  and  Constance  d.'s  of  Alex- 
ander de,  313^:  Henry  de,  151, 
I53,  *55>  J6i,  386  :  John  de,  xxxiij. 
16,  162,  165,  171,  176-8,  185,  187-8, 
190,  283,  3iiw,  3I2C-3C,  3i5c-6w, 
322,  337,  346,  418,  422-3,  427-8, 
463,  469,  477,  548,  553,  565  : 
Cicely  d.  of,  3i6n  :  Adam,  Robert 
and  John  sons  of,  31 6  w  :  Thomas 
de,  170,  315,  453,  556  :  Ivetta  d. 
of,  556  :  Custance  de,  w.  of  William 
de  Ponsonby,  552C-3  :  Yuuain  de, 
31111,  551  :  Quenilda  d.  of  Adam 
s.  of  Huyan  de,  31  in:  true  heirs 
of,  3 1 in. 

Hale,  Simon  de,  justice  itinerant,  366. 

John  chaplain  oi,  312. 

Henry  parson  or  chaplain  of, 

386n,  539- 

William  s.  of  Henry  dispensator, 

chaplain  of,  3100,  3110,  312,  315. 

Adam  s.  of  William  chaplain  of, 

1 6,  311,  3I2W,  3I4C,  315  :  Cicely 
d.  of  William,  312** :  Agnes  and 
Alice  daughters  of  William,  16, 
3I2C :  Peter  step-son  of  William, 
311-2. 

Haleburt,  Richard  de,  379. 

Hallestede,  John  s.  of  Hugh  de, 
556. 

Hamelin,  395  :  the  Serjeant,  395«, 
see  Gillecrouhit. 

Hames,  John  del,  229  :  Thomas  del, 
n,  219,  22809,  232  :  Adam  del, 

229W. 

Hamo,  50,  258  :   Rodbert  s.  of,  50. 
Hampton,    Robert   de,   seneschal   of 

Cockermouth,      297-8,      411,     see 

Hautona. 

Hamund,  Ralf  de,  383. 
Hardecla,     Michael    de,     sheriff    of 

Cumberland,  569. 
Hardegill,  John  de,  216-7  :    Thomas 

de,  561. 

Hardheved,  Walter,  556,  560. 
Hare    (lepus),    William,    383,    517: 

Beatrice  w.  of,  3837*,  517. 
Harel,  Richard,  62,  64. 
Haretail,   William,   294,   303,   306-7, 

383*. 


Harpur,  William  le,  395,  538  :  Walter 
le,  554C,  556,  558,  562C,  564. 

Harras,  Adam  de,  8,  1740,  182  :  Hugh 
de,  8,  i76c,  i77n,  178^:  Robert  de, 
179,  211,  260,  262,  275,  327,  350-1, 
470  :  Simon  de,  186  :  Maud  d.  of 
Adam  de,  174-5. 

Harrington,  Halfrincton,  etc.,  Adam 
de,  49,  69,  103,  105,  ii7n,  151,  153, 
155,  161,  182,  197,  200,  205,  237, 
255,  291-2,  304,  321,  323,  339-40, 
342,  347,  356-7,  359,  385-6,  412*1-3, 
436,  546,  568  :  Gilbert  de,  310  : 
Henry  de,  68,  336  :  John  de,  350- 1, 
544  :  Michael  de,  bailiff  of  Egre- 
mont,  104,  H7w,  176-7,  181,  185, 
191-3,  256,  258,  283,  336,  341, 
343-4,  350,  357",  383,  400,  402-3, 
405,  408,  416-8,  421,  423,  427-9, 
460,  468,  561  :  Nicholas  de,  178  : 
Robert  de,  5,  5i-3,  65,  67,  72,  83, 
89,  91-2,  99-100,  102,  104,  n6c, 
H7»,  118-9,  136,  139,  146,  163, 
167,  184,  192,  215,  219-21,  223-4, 
226,  228,  252-3,  309-10,  315,  345, 
360,  364,  376-7,  398,  403,  406,  426, 
433-4,  437,  443-4,  460,  466«,  469, 
482,  559,  564-5  :  Christiane  w.  of 
Robert  de,  117  :  Thomas  de,  69, 
ii7»,  347  :  William,  485c,  606  : 
Elizabeth  d.  of  William,  485*1.* 
Osulf  or  Aculf  and  pedigree  of, 
H7»:  Sire  de,  243^:  Lord, 
xxxviij.,  25. 

William  rector  of,  128  :  Gilmer,. 

Ailmer,  Elemer,  cognatus  of  Gos- 
patric  son  of  Orm,  parson  of,  61,. 
63,  114-5,  II7",  see  Ailmer,  clerk. 

Hasthorpe,  John  de,  219. 

Haumevill,  Richard  de,  94  :  William 
de,  94. 

Hauris,  see  Harras. 

Hautona,  Robert  de,  bailiff  of  Cock- 
ermouth, 379,  381,  440. 

Haygate,  William  de,  375  :  Alice  w. 
of,  375- 

Heclyn,  Ralf  de,  434. 

Hefuing,  John  del,  561. 

Helmeswell,  see  Elmeswell. 

2T 


642 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL  NAMES 


Helsi,  Ailsi,  Adam  s.  of,  105,  514  : 
Henry  s.  of,  smith,  248-9. 

Helward,  Simon  s.  of,  259. 

Hemore,  Heyghmer,  Hyymar,  Lans- 
lot,  592. 

Hengham,  Heigham,  John  de,  con- 
stable of  Cokermue,  559-6°- 

Henry,  King  of  England,  see  Eng- 
land. 

juvenis,  250  :  clerk,  521. 

Gospatric,  s.  of,  74. 

Jordan  s.  of,  155. 

William  s.  of,  dispensator,  with 

his  family  connexions,  see  Hale. 

Hensingham,  Thomas  de,  279  :  Adam 
s.  of,  224  :  Stephen  s.  of,  554. 

Heppescotes,  Thomas  de,  201. 

Herbert,  grantee  of  Thursby,  493. 

Hercla,  Andrew  de,  earl  of  Carlisle, 

220n. 

Heriz,  Ralf  de,  94-5  :  Roland  de,  95  : 
Simon  de,  94 :  William  de,  4,  69, 
93^,  94-5  :  Yvene  de,  94. 

Herlar,  Thomas  of,  579. 

Hern,  Jordan  s.  of,  248-9. 

Heron,  John,  607. 

Herryson,  Anthony,  584. 

Hert,  Roger,  523. 

Hervy,  Gilbert  s.  of,  286. 

Herward,  chaplain,  523. 

Hesheim,  Ralf  (parson)  of,  542. 

Hestholm,  Richard  de,  430  :  Roger 
s.  of  Ralf  de,  439n. 

Heved,  Robert  del,  284 :  Roger  del, 
284. 

Heversham,  Roger  (parson)  of,  542, 
544- 

Hicson,  Th.,  486. 

Hilda,  St.,  505-7. 

Hilda,  Beatrice  d.  of,  5580. 

Hildred  (of  Carlisle),  529-30. 

Hipolite,  Ypolite,  Thomas  s.  of,  450, 
457- 

Hipplyng,  Alexander,  208-9. 

Hirscalis,  Uctred  de,  259. 

Hirth',  Thomas  de,  197. 

Hiton,  Heton,  Yton,  Adam  de,  23, 
199,  280-2,  296,  299,  362,  423,  438* 
44ic,  442n,  443-4,  47i  :  Alexander 
de,  280,  296,  299,  372w,  431,  44I. 


an,  47o-i,  538c,  539,  see  Ulf  : 
Stephen  de,  442  :  Thomas  de,  164  : 
William  de,  4417*. 

Hoby,  Hugh  s.  of  Eda  de,  45 20,  see 
Airedale. 

Hodalem,  Odard  de,  530. 

Hogeson,  Richard,  484  :    John,  484. 

Holceby,  Thomas  de,  353. 

Holdernes,  master  Peter  de,  rector  of 
the  school  of  Cokermue,  560-1. 

Holegyle,  William  de,  553C. 

Holmcultram,  John  abbot  of,  4110; 
abbot  and  convent  of,  21,  87», 
I02»,  H7n:  monks  of,  344»,  364n. 

Holmesby,  Patric  de,  548. 

Holyrood,  canons  of,  ix.,  93n. 

Honorius,  Pope,  135,  139,  141-2, 
5250,  604. 

Horme  b.  of  Edward,  50. 

Hornesh',  Walter  clerk  of,  441,  458. 

Hosecok,  Isabel  w.  of  Henry,  320^. 

Hotergham,  William  de,  383. 

Hothwait,  Hosewayt,  etc.,  Adam  de, 
432  :  Henry  de,  8,  9,  175,  178-80, 
i82c-6c,  i89c-92c:  Eda  w.  of 
Henry  de,  8,  183^  :  Gilbert  de,  554, 
604  :  Christiana  de,  9,  i83c  :  John 
s.  of  Alexander  de,  15,  see  Houth- 
unhou  :  Robert  de,  8,  159-60,  175, 
i78c-gc,  i88»,  362,  423,  604 : 
Cicely  w.  of  Robert,  9,  i88c-9c: 
Benedict  s.  of  Robert  de,  1 84  : 
Gilbert  s.  of  Robert  de,  8,  178-9^ 
1 80,  i84n,  187  :  Michael  b.  of 
Robert  de,  179  :  Henrys,  of  Robert 
de,  i87c-8c  :  Thomas  de,  559,  563  : 
William  de,  8,  i82c,  184,  186,  340, 
345,  385,  537,  see  Ralf,  William  s. 
of  :  Hugh  s.  of  Michael  de,  35 7«. 
Hoton,  Simon  de,  309,  377  :  Adam 
de,  573  :  William  s.  of  Adam  de, 
528  :  Edmund  de,  528. 
Houthunhou,  Hovenoth,  Alexander 
de,  288  :  John  s.  of  Alexander  de, 
287c,  288c,  2890. 
Hubert,  Michael  s.  of,  291. 

cook,  55. 

Huchonson,  John,  284. 
Hudleston,  Hodleston,  etc.,  John  de, 
19,  6gn,  83,   87™,   100,   119, 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


643 


229,  233,  242,  253,  283,  298,  364C, 
365,  376,  426,  437,  553,  564C,  574-5, 
577-8,  606  :  Joan  w.  of,  87n,  283^, 
364-5  :  John  s.  of  John  de,  xxvij., 
4,  J.Q,  24,  8;n,  8gc,  90,  283n,  362^, 
363^,  s66c,  374.n,  443^,  5^5^  : 
arms  of,  363^:  Richard  de,  173, 

215,   220-1,   223-4,   226,   228,   273-4  ' 

Sir  John  s.  of  Sir  Richard  de,  455^  : 
William,  2 Son,  332  :  Mariota  w.  of, 
280*. 

Huereby,  Aufrai  de,  286. 

Huetretset,  Bertin  de,  560,  564. 

Hugh,  William  s.  of,  57,  250,  386, 
466c,  467,  538-9,  541,  see  Waybyr- 
thueyt  :  Simon  s.  of,  55. 

chaplain,  538. 

Hulkil,  see  Ulkill. 

Hunte,  Robert,  chaplain  of  Stain- 
burn,  579-80. 

Hunter,  William,  le  558. 

Huntercurabe,  Walter  de,  76-7,  488. 

Huntingdon,  David,  earl  of,  7in. 

Hursewyk,  see  Ursewyk. 

Hutton,  William,  dean  of  Coupland, 

579- 
Hyndeux,  William  de,  267-8. 

Insula,  Nicholas  de,  isgn:  William 
s.  of  William  de,  isgn. 

Irby,  William  de,  rector  of  Medburn 
in  Lincoln,  xxvij.,  124,  127. 

Ireby,  Adam  de,  318  :  Juliane  w.  of 
Adam  de,  318*1  :  Alan  de,  403,  406, 
559  :  John  de,  52-3,  343,  398-400, 
402,  405,  407-8,  559,  56oc,  568  : 
Cristiane  w.  of  John  de,  56oc  : 
John  s.  of  Thomas  de,  57ic  :  Orm 
de,  43,  92,  482  :  Thomas  s.  of  John 
de,  5570  :  Thomas  de,  51, 119,  405, 
554^-5,  568c-gc  :  Ysac  de,  532: 
William  de,  48-9,  395n,  397-8,  530, 
582  :  Roger  priest  (sacerdos)  of,  551. 

Ireschal,  Yreschal,  Gilbert  de,  430. 

Irton,  Yrton,  etc.,  Nicholas  de,  166-7, 
262-3,  294,  325,  433-4,  46o,  575  : 
John  de,  571  :  Richard  de,  173, 
332  :  Richard  s.  of  Thomas,  432  : 
Roger  de,  221,  223,  226-8,  246,  571  : 
Thomas  de,  82,  151,  153,  155,  293- 


4,  296-7,  300,  313-4,  320,  431-2, 
475  :  Ives  s.  of  Hubert  de,  296  : 
Adam  chaplain  of,  431  :  Roger 
Bisschop  parochial  chaplain  of, 
575C. 

Isaac,  Thomas  s.  of,  551. 

Isacson,  Gilbert,  279  :   John,  284. 

Isles,  Guthred,  Godred,  king  of  the, 
xiij.,  xiv.,  3,  72C,  489,  602  :  Aff- 
reca  d.  of,  w.  of  John  de  Curci, 
xiij.  :  Olave  king  of  the,  xiv.,  3, 
74n,  75c,  79,  489,  602  :  Ragnald, 
Reginald,  Reynold,  king  of  the, 
xiv.-xvj.,  3,  74C,  77-9,  488  :  Mag- 
nus king  of  the,  xvj.  :  Alan  s.  of 
Godred  b.  of  Reynold,  7574. 

Ives,  Eda  w.  of,  8,  182-4,  see  Hoth- 
wait. 

Iwan,  Ywan,  Adam  s.  of,  3ion-i2, 
315,  see  Hale. 

Jacson,  William,  579. 

James,  dean,  93. 

Janewith,  see  Yanenwith. 

Jedburgh,  Osbert  abbot  of,  ix. 

Jerusalem,  brothers  of  Hospital  of 
St.  John  of,  264,  294,  298,  330, 
340,  358,  454C,  534c:  brothers 
(named),  535-6  :  R.  treasurer, 
prior  in  England,  535  :  seal  of  b. 
Robert  de  Dive,  535n:  Elias  de 
Smethetun  prior  of,  536. 

Jervaulx,  Y.  abbot  of,  114. 

John,  king  of  England,  see  England. 

John  s.  of  Ponson,  Punzun,  Puncun, 
etc.,  see  Ponson  and  Ponsonby. 

John,  Henrys,  of,  199,  280,  442,  471. 

Stephen  s.  of,  331. 

Richard  s.  of,  466. 

John  s.  of,  97M. 

Thomas  s.  of,  48,  461,  538^, 

5390,  582,  see  Dreg:  Ysabel  w.  of 
Thomas,  538c,  53gc. 

William  s.  of,  401-2,  404,  407. 

Adam  s.  of,  374*1,  546.  See  Pon- 
sonby. 

priest,  91,  93. 

chaplain,  281-2,  523. 

clerk,  242. 

marshal,  58,  60,  82,  86,  302. 


644 


INDEX   OF  PERSONAL   NAMES 


John,  cook,  522,  544- 

white,  522. 

mason,  479  :   Eda  w-  of>  479**. 

youth,  517- 

cardinal  of  St.  Stephen,  5240. 

Jonesby,  William  de,  86. 

Jonson,  Nicholas,  484  :  Thomas,  484 : 

Richard,  576. 
Jordan,    William    s.    of,    155,    159. 

324- 

sheriff,  45,  7°,  258. 

serviens,  58,  60. 

minister  domini,  71. 

Joscelin,  chaplain,  no,  441,  458. 
Jurdad,  Albert  s.  of,  382. 
Jurdan,  Odo  s.  of,  248. 

Kalewar,  see  Calewar. 
Karliolum,  see  Carlisle. 
Keldesek,  William  de,  575. 
Kellet,  Richard  de,  28o«,  45  3 w  :  seal 
of,  45  3«  :    Gilbert  de,  45  3C  :    Gil- 
bert s.  of  Adarn  de,  45  30,  4820.    See 
Overkellet. 

Kelton,  Peter  Trovet  de,  25,  468c  : 
Raynild  w.  of,  468  :    Simon  s.  of 
Richard  de,  25,  4696  :  William  de, 
2ii-2,    217-8,    222-3  •     Gospatric 
priest  (sacerdos)  of,  61-2,  64. 
Kendale,  William  de,  575C,  576,  579. 
Kent,  Roger,  clerk  of,  123. 
Kepas,  Henry  de,  clerk,  229. 
Keret,  Thomas,  49. 
Ketel,  458. 

dapifer,  537. 

Chetel,  Cetel  s.  of  Eldred,  see 

Chetel. 
— Getell  s.  of  Ulf,  see  Ulph. 

Adam,  s.  of  16,  251,  sioc,  31111, 

551  :  Alan  s.  of,  13,  58,  60,  65,  67, 
72,  ii5w-7»,  136,  195,  209,  248-9*1, 
25oc,  27gn,  288,  29ow,  310,  386^, 
43in,  439»,  462,  465-6,  470*1,  538, 
55i  :  Gunnild  d.  of  Alan,  470*1  : 
Alexander  s.  of,  467  :  Benedict  s. 
of,  58,  60,  3io»,  332n,  386n,  466-7, 
541,546:  Henry  s.  of ,  99  :  Jordan 
s.  of,  462n ;  Michael  s.  of,  58,  60, 
3ion,  386w,  462,  467,  538,  546  : 
Uhtred  s.  of,  551  :  William  s.  of, 


58,  60,  310,  372-3,  385-6,  436,  462, 
466»,  467,  536,  541,  546. 

Ketelby,  Geoffrey  de,  441  :  Robert 
de,  386. 

Killum,  Kelom,  John  de  (monk  of 
St.  Mary's,  York),  239  :  Stephen 
de,  48  :  Thomas  de  (clerk  of  York), 
125. 

Kirkebride,  John  s.  of  Ralf  de,  chap- 
lain, 16,  276,  31  sc :  Walter  de, 

563. 

Kirkeby,  Adam  de,  64,  321,  335  : 
Alexander  de,  100 :  Archill  de, 
248  :  William  s.  of  Archill,  248  : 
David  de,  103,  151,  153,  155,  205, 
285,  292,  302-3,  378,  414,  43i,  467, 
475,  477  :  John  de,  100,  213,  215, 
252,  556  :  Laurence  de,  326  :  Ralf 
de,  353  :  Robert  de,  216-7  :  Wil- 
liam de,  205  :  Ellen  w.  of  William, 
32ow  :  William  s.  of  Roger  de,  259  : 
Roger  s.  of  William  de,  541  : 
Dolfin  de,  540  :  Roger  clerk  of, 
no,  540,  543  :  Alan  reeve  of,  258. 
Kirkeby  Ireleth,  Kyrkebilith,  etc., 
John  de,  89,  91,  364,  444  :  Richard 
s.  of  Alan  de,  242  :  Roger  parson 
of,  136,  204,  541-2  :  Alan  b.  of 
Roger,  136. 

Kirkeby  Kendal,  Nicholas,  parson  of 
204,  544  :  Achard  (parson)  of,  542. 

Kirkeby  Lonsdale,  Nicholas  de  Steyn- 
grefe  vicar  of,  14,  i26n,  27ic,  277, 
278c,  328  :  John  (parson)  of,  544  : 
Richard  de  Wysebeche  vicar  of, 
27in :  Adam  (parson)  of,  542. 

Kirkeby  Stephen,  William  de,  179, 
188,  283,  341,  362,  422-5,  469. 

Kirkeby  Thore,  John  de,  201,  215, 
221,  224,  227,  244. 

Kirkeby  on  the  Moor  (Yorks.),  Alan 
chaplain  of,  446. 

Kirkeclifton,  Benedict  s.  of  Richard 
de,  556c. 

Kirkemaghald  (Isle  of  Man),  J.  de 
Orreton,  rector  of,  77. 

Kirkepatrick,  John  de,  569. 

Kirkham,  A.  de,  dean,  543. 

Kirkoswald,  Ralf  de,  chaplain,  458. 

Kirleton,  William  de,  43. 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


645 


Kornay,  see  Corney. 
Kuketon,  Gilbert  de,  236. 
Kunyth,  527. 
Kyngeston,  John  de,  450. 
Kyrchesantun,  Peter  de,  30771. 
Kyrkslak,  Gilbert  de,  413. 

La  .  .  ch  .  .  ,  Thomas  de,  570. 

Lambhyrd,  Thomas,  285. 

Lamplugh,  Landploc,  etc.,  Adam  de, 
58,  60,  372-4,  385-6,  466n,  546-7  : 
John  de,  243*,  275,  327,  47o,  555, 
569,  57ic,  577  :  Nicholas,  243n  : 
Ralf  s.  of  John  de,  10,  2ooc,  242-4  : 
Ralf  de,  167,  191-3,  201,  229,  232, 
242C,  343,  376,  383,.  433-4,  548, 
553,  559  :  Emma  w.  of  Ralf,  201  : 
Richard  de,  191  :  Roger  de,  322  : 
Robert  de,  10,  65,  67,  117,  146, 
162,  165,  171,  178,  187-8,  iggc, 
200,  256,  308,  310,  315,  323,  341, 
346,  350,  401,  403,  407,  426-8,  444. 
460,  469,  477-9,  568,  606  :  John, 
583,  596  :  Thomas  de,  270-2,  276-7, 
279,  328,  606:  family  of,  243M: 
Randulf  rector  of,  262n,  539  :  John 
rector  of,  13,  262,  26sc :  Robert 
parson  of,  262*1  383  :  Robert  de 
Ulflayt  rector  of,  262M :  Richard 
de  Whithaven  chaplain  of,  262-3. 

Lancaster,  William  s.  of  Gilbert  de, 
ii.,  xxj.,  13,  31,  34-5,  37-40,  sow, 
248-9,  259n,  454W,  533-4,  539  c: 
pedigree  of,  6  in :  Roger  s.  of 
Gilbert  de,  12-3,  50,  247c-8c,  250, 
25iw,  258*:,  259,  382  :  Sigerid  w. 
of  Roger,  50, 248™,  258,  534 :  Robert 
b.  of  Roger  s.  of  Gilbert,  258 : 
Robert  s.  of  Roger  s.  of  Gilbert, 
258  :  William  s.  of  William  de, 
248-9,  259C,  539  :  Helewise  d.  of 
William  s.  of  William,  2597* :  prior 
of,  xxxv.,  604. 

Lanercost,  canons  of,  31 8«,  322**, 
344»- 

Langecost,  Thomas  de,  55 gc  . 

Langethwaite,  Agnes  de,  23,  438^  : 
Waldeve  de,  494. 

Langlish,  John  de,  197. 

Langliver,  Lanlivergh,  Langlie,  etc., 


John  de,  13-4,  159-60,  162,  165, 
171,  176-7,  179,  180-1,  183,  185, 
187-9,  197,  199,  255-6,  257C,  2940 
50,  2g6n,  308,  312-4,  322-4,  344, 
346,  350,  417-8,  420-1,  423-4,  427-8, 
431-2,  442,  459-6o,  463,  468-9,  471- 
2£,  477-8,  604  :  Roger  de,  472  : 
Thomas  de,  199  :  William  de,  472. 

Langusa,  320. 

Langwath,  T.  de,  143. 

Lascell,  Alan  de,  397  :  Thomas  de, 
447-8. 

Lascy,  Hugh  de,  x.  :  Roesya  de,  x., 
98  :  Walter  de,  x.  :  Robert  de, 
clerk,  98. 

Lathom,  Robert  de,  28371,  3&4H. 

Latus,  William,  of  St.  Bees,  423-47*: 
family  of,  42/jw. 

Laurence,  Alexander  s.  of,  185-7, 
189,  463  :  Gilbert  s.  of,  185-7,  I89, 
463  :  Matthew,  584. 

Lawson,  Sir  George,  586-7. 

Lawswater,  see  Lowswater. 

Layburn,  Robert  de,  keeper  of  the 
castle  of  Cokermouth,  560,  see 
Leyburn. 

Laycestre,  Roger  de,  236. 

Laygate,  John  de,  553. 

Layton,  Dr.,  597. 

Lee,  Dr.,  592,  597.     See  Leigh. 

Leychayel,  Gilbert  de,  524. 

Legh,  William  de,  531. 

Legis,  Odard  de,  531. 

Leigh,  Thomas,  xxxvj.,  424**,  592, 
59&C-9,  see  Lee  :  Joan  w.  of, 
424W. 

Leleu',  William,  248-9. 

Leming,  Robert  de,  271. 

Lendwad,  Robert  de,  182. 

Levinton,  Levington,  etc.,  Ralf  de, 
21,  4iof,  411  :  Richard  de,  86,  411, 
529  :  Roger  de,  411  :  Richard  the 
knight,  41 1 w. 

Lexington,  John  de,  itinerant  justice, 
256. 

Leyburn,  Roger  de,  g6c,  97  :  Idonea 
w.  of,  96-7.  See  Layburn. 

Lidel,  Jordan  de,  457. 

Lilling,  Thomas,  chaplain,  see 
Whicham. 


646 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


Lincoln,  earl  of,  at  Caerlaverock, 
36374. 

Lindeby,  Roger  de,  i42«,  see  Mar- 
garet. 

Lindesay,  Drogo  de,  44  :  Ranulf  de, 
57,  69,  83**,  106,  493,  534,  602  : 
Hectreda  w.  of  Ranulf,  57,  106, 
493,  602  :  William  de,  57*4,  409*4. 

Linford,  Ralf  de,  clerk,  43. 

Linthwait,  Robert  de,  215. 

Liolfe,  Adam  s.  of,  492  :  Oderd  s.  of, 
401*4,  492  :  Utred  s.  of,  532. 

Loftscales,  William  s.  of  Richard  de, 

Logan,  Robert,  476  :    Hugh  de,  525. 
Logis,  Oderd  de,  492,  see  Legis. 
Lokerig,  Richard  de,  285. 
Longa  Villa,  William  de,  236  :    Ralf 

de,  522. 

Longg,  Walter,  354. 
Longo  Campo,  H.  de,  204. 
Lonshal,  Walter  de,  clerk,  98. 
Loreton,  Thomas  de,  379. 
Lough,  la,  see  Elena. 
Lovel,  J.,  itinerant  justice,  570. 
Loweswater,   Thomas   de,   chaplain, 

J4,  17,  270,  27ic,  274,  278-9,  327, 

Lownde,  Thomas,  484. 

I<owther,  Hugh  de,  260:  Thomas 
de,  350-1,  532,  564  :  Sir  John,  of 
Whitehaven,  xxxvj.,  xxxvij.,  373*1: 
Robert,  see  Wigton. 

Lowys,  Robert,  212,  222. 

Lucy,  John  de,  146,  560,  569-70: 
Geoffrey  de,  529  :  Godard,  God- 
frey de,  archdeacon  of  Richmond 
and  itinerant  justice,  xxxj.,  109, 
1 1  in,  115  :  Reginald,  Reynold  de^ 
57»,  494,  529,  532,  546*4:  Ama- 
billa  w.  of  Reynold  de,  57n,  494, 
532-3:  Richard  de,  xxv.,  3,  20, 
57c,  59C,  6oc,  8i*t,  94%,  I40n,  i42*j' 
I44«,  192*4,  251*1,  255*1,  301- 
2,  37ic-2c,  374n,  430»,  446W,  447c> 
448n,  466n,  474«,  475M>  527-8,' 
532,  544C,  546c,  603:  body  of 
Richard  brought  into  the  church 
»  S.  Bega,  vij.,  302 :  Ada  de  Mor- 
viH  w.  of  Richard,  57,  59  37I_2 


447,  448w :  Amabil  and  Alice  d.'s 
of,  446n,  494,  532-3  :  Thomas  de 
(s.  of  Alan  de  Multon)  144-6,  543, 

604  :   Alice  de,  w.  of  Alan  de  Mul- 
ton,  144*4,   542^ :    Thomas  de,   6, 
5i-3,    243«,    494,    554,    568c,    570  : 
Margaret  de  Multon  w.  of  Thomas 
de,  243*4  :    Anthony  de,  494,  562^, 

605  :   Maud  de,  countess  of  North- 
umberland, 388*4  :    Lord,  xxxviij.  : 
descent  of,   495-6,   533  :    arms   of 
Lucy  of  Egremont,  xxxviij. 

Lund,  Ralf  de,  317. 

Lupe,  Robert,  544. 

Lutegarshale,  Henry  de,  565. 

Luvecot,  Ralf  de,  91,  93. 

Luveles,  John,  294*1,  295. 

Lyllyng,    Lillingham,    Walter,    94-5  : 

Thomas,  267-8. 

Lyster,  Christopher,  486c,  608. 
Lytlebyr,    M.    de,    justice   of   assize, 


M.  clerk,  339. 

Mac  Askyl,  Gilbert,  77,  488. 

Mac  blancard,  Gillemure,  ix. 

Mac  gillefin,  Gillebert,  ix. 

Mac  Mares,  Godred,  bailiff  of  Man, 
xvij. 

Mac  Stephen,  Reynold,  77,  488. 

Mac  Thore,  Thorfynn,  527. 

Macthoryn,  Thorfin,  77  :  John,  271*4: 
Maud  w.  of  John,  271*4. 

Mageson,  William,  285. 

Makeswell,  Eustace  de,  78. 

Malcolm,  see  Scots. 

Malet,  Reynold  de,  60,  372-3. 

Alan,  523. 

Malleverer,  Hugh  de,  95. 

Malton,  Henry  de,  575  ;  William  de, 
76,  488,  561  :  Leonard  de,  chap- 
lain, 17,  298,  33ic. 

Man,  Maurice  de,  10,  204^,  205*4, 
207*4.-  John  de,  285:  deemsters 
of,  xv. 

(Isles),  see  Isles. 

— (Sodor),  G(amaliel)  bp.  of,  73, 
602  :  Mark  bp.  of,  77  :  Richard 
bp.  of,  xxxj.,  ji2w:  bishop  of, 
xv.  :  master  A.  archdeacon  of,  77  : 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


647 


Dermicius  archdeacon  of,  74 : 
Laurence  parson  of  St.  Brigid  in, 
74  :  Adam  Payntour  rector  of  St. 
Brigid  in,  14,  2720,  273-4  :  Reg- 
inald chaplain,  bailiff  of  Man,  xvij., 
74  :  monks  of  St.  Mary's  in,  n6w. 

Mandeville,  William  de,  47^. 

Maneriis,  Adam  de,  406  :  John  de, 
559-6ic  :  Juliane  w.  of  John,  5610. 

Manscell,  William,  589. 

Mara,  William  de,  72. 

Marescal,  William,  537,  567  :  Henry, 
543  :  Thomas,  567  :  J[ohn]  s.  of 
Thomas,  567  :  Richard,  chaplain, 
576. 

Margaret,  Roger  s.  of,  142**. 

Marham,  William  de,  constable  of 
Cokermue,  557. 

Mari,  Ranulf  de,  467  :  Robert  de, 
208,  210,  433. 

Mariner,  Gille,  334. 

Marisco,  Richard  de,  543-4. 

Marshal,  John,  58,  60,  see  Marescal. 

Martel,  Ralf,  524. 

Martin,  monk,  206  :  chaplain,  536. 

Martindale,  William,  606. 

Marton,  Simon  de,  571. 

Masculus,  Roger,  4,  QIC,  93  :  Richard, 
521,  525- 

Matafelun,  Alexander,  337,  344,  429, 
557  :  Henry,  203  :  Richard,  45, 
70  :  Thomas,  316. 

Maud  w.  of  Henry  I.,  see  England. 

Maud  the  empress,  see  England. 

Maurice,  master,  75  :  clerk,  75  : 
servant  of  the  Primate  of  Ireland, 
524- 

Mauske,  Alan  le,  211. 

Medburn,  see  Irby. 

Melbeth,  medicus,  493,  531. 

Meldred,  see  Pennington. 

Meldrome,  Philip  de,  78. 

Meles,  Adam  de,  471  :  Michael  s.  of 
Hubert  de,  160-1  :  Thomas  de, 
463- 

Melmor,  527. 

Melsis,  Thomas  de,  136,  139,  235. 

Meneriis,  Heng'  de,  46. 

Meschir,  Ranulf,  s.  of  the  sheriff  of 
Bayeux,  lord  of  Cumberland,  i., 


ii.,  27w,  457w,  491-2,  528,  531  : 
Lucy  w.  of,  27w :  Richard  b.  of, 
27«  :  arms  of,  xxxviij.  :  Maud  w. 
of  Ranulf  the  sheriff,  27^ :  Geoff- 
rey b.  of  Ranulf(P),  491-2  :  William 
b.  of  Ranulf  (founder  of  the  priory), 
i.-v.,  xiv.,  i,  27c-8c,  soc-6c,  sgc, 
42,  44^,  107,  234W,  259^,  334**, 
355**,  378tt,  45iw,  464^,  492,  527, 
532,  534,  580,  597:  arms  of, 
xxxviij.  :  Cicely  w.  of  William, 
iii.,  xiv.,  31,  34-5,  44« :  Avicia  de 
Romelli  d.  of  William,  xiv.  : 
Ranulf  s.  of  William,  founder  of 
Calder  Abbey,  iv.,  v.,  vij.,  i,  31, 
32C,  34-6c,  3&C-9C,  4°w,  138^,  23571, 
36gn,  510-1,  534,  596  :  Alice  d.  of 
William,  see  Rumelli  :  Matthew 
b.  of  Ranulf  s.  of  William,  32^. 

Metheop,  Ralf  de,  296. 

Metyngham,  John  de,  itinerant  jus- 
tice, 375. 

Meus,  John  de,  94. 

Michael,  Adam  s.  of,  336,  339C,  360, 
546,  see  Windscales  and  Clifton  : 
Hubert  s.  of,  163  :  Ives  s.  of,  476^: 
Daniel  s.  of,  307?*,  see  Fleming  and 
Furnes  :  Thomas  s.  of,  92,  336  : 
Adam  s.  of  Thomas,  92. 

chaplain,  67,  72,  94,  196,  207, 

310. 

priest  (sacerdos),  99. 

priest  (presbiter),  117,  345  : 

William  and  Robert  sons  of,  345. 

clerk,  237,  356,  358-9,  459,  573- 

miller,  315. 

Millum,  Godard  of,  see  Godard 
dapifer  :  Arthur  s.  of  Godard,  54W, 
?in,  87w,  383,  439M :  Henry  s.  of 
Arthur,  60,  87-8^,  332W,  364*7, 
372-3,  395,  439,  466n,  467,  538, 
546  :  Gunnild  d.  of  Henry,  47on  : 
William  s.  of  Henry,  60,  87^,  gon, 
364»,  372-3^,  455*?,  467,  54ic: 
Amice  or  Avice  w.  of  William,  87*1  : 
Adam  s.  of  Henry,  4,  87*:,  89,  90, 
U4M,  364^,  442W,  455W  :  Joan  d. 
of  Adam,  87n,  2837*,  364*1 :  Wil- 
liam de,  301,  44.on,  44iw,  455W  : 
pedigree  of,  87^ :  Thomas  vicar 


648 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


of,   90 :    Adam   parson   of,    n6«, 

44 1 » :    Adam  de  Erghome,   vicar 

of,  576c. 

Milneholme,  John  de,  246. 
Miton,    Mythona,    Stephen    de,    138, 

458. 
Moghton,    Thomas,    333  :     William, 

333- 

Molecastre,  see  Mulcaster. 

Molle,  William  s.  of  Liolf  de,  550^, 
551  :  Liolf  de,  551. 

Mon',  Peter  de,  122. 

Monkell,  John,  128. 

Montebegon,  Adam  de,  35 57* :  Roger 
de,  529. 

Montfort,  Earl  Simon  of,  967*,  g'jn. 

Montibus,  Robert  de,  167. 

Mora,  John  de,  256,  258,  447 :  Ralf 
de,  250  :  Richard  de,  250,  295,  471. 

Moray,  Thomas  Randolf  earl  of, 
xviij.,  3,  77c,  488  :  William  s.  of 
Duncan,  reputed  earl  of,  494. 

More,  Nicholas,  584. 

Moresby,  Moriceby,  Adam  de,  256*, 
556-7 :  Archill  de,  249 :  Chris- 
topher de,  knight,  173^  174,  i94, 
220«,  262-3,  575  :  Hugh  de,  5,  u, 
48-9,  5i-3,  69,  82-3,  loin,  io2c, 
"9,  163,  169,  173-5,  179,  182,  184, 

192,  197-8,  201,  205,  208,  210,  213, 
215,  2I9-2IC,  226,  228-30,  233,  242, 

244,  252,  255,  285,  289  291,  293,' 

297,   302-3,   309,   312-5,   319,   321,' 

323,  340,   346,   360,   376-9,   385-6, 

398,  406,  416,  424,  426,  433-4,  453, 

46i,  464,  469,  479,  537,  563,  566, 

John  de,  83,  104,  119,  ^4, 

426,  469,  482c,  487»,  570:    John* 

•     of    Nicholas    de,     14,     2?4C  . 

Michael  de,  561  :    Nicholas  de,  5', 

20,  77,  zoic,  102,  10304,  162,  165' 

171, 176-81,  i83,  i85, 187.92, 252; 

256,  258,   274W-5,   294,   297,   323' 

If'  *£'  343"4'  346'  35°>  356'8' 
3»3,  386c,  401,  4x6-8,  421,  423.4 

427-9,  460,  468-9,  477.8,  488,  568c  • 
Thomas  de,  83,  469  :  Waldeve  de 
'oi«,  248-9,  345:  Wimam  de 

249  :  origin  of  the  family  of,  IOIn. 
'nng,  Moryng,  see  Morthing 


Morland,  Morelund,  Adam  parson  of, 
137 :  Adam  priest  (presbiter)  of, 
137- 

Mort',  Henry  de,  430. 
Mortain,  John  earl  of,  xxj. 
Morthing,   etc.,   John   de,    119,    253, 
299,   364,   437-8,   442-4,   461,   565, 
570:  Alexander  de,  28ow:  Richard 
de,   364^,  541,   558  :    William  de, 
89,  91,  108,  i23n,  166-7,  170,  183, 
221,  229,  233,  242,  246,  252,  308, 
383,  425,  433,  442,  480-1,  553,  573-4. 
Morthuith,  John  de  423. 
Morton,  Roger  de,  200  :    Roger  s.  of 

Gerard  de,  20,  383C. 
Morvill,  Hugh  de,  574,  69,  92,  318, 
446»,    528  :     Ada    d.    of,    446-7 : 
Nicholas   de,    3557* :     Richard   de, 
7iw  :  Helena  d.  of  Richard  de,  71  ». 
Moryn,  527. 

Moserie,    Mosergh,   Adam   de,    i42M, 
374«,  479,  544C,  545,   547  :    John 
de,  383,  561  :   William  de,  571. 
Mount,  Thomas,  chaplain,  2  Son. 
Muchisda,  John,  430. 
Mudac,  dean,  137. 

Mulcastre,    Molecastre,    Alice    d.    of 
Benedict  de,  24iw:  Gilbert  de,  401  : 
Robert    de,    376-7,    399-404,    408, 
543,   548:     Walter  de,   564,   569: 
William  de,  405,  555  :   Walter  par- 
son of,  251  :    Thomas  de  Cokayn 
parochial  chaplain  of,  5750  :    Rich- 
ard chaplain  of,  539. 
Multon,  Alan  de,  8i»,  144-5,  256-7n. 
447-8,  542c,   568c,   604  :    Alice  w. 
of  Alan  de,  Sin,  144*,  256^,  446n  : 
Lambert  de,  4,  8ic,  82W,  io2«,  255. 
302»,  446;*,  494  :  Amabil  w.  of,  81, 
446n  :  Alan  b.  of  Thomas  de,  447n: 
Thomas  s.  of  Lambert  de,  4,  82c, 
i44»,  i54»,  294n,  374-5,  494,  547^ 
55ic-2  :     Margaret    w.    of,     82*  : 
Thomas  de,  vj.,  20,  24,  Sin,  295, 
319,   446c-7c,   see   also   Skyrebet  : 
Ada    w.    of    Thomas    de,     446c  : 
Thomas    s.    of    Alan    de,    567^: 
Richard  de,  83,  305  :    Eleanor  w. 
of  Thomas  de,  vj.,  i72n  :  John  de, 
vi->  243w,  572C  ;    sisters  of,  243^  : 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


649 


Thomas  de,  of  Egremont,  426**  : 
Margaret  de,  w.  of  Thomas  de 
Lucy,  243** :  Thomas  de,  of 
Gillesland,  vij.  :  Thomas  Teronys, 
496  :  descent  of,  495-6,  533. 

Muncaster,  family  of  the  lord,  257». 

Mundegayne,  Simon  de,  382. 

Mundevilla,  Helias  de,  46. 

Murdac,  Henry,  see  York. 

Stephen,  250. 

Musgrafe,  John  de,  294-5  :  Thomas 
de,  554-5- 

Muskham,  William  de,  565. 

Mydylton,  John  de,  246,  574. 

Mythona,  see  Miton. 

Neddrum  (Ulster),  Walrann  prior  of, 
523-4,  603  :  Elias  prior  of,  522. 

Neir,  John  de,  167. 

Neuill,  Alexander  de,  529  :  William 
de,  529. 

Neuton,  Adam  de,  17,  3190,  321,  386, 
397i  436,  558  :  Godith  w.  of,  319  : 
Adam  s.  of  Richard  de,  xxxij.,  6, 
7,  isoc,  I52-3C,  160,  see  Tyllof : 
Adam  s.  of  Adam  s.  of  Richard,  7, 
i55c,  is8c-6of  :  Adam  s.  of  Adam 
de,  163  :  Adam  s.  of  Hubert  de, 
7,  i67c,  169-70^  172  :  Alice  d.  of 
Hubert  de,  170:  Hubert  de,  7, 
155,  i6i-2c,  i64C,  i66c-9,  197,  330, 
477M :  Hubert  s.  of  Clare  de,  7, 
1650  :  Hugh  de,  155-6  :  John  s.  of 
Hubert  de,  7,  i66-7c,  169  :  Mar- 
garet d.  of  Hubert  de,  8,  i7oc: 
Thomas  s.  of  Hubert  s.  of  Clare,  17, 
1650,  169,  330  :  Michael  de,  82, 
294,  464,  475,  477  :  Robert  de, 
294  :  Thomas  de,  5,  18,  68,  104*;, 
345C,  403,  569,  603  :  Joan  w.  of 
Thomas  de,  68,  104,  345  :  William 
de,  335,  559- 

Nicholas,  Pope,  526*1. 

clerk,  383. 

Nicholson,  John,  579,  596  :  Richard, 
579  :  Robert,  579. 

Nigel,  Eudes  s.  of,  248  :  Rodbert  s. 
of,  248  :  Therkill  s.  of,  75. 

master,  318. 

Niger,  John,  242,  479  :  William  s.  of 
John,  479. 


Nimet,  Henry  de,  536. 

Noreis,  Philip  le,  541. 

Norfolk,  duke  of,  593. 

Northeburgh,  Richard  de,  325. 

Northumberland,  Dolfin,  earl  of,  531  : 
Henry  Percy,  earl  of,  273,  388,  390, 
581  :  constable  of  England,  388w  :, 
earls  of,  xxxviij.,  388n :  Hotspur, 
388*1  :  earl  at  St  Bees  in  1473, 
388n  :  Tostig  earl  of,  440*1. 

Norton,  master  John,  advocate  of  the 
court  of  York,  239. 

Norway,  King  Magnus  of,  489**. 

Norwich,  IMshop  John  of,  544. 

Notingham,  Henry  of,  412*1. 

Nudyngton,  master  Thomas  de, 
itinerant  justice,  376. 

Nunnington,  Alexander  clerk  of,  no. 

Odard,  32,  107,  529:  Adams  of,  529. 

-chaplain,  32,  81,  317,  452. 

chaplain  of  Ranulf  Meschin,  32. 

grantee  of  Newton  in  Allerdale, 

493- 

Odo,  295,  471. 

smith,  259. 

Okarefair,  see  Acarsan. 

Oketon,  John  de,  190. 

Orfer,  Richard,  596. 

Orm,  Gospatric  s.  of,  see  Gospatric  : 
Michael  s.  of,  61,  64  :  Robert  s.  of, 
61,  64  :  Roger  s.  of,  62,  64 : 
Laurence  s.  of,  91,  93. 

the  knight,  449*1. 

Orreton,  Alan  de,  376-7,  543. 

Osbern,  Osbert,  Adam  s.  of,  454  : 
Maud  w.  of,  45 4n  :  Adam  s.  of 
Adam  s.  of,  454 :  Walter  s.  of 
Adam  s.  of,  454. 

archdeacon,  44,  602. 

Osbert,  porter,  522,  544. 

Osethueit,  see  Aysthwait. 

Osmunderlaw,  Ranulf  de,  351  :  Wil- 
liam de,  299,:  Walter  de,  242. 

Oswald,  king,  504-5. 

Oswin,  king,  505-6  :  Elfleda  d.  of,  506. 

Ousby,  see  Ulnesby. 

Overhaier,  see  Dreg. 

Overkellet,  Gilbert,  s.  of  Adam  de, 
26,  482^,  see  Kellet. 


650 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


Oxenholme,  John  de,  448. 

Pacok,  Adam,  284  :    Roger,  354. 
Paddye,  Roger,  591. 
Pagan,  301. 

butler,  522. 

Panal,  Thomas,  333. 
Pardishou,  John  de,  253,  262,  273-4, 
276,  279,  284,  327,  406,  554,  558, 
569  :   Thomas  de,  555,  566. 
Paries,  Walter  de,  465  n. 
Parvyng,  Robert,  201. 
Partic  s.  of  Thomas,  see  Workington. 
Patrickbrunton,    Patricburn,    Adam 

de  Thornton,  rector  of,  267- 8c. 
Patrikson,  Anthony,  596. 
Pele,  Wylliame  of,  576. 
Pennington,      Penington,      Penyton, 
Gamel  de,  n6»,  i22n,  537  :    Ketel 
b.  of  Gamel  de,  537  :    Meldred  s. 
of  Gamel,   112,  116  :    Benedict  s. 
of  Meldred,    116  :    Meldred  b.   of 
Benedict,   n6»:    Benedict  de,  5, 
U2c,  u6»,  540,  54ic,  see  Gamel, 
Benedict  s.  of  ;  Agnes  w.  of  Bene- 
dict de,  3o7n  :  Alan  de,  22,  83,  88, 
103,    112,    119,    140,    241,    292-3, 
302;*,    303,    364,    376,    424,    425C, 
426,  466n,  467,  47i,  475W,  477», 
479-8o,    539,    541,    see    Benedict, 
Alan  s.  of  :   Alan  s.  of  Alan  de,  12, 
«4in,  242c  :  Alan  s.  of  Thomas  de, 
12,  241^,  242  :   John  de,  215,  219- 
21,  223-4,  226,  228,  484,  575C,  576- 
7,    579,    606 :     Ranulf    de,    540 : 
Walter  b.  of  Alan  s.  of  Benedict, 
113-4:    Waltheve  de,  in,  u3M; 
William,  24m :  William  s.  of  Alan, 
24iw :    lord  of,  477-8  :    family  of 
lord  Muncaster,  257**. 
Penrith,  Simon  vicar  of,  45  9n. 
Percy,  Henry,  see  Northumberland. 
Peter  de,  itinerant  justice   2=57  • 
William  de,  538 
Peter   Richard  s.  of,  94«,  544',  603. 

William  s.  of,  91,  93. 

clerk,  285. 

Petyngton,  Philip  de,  383 
Peyntour,  Payntour,  Adam,  see  Man 
(Sodor)  :    John  b.   of  Adam,    14, 


272C,  273-4  :    John,  484  :    Gilbert, 
14,  263,   26gc,   270  :    Maud  w.  of 
Gilbert,  263,  270  :    Richard,  484. 
Phintor  dapifer,  see  Finthor. 
Phuayfote,  see  Weytefote. 
Picot,  Walter  s.  of,  40. 
Pigon,    Adam,    554,    556,    558060 : 

Richard,  560. 
Pikering,  see  Pykering. 
Pipard,    Gilbert,    baron   of   the    Ex- 
chequer, 449W,  494,  532  :    Alice  de 
Rumelli  w.  of,  494,  532,  see  Rumelli. 
Piscr',  Walter  de,  544. 
Pittes,  Richard,  clerk  of  diocese  of 

Lincoln,  128. 

Plumland,  Adam  de,  408  :   Gospatric 
de,  551  :    John  de,  406  :    William 
de,  60,  372-3,  397,  537  :   Walter  de, 
350-1  :     Walter  Dayncourt   rector 
of,  148-50. 
Plyn,  Peter,  285. 
Pol'.  Thomas  s.  of,  196. 
Ponelint',  William  de,  445. 
Ponson,    Punsun,    Punzun,    Poncius, 
John  s.  of,  45,  55,  84,  115,  n6w, 
250,  258,  soon,  307w:    William  s. 
of  John  s.  of,  ii6w,  3O7»  :    Richer 
s.   of  John  s.   of,    3oow :     Richer, 
Richards,  of,  116,  151*1,  3oon,  329, 
457,  see  Ponsonby. 
Ponsonby,  Puncunby,  etc.,  Alan  de, 
33ow,    57ic:     Alexander   de,    164, 
180-1,   183,   185,    187-9,    197,   237, 
293-4,   297,    300,    3o6n,    312,    316, 
320,  322,  421,  432,  463,  553  :  Alex- 
ander s.  of  Richard  de,   16,   151, 
r53,  155,  3o6c,  319,  558  :   John  de, 
163,  308,  596  :   John  s.  of  William 
de,  16,  307^  3080 :    Ralf  de,  242, 
253,   437:    Richard  de,   151,   153, 
155,  203,  292-4,  297,   302W,   3o6n, 
319-20,   386,   558  :     Richard  s.   of 
John  de,  16,  203,  3ooc-4c,  305,  603  : 
Godyt,     d.     of     Richard,     302*4  : 
Richard  s.  of  William  de,  16,  302*1, 
307-8c  :    Robert  de,  196,  265,  327  : 
William  de,   146,  155-8,  163,   165- 
7o,  198,  242,  293-4,  303,  308,  310, 
312,   315,    324-6,    333-4,    337)    4I8, 
423,  427-8,  443-4,  453,  460-1,  484, 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL    NAMES 


651 


552C-3  :  Constance  w.  of  William 
de,  3147*,  552C-3  :  William  s.  of 
Richard  de,  151,  153,  155  :  William 
(Richard)  s.  of  John  de,  16. 

Ponsonby,  Robert  parson,  presbiter 
or  chaplain  of,  114-6,  251,  462,  466, 
550-1  :  Pavia  d.  of  William  chap- 
lain of,  8,  iyic:  Thomas  chaplain 
of,  251. 

Pontefract,  Ralf  de,  446. 

Popilton,  Richard  de,  269-71  :  Nich- 
olas de,  555. 

Port,  Robert  de,  91,  93. 

Porta,  William  de,  334. 

Porter,  William,  484. 

Portjoie,  Ketel,  45  Jc,  see  Dreg. 

Poule,  William,  596. 

John,  see  priors  of  St.  Bees. 

Preston,  Ralf  de,  205  :  Richard  de, 
21,  412^,  414-5  :  Erneburg  w.  of 
41 2»  :  Alice  w.  of,  41 2*1  :  Amabil 
(d.  of  Walter  de  Stirkland)  w.  of, 
21-2,  4I2C,  4I4-5C. 

Robert  (parson)  of,  542. 

Puyntel,  Pointal,  William,  204,  385. 

Pykeryng,  Pikering,  Alan  de,  147  : 
John  de,  472. 

Queneby,  Robert  de,  14,  101-2,  274^, 
605  :  Joan  w.  of,  101-2,  274n : 
Henry  s.  of  Robert  de,  274-5,  605  : 
Agnes  d.  of  Henry,  14,  275C ; 
Isabel  d.  of  Henry,  14,  276c : 
Agnes  d.  of  Hubert  (Henry)  s.  of 
Robert  de,  14,  275C. 

Quinahytefote,  see  Weytefote. 

Quite,  le,  see  White. 

Racton,  Edwin  de,  528  :    Henry  de, 

528  :    Thomas  de,  528  :    Reynold 

de,  528. 
Rainer,  Reiner  (Flandrensis),  etc.,  ii., 

23,     28-40,     107,     361,     534,     see 

Rotington. 

chaplain,  40. 

famulus  of  the  prior,  84. 

reeve,  259. 

Rainold,   chaplain   of   William   Mes- 

chin,  30,  32,  34-6,  107. 


Ralf,  Gilbert  s.  of,  478  :  Thomas  s. 
of,  250,  445-6  :  Leonius  s.  of,  250  : 
William  s.  of,  8,  180-2,  250,  445-6, 
see  Hothwaite  :  Alice  w.  of  Wil- 
liam, 180-2. 

the  knight,  63,  384,  see  Cailli. 

famulus  of  the  countess,  57 : 

chaplain,  41-2,  44  :  cook  of  the 
abbot,  84 :  dispensator,  414 : 
baker,  560  :  seneschal,  203. 

Ranard,  Roger  s.  of,  372,  see  Eward. 

Randulf,  Adam  s.  of,  567. 

Ranglass,  Renglas,  etc.,  Alexander 
de,  293  :  Ives  de,  25,  476^-81  : 
Alice  w.  of  Ives,  26,  476c,  47gc-8oc  : 
Eda  d.  of  Ives  and  w.  of  John  the 
mason,  479c-8oc  :  John  Niger  de, 
see  Niger  :  Richard  de,  197,  281-2, 
293,  459  :  Richard  s.  of  Robert  de, 
477« :  Roger  de,  477*1,  478,  481  : 
John  le  heir  de,  480. 

Ranulf  s.  of  William  Meschin,  see 
Meschin. 

Ranulf,  the  sheriff,  37,  39. 

• Roger,  s.  of,  213. 

Ratcliffes  of  Derwentwater,  4011*. 

Raygate,  John  de,  305,  377. 

Redenese,  John  de,  clerk,  239. 

Redhud,  Walter,  218  :    Robert,  556. 

Redman,  Edmund,  194  ;  Henry,  544  ; 
John,  585. 

Reginald  (Reynold),  clerk,  451  : 
chaplain,  see  Man  (Sodor)  :  le 
querure,  208-9. 

Reigny,  John  de,  528  :  Turstan  de, 
528. 

Reinfred,  Gilbert  s.  of  Roger,  s.  of 
xx.,  149*1,  233^,  259«,  413*1,  543C  : 
Helewise  w.  of  Gilbert,  233*1,  259*1, 
543c:  Rogers,  of,  413*1. 

Revegyl,  Rowland,  de  414*1. 

Ribbeton,  Alexander  de,  357-8,  400, 
402-3,  405,  407-8,  555,  557,  559, 
561  :  Joan  w.  of,  555C  :  Gamel  de, 
48ic,  537  :  Thomas  de,  51,  335, 
405-6,  556,  564,  569  :  William  de, 
47-8,  52-3,  48ic,  582  :  William  and 
Jane  his  wife,  48 in  :  George  and 
Susan  his  wife,  481*1. 

Ricer,  Ricarius,  30,  32,  34-6,  107. 


INDEX   OF  PERSONAL   NAMES 


Rich,  Dives,  see  Derham  arid  Tal- 

entire. 
. Richard  s.  of  John,  21,   399^  •' 

Eda    w.    of    Richard,    21,     399 : 

Robert  le,  165,  171,  3°8n. 
Riche  de  Bouilton,  John  s.  of  Robert, 

16,  I7in,  305C,  308,  309^- 
Richer,   Adam  s.  of,   15,  298*:,   301, 

322-3,  see  Calder  :    William  s.  of 

Adam  s.  of,  298-9. 

Richard,  king  of  England,  see  Eng- 
land. 
Adam,  s.  of,  195  :    Godenild  w. 

of,  195,  see  Calder. 
— —Simon,  s.  of,  556,  558,  560. 

— Henrys,  of,  185-7,  189,  294,  463- 

Jurdan  s.  of,  294. 

Thomas  s.  of,  336  :   Adam  s.  of, 

336. 
William  s.  of,  itinerant  justice, 

544- 
called  Dikelin,  260. 

— chaplain  of  Abp.  Thurstin,  iii., 
30,  32,  34-5  :   clerk,  55,  250,  523  : 
deacon,  67  :   cook  of  the  earl,  84  : 
the  smith,  463  :  son  of  the  smith, 
185-7,  189  :    the  reeve,  207,  286, 
345,  430,  450,  457- 
Richardson,  William,  579. 
Richmond,  William  clerk,  128. 

— archdeacon  of,  xxix.-xxxj.,  119, 
121,  i47n,  149,  314,  594 :  Godard 
de  Lucy,  archdeacon  of,  see  Lucy  : 
Honorius  archdn.  of,  122-3,  543C : 
Walter  vice- archdn.  of,  117:  Te- 
bald  vice-archdn.  of,  542  :  official 
of  the  archdn.  of,  xxvij.,  129  :  John 
official  of  the  archdn.  of,  543 : 
officials  of,  Roger,  440,  John,  122-3, 
Thomas,  69,  Walter  de  Marisco, 
136,  John  de  Kirkebi,  539. 

St.   Martin's    near,  Thomas    de 

Stayngreve,  prior  of,  126  :  Richard 
prior  of,  607. 

Ridere,  Richard,  529. 

Ripplay,  Bernard  de,  x.,  xj.,  xxxij., 
4,  97C-8,  448w ;  Margaret  w.  of,  x., 
98,  448n.  , 

Roald,  Henry  s.  of,  45  8n :  Juliane 
w.  of,  45  8n. 


Robert,  296,  368. 

Bernard  s.  of,  248,  354  :  Gilbert 

s.  of,  94  :  Henry  s.  of,  446,  553  : 
Hodard  s.  of,  382  :  Richard  s.  of, 
113,  476,  521-3  :  William  s.  of,  n, 
430,  see  Whitehaven  :  Robert  s. 
of,  335- 

dean,  112-3,  117,  354:  carpen- 
ter, see  Santon  :  clerk,  91,  93,  211, 
242,  318,  376  :  mason,  41-2,  44, 
336,  479  :  deacon,  382  :  presbiter, 
117,  361  :  constable,  550  :  medi- 
cus,  208,  210  :  master,  354 :  laic 
of  diocese  of  York,  142  :  chaplain, 
113,  234,  3i8  :  William,  447-8. 

Robynson,  William,  579. 

Rodbert,  famulus  of  the  monks,  50. 

Rockedure,  Orm,  397. 

Roger  husband  of  Sigerid  (widow  of 
Waldeve),  see  Gilbert,  Roger  s.  of. 

Anketin  s.  of,  383  :  Alan  s.  of, 

see  Edward  :  Benedict  s.  of  Wil- 
liam s.  of,  47ic,  see  Seton  :  Wil- 
liam s.  of,  47ic :  Gunild  w.  of 
William,  47ic :  Robert  s.  of,  82, 
248-9,  291,  302  :  Robert  s.  of 
William  s.  of  Roger,  17,  325,  see 
Gosford  :  Alice  cognata  of  Alan  s. 
of  Roger  and  w.  of  Ives  s.  of 
Michael,  476,  see  Edward  and 
Michael. 

the  Poitevin,  6in. 

master,  46,  139,  235,  383  :  laic 

of  diocese  of  York,  142,  see  Linde- 
by :  cook,  161  :  chaplain,  112, 
116,  206,  450,  457:  deacon,  138, 
386,  430,  441  :  priest,  114,  258, 
361,  382. 

Roie,  Roinges,  Simon  de,  43,  57,  450. 

Rokeby,  James,  598. 

Roland,  Alan  s.  of,  lord  of  Galloway, 
see  Fergus. 

Romaldus  (Regnaldus),  smith,  534. 

Rotington,  Reiner,  see  Rainer  (Flan- 
drensis)  :  Alan  de,  416,  422  : 
Benedict  de,  xxxj.,  22,  162,  165, 
176-8,  180-1,  183,  185-7,  189,  191, 
193,  256,  258,  281-3,  304,  36ic, 
362C,  383,  4i5c,  416-29,  460,  463, 
471  :  Benedict  s.  of  Benedict  de, 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


653 


36in,  4i6n,  425-6,  604  :  John  de, 
418  :  R.  de,  430  :  Ranulf  de,  22-3, 
60,  36iw,  426w,  430,  4350,  603 : 
Robert  de,  12,  201,  212-5,  219-28, 
230-2:  Reynold  de,  426*4,  430** : 
William  de,  119,  157-8,  211,  260, 
262,  275,  434-6,  443,  470  :  family 
of,  426n:  lord  of,  194. 

Rotomago  (Rouen),  master  Adam  de, 
no,  138,  441,  458. 

Roy,  Michael,  553-4,  559  :  Agnes  w. 
of,  553-4,  559- 

Ruff  us,  John,  75,  354  :  Peter,  451  : 
master  Hugh,  544  :  Stephen,  451  : 
Theobald,  451. 

Rukcrofte,  John,  576. 

Rumelli,  Romeli,  Alice  de  (d.  of 
William  Meschin),  xxiv.,  i,  2,  400- 
40,  49,  7on,  4647*,  494,  602  :  Alice 
de  (d.  of  William  fitz  Duncan),  26, 
420,  44,  68,  255n,  355**,  449-5O, 
4810,  528-9,  532-3,  537c:  buried 
at  Fountains,  45o» :  Robert  de, 
lord  of  Skipton,  3in,  44?*,  494 : 
Alice  de  (d.  of  Robert  ?),  494,  532  : 
Cicely  de,  see  Meschin  :  Avicia  de, 
xiv. 

Rushen  (Isle  of  Man),  abbot  and  con- 
vent of,  xv.,  3,  750,  79,  488-90  : 
monks  of  St.  Mary's  of,  74. 

Saballo  (Saul  in  Ulster),  Patric  abbot 
of,  523  :  abbot  of,  xv. 

St.  Bees,  priors  of  :  Robert,  44,  94**, 
5720,  602,  608  :  Richard,  550,  602, 
•608:  William,  489,  602,  608: 
Deodatus,  137,  602,  608  :  Waleran, 
603,  608  :  Robert,  9,  940,  igsc, 
5440,  603,  608  :  John,  13,  22,  361^, 
4290,  603,  608 :  Daniel,  s6iw, 
43on,  4350,  603,  608  :  Ralf,  304, 
603,  608  :  Guy,  7,  105,  159,  603, 
608 :  John  de  Lestingham,  178, 
2550,  256,  42gn,  604,  608  :  William 
de  Rothewel,  2570,  2820,  405*1, 
425,  604,  608  :  Nicholas  de  Lang- 
ton,  2,  8,  10,  18,  21-2,  25,  500-30, 
1290-30,  1800,  189,  198,  2070,  3350, 
344,  406,  4080,  4O9n,  4100,  41 8c, 
4260-9,  4630,  4710,  604,  608  : 


Benedict,  145,  4090,  604,  608 : 
Absalon,  604,  608 :  seal,  604 : 
William  de  Dereby,  23,  102,  282*1, 
405,  4ion,  4360,  437,  605,  608 : 
Hugh  de  Cumpton,  261,  275*1,  326, 

605,  608  :    Alan  de  Nesse,  xxxv., 
274«,  275,   326,  605,  609  :    John, 
563,  605,  609  :   William  de  Seynes- 
bury,  605,  609  :   Thomas  de  Brig- 
nal,  2640,  265,  606,  609  :    Thomas 
de    Cotingham,    269,    276-7,    606, 
609  :       grave     cover     of,     26gn  : 
Nicholas  de  Warthill,  xxxv.,  125-7, 

606,  609  :    Roger  Kirkeby,  xxxv., 
606,  609  :    Doctor  Stanlaw,  xxxv., 
42  8w,  606,  609  :  John  Warde,  4840, 

606,  609  :  Roger  Armyn,  4850,  606, 
609  :    Edmund  Thornton  (Smyth), 
xxxv.,     193,     i93n,     607,     609 : 
Thomas    Barwyke,    custos,    193*1, 
449,  607,  609  :    Edmund  Whalley, 

607,  609  :    Robert  Alanby,  xxxv., 
5830-40,  607,  609  :    John  Mathew, 
584-8,  607-9  :    John  Poule,  608-9  : 
Robert  Paddy,  4860,  589-90,  608-9. 

St.  Bees,  prior  of,  xv.,  1300,  306,  572  : 
Gilbert  famulus  of  Prior  John,  430  : 
Robert  servant  of  the  prior,  302  : 
William  servant  of  the  prior,  302  : 
William  de  Gedlyng  clerk  of  the 
prior,  472  :  Turpin  and  Theobald, 
servants,  445,  454  :  John  Clyffton 
and  John  Fullscroft,  monks  of, 
597  :  Thomas  Osbye  monk  of,  486  : 
William  de  Belton  monk  of,  261. 

Michael  chaplain  of,  386,  430, 

466  :  William  clerk  of,  157-8,  171, 
187,  469  :  Walter  forester  of,  414  : 
Richard  reeve  of,  445. 

William  de,  clerk,  356-7,  406, 

426,  437  :  David  de,  567,  see 
Kirkeby. 

St.  Botolf,  Adam  de,  455. 

St.  Brigid  (Beckermet),  Richard  s. 
of  Osbert  de,  550. 

St.  Martin's,  see  Richmond. 

St.  Patrick  (Down),  William  prior  of, 
521,  523  :  Andrew  prior  of,  524. 

St.  Thomas  (Down),  Gilbert  prior  of, 
524. 


654 


INDEX   OF  PERSONAL   NAMES 


Salcoc,  William  de,  sheriff  of  Cum- 
berland, 283,  411. 
Sal  van,  George,  219. 
Salveyn,  Gerard,  escheator,  337. 
Salwayt,  Waldeve  de,  560. 
Sampson,  clerk,  122,  136,  143,  544. 
Sanderson,  John,  484. 
Sandes,    Christopher,    193-4,    484-5, 
606-7  :    William  s.  of  Christopher, 
193?*,    449,    607 :     William,    44QC, 
484,  600- 1  :  Robert,  193?* :  Roger, 
59i- 
Santon,    William   de,    353 :     Robert 

Carpenter  of,  325-6. 
Satmirthat,    Satmurda,     Roger    de, 
357n,   536,    560-1  :     Roger's   seal, 
536«  :.  Thomas  de,  379,  381,  571. 
Savilla,  see  Esseby. 
Scarlet,  Lambert,  xxxj.,  19,  353. 
Scarth,  Adam  de,   303n :    John  de, 

303tt  :   William  de,  3037*. 
Scaunden,  Geoffrey  de,  48-9,  482. 
Sceccle,  Simon  de,  260. 
Scharp,  John,  15,  17,  297-8,  576,  see 
Dalton  and  Whicham  :    William, 
298  :  John  elder  and  younger,  579  : 
Nicholas  elder  and  younger,  576, 
579  :    Richard,  579. 
Scheftling,   Nicholas  de,    85*1,   395 ; 
Symon    de,    55,    85 n,    493,    550  : 
William  s.  of  Symon  de,  85^,  550  : 
Geoffrey    b.     of     William,     85^: 
Isaac  clerk  of,  4,  850,  550. 
Schegnesse,  Robert  de,  see  York  (St 

Mary's). 

Schepherde,  John,  583. 
Scherelaw,  Jocet  de,  78. 
Schilehare,  Henry,  196. 
Schynwald,  William  de,  n,  211,  213, 

217,  2i8c,  219,  221,  226-8,  232. 
Sclegille,  Adam  de,  414  :   Gilbert  de, 

429. 

Scot,  Nicholas,  239. 
Scots,  David  I.,   King  of,  iii.,  vjij., 
3,   19,   40n,   57w,   69c,   7o»,   202w, 
353C,  53i. 

— William  nephew  of  (David)  the 
King  of,  2,  4on,  43-4^,  494,  532-4,' 
William  fitz  Duncan,  3,  19,  26,  4ow, 
43-5,  54,  68-7oc,  195-6,  255,  353C)' 


382^,  464™,  494,  602  :  Alice  d.  of 
William,  see  Rumelli  :  Cicely  d. 
of  William,  46 n,  494,  532-3,  see 
Albemarle  :  Amabilla  d.  of  Wil- 
liam, 57w,  494,  532-3,  se£  Lucy. 
Scots,Duncan  II.,  King  of,  44^:  David 
II.  King  of,  77  },  94^  :  Malcolm  IV. 
King  of,  6gn:  William  the  Lion,  x., 
94« :  Earl  David  b.  of  King  Wil- 
liam, x  :  King  Alexander  of,  xi., 
xvj.,  xvij.,  78n,  489-90:  King 
John  Baliol,  78^ :  King  Robert 
Bruce  of,  xviij.,  77^,  571-2. 
Seham,  William  de,  itinerant  justice, 

375- 

Seizlermelerg(P),  Adam  de,  571. 
Selby,  Gilbert  abbot  of,  147. 
Seldswain,  Gamel,  248-9. 
Seleker,  Ives  de,  558  :   Richard,  579  : 

Alexander  s.  of,  Ives,  558. 
Senhouse,  Sewenhouis,  etc.,  Alan  de, 
167  :  Alexander  de,  325  :  Nicholas 
de,  157-8,  i72w,  265-7,  270,  325-7  : 
Peter  de,  15,  291-3,  297*:,  300,  320, 
477  :  Gunild  w.  of  Peter  de,  297  : 
Robert  de,  168, 172*,  571  :  Thomas 
de,  8,  i7ic,  172,  273-4,  297: 
Walter  de,  10,  15,  89,  156,  165-7, 
I7.i,  197,  i98c,  294,  2g6c,  308,  315, 
320,  324,  432-4,  459-6o,  467,  477  : 
pedigree  of,  172^. 
Serlo,  ix. 

Gilbert   s.    of,    63,    344W,    374 : 

descendants  of,  344W. 

servant  of  the  prior,  191,  193. 

Servand,  John  le,  374n. 
Serviont,  Simon,  571. 
Seton,    Alexander   de,    279**,    281-2, 
472  :    Benedict  s.  of  William  s.  of 
Roger  de,  25,  280,  47oc :    Robert 
de,   10,   i98c,  470  :    Thomas  s.   of 
Robert  do,  198,  470^;   William  s. 
of  Roger  de,  280  :    Gunild  grand- 
mother of  Thomas  s.  of  Robert  de, 
14,  iggc,  470^ ;    Gunild  widow  of 
William  s.  of  Roger,  14,  279c,  470  : 
Walter  s.  of  Adam  de,  2797*. 
— nuns  of,  279n,  453^,  605. 
Sexdecim  Vallibus,  John  de,  187-9. 
Sharp,  John,  see  Dalton. 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


655 


Sigerid  w.  of  Waldeve,  see  Waldeve. 

Sigerit,  Simon  s.  of,  serf,  425  :  names 
of  children  of,  425. 

Simon,  Walter  s.  of,  536  :  Robert  s. 
of,  91. 

chaplain,  203  :   deacon,  50. 

Simonscales,  Adam  de,  556,  560. 

Simplingham,  Gilbert  de,  250. 

Siolf,  Forne  s.  of,  529. 

Siric,  see  Syeric. 

Siward,  Hugh  s.  of,  467  :  Stephen  s. 
of,  4&2C-3C. 

presbiter,  30,  32,  34-7,  39. 

Skarlet,  see  Scarlet. 

Skegnes,  Robert  de,  see  York  (St. 
Mary's). 

Skelton,  John,  484  :  Nicholas,  484  : 
Richard  (of  Branthwaite),  583. 

Skereman,  William,  291. 

Skotia,  Richard  de,  558,  560. 

Skyrebet,  Thomas  de  Multon,  rector 
of,  448. 

Sleth,  huntsman,  493. 

Sodor,  see  Man  (Sodor). 

Somervyll,  Roger  de,  219. 

Spandone,  Robert  de,  286. 

Spanser,  Ketel  de,  493. 

Spec  (Espec),  Walter  de,  513-4  :  Ro- 
ger s.  of,  5*3-4- 

St .  .  .  ,  Richard  reeve  of,  445,  see 
St.  Bees. 

Stainburn,  see  Steinburn. 

Staines,  John  de,  375. 

Stanelaw,  Staynlow,  Stanley,  etc., 
Nicholas  de,  xxvii.,  16-7,  267,  270, 
272,  276-7,  279,  298,  304**,  327-8, 
332C,  333C,  575£-6c,  577-9  :  Richard 
de,  333-4,  578-9  :  Elsabeth  w.  of 
Richard  de,  578-9 :  Alice,  579 : 
Robert  de,  334  :  Sir  John,  xv.  : 
Nicholas  s.  of  Thomas  de,  575^  : 
Thomas  de,  277,  332**,  578-9 : 
Margaret  w.  of  Thomas  de,  332*1  : 
Nicholas  s.  of  John  de,  332*1,  5740  .- 
Constance  w.  of  Nicholas,  332*1, 
574C :  John  de,  557  :  Alice  w.  of 
Nicholas,,  576^:  Thomas  s.  of 
Nichol,  577-8  :  family  of,  332^. 

StargP,  Thomas  de,  105. 

Staueleia,  Adam  de,  530. 


Stayngreve,  Thomas  de,  see  Rich- 
mond (St.  Martin's). 

Nicholas  de,  see  Kirkeby  Lons- 

dale. 

Steinburn,  Alan  de,  18,  65,  67,  340, 
345,  353»,  366  :  Alexander  de,  72  : 
Alan  s.  of  Thomas  de,  338  :  Alan 
s.  of  William  de,  352C :  Henry  de, 
211,  213-4,  222,  225,  260,  262  : 
Michael  de,  18-9,  105,  338,  343, 
366c  :  Maud  w.  of  Michael  de,  340  : 
Michael  s.  of  Alan  de,  17,  334^, 
336c,  340,  366  :  Adam  s.  of  Michael 
de,  1 8,  339C  ;  Thomas  s.  of  Michael 
de,  1 8  336c  :  William  s.  of  Michael 
de,  1 8,  335c,  336,  342^,  343-4,  356  : 
William  de,  360,  380  :  Robert  s. 
of  Alan  de,  340 :  Robert  s.  of 
Robert  de,  343  :  Agnes  w.  of 
Robert  s.  of  Robert  de,  343C : 
Adam  s.  of  Gilbert  de,  343*1 : 
family  of,  334«. 

Stephen,  King  of  England,  see  Eng- 
land. 

earl,  98*1. 

Robert  s.  of,  208-9,  282. 

nephew  of  the  prior,  55. 

clerk,  378**. 

Stiele,  John  del,  284. 

Stirkland,  Walter  de,  21,  412-5  : 
Cristiane  his  wife,  413-4:  Amabil 
his  daughter,  412*1,  414-5  :  Robert 
s.  of  Robert  de,  414*1 :  Adam  s.  of 
Walter  de,  414*1:  John  of,  577: 
William  de,  414-5  577  :  pedigree 
of,  414**. 

Stirling,  Alured  abbot  of,  ix. 

Stiveton,  John  s.  of  Elias  de,  20,  376^: 
pedigree  of,  376**. 

Stiviers,  Robert  de,  492,  see  Trivers. 

Strie,  Richard,  404,  568. 

String,  Henry,  417,  422. 

Strype,  John,  owner  of  the  Register 
of  St.  Bees,  xxxvj.,  xxxvij. 

Stube,  Robert,  25,  469^. 

Stubescales,  Thomas  de,  105,  197, 
336,  339,  348,  356,  358. 

Stuteville,  Bartholomew  de,  457 : 
Nicholas  de,  24,  456c,  458,  528  : 
Robert  de,  529  :  Simon  de,  437. 


656 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


Styhille,  John  del,  568. 

Suait,  Ranulf  de,  33. 

Suan,  Swein,  Adam  s.  of,  3,  19,  69, 

7oc-i,  353^,  355^,  530  :   H(enry)  s. 

of,  69-70  :    pedigree  of  Suan  s.  of 

Aluric,  7ow. 

clerk,  536. 

Suarby,  Robert  de,  219. 

Sumervilla,  William,  69. 

Supe,  Robert,  161. 

Surreis,  Surrensis,  Surays,  Adam,  207: 

Godfrey,    445  :     Robert    le,    403  : 

Robert  s.  of  Adam,  207. 
Surrey,  earl  of,  583-4,  607. 
Sussex,  earl  of,  xxxviij. 
Suthak,  John  de,  x.,  98. 
Sutton  in  Galtres,    Roger  de,   11-2, 

213-6,      2I8-2I,      223-5,      228C-32C, 

245-7- 
Swalwirst,  Swaluhirst,  etc.,  David  de, 

155,  i59-6o,  164,  185, 197,  312,  316, 

322,  346,  422,  425,  432,  471. 
Sward,  Gamel  s.  of,  207. 
Swarthou,  Richard  de,  u,  213,219, 

221,  225c,  232  :  Alice  w.  of,  225. 
Swenburne,  Johan,  592. 
Syeric,  Siric,  Thomas  s.  of,  356-7. 
Sygoolf,  527. 
Syward,  earl,  527. 

Tailfer,  Robert,  452. 

Taillur,  Peter  le,  225,  228  :  Richard 
le,  128,  218,  279. 

Talentire,  Geoffrey  de,  48-9,  85^,  92, 
395,  537,  57i,  582  :  John  de,  21, 
397c :  Richard  s.  of  John  de,  402, 
405-6c,  see  Derham  :  John  s.  of 
Richard  de,  401  n :  Alexander  de, 
395»- 

Tanfeld,  William  de,  iuris  p&ritus,  14, 
238,  see  Workington. 

Tateshale,  Robert  de,  15,  286c, 
sheriff  of  Cumb.  and  Lanes.,  286n, 
445>&  •'  Rose  w.  of,  286w. 

Teindale,  John  de,  84. 

Tempest,  Roger,  41-2,  44. 

Terry,  Emma,  556. 

Teynturer,  Benedict  le,  556. 

Thacthuait,  Clement  de,  567. 

Thalamo,  Richard  de,  458. 


Theobald,  see  St.  Bees. 
Thibei,  Herbert  de,  137,  603. 
Thomas,  Thomas  s.  of,  92  :    Alan  s. 
of,   see   Steinburn  :     Adam   s.    of, 
218-9  :     John   s.    of,    281-2,    539 : 
Robert  s.  of,  360,  see  Dreghailittil  : 
Henry  s.  of,  25,  see  Bootle. 

vicar  of  Millom,  see  Millom. 

master,  72. 

chaplain,  98,  251,  414,  550. 

chaplain  of  King  Guthred,.73. 

janitor,  in,  161. 

son  of  the  reeve,  286. 

clerk,  200,  537. 

Thonour,  see  Thornour. 

Thorald,  chaplain,  139. 

Thore,  527. 

Thoresby,  William  de,  3i8n. 

Thorfyn,  Torphen,  Elias  s.  of,  377 : 

Robert  s.  of,  206. 
Thorn,  master  Adam  de,  72. 
Thornour,  Adam  de,  147  :  John,  272, 

277-8,  328. 

Thornton,  master  Adam  de,  14,  241, 
267-8,  see  Patrickbrunton  :    Rich- 
ard de,   230-2  :    Adam,   clerk  of, 
251  :    Edmund,  see  St.  Bees  and 
York  (St.  Mary's). 
Thramel,  Hugh,  354. 
Threpland,  Adam  de,  537  :    Richard 

de,  561. 

Thueytis,  John  de,  166,  305,  425,  573  : 
William  de,  89,  91,  100,  246,  364, 
437,  443-4,  553,  565,  574- 
Thurke(l)by,  Roger,  itinerant  justice, 

257. 

Thurstin,  archbishop,  see  York. 
Tibicine,  Richard,  450. 
Tillol,  Simon  de,  529  : 
Tilliof,  Tyllof,  Adam  s.  of  Richard, 
7,  i56c,  158,  see  Neuton  :    Robert 
377- 

Tobson  (Tolson?),  Thomas,  596. 
Todd'witte,  William,  536. 
Torduff,  Robert  s.  of  William  de,  94-5. 
Toresbi,  Adam  de,  551,  see  Thoresby. 
Torpennoc,    Thorpenhou,    Isaac    de, 

ix.,  398^.'   Isaac  parson  of,  398. 
Torphen,  see  Thorfyn. 
Tosti,  earl,  526. 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


6.57 


Traches,  Henry  de,  31*1. 
Triffeld,  William  de,  see  Driffeld. 
Trivers,  Bartholomew  de,  43  :  Robert 

de,  528,  see  Stiviers. 
Troghton,  Nicholl  off,  576  :   John  of, 

579- 

Trovet,  see  Kelton. 
Truita,  Truite,  Trouce,  etc.,  Richard 

s.  of,  63,  384,  521,  529. 
Tunnok,  Robert,  556. 
Tunny,  see  Blenecoghou. 
Turgis,  cellarer,  see  Cellar. 

cranetarius,  544. 

dispensator,  113,  137-8,  441,  458. 

Turgis,  Turgis  s.  of,  522. 

Turnham,  Robert  de,  394W. 

Turpin,  450. 

Turribus,  Alan  de,  100. 

Turs,  Robert  de,  259. 

Twenge,  Robert,  de  404*1 :    Lucy  d. 

of,  4O4». 

Tynyby,  John  de,  548. 
Tyson,  William,  579. 
Tyverington,   Richard  de,  see  York 

(St.  Mary's). 

Uckmanby,  see  Vochemanby. 

Ucthe,  Steinulf  s.  of,  18,  3510,  352. 

Uctred,  grantee  of  Aspatryke,  493. 

grantee  of  Crosseby,  532. 

374^. 

Adams,  of,  395,  550-1  :  William 

nephew  of  Adam,  551  :  Beatrice 
niece  of  Adam,  550-1. 

Roland  s.  of,  see  Fergus. 

Sigrid  d.  of,  41 3«. 

Stephen  s.  of,  207. 

Uctred  s.  of,  81,  317,  537. 

sacerdos,  258. 

Udard,  chaplain,  see  Odard. 

Ufflait,  Uluet,  Robert  de,  343,  35 in. 

Ulf,  Ulph,  Robert  s.  of,  in,  150: 
Chetell,  Getel  s.  of,  63, 115-6,  248-9, 
25iw,  29ow,  317,  383-4,  465^,  540, 
550  :  Benedict  nephew  of  Chetell, 
248-9 :  Efward,  Eward,  Edward 
s.  of,  63,  u6n,  258,  29ow,  384,  465 n.- 
Alexanders,  of,  442*1,  467,  538,  541, 
see  Hiton.:  descendants  of  Ulf, 


Ulfchil,  Chetell  s.  of,  see  Ulf. 

Ulkill,  Adam  s.  of,  180  :    Alexander 

s.  of,  175,  see  Ulf. 

carpenter,  207. 

Ulvelaike,  Robert  de,  200,  543,  561  : 

William  de,   557-8  :     Richard  de, 

558,  560. 
Ulvesby,   Patrick  s.  of  Thomas  de, 

36771 :    Patrick  de,  3677* :   William 

s.  of  Richard  de,  3677*. 
Ulverston,  Robert  (vicar)  of,  542. 
Ulvet,  see  Ufflait. 
Urban,  pope,  237. 
Urdan,  sheriff,  see  Jordan. 
Ursewyk,  Simon  de,  100. 

vicar  of,  604. 

Uvehd(Iveagh  or  Dromore),  Uroneca 

bp.  of,  523. 

Val,  Waux,  Vallibus,  Hubert  de, 
I5IM,  3i8n-9«,  322,  329,  492,  527  : 
Hubert  s.  of  Robert  de,  31 8w,  322, 
329:  Ranulf  de,  31 8n,  492: 
Robert  s.  of  Ranulf  de,  31 8n  : 
Robert  de,  17,  151^,  295,  31708, 
322W,  329»,  492,  527  :  Roland  de, 
322W  :  Grace  de,  322n :  Alice  de, 
322M  :  William  de,  411  :  John  de, 
itinerant  justice,  96,  375. 

Valoines,  Philip  de,  529. 

Vavasour,  William,  itinerant  justice. 
109. 

Vegedenay,  see  Gedenay. 

Veteri  Ponte,  Robert  de,  xxxiij.,  4, 
95^,  97,  528  :  Idonea  w.  of,  xxxiij., 
95,  97  :  John  s.  of,  95. 

Vochemanby,  J.,  presbiter  of,  137. 

W.,  chaplain,  105. 

dean,  205. 

Walase,  William,  284. 

Wald',  cook,  544. 

Waldeve,  Waltheve,  Wallef  (s.  of 
Earl  Gospatric),  lord  of  Allerdale, 
i.,  ii.,  ix.,  28-36,  38,  72W,  Son,  93*1, 
107,  i4gn,  234M,  248«,  258*4,  3i7n, 
334»,  352»,  355W,  378n,  4oin,  451*, 
48in,  492,  527-8,  530-1,  534,  580, 
602  :  Sigerid  w.  of  Waldeve,  50, 
248»;  Gunnild,  Cornelia  d.  of  Wal- 

2  U 


658 


INDEX    OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


deve,  ix.,  93«,  493  :  Cospatric 
bastard  s.  of  Waldeve,  493  :  Maud 
sister  of  Waldeve,  101  n,  493  : 
Ethreda  sister  of  Waldeve,  48iw, 
493-4,  531'2  :  Gravelda  sister  of 
Waldeve,  493  •  Ethreda  d.  of  Wal- 
deve, 57w:  Alan  s.  of  Waldeve, 
xx.,  2,  4,  1 6,  24,  44,  47,  49,  50C,  61, 
64,  69,  8oc,  83n,  ioin,  115*,  i5«»f 
248n,  31 6c,  31 7n,  374«,  45  ic,  481 », 
493-4,  531-2,  534,  536c-7,  581  : 
Emma  w.  of  Alan,  sow,  3i6w-7  : 
Waldeve  s.  of  Alan,  sow,  493. 

Waldeve,  William  s.  of,  16,  2990,  434, 
541  :  Alan  his  brother,  299. 
— dean,  139,  196,  see  Coupland. 

chaplain,  see  Clifton. 

Walter,  Jordan  s.  of,  466  :  Nigel  s. 
of,  248-9 :  Roger  s.  of,  234 : 
Simon  s.  of,  529  :  Thomas  s.  of, 
358  :  William  s.  of,  55,  250,  382, 
402,  408. 

• chancellor  of  Scotland,  69. 

chamberlain,  45,  55,  70,  250,  383. 

presbiter,  50,  3i7w,  529-30. 

forester,,  see  St.  Bees. 

seneschal,  78  :  porter,  86  :  clerk, 

91,  93  :   smith,  538. 

dean,  see  Waldeve. 

Walton,  Henry  de,  216-7,  224,  227, 
260  :  Richard  de,  55  :  Roger  de, 
267-8  :  William  de,  13,  221,  223, 
226,  228-9,  260,  2610 :  master 
William  de,  clerk,  119,  219,  z6ic, 
605  :  Robert  s.  of  Godefrid  de, 
566c :  Mariota  w.  of  Robert  de, 
566c. 

Walthwayt,  Alan  s.  of  Waldev  of, 

24IW. 

Ward,   Richard,  of  Dreg,  7,   156-70, 

326-7. 
Warin,  chaplain,  414. 

— chaplain  of  Carlisle  Castle,  446. 
Wartre,  canons  of,  36 in. 
Wartun,  William  (parson)  of,  542. 
Warwick,  Robert  de,  309,  377. 
Wassington,  Nicholas  de,  see  Conis- 

head. 
Waybyrthueyt,  etc.,  Waberthwaite, 

Adam  de,  25,  294«,  295,  312,  324, 


4670,  471  :  Adam  s.  of  William  de, 
14,  2920:  Adam  s.  of  William  s. 
of  Hugh  de,  14,  2930,  467*1  : 
Cureda  de,  164  :  Hugh  s.  of  Ef- 
ward  de,  293,  297  :  Gunild  d.  of 
Hugh,  293,  297  :  James  de,  574  : 
William  de,  89,  91,  156-8,  165-6, 
171,  198,  283,  308,  364,  425,  443-4, 
459,  461,  475,  477,  480-1,  553,  565, 
570  :  William  s.  of  Hugh  de,  15, 
2890,  2910,  302  :  origin  of  family 
of,  29ow,  465W. 

Waybyrthueyt,  Benedict  parson  of, 
304  :  Peter  rector  of,  472. 

Waythfote,  see  Weytefote. 

Webert,  John  of,  579. 

Wedakir,  William  de,  185,  187,  463. 

Wedergh,  Roger  de,  190,  236. 

Wedirhale,  Adam  s.  of  Roger  de, 
216-7  :  Humfrey  de,  86. 

priors  of,  William  Thornton 

36g» :  Adam  de  Dalton,  216-7: 
Robert  Alanby,  607 :  Thomas 
Pigot,  272n:  William,  137,  603: 
Richard  Wederhall,  608  :  John  de 
Gylling,  147*1,  ssow :  Thomas 
Stanley,  606 :  William  Rundel, 
I59«,  603  :  Richard  de  Reme  first 
prior,  572f. 

prior  and  monks  of,  205. 

Wegge,  William,  556. 

Welp,  Robert  de,  348. 

Wessyngton,  John  of,  576-7  :  Alison 
w.  of  (d.  of  Nicholas  of  Stanley), 
576-7- 

Westmerland,  Alan  de,  294. 

Weston,  Thomas  de,  5550-60,  562-30  : 
Christiane  w.  of,  555c-6oc,  5630. 

Wetlay,  Robert,  592. 

Weytefote,  Phuayfote,  etc.,  Alex- 
ander, 401-2,  404-5,  408:  Alex- 
ander s.  of  Alexander,  21,  3950,  see 
Talenlire :  John  called,  398-405, 
409  :  John  s.  of  Alexander,  402. 

Whalley,  Thomas,  585  :  Edmund,  see 
St.  Bees  and  York  (St.  Mary's). 

Wharton,  Sir  Thomas,  591-3,  600-1. 

Whicham,  Witingham,  etc.,  master 
Alan  de,  196,  386  :  John  Scbarp 
rector  of,  297;*,  327,  3310,  332  ; 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


659 


John  de  Reygate  rector  of,  472  : 
Alan  parson  of,  196,  386  :  William 
Kellet  parson  of,  5760:  Thomas 
Lilling,  chaplain  of  327 :  Gilan- 
drew  clerk  of,  109. 

Whitby,  Gilbert  de,  clerk,  413  :  John 
his  brother,  413. 

White,  Simon  s.  of  Adam,  241-2. 

Whitehaven,  Wythofthaven,  etc., 
William  s.  of  Robert  de,  219,  221, 
223,  232  :  William  s.  of  William 
s.  of  Robert  de,  224C  :  Richard  de, 
chaplain,  262-3. 

Whiterik,  Thomas  de,  279,  see  Gos- 
ford. 

Whiteside,  Gwhytsyd,  John,  334. 

Whitgyft,  Wytegyft,  etc.,  Adam  de 
148  :  John  s.  of  Adam  dey  18,  i48w, 
337-8,  ssoc,  35 ic. 

Whithern,  Christian  bp.  of,  regarded 
as  a  saint,  ix.,  x. :  buried  at  Holm- 
cultram,  x. :  bishop  of,  xxx.,  387n: 
prior  of,  xv. 

Whok,  Adam  s.  of,  178,  i8ow. 

Wigton,  Walter  de,  45 1«,  548. 

Robert  Lowther  vicar  of,  2  Sow. 

Wiketoft,  master  Henry  de,  204. 

William  fitz  Duncan,  see  Scots. 

William,  248,  301. 

Alan  s.  of,  536. 

Adam  s.  of,  476-7. 

Alexanders,  of,  179. 

Gilbert  s.  of,  196. 

John  s.  of,  284. 

Richard,  s.  of,  195-6. 

Roger,  s.  of,  557. 

Stephen  s.  of,  195-6. 

Henry  s.  of,  47on,  538. 

chamberlain,  46,  48  ;    chaplain, 

28,  37,  39,  112,  115,  450  :  cook, 
346  :  constable,  352  :  dapifer,  44  : 
dispensator,  185-7,  189,  356-7, 
463  :  dean,  205  :  forester,  50,  521  : 
lepus,  see  Hare  :  master,  188,  418  : 
smith,  454  :  vice- archdeacon,  48  : 
le  marshal,  SIM  :  hunter,  562. 

Wilson,  Richard,  579. 

Wilton,  Edward  de,  380  ;  Michael  de, 
218  :  Robert  de,  58,  60,  82-3,  89, 
103,  151,  153,  155,  161-2,  166, 


168-9,   171,   176-8,   183,   191,   193, 

197-8,  208,  210,  252,  255,  285,  289, 

301-4,  307,  312,  315-6,  319,  335, 
337,  342,  347,  372-3,  377-8,  383, 
385-6,  416-7,  423,  433-4,  443,  453, 
461,  464,  466w,  468,  472,  477,  558  : 
Roger  s.  of  Robert  de,  558 : 
Robert  clerk  of,  432  :  Thomas  de, 
122,  204  :  Walter  de,  443. 

Windscales,  Adam  de,  102,  335,  406  : 
Adam  s.  of  Michael  de,  339C,  348 
David  de,  io2w. 

Winton,  Walter  de,  535.  - 

Wisted,  see  Birstede. 

Witebec,  Robert  presbiter  of,  108, 
in. 

Witerig,  Robert  de,  411. 

'Witington,  Roger  de,  230. 

Wittefeld,  Roger  parson  of,  536. 

Wlston,  Hugh  de,  278. 

Wodall,  parson,  592. 

Wodcoke,  Walter,  407. 

Wodhall,  John  s.  oi  William  de,  284  : 
Richard  de,  284  :  Thomas  de,  284  : 
Roger  de,  560  :  John  del,  561. 

Woodhend,  William  of,  579. 

Woodplumpton,  Richard  s.  of  Roger 
de,  87n. 

Workington,  Wirkinton,  etc.,  Thomas 
s.  of  Thomas  de,  3,  67**,  68n  .• 
Patricks,  of  Thomas,  x.,  xxxij.,  12, 
67c,  92,  98,  138,  200,  236c-7,  313-4, 
323,  335,  339,  341,  345-8,  412-3: 
Patrick  s.  of  Thomas  de,  12,  18, 
*97w,  359,  568  :  Thomas  de,  196, 
236w,  426  :  Patrick  de,  197,  205, 
255,  568  :  William  s.  of  Thomas 
de,  is8n :  Gilbert  de,  51-3,  83,  89, 
91,  163,  167,  170,  192,  198,  200, 
208,  210,  305,  307,  309,  360,  363-4, 
376-7,  380,  383,  398-9,  403,  416, 
432-3,  434,  444,  559  :  Patrick  s.  of 
Gilbert  de,  338 :  Simon  s.  of 
Gilbert  de,  343H :  Agnes  d.  of 
Simon  s.  of  Gilbert  de,  18,  3430: 
Colle  de,  380 :  Henry  de,  69 : 
Thorald  de,  556,  559  :  see  Chetell, 
Gospatric,  Culwen. 

Richard  de  Askeby  rector  of,  238- 

9  :    John  Blaunchard  r.  of,  240  : 


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INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


Roger  r.  of,  187,  35O,  356-8  :  Roger 
de  Seleby  r.  of,  12,  235^,  236,  343, 
35ow,  356w  :  William  de  Aykheued 
r.  of,  563  :  William  de  Tanfeld,  r. 
of,  276-7  :  Thomas  parson  of,  112- 
4,  195,  353  :  William  p.  of,  12, 
losn,  135,  204,  235C,  304,  335»  34°. 
342,  378,  464n,  603:  W.  parson 
of,  105,  182  :  William  de  Egre- 
mont  p.  of,  i28w:  Adam  b.  of  Wil- 
liam p.  of,  378 :  William  clerk  s. 
of  Thomas  de,  138-9,  235  :  William 
de,  dean,  302**,  307,  539  :  lord  of, 
dean  of  Coupland,  69,  378. 

Workington,  Michael  chaplain  of ,  196, 
440 :  Thomas  chaplain  of,  65,  67, 
115,  440,  562  :  Richard  c.  of,  353, 
358  :  Robert  b.  of  Thomas  c.  of,  67 : 
Walter  priest  of,  62,  64 :  Osbert 
c.  of  Walter,  62,  64  :  William  clerk 
of,  99. 

Walter  seneschal  of,  475  :  Acca 

prefect  of,  62,  64. 

Wright,  William,  13,  264-6,  2670. 

Wyberghs,  the,  xxxvj. 

Wyberth,  527. 

Wyclyffe,  James,  484. 

Wygand,  527. 

Wymundham,  Robert  de,  191,  193  : 
Thomas  de,  10,  2ioc,  211-5,  225-7  : 
Margaret  w.  of,  10,  n,  210-6,  zigc, 
222C,  225,  227,  see  Ayringthwaite. 

Wyndessoure,  William  de,  4O9n: 
pedigree  of,  40911. 

Yanenwith,  etc.,  Robert  de,  458*:, 
459C. 

Ynes  (Down),  Adam  abbot  of,  521. 

Yngilberdhop,  Huctred  s.  of  Robert 
de,  5&7c  ;  Robert  de,  567  :  Mari- 
ota  w.  of  Robert  de,  567^. 

York,  archbishops  of,  Thurstin,  Hi., 
v.,  28-35,  107:  Hubert,  3i8w: 
Henry  Murdac,  xxij.,  nm,  115: 
Roger  of  Pont  1'Eveque,  xxix.,  6, 
73»,  io8n,  122-3,  137-8,  1460,  154, 
369,  543c:  William  Wickwane, 
xxx.,  387n :  Godfrey  de  Ludham, 
i3in:  Walter  Gray,  90,  i38n, 
455n:  John  le  Romeyn,  xxx., 


i34n:      William     Zouch,     572C  : 

Thomas  Arundel,  572n:    Edmund 

Grindal,  xxxvij. 
York,  deans  of:  Roger  de  Insula,  i34n, 

142  :    R.,  134,  139,  141  :    Robert, 

147 :    John  Jeremie  dean  of  the 

city  of,  143. 
archdeacons   of  :     William,   iii., 

30,    32,    34-5,    io7 :     Osbert    de 

Baines,  602. 
John  Romanus,  canon  of,  134-5, 

139,  141,  143  :    Maurice  canon  of, 

136,  143 :    Geoffrey  of   Norwich, 
precentor  of,  I34W,  141  :   G.   peni- 
tentiary of,    134,    139:     Nicholas 
clerk  of,  122. 

York  (St.  Mary's),  abbots  of  :    Clem- 
ent,  5,   18-9,   23-4,   54n,   io8-ioc, 

137,  2o6c,   35ic,   352,   354C,   355», 
36oc,    4400,    45  7c,    602  :     Savaric, 
i7,   i5"w,   32809 :    Robert,   5,    7, 
10,  19,  25,  io8w,  noc,  i38n,  3660: 
Benedict  de  Malton),  13,  259-600, 
604-5  :    R'  de  Longo  Campo,  13, 
now,  122,  138^,  i6oc,  2040,  254C, 
34ic,  463C  :    Robert  de  Harpham, 
now :  Simon  de  Warrewik,  9,  129, 
189-90,  305-6,  374c,434c:  J.,  1470: 
John  de  Gylling,  i47-9«,  274-sn, 
326,  350-1,  605  :  William  Marrays, 
240  :  Alan  de  Nesse,  605  :  Thomas 
Pigot,   272-3:    Thomas,    580:    Si- 
mon, 9,  1 6,  20,  23,  see  Warrewik : 
Robert    Alanby,     607:      William 
(Thornton),  193**,  369^  390,  393, 
472C,     584-91,     607-8 :      Edmund 
Whalley,    607:     William    Wellys, 
39on,  consecrated  Bishop  of  Roch- 
ester, 39on  :   William  Senos,  i94n. 

Robert  prior  of,  i59«,  603 : 

Thomas  de  Danby  prior  of,  240. 

monks  of :  Sampson,  abbot's 

clerk,  136  :  Reynold  de  Lamburn, 
professor  of  sacred  page,  240 : 
Robert  de  Schegenesse,  abbot's 
steward,  136,  161  :  John  de  Mar- 
tin and  Roger  de  Castro,  240 : 
Richard  de  Multon,  abbot's  stew- 
ard, 305  :  Robert  de  Alneto  and 
Gilbert  de  Leirton,  365  :  John  de 


INDEX   OF   PERSONAL   NAMES 


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Selby  clerk  of  the  monks,  161  : 
Adam  de  St.  Botolf,  455  :  John  de 
Kelom  and  Richard  de  Tyver ing- 
ton,  239  :  Roger  de  Scaitheburg 
clerk  of,  365. 

York  (St.  Mary's),  abbot  and  convent 
of,  6,  34,  118,  I2oc,  I22C,  571. 
— Holy  Trinity,  W.  prior  of,  142. 

St.  Andrew's,  B.  prior  of,  142. 


York   (St.   Mary's),   William  of,  see 

Eboraco. 

Sir  Richard,  will  of,  ig^n. 

Ypolite,  see  Hipolite. 

Yreschal,  see  Ireschal. 

Yton,  see  Hiton. 

Yuebanc,  William  s.  of  Waldef  de, 

1 8,  34OC. 
Ywan,  see  Iwan. 


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